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“EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H8360 on Aug. 3, 1995.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.
Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows:
1303. A communication from the President of the United States, transmitting his request to make available emergency appropriations totaling $53,000,000 in budget authority for the Department of Commerce for fisherman relief programs in the Northeast, the Northwest, and the Gulf of Mexico; also making available emergency appropriations for the Department of Justice, FEMA, and the Judiciary and to designate the amount made available as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1107 (H. Doc. No. 104-107); to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.
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