[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 29, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 12:03 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 427. An act to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United 
     States Code, to provide that major rules of the executive 
     branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint 
     resolution of approval is enacted into law.
       H.R. 675. An act to increase, effective as of December 1, 
     2015, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-
     connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
     indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled 
     veterans, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve 
     the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, to 
     improve the processing of claims by the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that pursuant to section 202(a) of the 
Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law 
113-146), the Democratic Leader appoints the following individual on 
the part of the House of Representatives to the Commission on Care: Mr. 
Michael Blecker of San Francisco, California.


                         Enrolled Bills Signed

  The President pro tempore (Mr. Hatch) announced that on today, July 
29, 2015, he signed the following enrolled bills, previously signed by 
the Speaker of the House:

       S. 1482. An act to improve and reauthorize provisions 
     relating to the application of the antitrust laws to the 
     award of need-based educational aid.
       H.R. 876. An act to amend title XVIII of the Social 
     Security Act to require hospitals to provide certain 
     notifications to individuals classified by such hospitals 
     under observation status rather than admitted as inpatients 
     of such hospitals.

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