[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28770]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       209. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent 
     Resolution No. 4 memorializing the Congress of the United 
     States to take such action as are necessary to create a 
     national wind insurance program to be combined with the 
     National Flood Insurance Program in order to create a 
     national catastrophe insurance program; to the Committee on 
     Financial Services.
       210. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 23 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to increase 
     the coverage limit for a single-family structure under the 
     National Flood Insurance Program from two hundred fifty 
     thousand to five hundred thousand dollars; to the Committee 
     on Financial Services.
       211. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 38 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to require all federal jobs that 
     have been lost or relocated due to Hurricane Katrina and Rita 
     and their associated funding to be restored as soon as 
     possible; to the Committee on Government Reform.
       212. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 5 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to grant for distributions from DROP 
     accounts to active state and local government employees who 
     are members of public retirement systems similar tax relief 
     as that provided to members of qualified retirement plans by 
     the Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005 and to permit 
     such distrbutions from tax-qualified plans; to the Committee 
     on Ways and Means.
       213. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 27 
     memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such 
     actions as are necessary to grant to victims of Hurricane 
     Rita similar tax relief as that provided by the Katrina 
     Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005, and to include 
     distributions from DROP accounts to active state and local 
     government employees who are members of public retirement 
     systems and who are victims of Hurricane Katrina and 
     Hurricane Rita as eligible retirement plan distributions, and 
     to permit such distributions from tax-qualified plans; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.

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