[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23157]
[From the U.S. 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:

       55. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Detroit City 
     Council, relative to a Resolution petitioning the Detroit 
     Delegation of the United States House of Representatives to 
     support full funding for HUD programs; to the Committee on 
     Banking and Financial Services.
       56. Also, a petition of the Association of Pacific Island 
     Legislatures, relative to Resolution No. 18-GA-14 resolving 
     that the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures member 
     jurisdictions give sound consideration and full respect to 
     all Pacific Islanders in their adoption and implementation of 
     immigration policies; to the Committee on International 
     Relations.
       57. Also, a petition of the Association of Pacific Island 
     Legislatures, relative to Resolution No. 18-GA-01 petitioning 
     the United States Congress to recognize and grant 200-mile 
     Exclusive Economic Zone of waters surrounding the U.S. 
     Territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Mariana 
     Islands; to the Committee on Resources.
       58. Also, a petition of the Association of Pacific Island 
     Legislatures, relative to Resolution No. 18-GA-03, CD1 
     petitioning the U.S. Department of the Interior and the 
     United States Congress to grant Micronesian employees of the 
     former Trust Territory Government (TTG) the same pay rates 
     given to the TTG on the island of Saipan from January 9, 1978 
     onward; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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