[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5603-5604]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as 
follows:

       15. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Legislature of 
     the State of Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 12, 
     urging the government of Turkey to: uphold and safeguard 
     religious and human rights of all its citizens without 
     compromise; grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate 
     ecclesiastical succession and the right to train clergy of 
     all nationalities; and respect the property rights and human 
     rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and all religious and 
     faith traditions; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       16. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 2, opposing any 
     national monument designation in the Caldera area of the 
     Island Park region in eastern Idaho; to the Committee on 
     Natural Resources.
       17. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 5, supporting any 
     effort to reach a decision regarding lands of Idaho 
     administered by federal agencies be made with local 
     collaboration rather than by unilateral administrative 
     processes that exclude the citizens of Idaho; to the 
     Committee on Natural Resources.
       18. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 9, urging 
     Congress to continue to make no funds available for use by 
     the Secretary of the Interior to consider, prepare, write, or 
     issue pursuant to Sec. 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 
     1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) a petition finding or proposed 
     regulation for greater sage-grouse for a period of 10 years 
     through and including FY 2025; to the Committee on Natural 
     Resources.
       19. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 10, urging the 
     United States Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider the 
     excessive boating, hunting, and hiking restrictions in the 
     proposed Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge comprehensive 
     conservation plan; to the Committee on Natural Resources.
       20. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     North Dakota, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 
     3105, requesting the Congress of the United States call a 
     convention of the States to propose amendments to the 
     Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       21. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     North Dakota, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 
     3015, requesting the Congress of the United States call a 
     convention of the States to propose amendments to the 
     Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       22. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 8, urging the 
     Congress of the United States to enact the pending 
     legislation introduced by the Idaho congressional delegation 
     providing legal authority to the State of Idaho to determine 
     whether to allow 129,000-pound vehicles on the federal 
     interstate highway system in Idaho; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       23. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 7, urging the 
     Department of Energy, the Administration and Congress to join 
     Idaho in exploring the favorable geologic conditions of the 
     Geothermal Resource Research Area on the western edge of the

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     Idaho National Laboratory; to the Committee on Science, 
     Space, and Technology.
       24. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 6, urging the 
     Congress of the United States to enact bipartisan legislation 
     that reaffirms the FDA as the primary authority in uniform 
     food labeling related to genetic engineering, based on 
     scientific standards regarding health, safety, and nutrition; 
     jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
     Agriculture.
       25. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of 
     Idaho, relative to House Joint Memorial No. 11, that Idaho 
     opposes the removal or breaching of the dams on the Columbia-
     Snake River System and its tributaries, has sovereignty of 
     its water resources, prohibits contributions of water from 
     Idaho's reservoirs for flow augmentation except those 
     expressly authorized by state law, that efforts for further 
     recovery of anadromous fish must be undertaken in a manner 
     based on sound science, and supports maintenance and multiple 
     use benefits of the Columbia-Snake River System; jointly to 
     the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and 
     Natural Resources.

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