[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 27618]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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      REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SECRECY--TREATY DOCUMENT NO. 106-15

  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, as in executive session, I ask 
unanimous consent the injunction of secrecy be removed from the 
following convention transmitted to the Senate on October 29, 1999, by 
the President of the United States:
  Tax Convention with Ireland (Treaty Document No. 106-15).
  I further ask the convention be considered as having been read the 
first time; that it be referred, with accompanying papers, to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed; and that the 
President's message be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The message of the President is as follows:

To the Senate of the United States:
  I transmit herewith for Senate advice and consent to ratification the 
Convention Amending the Convention Between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of Ireland for the Avoidance of 
Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to 
Taxes on Income and Capital Gains signed at Dublin on July 28, 1997. 
The Convention, which was negotiated pursuant to the Senate's 
resolution of October 31, 1997, granting advice and consent to the 1997 
Convention, modifies the tax treatment of dividends received from Real 
Estate Investment Trusts.
  I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to 
this Convention and give its advice and consent to ratification.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, October 29, 1999.

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