[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1214-S1215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:24 a.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. 473. An act to authorize the Every Word We Utter 
     Monument to establish a commemorative work in the District of 
     Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 560. An act to amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution 
     entitled ``A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To 
     Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 
     Political Union with the United States of America, and for 
     other purposes''.
       H.R. 561. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve the oversight of contracts awarded by the Secretary 
     of Veterans Affairs to small business concerns owned and

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     controlled by veterans, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1492. An act to update the map of, and modify the 
     maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Yucca House 
     National Monument.
       H.R. 2227. An act to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief 
     Act to clarify the authority of servicemembers who incur a 
     catastrophic injury or illness while in military service to 
     terminate leases of premises and motor vehicles, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 2427. An act to amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative 
     Act of 1998 to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and 
     Watertrails Network.
       H.R. 2490. An act to amend the National Trails System Act 
     to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on 
     the feasibility of designating the Chief Standing Bear 
     National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3399. An act to amend the Nutria Eradication and 
     Control Act of 2003 to include California in the program, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 3749. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to 
     entities that provide legal services for homeless veterans 
     and veterans at risk for homelessness, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 4613. An act to direct the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs to establish and maintain a website of the Department 
     that allows the public to obtain electronic copies of certain 
     legislatively requested reports of the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4852. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make available 
     to veterans certain additional information about 
     postsecondary educational institutions, and for other 
     purposes.
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  At 1:17 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 bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 35. An act to amend title 18, United States Code, to 
     specify lynching as a deprivation of civil rights, and for 
     other purposes.

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