[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14725]
[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 has passed without amendment bills of the 
House of the following titles:

       H.R. 8. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to phaseout the estate and gift taxes over a 10-year period.
       H.R. 4391. An act to amend title 4 of the United States 
     Code to establish sourcing requirements for State and local 
     taxation of mobile telecommunication services.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed with an 
amendment in which the concurrence of the House is requested, a bill of 
the House of the following title:

       H.R. 4205. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2001 for military activities of the Department of 
     Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
     activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
     personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
     Forces, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 4205) ``An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2001 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the 
Armed Forces, and for other purposes,'' requests a conference with the 
House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints 
Mr. Warner, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. McCain, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, Mr. 
Inhofe, Mr. Santorum, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Allard, Mr. 
Hutchinson, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Levin, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
Byrd, Mr. Robb, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Cleland, Ms. Landrieu, and Mr. Reed, 
to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.

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