[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 14440-14441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       81. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the House of 
     Representatives of the State of Michigan, relative to House 
     Resolution No. 36 memorializing the United States Congress to 
     establish a quarantine for the emerald ash borer and provide 
     assistance to help Michigan combat the infestation; to the 
     Committee on Agriculture.
       82. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 18 
     memorializing the United States Congress to take immediate 
     and focused efforts to improve the enforcement of food import 
     restrictions of seafood imports that contain the use of 
     banned antibiotics, especially in foreign imported shrimp; to 
     the Committee on Agriculture.
       83. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 90 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge the 
     Secretary of Agriculture to expeditiously implement and 
     expand cost of production insurance for cotton that is based 
     on a producer's actual production cost history and to 
     implement a cost of production insurance pilot program; to 
     the Committee on Agriculture.
       84. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Arizona, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1021 
     memorializing the United States Congress to declare support 
     for a missle defense system; to the Committee on Armed 
     Services.
       85. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New 
     Mexico, relative to House Joint Memorial 11 memorializing the 
     United

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     States Congress to fund forty percent of the average of the 
     average per special needs pupil expenditure in public 
     elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. as promised 
     under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education 
     Act; to the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
       86. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New 
     Mexico, relative to House Memorial 35 memorializing the 
     United States Congress that the federal energy regulatory 
     commission be request to withdraw its current standard market 
     design for the nation's wholesale electricity markets; to the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       87. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Nevada, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge the 
     Secretary of the Interior to expand the money authorized 
     pursuant to the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 
     1998, Pub. L. 105-263, 112 Stat. 2343; to the Committee on 
     Resources.
       88. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Nevada, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge the 
     Secretary of the Interior to amend the regulations set forth 
     in 43 C.F.R. Section 4120.3-9 by deleting the second sentence 
     of that regulation in its entirety; to the Committee on 
     Resources.
       89. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New 
     Mexico, relative to House Joint Memorial 13 memorializing the 
     United States Congress to endorse the western states 
     education initiative to seek just compensation from the 
     federal government on federally owned land and that it urge 
     the federal government to provide an expedited land exchange 
     process for land not in contention for wilderness 
     designation; to the Committee on Resources.
       90. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Arizona, relative to Senate Memorial No. 1002 memorializing 
     the United States Congress to support the Tohono O'odham 
     Nation's citizenship act; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       91. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 117 
     memorializing the United States Congress to provide an 
     exemption to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to allow small and 
     medium sized United States based and owned lumber 
     manufactures to sell their products through company-owned 
     retail outlets; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       92. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Arizona, relative to House Concurrent Memorial No. 2005 
     memorializing the United States Congress to include Native 
     american governments in the state cemetery grants program; to 
     the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       93. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Michigan, relative to House Resolution No. 42 memorializing 
     the United States Congress to enact the President's tax cut 
     proposals; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       94. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 12 
     memorializing the United States Congress that the Idaho 
     Legislature supports the Healthy Forests Initiative and its 
     individual proposals and that we respectfully request the 
     entire Congress to fully support the Healthy Forests 
     Initiative and its individual proposals; jointly to the 
     Committees on Agriculture and Resources.
       95. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New 
     Mexico, relative to House Memorial 12 memorializing the 
     United States Congress to enact financially sustainable, 
     voluntary and universal prescription drug coverage as part of 
     the federal medicare program; jointly to the Committees on 
     Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce.
       96. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 10 
     memorializing the United States Congress to preserve access 
     to backcountry airstrips by introducing into the current 
     108th Congress Senate Bill No. 681, the Backcountry Landing 
     Strip Access Act from the 107th Congress and its companion 
     legislation House Resolution No. 1363; jointly to the 
     Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.

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