[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14992]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate has passed without amendment concurrent 
resolutions of the House of the following titles:

       H. Con. Res. 448. Concurrent resolution providing for a 
     special meeting of the Congress in New York, New York, on 
     Friday, September 6, 2002, in remembrance of the victims and 
     heroes of September 11, 2001, in recognition of the courage 
     and spirit of the City of New York, and for other purposes.
       H. Con. Res. 449. Concurrent resolution providing for 
     representation by Congress at a special meeting in New York, 
     New York, on Friday, September 6, 2002.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed a bill and a 
concurrent resolution of the following titles in which the concurrence 
of the House is requested:

       S. 2771. An act to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to 
     authorize the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a 
     project for construction of a plaza adjacent to the John F. 
     Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and for other 
     purposes.
       S. Con. Res. 132. Concurrent resolution providing for a 
     conditional adjournment or recess of the Senate and a 
     conditional adjournment of the House of Representatives.

  The message also announced that the Senate disagreed to the House 
amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 4546) ``An Act to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other 
purposes,'' agreed to a conference with the House on the disagreeing 
votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Levin, Mr. Kennedy, 
Mr. Byrd, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Cleland, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Akaka, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mrs. Carnahan, 
Mr. Dayton, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Warner, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. McCain, Mr. 
Smith of New Hampshire, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Roberts, Mr. 
Allard, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Sessions, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Bunning, to 
be the conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 103-227, the 
Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore, appoints the following 
individual to the National Skill Standards Board for a term of four 
years:
  Upon the recommendation of the Republican Leader:
  Betty W. DeVinney of Tennessee, Representative of Business.
  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 107-171, the 
Chair, on behalf of the Republican Leader, announces the appointment of 
Mr. Robert H. Forney, of Indiana, to serve as a member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Congressional Hunger Fellows Program.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Committee will resume its sitting.

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