[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20680]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  Under the authority of the order of the Senate of January 3, 2001, 
the Secretary of the Senate, on October 11, 2002, during the recess of 
the Senate, received a message from the House of Representatives 
announcing that the House has passed the following bill, without 
amendment:

       S. 2558. An act to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for the collection of data on benign brain-related 
     tumors through the national program of cancer registries.

  At 1:05 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 669. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 127 Social Street in 
     Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as the ``Alphonse F. Auclair Post 
     Office Building''.
       H.R. 670. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 7 Commercial Street in 
     Newport, Rhode Island, as the ``Bruce F. Cotta Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5205. An act to amend the District of Columbia 
     Retirement Protection Act of 1997 to permit the Secretary of 
     the Treasury to use estimated amounts in determining the 
     service longevity component of the Federal benefit payment 
     required to be paid under such Act to certain retirees of the 
     Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.
       H.R. 5316. An act to establish a user fee system that 
     provides for an equitable return to the Federal Government 
     for the occupancy and use of National Forest System lands and 
     facilities by organizational camps that serve the youth and 
     disabled adults of America, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5349. An act to facilitate the use of a portion of the 
     former O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, by 
     the local Boys and Girls Club through the release of the 
     reversionary interest and other interests retained by the 
     United States in 1955 when the land was conveyed to the State 
     of Missouri.
       H.R. 5361. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in 
     Lexington, South Carolina, as the ``Floyd Spence Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5400. An act to authorize the President of the United 
     States to agree to certain amendments to the Agreement 
     between the Government of the United States of America and 
     the Government of the United Mexican States concerning the 
     establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission 
     and a North American Development Bank, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 5439. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 111 West Washington Street 
     in Bowling Green, Ohio, as the ``Delbert L. Latta Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5574. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 206 South Main Street in 
     Glenville, Georgia, as the ``Michael Lee Woodcock Post 
     Office''.
       H.R. 5598. An act to provide for improvement of Federal 
     education research, statistics, evaluation, information, and 
     dissemination, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5601. An act to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and 
     Treatment Act to make improvements to and reauthorize 
     programs under that Act, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolutions, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 406. Concurrent resolution honoring and 
     commending the Lao Veterans of America, Laotian and Hmong 
     veterans of the Vietnam War, and their families, for their 
     historic contributions to the United States.
       H. Con. Res. 467. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of Congress that Lionel Hampton should be honored for 
     his contributions to American music.
       H. Con. Res. 486. Concurrent resolution supporting the 
     goals and ideals of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
       H. Con. Res. 487. Concurrent resolution authorizing the 
     printing as a House document of a volume consisting of the 
     transcripts of the ceremonial meeting of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate in New York City on September 6, 
     2002, and a collection of statements by Members of the House 
     of Representatives and Senate from the Congressional Record 
     on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
       H. Con. Res. 504. Concurrent resolution congratulating the 
     PONY League baseball team of Norwalk, California, for winning 
     the 2002 PONY League World Championship.

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