[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23156]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               MEMORIALS

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

       239. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 
     No. 13 memorializing Congress and the President of the United 
     States to enact legislation to transfer former military base 
     property to local communities at no cost if the local 
     communities use the property for job-generating economic 
     development, and to forgive lease payments for communities 
     that have already entered into agreements with the Department 
     of Defense; to the Committee on Armed Services.
       240. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 11 
     memorializing the President of the United States and the 
     Congress of the United States to commend Staff Sergeant 
     Andrew A. Ramirez, Staff Sergeant Christopher Stone, and 
     Specialist Steven Gonzales; to the Committee on Armed 
     Services.
       241. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 9 
     memorializing the President and the Congress of the United 
     States, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairpersons of the 
     Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the 
     Marine Commandant to take immediate action to authorize the 
     continued operation of the commissary in Orange County after 
     the closure of the United States Marine Corps Air Station at 
     El Toro; to the Committee on Armed Services.
       242. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 12 
     memorializing the President and Congress of the United States 
     and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to 
     establish policies and funding priorities that will ensure 
     the preservation of the inventory of federally assisted 
     housing in California; to the Committee on Banking and 
     Financial Services.
       243. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 10 
     memorializing the President and the Congress of the United 
     States to enact legislation that would reauthorize the 
     federal Older Americans Act of 1965; to the Committee on 
     Education and the Workforce.
       244. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 7 
     memorializing that the Legislature hereby proclaim the month 
     of October 1999, as Domestic Violence Awareness Month; to the 
     Committee on Education and the Workforce.
       245. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 4 
     memorializing the President of the United States and Congress 
     to take the necessary action to ensure the rights of women 
     and girls in Afghanistan are not systematically violated, and 
     urges a peaceful resolution to the situation in Afghanistan 
     that restores the human rights of Afghan women and girls; to 
     the Committee on International Relations.
       246. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 
     memorializing the President and the Congress of the United 
     States to enact legislation to make available necessary funds 
     to implement groundwater remediation in the Main San Gabriel 
     Groundwater Basin; to the Committee on Resources.
       247. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the Commonwealth of The Mariana Islands, relative to House 
     Resolution No. 11-179 memorializing Congress to adopt the 
     proposed amendments as requested by President William J. 
     Clinton, to reimburse, CNMI for the cost of detaining and 
     repatriating the smuggled Chinese aliens; to the Committee on 
     Resources.
       248. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 257 memorializing the Congress of the United 
     States to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the federal 
     courts regarding the specific medical practice of partial-
     birth abortions; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       249. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of California, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 1 
     memorializing the President of the United States to declare 
     the affected portions of California as a federal natural 
     disaster area as a result of the cold storms and the 
     consequent frost damage that occured in December 1998; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       250. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 3 
     memorializing the President and the Congress of the United 
     States, and the United States Coast Guard to continue the 
     operation of the United States Coast Guard Training Facility 
     Petaluma through the increased utilization of its facilites 
     and more efficient use of the Coast Guard's east coast 
     facilities; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       251. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 6 
     memorializing the President and Congress of the United States 
     to take action necessary to honor our country's moral 
     obligation to provide Filipino veterans with the military 
     benefits that they deserve, including but not limited to, 
     holding related hearings, and acting favorably on legislation 
     pertaining to granting full veterans' benefits to Filipino 
     veterans of the United States Armed Forces; to the Committee 
     on Veterans' Affairs.
       252. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 
     memorializing the President of the United States to issue an 
     Executive Order directing his administration to work closely 
     and coordinate with California and other states to guide and 
     assist Medicare enrollees who are abandoned by their HMOs to 
     find new Medicare coveage, either in the form of another HMO 
     that serves the abandoned region, or through Medigap 
     coverage, until appropriate federal legislation is enacted to 
     address permanently these types of dislocations that 
     adversely affect


     Medicare patients; jointly to the Committees on Ways and 
     Means and Commerce.

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