[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4483-4484]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Mr. Lundregan, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate had passed without amendment, a bill of the 
House of the following title:

       H.R. 540. An act to amend title XIX of the Social Security 
     Act to prohibit transfers or discharges of residents of 
     nursing facilities as a result of a voluntary withdrawal from 
     participation in the Medicaid Program.

  The message also announced, That pursuant to section 201(a)(2) of 
Public Law 93-344, the Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore of 
the Senate

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and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, announces the joint 
appointment of Mr. Dan Crippen as Director of the Congressional Budget 
Office, effective February 3, 1999, for a term expiring on January 3, 
2003.

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