[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 185 (Monday, December 5, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H8128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Ms. Curtis, one of its clerks, announced 
that the Senate has passed with an amendment in which the concurrence 
of the House is requested, a bill of the House of the following title:

       H.R. 1540. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2012 for military activities of the Department of 
     Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
     activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
     personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 1540) ``An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Levin, 
Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Reed, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Nelson (NE), Mr. Webb, Mrs. 
McCaskill, Mr. Udall (CO), Mrs. Hagan, Mr. Begich, Mr. Manchin, Mrs. 
Shaheen, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. McCain, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
Sessions, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Brown (MA), Mr. Portman, Mr. 
Ayotte, Ms. Collins, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Vitter, to be the 
conferees on the part of the Senate.

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