[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12433-12434]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 1 of Rule XXII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
Clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       34. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Chicago City 
     Council, relative to a resolution urging the United States 
     Congress to include in the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
     Act of 2009 provisions that will allow state and local grant 
     recipients to follow state and local procurement practices 
     rather than federally required laws and rules for grant 
     recipients, including without limitation the using of M/WBEs 
     rather than DBEs; to the Committee on Oversight and 
     Government Reform.

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       35. Also, a petition of the Community Board No. 1 of New 
     York, NY, relative to a resolution supporting the 9/11 Health 
     and Compensation Act of 2009 (H.R. 847), which would provide 
     necessary services to those directly affected by the 
     terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001, including 
     those who lived, worked, volunteered and attended school in 
     Lower Manhattan; jointly to the Committees on Energy and 
     Commerce and the Judiciary.