[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14671-14672]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       27. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the City Council of 
     Jamestown, NY, relative

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     to a resolution encouraging President Barack Obama, Senator 
     Charles Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representative 
     Thomas Reed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate 
     Minority Leader Harry Reid, House of Representatives Speaker 
     John Boehner, and House of Representatives Minority Leader 
     Nancy Pelosi, to vigorously oppose the proposed reductions in 
     funding for the Community Development Block Grant and HOME 
     Program and the elimination of the ``grandfathering'' of 
     metropolitan cities not meeting population levels for which 
     they initially qualified as a HUD Entitlement Community; to 
     the Committee on Financial Services.
       28. Also, a petition of the Mayor and City Council of 
     Westminster, CA, relative to Resolution No. 4550, urging the 
     114th United States Congress to adopt H.R. 2140 -- The 
     Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2015 and support attaching human 
     rights conditions to trade and security agreements with 
     Vietnam and prohibit DRAFT non-humanitarian aid unless the 
     President certifies to Congress that the government of 
     Vietnam has made substantial progress respecting political, 
     civil, media, Internet, religious freedoms, minority rights, 
     access to U.S. refugee programs, actions to end trafficking 
     in persons, and the release of religious and political 
     prisoners; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.