[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       279. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Common Council 
     of the City of Ithaca, New York, relative to a Resolution 
     calling for talks to begin as early as possible between the 
     Chinese Government and His Holiness the Dalai Lama to discuss 
     ending the respression of Tibetan demonstrations; to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       280. Also, a petition of the Common Council of the City of 
     New Britain, Connecticut, relative to Resolution No. 30074 
     expressing opposition to the war in Iraq after it's 
     misleading and deceptive methods of garnering initial 
     support; jointly to the Committees on Armed Services and 
     Foreign Affairs.