[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 4 (Monday, January 8, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H19]
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:

       74. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Council of the 
     District of Columbia, relative to Council Resolution 22-299, 
     to approve, on an emergency basis, the transfer of 
     jurisdiction of U.S. Reservation 724 (Lots 896 and 897 in 
     Square 620) from the United States of America, acting by and 
     through the Department of the Interior, National Park 
     Service, to the District of Columbia; to the Committee on 
     Oversight and Government Reform.
       75. Also, a petition of Mr. Gregory Watson, a citizen of 
     Austin, TX, relative to Urging Congress to enact legislation 
     that would end the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery program 
     and the Chain Migration program for immigration to the United 
     States and to replace those programs with a merit-based 
     program for persons seeking to immigrate to the United 
     States, with a burden to demonstrate how that individual's 
     potential immigration to the United States would benefit the 
     United States.; to the Committee on the Judiciary.