[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 3:03 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker 
removes the gentleman from Oregon, Mr. Walden, as a conferee and 
appoints the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Shimkus, to fill the vacancy 
thereon to the bill (H.R. 2810) to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes, and that the appointment of conferees from the 
Committee on Natural Resources is modified by striking the first 
reference to section 2863.

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