[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Ms. Curtis, one of its clerks, announced 
that the Senate has passed with an amendment a bill of the House of the 
following title:

       H.R. 1256. An act to protect the public health by providing 
     the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to 
     regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States 
     Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings 
     Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal 
     Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.

  The message also announced that the Senate passed a bill of the 
following title in which the concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 407. An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2009, in the 
     rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected 
     disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity 
     compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, 
     to codify increases in the rates of such compensation that 
     were effective as of December 1, 2008, and for other 
     purposes.

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