[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 18732-18733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-58. A resolution adopted by the Senate of the State of 
     Louisiana urging Congress to address the escalating 
     electronic payment interchange rates that merchants and 
     consumers are assessed; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
     and Urban Affairs.

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       POM-59. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana urging Congress, the Governor of 
     Louisiana, the Department of Economic Development, the 
     Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Public 
     Service Commission, to assist in putting wood to electricity 
     projects on a commensurate funding and taxation level with 
     wind and solar generated electricity; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
       POM-60. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana expressing continued support for the 
     Coastal Restoration and Enhancement Through Science and 
     Technology Program for its role in providing new research and 
     scientific information for coastal restoration; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
       POM-61. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana urging Congress to enact legislation 
     to adjust the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage rules to 
     ameliorate the unintended negative impact caused by the 
     infusion of disaster relief funding, both in public and 
     private, into Louisiana's and other state's economies 
     following major disasters; to the Committee on Finance.
       POM-62. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana affirming Louisiana's sovereignty 
     under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United 
     States of America over all powers not otherwise enumerated 
     and granted to the federal government by the Consitution of 
     the United States of America.
       POM-63. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana urges Congress to adopt and submit to 
     the states for ratification a proposed amendment to the 
     Constitution of the United States to require a federal 
     balanced budget; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       POM-64. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana urging Congress and the Attorney 
     General of the United States and the Federal Bureau of 
     Prisons to refrain from sending detainees released or 
     transferred from the facilities at Guantanamo Bay Detention 
     Facility, Cuba to prisons in Louisiana; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.
       POM-65. A resolution adopted by the House of 
     Representatives of the State of Louisiana urging Congress to 
     establish an additional classification for airports; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
       POM-66. A resolution adopted by the Senate of the State of 
     Louisiana urging Congress to establish an additional 
     classification for airports; to the Committee on Commerce, 
     Science, and Transportation.
       POM-67. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate of 
     the State of Louisiana urging Congress to enact the Credit 
     Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act; to 
     the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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