[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25240]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Mr. Monahan, one of its clerks, 
announced that the Senate has passed without amendment a bill of the 
House of the following title:

       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.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed with amendments 
in which the concurrence of the House is requested, bills of the House 
of the following titles:

       H.R. 1516. An act to provide for the establishment by the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs of five additional cemeteries 
     in the National Cemetery System.
       H.R. 3289. An act making emergency supplemental 
     appropriations for defense and for the reconstruction of Iraq 
     and Afghanistan for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2004, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 3289) ``An Act making emergency supplemental 
appropriations for defense and for the reconstruction of Iraq and 
Afghanistan for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for 
other purposes,'' requests a conference with the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Stevens, 
Mr. Cochran, Mr. Specter, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Bond, Mr. McConnell, Mr. 
Burns, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Craig, 
Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Inouye, Mr. 
Hollings, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Harkin, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Reid, Mr. Kohl, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Dorgan, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Johnson, and Ms. 
Landrieu, to be the conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate has passed a bill of the 
following title in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 300. 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 
     Congress that there should be a national day in recognition 
     of Jackie Robinson.

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