[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H5850-H5851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
Clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       19. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the City Commission 
     of the City of Lauderhill, FL, relative to Resolution No. 
     15R-07-161, condemning the Dominican Republic's impending 
     mass deportation of Haitian immigrants; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs.
       20. Also, a petition of the Oakland County Board of 
     Commissioners, Oakland County, MI, relative to Miscellaneous 
     Resolution No. 15154, objecting to the development of a 
     nuclear waste repository in close proximity to the Great 
     Lakes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       21. Also, a petition of City Council of Anaheim, CA, 
     relative to Resolution No. 2015-222, urging the 114th United 
     States Congress to adopt H.R. 2140 -- The Vietnam Human 
     Rights Act of 2015, that would attach human rights conditions 
     to trade and security agreements with Vietnam to promote 
     freedom, human rights, and the rule of law as

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     part of United States-Vietnam relations; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs.
       22. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory D. Watson, a citizen of 
     Austin, TX, relative to urging Congress to propose, for 
     ratification by special conventions held within the 
     individual states, an amendment to the United States 
     Constitution which would require that at least one of the two 
     houses of Congress approve, by majority vote of all members 
     elected and serving in that body, a reprieve or pardon 
     granted by the President of the United States to a person 
     earlier having been properly found guilty of committing an 
     offense against the United States; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       23. Also, a petition of the New Orleans City Council, 
     Louisiana, relative to Resolution No.: R-15-337, recognizing 
     August 6, 2015, as the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the 
     Voting Rights Act of 1965; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       24. Also, a petition of the Board of Supervisors of the 
     City and County of San Francisco, CA, relative to Resolution 
     No. 270-15, commemorating the 71st Anniversary of the Port 
     Chicago disaster and urging the President of the United 
     States and the U.S. Congress to exonerate the 50 sailors 
     convicted of mutiny in the incident with the designation of 
     Honorable Discharge; jointly to the Committees on Armed 
     Services and the Judiciary.