[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13992-13993]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MEMORIALS

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

       296. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Senate of the 
     State of California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 26, 
     calling upon the President of the United States to encourage 
     the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and 
     Human Services to adopt policies to repeal the current 
     discriminatory donor suitability policies of the United 
     States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding blood 
     donations by men who have had sex with another man and, 
     instead,

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     direct the FDA to develop science-based policies such as 
     criteria based on risky behavior in lieu of sexual 
     orientation; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       297. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 29, declaring 
     unnecessary and unexplained increases in pharmaceutical 
     pricing is a harm to our health care system that will no 
     longer be tolerated because the system cannot sustain it; to 
     the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       298. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 28, to ensure 
     that immigrant children are afforded due process under the 
     law when they are fighting to remain in the United States of 
     America; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       299. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 24, 
     commending Congress and the President of the United States 
     for enacting the FAST Act to provide stability and 
     reliability in federal transportation funding over the next 
     five years; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
       300. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Joint Resolution 22, urging 
     the Congress to appropriate $248 million in funding to 
     complete Phase 2 of the Calexico West Land Port of Entry 
     reconfiguration and expansion project; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
       301. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of 
     California, relative to Senate Resolution 86, requesting the 
     Congress of the United States to pass the Helping Families in 
     Mental Health Crisis Act of 2016 (H.R. 2646), and further 
     requests President Barack Obama to sign that legislation; 
     jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and 
     Means, and Education and the Workforce.

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