[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 2:00 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, without amendment:

       S. 781. An act to extend the authority of the Federal Trade 
     Commission to collect Do-Not-Call Registry fees to fiscal 
     year 2007.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolutions, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 273. Concurrent resolution recognizing the 
     50th Anniversary of the National Academy of Recording Arts & 
     Sciences.
       H. Con. Res. 287. Concurrent resolution celebrating the 
     50th anniversary of the United States Explorer I satellite, 
     the world's first scientific spacecraft, and the birth of the 
     United States space exploration program.

  The message further announced that pursuant to section 2 of the Civil 
Rights Commission Amendments Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 1975 note), the 
order of the House of January 4, 2007, and upon the recommendation of 
the Minority Leader, the Speaker appoints the following member on the 
part of the House of Representatives to the Commission on Civil Rights 
to fill the existing vacancy thereon and, effective February 12, 2008, 
the Speaker's reappointment of the same member to a 6-year term 
expiring February 11, 2014:
  Mr. Todd Gaziano of Falls Church, Virginia.

                          ____________________