[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12089]
[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 with an amendment in which the 
concurrence of the House is requested, a bill of the House of the 
following title:

       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.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its 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,'' requests 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 the Senate has passed bills of the 
following titles in which the concurrences of the House is requested:

       S. 803. An act to enhance the management and promotion of 
     electronic Government services and processes by establishing 
     an Office of Electronic Government within the Office of 
     Management and Budget, and by establishing a broad framework 
     of measures that require using Internet-based information 
     technology to enhance citizen access to Government 
     information and services, and for other purposes.
        S. 2514. 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.
       S. 2515. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
     2003 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to 
     prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the 
     Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
       S. 2516. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
     2003 for military construction, and for other purposes.
       S. 2517. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
     2003 for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and 
     for other purposes.

  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 94-201, as 
amended by Public Law 105-275, the Chair, on behalf of the President 
pro tempore, appoints the following individuals as members of the Board 
of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library of 
Congress--
  Susan Barksdale Howorth of Mississippi, for a term of six years; and
  Marlene Meyerson of Texas, for a term of six years.

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