[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16390-16391]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT

  A message from the House of Representatives was received, during the 
adjournment of the Senate, announcing that the House has passed the 
following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 1691. An act to protect religious liberty.
       H.R. 2466. An act making appropriations for the Department 
     of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

  The message further announced that the House agrees to the resolution 
(H. Res. 249) returning the Senate the bill (S. 254) to reduce violent 
juvenile crime, promote accountability by and rehabilitation of 
juvenile criminals, punish and deter violent gang crime, and for other 
purposes, in the opinion of this House, contravenes the first clause of 
the seventh section of the

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first article of the Constitution of the United States and is an 
infringement of the privileges of this House and that such bill be 
respectfully returned to the Senate with a message communicating this 
resolution.
  Ths message also announced that the Speaker appoints the following 
Members as additional conferees in the conference on the disagreeing 
votes of the House on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 1059) 
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of the Energy, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for 
other purposes: As additional conferees from the Committee on House 
Administration, for consideration of section 1303 of the Senate bill 
and modifications committed to conference: Mr. Thomas, Mr. Boehner, and 
Mr. Hoyer.

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