[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6196-6197]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       7. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Senate of the 
     State of Michigan, relative to Senate Resolution No. 21 
     memorializing the President and Congress to increase funding 
     for full-time National Guard personnel; to the Committee on 
     Armed Services.
       8. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of 
     New Jersey, relative to Assembly resolution 112, 
     memorializing the United States Congress to increase funding 
     for research by the National Institutes of Health for the 
     treatment and cure of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy; 
     to the Committee on Commerce.
       9. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Wyoming, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 5, urging the 
     President of the United States not to attempt to use federal 
     agencies to initiate strategies to mitigate greenhouse gases 
     until and unless the Kyoto Protocol is amended or otherwise 
     revised so that it is consistent with United States Senate 
     Resolution No. 98 to include specific scheduled commitments 
     for developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions 
     within the same compliance period required for industrial 
     nations; to the Committee on Commerce.
       10. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Wyoming, relative to a resolution urging the Bureau of the 
     Census to conduct the 2000 decennial census consistent with 
     the aforementioned United States Supreme Court ruling and 
     constitutional mandate, which require a physical headcount of 
     the population and bars the use of statistical sampling to 
     create, or in any way adjust the count; to the Committee on 
     Government Reform.
       11. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the Commonwealth 
     of The Mariana Islands, relative to House Resolution No. 11-
     26, urging the Office of Insular Affairs to be honest and 
     sincere in its presentation of the facts about the 
     Commonwealth to Congress and the news media; to the Committee 
     on Resources.
       12. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Nebraska, relative to Legislative Resolution No. 10, 
     petitioning Congress of the United States to propose to the 
     states an amendment to Article I, section 2 of the United 
     States Constitution that would increase the length of the 
     terms of office for members of the House of Representatives 
     from two years to four years with one-half of the members' 
     terms expiring every two years; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       13. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of New Jersey, relative to Assembly Resolution No. 19, 
     memorializing Congress to provide $5 million in federal

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     funds for the next stage of project development, as noted 
     hereinabove, for the Trans-Hudson/Midtown Corridor 
     Management/Project Development Initiative; to the Committee 
     on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       14. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of West Virginia, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 14 memorializing the Congress of the United 
     States to make all possible efforts to support and assist the 
     incorporation of the Coalfields Expressway into the 
     Appalachian Development Highway System; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       15. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of New Jersey, relative to Assembly Resolution No. 109 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to encact 
     H.R. 1126 of 1997, the ``Merchant Mariners Fairness Act of 
     1997''; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       16. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Wyoming, relative to Joint Resolution No. 1, memorializing 
     that the Wyoming State Legislature fully supports the 
     antidumping and the countervailing duty petitions against 
     Canada as filed by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal 
     Foundation; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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