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“MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Transportation was published in the in the Senate section section on page S2130 on April 25.
The Department handles nearly all infrastructure crisscrossing the country. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department should be privatized to save money, reduce congestion and spur innovation.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
Enrolled Bills Signed
At 3:02 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives delivered by Mrs. Alli, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Beyer) had signed the following enrolled bills:
S. 400. An act to designate the headquarters building of the Department of Transportation located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, in Washington, DC, as the ``William T. Coleman, Jr., Federal Building''.
H.R. 3113. An act to require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to digitize and make publicly available geographic information system mapping data relating to public access to Federal land and waters for outdoor recreation, and for other purposes.
The enrolled bills were subsequently signed by the President pro tempore (Mr. Leahy).
The message further announced that pursuant to section 1095(b)(l)(C) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81), and the order of the House of January 4, 2021, the Speaker appoints the following individual on the part of the House of Representatives to the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States: Ms. Jane Harman of Venice, California.
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