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


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                               MEMORIALS

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

       479. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the House of 
     Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative 
     to Resolution 531 memorializing the United States Congress to 
     recognize that energy security is a national security issue 
     and that oil is a powerful weapon and to develop an energy 
     strategy that promotes alternatives to imported petroleum to 
     meet the goal of independence from foreign petroleum within 
     five years; to the Committee on Commerce.
       480. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to Resolution 609 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact legislation 
     which strengthens the MedicareChoice program by reducing 
     administrative requirements in the program, increasing 
     payment rates to HMOs to a level which accurately reflects 
     the costs of providing benefits to recipients in the program 
     and providing for prescription drug coverage; jointly to the 
     Committees on Ways and Means and Commerce.
       481. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to Resolution 617 
     memorializing the Health Care Financing Administration and 
     health insurers withdrawing their Medicare HMO coverage in 
     any county within Pennsylvania to take immediate steps to 
     ensure that subscribers who live in a county that is not 
     impacted by the insurer's withdrawal are not mistakenly 
     dropped from their plan; jointly to the Committees on Ways 
     and Means and Commerce.

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