[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17749]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 9:42 a.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 bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 2660. An act making appropriations for the Departments 
     of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
     related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2004, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the House disagrees to the amendment 
of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1474) to facilitate check truncation by 
authorizing substitute checks, to foster innovation in the check 
collection system without mandating receipt of checks in electronic 
form, and to improve the overall efficiency of the Nation's payments 
system, and for any other purposes, and asks for a conference with the 
Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon; and appoints 
the following members as the managers of the conference on the part of 
the House:
  For consideration of the House bill and the Senate amendment, and 
modifications committed to conference: Mr. Oxley, Mr. Bachus, Mr. 
LaTourette, Ms. Hart, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
Sanders, and Mr. Ford.

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