[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 177 (Friday, October 16, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H5695-H5696]
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:

       PT-141. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Council of 
     The City of New York, relative to Resolution No. 1371, 
     calling upon Congress to pass, and the President to sign, the 
     Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 (H.R. 4.), which would 
     revise and modernize portions of the Voting Rights Act of 
     1965 struck down in the Supreme Court decision Shelby County 
     v. Holder; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       PT-142. Also, a petition of the Council of the City of New 
     York, relative to Resolution

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     No. 1343, calling upon the United States Congress to pass and 
     the President to sign, the Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force 
     Prevention Act of 2019 (H.R. 4408), which would prohibit 
     police chokeholds and other tactics that result in 
     asphyxiation; to the Committee on the Judiciary.