[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20778]
[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 with an amendment in which the 
concurrence of the House is requested, a bill of the House of the 
following title:

       H.R. 5122. An act to amend the Congressional Accountability 
     Act of 1995 to permit members of the Board of Directors of 
     the Office of Compliance to serve for 2 terms.

  The message also announced that the Senate insists upon its amendment 
to the bill (H.R. 1047) ``An Act to amend the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of 
duty, to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for 
other purposes,'' agrees to a conference with the House on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. Grassley, 
Mr. Frist, and Mr. Baucus, to be the conferees on the part of the 
Senate.
  The message also announced that in accordance with the return of the 
papers to the Senate providing for technical corrections, said 
corrections having been made, the Secretary be directed to return to 
the House (H.R. 4567) ``An Act making appropriations for the Department 
of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and 
for other purposes.''
  The message also announced that pursuant to section 104(c)(1) of 
Public Law 108-199, the Chair, on behalf of the Majority Leader and 
Democratic Leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House and 
Minority Leader of the House, announces the joint appointment of the 
following individual to serve as Chairman of the Commission on the 
Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program:
  Peter McPherson.

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