[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 7479-7480]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       297. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of Washington, relative to Engrossed Senate Joint 
     Memorial No. 8050 memorializing the U.S. Congress and the 
     Dept. of Agriculture be fully aware of the current expertise 
     that exists as the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic 
     Laboratory & College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington 
     State University and the head start this institution has to 
     fulfill needs on projects related to TSEs including an 
     ability to develop a BSE test for live cattle; conduct an 
     itemized list of enhanced TSE research projects; or 
     administer a quick surveillance BSE testing program for the 
     state or the to the Committee on Agriculture.
       298. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 105 
     memorializing the United States Congress to give strong 
     consideration to both increasing the current mission and 
     adding additional missions to Mountain Home Air Force Base; 
     to the Committee on Armed Services.
       299. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to Engrossed Senate Joint Memorial No. 
     8039 memorializing the President of the United States, the 
     Congress, and the Department of Defense to recognize the 
     strategic importance of Washington State's military bases to 
     our nation's security and not make them victims of this round 
     of the Base Realignment and Closure process; to the Committee 
     on Armed Services.
       300. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 106 notifying 
     the United States Congress that the Idaho Legislature is 
     committed to maintaining the states as sole regulators of the 
     business of insurance, and continue to support state efforts 
     to streamline, simplify and modernize insurance regulation; 
     to the Committee on Financial Services.
       301. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 20 notifying 
     the United States Congress of the Idaho Legislature's 
     committment to maintaining the role of the states in 
     enforcement of consumer protection laws and in dual 
     regulation of financial institutions, and it opposes any 
     federal rule that undermines this state authority, including 
     the OCC's rules preempting state consumer protection laws and 
     enforcement that apply to national banks, their operating 
     subsidiaries and agents; to the Committee on Financial 
     Services.
       302. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 108 
     memorializing the United States Congress to support 
     amendments to the No Child Left Behind Act that will allow 
     determinations of ``adequate yearly progress'' to be made on 
     the basis of individual student growth from year to year; 
     target options for choice & supplemental services to specific 
     subgroups that fail to make adequate yearly progress ; 
     provide flexibility & more reasonable rules for English 
     Language Learners; & permit states to identify those schools 
     that fail to meet adequate yearly progress for two 
     consecutive years in the same subject to the Committee on 
     Education and the Workforce.
       303. Also, a memorial of the House of Delegates of the 
     State of West Virginia, relative to House Resolution No. 6 
     memorializing the President and Congress of the United States 
     to amend the No Child Left Behind Act to include a mechanism 
     for a waiver from its provisions for school accountability 
     that shall automatically be granted to states such as West 
     Virginia that have successfully increased student achievement 
     through their own standards and accountability reforms; to 
     the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
       304. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 17 
     memorializing the United States Congress to amend Section 
     1917(b)(1)(C) of the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620, 42 
     U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(C)) by deleting May 14, 1993 as the 
     deadline for approval by states of long-term care partnership 
     plans; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       305. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Maine, relative to H.P. 1442 Joint Resolution memorializing 
     the President, Congress, and the Postal Service of the United 
     States to maintain current levels of service; to the 
     Committee on Government Reform.
       306. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 27 
     memorializing the United States Government to conduct salmon 
     survival evaluations in the 2004 spill year, the goal of 
     which should be to determine if it is possible to achieve the 
     same or greater levels of survival and biological benefit to 
     migrating fish as is currently achieved while reducing the 
     amount of water spilled, thus decreasing the adverse impacts 
     on the region's power supply; to the Committee on Resources.
       307. Also, a memorial of the House of Representatives of 
     the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to House 
     Resolution No. 579 memorializing the President of the United 
     States and the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation to do 
     all in their power to encourage the United States Department 
     of Justice to review its September 11, 2002, refusal to 
     classify Christopher Kangas as a ``public safety officer'' 
     under the Public Safety Benefits Act of 1976; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
       308. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 109 commending 
     the United States Congress for its efforts to date to 
     increase transit funding for Idaho and to apply a higher 
     federal match to transit projects due to the presence of 
     significant federal lands in a state; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       309. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 15 supporting 
     the passage of H.R. 871, to amend the national Highway System 
     Designation Act of 1995; to the Committee on Transportation 
     and Infrastructure.
       310. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 22 
     memorializing the President of the United States and the 
     Congress to support and expand the Idaho National Laboratory; 
     to the Committee on Science.
       311. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 8040 
     memorializing the President of the United States to insure 
     the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in 
     Washington State will be adequate to serve the current and 
     future demands of the state's veterans; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
       312. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 18 
     memorializing the United States Congress, that in negotiating 
     any national trade agreements, to recognize the economic 
     impact of such trade agreements on the states and consider 
     those impacts to maintain viable economic health of 
     agricultural industries as well as all industries, with an 
     emphasis on fair trade, rather than free trade; as well as to 
     renogiate the provisions of CAFTA to limit sugar exports from 
     the Central American countries to fairly protect sugarbeet 
     and cane growers in the United States; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       313. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Washington, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 4031 
     memorializing the President and the Congress of the United 
     States to extend and make retroactive the federal temporary 
     unemployment compensation program; to the Committee on Ways 
     and Means.
       314. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 21 supporting 
     the concurrent receipt of military retirement pay and 
     disability compensation; jointly to the Committees on Armed 
     Services and Veterans' Affairs.

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       315. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 110 
     memorializing the congressional delegation representing the 
     state of Idaho to work toward enactment of the Clearwater 
     Basin Project Act; jointly to the Committees on Resources and 
     Agriculture.
       316. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to Senate Joint Memorial No. 107 
     memorializing the United States Congress to preserve access 
     to, and the historic use of, backcountry airstrips by 
     introducing into Congress legislation which will preserve 
     backcountry landing strips on currently-owned federal lands 
     and any future federal acquisition of lands; jointly to the 
     Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.

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