[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 13217-13218]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 11:35 a.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
agreed to the amendments of the Senate to an amendment of the House to 
the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2642) making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2008, and for other purposes, with an amendment; and has agreed to the 
Senate engrossed amendment with an amendment.

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  The message also announced that the House has passed the following 
bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate:

       H.R. 5511. An act to direct the Secretary of the Interior, 
     acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to remedy problems 
     caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel in Leadville, Colorado, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5710. An act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to provide financial assistance to the Eastern New 
     Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and 
     construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5781. An act to provide that 8 of the 12 weeks of 
     parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be 
     paid leave, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 6063. An act to authorize the programs of the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 6085. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 42222 Rancho Las Palmas 
     Drive in Rancho Mirage, California, as the ``Gerald R. Ford 
     Post Office Building''.
       H.R. 6150. An act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 14500 Lorain Avenue in 
     Cleveland, Ohio, as the ``John P. Gallagher Post Office 
     Building''.

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

       H. Con. Res. 350. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress that the United States, through the 
     International Whaling Commission, should use all appropriate 
     measures to end commercial whaling in all of its forms, 
     including scientific and other special permit whaling, 
     coastal whaling, and community-based whaling, and seek to 
     strengthen the conservation and management measures to 
     facilitate the conservation of whale species, and for other 
     purposes.

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