[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 5, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H2797-H2798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.

   Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from 
the Speaker's table and referred as follows:

       1377. A letter from the Congressional Review Coordinator, 
     Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of 
     Agriculture, transmitting the Department's final rule -- 
     Importation of Apples From China [Docket No.: APHIS-2014-
     0003] (RIN: 0579-AD89) received April 28, 2015, pursuant to 5 
     U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agriculture.
       1378. A letter from the Congressional Review Coordinator, 
     Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of 
     Agriculture, transmitting the Department's final rule -- 
     Importation of Papayas From Peru [Docket No.: APHIS-2012-
     0014] (RIN: 0579-AD68) received April 28, 2015, pursuant to 5 
     U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agriculture.
       1379. A letter from the Administrator, Farm Service Agency, 
     Regulatory Review

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     Group, Office of the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, 
     transmitting the Department's interim rule -- Conservation 
     Compliance (RIN: 0560-AI26) received May 4, 2015, pursuant to 
     5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agriculture.
       1380. A letter from the Chairman, Military Compensation and 
     Retirement Modernization Commission, transmitting an addendum 
     to the final Report of the Military Compensation and 
     Retirement Modernization Commission; to the Committee on 
     Armed Services.
       1381. A letter from the Chairman, Nuclear Weapons Council, 
     Department of Defense, transmitting a certification, pursuant 
     to 10 U.S.C. 179(f), that the amounts requested for the 
     National Nuclear Security Administration in the President's 
     budget for FY 2016, meets nuclear stockpile and stockpile 
     stewardship program requirements for such fiscal year and 
     over such four fiscal years.; to the Committee on Armed 
     Services.
       1382. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Legislative 
     Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a report on U.S. 
     support for Taiwan's participation as an Observer at the 68th 
     World Health Assembly and in the work of the World Health 
     Organization, pursuant to Public Law 108-235, 1(c); to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       1383. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Legislative 
     Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a report to 
     Congress on the Millennium Challenge Corporation's FY 2014 
     obligations and expenditures for assistance provided to each 
     eligible country as required under the Millennium Challenge 
     Act, Pub. L. 108-199, Sec. 613; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Affairs.
       1384. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Legislative 
     Affairs, Department of State, transmitting a report to 
     Congress on the status of the Government of Cuba's compliance 
     with the United States-Cuba September 1994 ``Joint 
     Communique'' and the treatment by the Government of Cuba of 
     persons returned to Cuba in accordance with the United 
     States-Cuba May 1995 ``Joint Statement'', together known as 
     the Migration Accords, pursuant to Sec. 2245 of the Omnibus 
     Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 
     1999, Pub. L. 105-277; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       1385. A letter from the Secretary, Department of Labor, 
     transmitting the Department's FY 2014 annual report, pursuant 
     to Sec. 203 of the Notification and Federal Employee 
     Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act), 
     Pub. L. 107-174; to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
     Reform.
       1386. A letter from the Director, Office of Information 
     Policy, Office of the Attorney General, Department of 
     Justice, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Revision 
     of Department's Freedom of Information Act Regulations 
     [Docket No.: OAG 140; AG Order No.: 3517-2015] (RIN: 1105-
     AB27) received May 4, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 
     801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
     Reform.
       1387. A letter from the Principal Deputy Assistant 
     Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, National Park 
     Service, Department of the Interior, transmitting the 
     Department's final rule -- Special Regulations, Areas of the 
     National Park System, Bryce Canyon National Park, Bicycling 
     [NPS-BRCA-17884; PA.PD191235A.00.3] (RIN: 1024-AE23) received 
     May 1, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the 
     Committee on Natural Resources.
       1388. A letter from the Secretary, Department of Health and 
     Human Services, transmitting the Department's determination 
     on a petition filed on behalf of workers employed at the St. 
     Louis Airport Storage Site in St. Louis, Missouri to be added 
     to the Special Exposure Cohort, pursuant to the Energy 
     Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 
     2000 and 42 C.F.R. pt. 83; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       1389. A letter from the Assistant Attorney General, Office 
     of Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice, transmitting a 
     report required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 
     of 1978, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., and Sec. 118 of 
     the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, 
     Pub. L. 109-177 (2006), providing information regarding all 
     applications made by the Government during calendar year 2014 
     for authority to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign 
     intelligence purposes under the Act; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       1390. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Employment and 
     Training Administration, Wage and Hour Division, Department 
     of Labor, transmitting the Department's final rule -- Wage 
     Methodology for the Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment H-
     2B Program [Docket No.: ETA-2013-0003] (RIN: 1205-AB69) 
     received May 1, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.
       1391. A letter from the Deputy Secretary, Department of 
     Veterans Affairs, transmitting a draft bill to authorize 
     $997,600,000 for major medical facility construction projects 
     for FY 2015, as well as to amend the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs' Enhanced-Use Lease authority; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
       1392. A letter from the Assistant Secretary for 
     Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services, 
     transmitting a report entitled, ``Finalizing Medicare Rules 
     under Section 902 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, 
     Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 for Calendar Year 
     2014'', detailing the instances in which the Department of 
     Health and Human Services failed to publish a final Medicare 
     rule within the timeline established for the final rule; 
     jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and 
     Commerce.
       1393. A letter from the Assistant Secretary for 
     Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services, 
     transmitting a report entitled, ``Open Payments Program 
     Report to Congress'', describing the Centers for Medicare and 
     Medicaid Services' program integrity Open Payments Program; 
     jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and 
     Commerce.

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