[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 11764-11765]
[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-294. A resolution adopted by the Council of the City of 
     Cincinnati, Ohio, urging the Ohio congressional delegation to 
     support all peaceful political actions that would result in 
     the reunification of Ireland; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
       POM-295. A resolution adopted by the Council of the City of 
     Upland, California, urging the California congressional 
     delegation to support postal reform that would: secure the 
     continuance of 6-day mail delivery; stabilize the Postal 
     Service's finances by reforming or eliminating future retiree 
     health financing policies that are crippling the Postal 
     Service's finances; strengthen and protect the Postal 
     Service's invaluable mail processing, retail, and last-mile 
     delivery networks that together comprise a crucial part of 
     the nation's infrastructure; retain door-to-door delivery for 
     30 million plus households and businesses; to the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
       POM-296. A resolution adopted by the Council of the City of 
     Redlands, California, urging the California congressional 
     delegation to support postal reform that would: secure the 
     continuance of 6-day mail delivery; stabilize the Postal 
     Service's finances by reforming or eliminating future retiree 
     health financing policies that are hindering the Postal 
     Service's finances and growth opportunities; strengthen and 
     protect the Postal Service's invaluable mail processing, 
     retail, and last-mile delivery networks that together 
     comprise a crucial part of the nation's infrastructure; 
     retain door-to-door delivery for 30 million plus households 
     and businesses; to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs.
       POM-297. A resolution approved by the Electors of the City 
     of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, supporting the passage of an 
     amendment to the United States Constitution stating: only 
     human beings--not corporations, limited liability companies, 
     unions, non-profit organizations, or similar associations and 
     corporate entities--are endowed with Constitutional rights, 
     and spending money is not speech protected by the First 
     Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and, therefore, regulating 
     political contributions and spending is not equivalent to 
     limiting political speech; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       POM-298. A resolution adopted by the City Commission of 
     Miami, Florida, urging the President of the United States and 
     members of the Congress of the United States to grant 
     temporary protective status to Venezuelans living in the 
     United States and to suspend any further deportations of 
     unauthorized Venezuelan individuals with no serious criminal 
     history, to extend Deferred Action to all eligible 
     undocumented members of Venezuelan immigrant families, to end 
     the firing of Venezuelan undocumented workers by ending the 
     I-9 audits and the use of E-Verify System, and to encourage 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security to approve TPS for 
     Venezuelans whose immigration status has expired; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
       POM-299. A resolution adopted by the City Council of Big 
     Spring, Texas, calling upon the Texas congressional 
     delegation to affirm the rights of citizens under the Second 
     Amendment and that all federal acts, laws, executive orders, 
     agency orders, and rules or regulations of any kind that 
     confiscate any firearm, ban any firearm, limit the size of a 
     magazine for any firearm, impose any limit on the ammunition 
     that may be purchased for any firearm, special taxation on 
     any firearm or ammunition, or require the registration of any 
     firearm or ammunition therefore, infringes upon the right to 
     bear arms in direct violation of the Second Amendment to the 
     Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       POM-300. A resolution approved by the Electors of the Town 
     of Waterloo, Wisconsin, supporting the passage of an 
     amendment to the United States Constitution stating: only 
     human beings--not corporations, unions, limited liability 
     companies, non-profit organizations, or similar associations 
     and corporate entities--are endowed with Constitutional 
     rights, and money is not speech, and

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     therefore regulating political contributions and spending is 
     not equivalent to limiting political speech; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.
       POM-301. A resolution adopted by the Legislature of Greene 
     County, New York, urging the Congress of the United States to 
     support the health and welfare of all veterans as a priority, 
     and to pass H.R. 1494, the ``Blue Water Navy Accountability 
     Act''; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       POM-302. A resolution adopted by the Legislature of Greene 
     County, New York, urging the Congress of the United States to 
     restore the presumption of a service connection for Agent 
     Orange exposure to the United States veterans who served on 
     the inland waterways, in the territorial waters, and the 
     airspace over the combat zone; to the Committee on Veterans' 
     Affairs.

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