[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 3:17 p.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, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 1904. An act to improve the capacity of the Secretary 
     of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to plan and 
     conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest 
     System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at 
     protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk 
     lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to 
     protect watersheds and address threats to forest and 
     rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the 
     landscape, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1925. An act to reauthorize programs under the Runaway 
     and Homeless Youth Act and the Missing Children's Assistance 
     Act, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the House agrees to the amendments of 
the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1298) to provide assistance to foreign 
countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other 
purposes.
  The message further announced that pursuant to section 201(b) of the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431 note), as 
amended by section 681(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Year 2003 (22 U.S.C. 2651 note), and the order of the House of 
January 8, 2003, the Speaker reappoints the following member on the 
part of the House of Representatives to the Commission on International 
Religious Freedom for a 2-year term ending May 14, 2005.

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