[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE DURING ADJOURNMENT

  Under authority of the order of the Senate January 7, 2003, the 
Secretary of the Senate, on September 7, 2004, during the adjournment 
of the Senate, received a message from the House of Representatives 
announcing that the House has passed the following bill, in which it 
requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 5005. An act making emergency appropriations for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, for additional 
     disaster assistance.


 emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief act of 2004

  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 5005

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2004, to provide emergency supplemental 
     appropriations for additional disaster assistance, namely:

  DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

                            Disaster Relief

       For an additional amount for ``Disaster Relief'', 
     $2,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     up to $30,000,000 may be transferred to ``Small Business 
     Administration--Salaries and Expenses'', for administrative 
     expenses to carry out the disaster loans program authorized 
     by section 7(b) of the Small Business Act: Provided, That the 
     amounts provided herein are designated as an emergency 
     requirement pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 95 (108th 
     Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representatives 
     by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress) and applicable to the Senate 
     by section 14007 of Public Law 108-287.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Supplemental 
     Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2004''.

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