[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6870]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               MEMORIALS

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

       41. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the House of 
     Representatives of the State of Arkansas, relative to House 
     Concurrent Resolution memorializing the United States 
     Congress to take all reasonable action necessary to provide 
     adequate and timely funding to the federal agencies 
     responsible for the treatment and restoration work on damaged 
     forestlands in Arkansas; to the Committee on Agriculture.
       42. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of Arkansas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 
     memorializing the United States Congress to review, with the 
     goal of reducing, the paperwork created by federal laws and 
     regulations related to special education; to the Committee on 
     Education and the Workforce.
       43. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Maine, relative to Joint Resolution memorializing the United 
     States Congress to strengthen efforts to ensure that women 
     are paid fairly for their work; to the Committee on Education 
     and the Workforce.
       44. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of Arkansas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 
     memorializing the United States Congress to take all 
     reasonable action to assure that prescription drugs are 
     available and affordable to all citizens; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Commerce.
       45. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Kansas, 
     relative to Senate Resolution 1845 memorializing the United 
     States Congress regarding the availability of prescription 
     drugs to individual consumers and the need for assistance and 
     relief from this circumstance; to the Committee on Energy and 
     Commerce.
       46. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to Senate Joint Memorial 8006 
     memorializing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to apply for 
     sufficient funding to construct the fish passage 
     modifications necessary at the Leavenworth National Fish 
     Hatchery, and that Congress shall see fit to appropriate the 
     necessary funds; to the Committee on Resources.
       47. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Kansas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution 1611 
     memorializing the United States Congress to oppose any 
     legislation which would nullify the legal rights of the State 
     of Kansas preserved by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and 
     the interpretation of such act by the decision of the Tenth 
     Circuit Court of Appeals; to the Committee on Resources.
       48. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Georgia, 
     relative to Senate Resolution 193 memorializing the United 
     States Congress to enact legislation reclassifying water well 
     drilling vehicles and equipment as agricultural equipment 
     under the federal commercial driver's license laws; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       49. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to House Joint Memorial 4002 
     memorializing the United States Congress to take action 
     necessary to amend the 1946 Rescission Act and honor our 
     country's moral obligation to restore the Filipino veterans 
     full United States veterans status with the military benefits 
     that they deserve; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       50. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State 
     of Ohio, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 8 
     memorializing the United States Congress to take all actions 
     that are necessary to stop the dumping of foreign steel in 
     the United States, including the amendment of existing 
     foreign trade laws or the enactment of new foreign trade law 
     to address the crisis in the steel industry; to the Committee 
     on Ways and Means.

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       51. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     Mississippi, relative to Senate Resolution 15 memorializing 
     the United States Congress to repeal the Federal Unified Gift 
     and Estate Tax effective immediately; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       52. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of the 
     State of Arkansas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution 
     memorializing the United States Congress to support and enact 
     the Railroad Retirement and Survivors Improvement Act in the 
     107th Congress; jointly to the Committees on Transportation 
     and Infrastructure and Ways and Means.

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