[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               MEMORIALS

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

       477. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the House of 
     Representatives of the State of Texas, relative to a 
     resolution petitioning the United States House of 
     Representatives to support S. 2912 ``To Amend the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act to remove certain limitations on the 
     eligibility of aliens residing in the United States to obtain 
     lawful permanent resident status''; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       478. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of South Carolina, relative to Concurrent 
     Resolution H. 4434 memorializing the United States Congress 
     to amend the Constitution of the United States and submit to 
     the states for ratification an amendment which adds a new 
     article providing as follows: ``Neither the Supreme Court nor 
     any inferior court of the United States shall have the power 
     to instruct or order a state or political subdivision 
     thereof, or an official of such a state or political 
     subdivision, to levy or increase taxes''; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.

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