[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6645]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       19. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of Nebraska, relative to Resolution No. 29 
     petitioning the Congress of the United States and the 
     executive branch of the federal government to prohibit 
     federal recoupment of state tobacco settlement recoveries; to 
     the Committee on Commerce.
       20. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Pennsylvania, relative to Senate Resolution No. 48 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact 
     legislation clarifying section 1903(a)(3) of the Social 
     Security Act to protect the states from Federal seizure of 
     any portion of the tobacco settlement funds by the Secretary 
     of Health and Human Services as an overpayment under the 
     Federal Medicaid program; to the Committee on Commerce.
       21. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of Nevada, relative to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 5 urging 
     the Congress to enact legislation that provides for the 
     payment of lump sums to persons who became eligible for 
     social security benefits after 1981 and before 1992 and have 
     received lower benefits as result of the changes in the 
     computation of benefits enacted by Public Law 95-216, as 
     compensation for the reduced benefits they have been paid; to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means.

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