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“SENATE BILLS REFERRED” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H11643 on Nov. 5, 1999.
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SENATE BILLS REFERRED
Bills of the Senate of the following titles were taken from the Speaker's table and, under the rule, referred as follows:
S. 225. An act to provide Federal housing assistance to Native Hawaiians; to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services.
S. 777. An act to require the Department of Agriculture to establish an electronic filing and retrieval system to enable the public to file all required paperwork electronically with the Department and to have access to public information on farm programs, quarterly trade, economic, and production reports, and other similar information; to the Committee on Agriculture.
S. 1290. An act to amend title 36 of the United States Code to establish the American Indian Education Foundation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 1455. An act to enhance protections against fraud in the offering of financial assistance for college education, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary, in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
S. 1754. An act to deny safe havens to international and war criminals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 1866. An act to redesignate the Coastal Barrier Resources System as the ``John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System''; to the Committee on Resources.
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