[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2583]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII,

       47. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Jackson County 
     Board of Supervisors, relative to a resolution to join with 
     coast cities and counties in requesting the legislature to 
     appropriate at least 80% of the $750 million in economic 
     damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the local 
     governments of the three coastal counties to be used for 
     strategic, economic development to create new jobs, and 
     expand the state's tax base from sales and income taxes 
     generated from Mississippi coast businesses; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Financial Services.