[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 28023]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

   At 11:54 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, 
delivered by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the 
House has passed the following bills, in which it requests the 
concurrence of the Senate:

        H.R. 2443. An act to authorize appropriations for the 
     Coast Guard for fiscal year 2004, to amend various laws 
     administered by the Coast Guard, and for other purposes;
        H.R. 2620. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     years 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection 
     Act of 2000, and for other purposes;
        H.R. 3214. An act to eliminate the substantial backlog of 
     DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted 
     offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of 
     Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase 
     research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to 
     develop new training programs regarding the collection and 
     use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of 
     DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the 
     performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other 
     purposes;
        H.R. 3348. An act to reauthorize the ban on undetectable 
     firearms;
        H.R. 3349. An act to authorize salary adjustments for 
     Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 
     2004; and
        H.R. 3379. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in 
     Bloomington, Indiana, as the ``Francis X. McCloskey Post 
     Office Building''.

  The message also announced that the House agrees to the amendments of 
the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3365) to amend title 10, United States 
Code, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the death 
gratuity payable with respect to deceased members of the Armed Forces 
and to exclude such gratuity from gross income.

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