[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15743]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 1:15 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 bill, without amendment:

       S. 15. An act to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, 
     radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a 
     terrorist attack against the United States by giving the 
     National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, 
     infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific 
     peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug 
     Administration approval process of countermeasures.

  The message also announced that the House passed the following bills 
in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 3463. An act to amend titles III and IV of the Social 
     Security Act to improve the administration of unemployment 
     taxes and benefits.
       H.R. 4418. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     years 2005 and 2006 for the Bureau of Customs and Border 
     Protection and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs 
     Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security, for the 
     Office of the United States Trade Representative, for the 
     United States International Trade Commission, and for other 
     purposes.

  The message further announced that the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives has signed the following enrolled bill:

       S. 1167. An act to resolve the boundary conflicts in Barry 
     and Stone Counties in the State of Missouri.

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