[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19827-19828]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       166. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the General 
     Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to 
     House Resolution No. 320 the House of Representative of the 
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urging the Congress of the 
     United States to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Vocational 
     and Technical Education Act; to the Committee on Education 
     and the Workforce.
       167. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Michigan, relative to House Resolution No. 79 
     memorializing the United States Congress to allocate federal 
     funds to ensure the continued operation of Detroit Receiving 
     Hospital; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       168. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     New Hampshire, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4 
     urging the President of the United States and the USEPA 
     Administrator to suspend implementation of modified 
     regulations on new source review pending independent 
     scientific review of their projected impact by the National 
     Academy of Sciences; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       169. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 58 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact the 
     appropriate legislation to pass federal funds on to states 
     via block grants to be used for public welfare and Medicaid 
     purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       170. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 186 
     memorializing the United States Congress to initiate whatever 
     actions are needed to reopen La Linda Bridge as a border 
     crossing; to the Committee on International Relations.
       171. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to House Resolution 
     No. 318

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     memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact 
     legislation requiring the United States Postal Service to 
     adopt increased security measures to ensure that change of 
     address forms are not used in the commission of 
     identification fraud; to the Committee on Government Reform.
       172. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Kentucky, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 
     No. 18, memorializing the United States Congress to propose 
     an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of 
     America, for submission to the several States for 
     ratification, to allow the people of the United States and 
     the several States the freedom to exercise their religion in 
     public places; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       173. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 156 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact House Bill 
     H.R. 1685, relating to providing immigration status and 
     benefits for surviving spouses and children, and House Bill 
     H.R. 1275, the Citizenship For America's Troops Act; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
       174. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Michigan, relative to House Resolution No. 63 
     memorializing the United States Congress to increase efforts 
     to preserve and protect Lake St. Clair; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       175. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Michigan, relative to House Resolution No. 33 
     memorializing the United States Congress to appropriate 
     additional funds for road and bridge improvement projects; to 
     the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       176. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 82 
     memorializing the United States Congress to provide equity 
     funding to Texas by increasing the state's highway program 
     rate of return from the Highway Trust Fund to 95 percent of 
     Texas' contributions to the fund; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       177. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to House Resolution 
     No. 312 urging Congress to enact the ``Veterans Health Care 
     Funding Guarantee Act of 2003,'' and make veterans health 
     care mandatory to ensure that veterans have access to timely, 
     quality health care; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       178. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Oregon, 
     relative to Senate Joint Memorial 6 urging the Congress of 
     the United States to amend section 143(1)(4)(A) and (B) of 
     the Internal Revenue Code to allow veterans who entered the 
     Armed Forces of the United States after December 31, 1976, to 
     become eligible for Oregon home loans for veterans using the 
     proceeds of qualified veteran mortgage bonds; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
       179. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1 
     memorializing the United States Congress to restore the 
     federal income tax deductibility of state and local sales 
     taxes that existed before 1986; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
       180. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 161 
     memorializing the United States Congress to encact 
     legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code in order that 
     today's veterans and their families might enjoy the same 
     benefits as their earlier counterparts; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       181. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 90 
     memorializing the United States Congress to broaden the scope 
     and availability of the medical savings account program, 
     remove its restrictions, and allow state governments to 
     design such programs for their employees; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       182. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the State of Florida, relative to House Resolution No. 9003-C 
     memorializing the United States Congress to reinstate the 
     federal income tax deduction for state and local sales tax 
     paid; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       183. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Maine, relative to H.P. 949 Joint Resolution memorializing 
     the Congress of the United States to require the United 
     States Department of Labor to examinie its methodology for 
     calculating rates in the Woods Wage Survey, to establish 
     heavy equipment operational rates and to remove barriers to 
     the health and safety of persons harvesting forest products; 
     jointly to the Committees on Education and the Workforce and 
     Ways and Means.
       184. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 14 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact the Child 
     Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act of 2002; jointly to the 
     Committees on Education and the Workforce and the Judiciary.
       185. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     New Hampshire, relative to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3 
     memorializing the United States Congress to urge maintenance 
     of federal funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance 
     Program; jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
     Education and the Workforce.
       186. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 204 
     memorializing the United States Congress to reinstate funding 
     for the EPA Border Fund to $75 million for fiscal year 2004 
     and to appropriate sufficient funds in subsequent years to 
     address environmental infrastructure needs in the border 
     region; jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       187. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the 
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to House Resolution 
     No. 317 the House of Representative of the Commonwealth of 
     Pennsylvania urging the Congress of the United States to 
     create a Federal Medicare prescription drug benefit plan 
     which works seamlessly with Pennsylvania's PACE and PACENET 
     programs; jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and 
     Energy and Commerce.
       188. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 101 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact financially 
     sustainable, voluntary, universal, and privately administered 
     outpatient prescription drug coverage as part of the federal 
     Medicare program; jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means 
     and Energy and Commerce.
       189. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Texas, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 
     memorializing the United States Congress to enact the Protect 
     Children From E-Mail Smut Act of 2001; jointly to the 
     Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, and 
     Science.

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