Congressional Record
Proceedings, Debates of the U.S. Congress
July 20, 2000
106th Congress, 2nd Session
Issue: Vol. 146, No. 95 — Daily Edition
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MEMORIALS
(House of Representatives - July 20, 2000)
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[Pages H6718-H6719] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] MEMORIALS Under clause 3 of rule XII, memorials were presented and referred as follows: 416. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1020 memorializing the United States Congress and the President of the United States to significantly increase the amount of spending for the nation's armed forces; to the Committee on Armed Services. 417. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 35 the Congress of the United States to appropriate such funds as are necessary to complete this vital program to insure that maps are accurate so that homeowners are not charged exorbitant rates based on outdated information; to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services. 418. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New Hampshire, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 24 memorializing the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline; to the Committee on Commerce. 419. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 00-031 memorializing the FCC not to preempt local government land use decision-making and state judicial processes, thus overriding local and state government authority; to the Committee on Commerce. 420. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Resolution No. 48 memorializing the Congress of the United States and the Clinton Administration to recognize state interests and enact legislation that would prohibit the federal Department of Health and Human Services from recouping the tobacco settlement funds as third-party recoveries under Medicaid Law; to the Committee on Commerce. 421. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1015 memorializing the United States Congress to consider fully funding the PILT program for fiscal year 2001 to more accurately compensate countries for the burden of maintaining tax-exempt federal lands; to the Committee on Commerce. 422. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1041 memorializing th United States government to invest at least $100 million in international tuberculosis control in fiscal year 2001 to jumpstart tuberculosis control programs in the highest impact countries around the world; to the Committee on International Relations. 423. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1023 requesting the citizens of the state of Colorado to endorse participants in ``The People To People Ambassadorship Program'' and to recommit this state to engaging in programs and activities that will continue to support ongoing efforts to make Colorado's students responsible American and world citizens; to the Committee on International Relations. 424. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1009 memorializing the President and the Congress of the United States to take whatever steps necessary to initiate talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the purpose of obtaining the release of Americans being held against their will; to the Committee on International Relations. 425. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Resolution No. 39 urging the Bureau of the Census to conduct 2000 decennial census consistant with the United States Supreme Court ruling and consitutional mandate, which require a physical headcount of the population and bars the use of statistical sampling to create or in any way adjust the count; opposing the use of P.L. 94-171 data for legislative redistricting; and demanding that the data received from P.L. 94-171 for legislative redistricting be identical to the census tabulation data; to the Committee on Government Reform. 426. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana, relative to House Concurrent Resolution No. 12 memorializing Congress and urging the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act Task Force to support favoring barrier island restoration projects in the selection of restoration projects under the Breaux Act; to the Committee on Resources. 427. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1049 memorializing the Congress to ensure that any and all land purchased, leased, or otherwise acquired pursuant to designation of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service be acquired solely from willing sellars or lessors that no comdemnation or control be exerted by the federal government upon any landowner who is not willing to enter into an agreement with the federal government for such purpose; and urging that the current landowners receive just and equitable compensation in any transaction to the Committee on Resources. 428. Also, a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 00-1036 supporting all action necessary and possible in order for projects to proceed aggressively to control insect and disease epidemics around Colorado; supporting analysis of roadless areas of the national forests and grasslands in Colorado through the existing forest planning process; supporting the full funding of forest plans for the national forests and national grasslands; and supporting an aggressive stategy to comprehensively reduce the catactrophic fire risk and improve the health of Colorado's forests; to the Committee on Resources. 429. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of the State of New Hampshire, relative to House Joint Resolution No. 20 memorilizing the United States Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act for HIV victims; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 430. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Resolution No. 216 memorializing the Congress of the United States to propose submission to the states for their ratification an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Supreme Court or any inferior court [[Page H6719]] of the United States to mandate any state or political subdivision of the state levy or increase taxes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 431. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Resolution No. 40 memorializing the United States Congress to express its commitment to the Nation's waterways by making available additional financial and technical assistance to aid the State of Illinois in preserving and maintaining its importatant waterways and the critical locks and dams they contain; to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 432. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the State of Illinois, relative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 32 memorializing the Congress of the United States of America to ensure long-term financial viability of Social Security, as desribed above, and restore public confidence in the future of the program and to provide full benefit coverage for prescription medication under the federal Medicare program; jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and Commerce. ____________________
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