[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11037]
[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 a bill of the 
House of the following title:

       H.R. 4387. An act to provide that the School Governance 
     Charter Amendment Act of 2000 shall take effect upon the date 
     such Act is ratified by the voters of the District of 
     Columbia.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills of the 
following titles in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 1967. An act to make technical corrections to the status 
     of certain land held in trust for the Mississippi Band of 
     Choctaw Indians, to take certain land into trust for that 
     Band, and for other purposes.
       S. 2498. An act to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to 
     plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, 
     administrative, and support space to house base operations 
     for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter 
     Array located on Mauna Kea at Hilo, Hawaii.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed with amendments 
in which the concurrence of the House is requested, bills of the House 
of the following titles:

       H.R. 2614. An act to amend the Small Business Investment 
     Act to make improvements to the certified development company 
     program, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4576. An act making appropriations for the Department 
     of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and 
     for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 4576) ``An Act making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 
and for other purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Stevens, 
Mr. Cochran, Mr. Specter, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Bond, Mr. McConnell, Mr. 
Shelby, Mr. Gregg, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Byrd, 
Mr. Leahy, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Durbin, to 
be the conferees on the part of the Senate.

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