[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 159 (Wednesday, September 26, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H9090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       259. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Senate of the 
     State of California, relative to senate Joint Resolution No. 
     12, encouraging the federal government to maintain or restore 
     full funding to integral international exchange programs, 
     such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program; to the Committee 
     on Foreign Affairs.
       260. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 14, 
     urging the Congress and the President of the United States to 
     rename any federal buildings, parks, roadways, highways, 
     markers, landmarks, or other federally owned property, such 
     as United States military bases, that bear the names of 
     elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of 
     America and would urge the Congress that statues or busts of 
     elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of 
     America in the United States Capitol be removed and placed in 
     museums where they can be viewed in proper historic context; 
     to the Committee on House Administration.
       261. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 30, 
     urging the Congress and the President of the United States to 
     support the retention of, and investment in, the Amtrak 
     National Network of passenger trains, specifically the 
     California Zephyr, the Coast Starlight, the Southwest Chief, 
     and the Sunset Limited, as vital components of the state's 
     rail program and would also urge Congress to reject President 
     Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2019 federal budget cuts to 
     Amtrak and restore full funding for the Amtrak National 
     Network through the appropriations process; to the Committee 
     on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       262. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 22, 
     urging the federal government and the United States Section 
     of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take 
     immediate action to adequately address cross-border pollution 
     in the Tijuana River Valley; jointly to the Committees on 
     Foreign Affairs and Transportation and Infrastructure.
       263. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 29, 
     calling upon the President and the United States Congress to 
     acknowledge that the separation of immigrant children from 
     their families at the border is detrimental to the short- and 
     long-term physical and mental well-being of the children and 
     incompatible with our fundamental values as a nation. Also 
     calling upon the United States Congress to issue a formal 
     apology to all child detainees who were forcibly separated 
     from their parents and legal guardians and seized by the 
     United States Department of Homeland Security or United 
     States Customs and Border Protection and to the parents of 
     those children; jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary 
     and Homeland Security.

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