[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 24494-24495]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 9:33 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 bills and joint resolution, in which it requests 
the concurrence of the Senate.

       H.R. 408. An act to provide for expansion of Sleeping Bear 
     Dunes National Lakeshore.
       H.R. 708. An act to require the conveyance of certain 
     National Forest System lands in Mendocino National Forest, 
     California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such 
     conveyance for National Forest purposes, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 1303. An act to amend the E-Government Act of 2002 
     with respect to rulemaking authority of the Judicial 
     Conference.
       H.R. 1900. An act to award a congressional gold medal to 
     Jackie Robinson (posthumously), in recognition of his many 
     contributions to the Nation, and to express the sense of the 
     Congress that there should be a national day in recognition 
     of Jackie Robinson.
       H.R. 1985. An act to amend the National Housing Act to 
     increase the maximum mortgage amount limit for FHA-insured 
     mortgages for multifamily housing located in high-cost areas.
       H.R. 2264. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     years 2004 and 2005 to carry out the Congo Basin Forest 
     Partnership (CBFP) program, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2297. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2452. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 339 Hicksville Road in 
     Bethpage, New York, as the ``Brian C. Hickey Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 2655. An act to amend and extend the Irish Peace 
     Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998.
       H.R. 2755. An act to authorize the President to issue 
     posthumously to the late William ``Billy'' Mitchell a 
     commission as major general, United States Army.
       H.R. 2998. An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     provide permanent authority for the exemption for certain 
     members of the uniformed services from an otherwise-
     applicable requirement for the payment of subsistence charges 
     while hospitalized.
       H.R. 3054. An act to amend the Policeman and Firemen's 
     Retirement and Disability Act to permit military service 
     previously performed by members and former members of the 
     Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, 
     the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United 
     States Park Police, and the United States Secret Service 
     Uniformed Division to count as creditable service for 
     purposes of calculating retirement annuities payable to such 
     members upon payment of a contribution by such members, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 3062. An act to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to 
     authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue separately, 
     for the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease for oil 
     and gas, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3108. An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income 
     Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
     temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate 
     based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan 
     funding requirements and other provisions, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 3159. An act to require Federal agencies to develop 
     and implement plans to protect the security and privacy of 
     government computer systems from the risks posed by peer-to-
     peer file sharing.
       H.R. 3182. An act to reauthorize the adoption incentive 
     payments program under part E of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3229. An act to amend title 44, United States Code, to 
     transfer to the Public Printer the authority over the 
     individuals responsible for preparing indexes of the 
     Congressional Record, and for other purposes.
       H.J. Res. 52. A joint resolution recognizing the Dr. Samuel 
     D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, an affiliate of the 
     Smithsonian Institution in Baltimore, Maryland, as the 
     official national museum of dentistry in the United States.

  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. 71. Concurrent resolution recognizing the 
     importance of Ralph Bunche as one of the great leaders of the 
     United States, the first African-American Nobel Peace Prize 
     winner, an accomplished scholar, a distinguished diplomat, 
     and a tireless campaigner of civil rights for people 
     throughout the world.
       H. Con. Res. 274. Concurrent resolution commending the 
     National Endowment for

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     Democracy for its contributions to democratic development 
     around the world on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of 
     the establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy.

  The message further announced that the House has agreed to the report 
of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two 
Houses on 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 other purposes.

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