[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11149]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 2:37 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 5658. An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2009 for military activities of the Department of 
     Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
     activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
     personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to amend the 
     Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection 
     of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of 
     the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency 
     operation, and for other purposes.

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