[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16116]
[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 bills of the 
House of the following titles:

       H.R. 1303. An act to amend the E-Government Act of 2002 
     with respect to rulemaking authority of the Judicial 
     Conference.
       H.R. 4759. An act to implement the United States-Australia 
     Free Trade Agreement.

  The message also announced that the Senate has passed with an 
amendment in which the concurrence of the House is requested, a bill of 
the House of the following title:

       H.R. 4520. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our 
     manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and 
     workers more competitive and productive both at home and 
     abroad.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 4520) ``An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on the FSC/ETI 
benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production activities in 
the United States, to reform and simplify the international taxation 
rules of the United States, and for other purposes,'' requests a 
conference with the House on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses 
thereon, and appoints Mr. Grassley, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Nickles, Mr. Lott, 
Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Smith, Mr. Bunning, 
Mr. McConnell, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Daschle, Mr. 
Breaux, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Graham of Florida, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Bingaman, 
Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Harkin to be the conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
  The message also announced that the Senate has passed bills of the 
following titles in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 2261. An act to expand certain preferential trade 
     treatment for Haiti.
       S. 2479. An act to amend chapter 84 of title 5, United 
     States Code, to provide for Federal employees to make 
     elections to make, modify, and terminate contributions to the 
     Thrift Savings Fund at any time, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 70-770, the 
Chair, on behalf of the Vice President, appoints the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, 
vice the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux).

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