[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:51 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H.R. 8) to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to phase out the estate and gift taxes over a 10-
year period, returned by the President of the United States with his 
objections, to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, 
that the said bill do not pass, two-thirds of the House of 
Representatives not agreeing to pass the same.
  The message also announced that the House passed the following bills, 
in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 4115. An act to authorize appropriations for the 
     United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 4678. An act to provide more child support money to 
     families leaving welfare, to simplify the rules governing the 
     assignment and distribution of child support collected by 
     States on behalf of children, to improve the collection of 
     child support, to promote marriage, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4844. An act to modernize the financing of the 
     railroad retirement system and to provide enhanced benefits 
     to employees and beneficiaries.

  The message further announced that pursuant to section 710(a)(2) of 
the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 
(21 U.S.C. 1709) and the order of the House of Thursday, July 27, 2000, 
the Speaker on Tuesday, August 15, 2000 has appointed the following 
members from the private sector to the Parents Advisory Council on 
Youth Drug Abuse on the


part of the House: Ms. Judith Kreamer of Naperville, Illinois, to a 3-
year term, Ms. Modesta Martinez of Bensenville, Illinois to a 2-year 
term, and Mr. Richard F. James of Columbus, Ohio, to a 1-year term.

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