[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5165]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 10:31 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
agreed to the following concurrent resolutions, in which it requests 
the concurrence of the Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 228. Concurrent resolution honoring the 
     members of the Armed Forces and Federal civilian employees 
     who served the Nation during the Vietnam era and the families 
     of those individuals who lost their lives or remain 
     unaccounted for or were injured during that era in Southeast 
     Asia or elsewhere in the world in defense of United States 
     national security interests.
       H. Con. Res. 277. Concurrent resolution authorizing the use 
     of the Capitol grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box 
     Derby.
       H. Con. Res. 280. Concurrent resolution authorizing the 
     2000 District of Columbia Special Olympics Law Enforcement 
     Torch Run to be run through the Capitol Grounds.
       H. Con. Res. 282. Concurrent resolution declaring the 
     ``Person of the Century'' for the 20th century to have been 
     the American G.I.

  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bill, with amendments, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       S. 777. An act to require the Department of Agriculture to 
     establish an electronic filing and retrieval system to enable 
     the public to file all required paperwork electronically with 
     the Department and to have access to public information on 
     farm programs, quarterly trade, economic, and production 
     reports, and other similar information.

  The message further announced that the House disagrees to the 
amendment of the Senate to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 290) 
establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government 
for fiscal year 2001, revising the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2000, and setting forth appropriate 
budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2005, and agrees 
to the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the 
two Houses thereon; and appoints the following Members as the managers 
of the conference on the part of the House: Mr. Kasich, Mr. Chambliss, 
Mr. Shays, Mr. Spratt, and Mr. Holt.


                          enrolled bill signed

  At 4:05 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker has 
signed the following enrolled bills:

       S. 1287. An act to provide for the storage of spent nuclear 
     fuel pending completion of the nuclear waste repository, and 
     for other purposes.

  The enrolled bill was signed subsequently by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Thurmond).

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