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                        MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

  A message from the Senate by Ms. Byrd, one of its clerks, announced 
that the Senate has passed a bill of the following title in which the 
concurrence of the House is requested:

       S. 178. An act to condemn gross human rights violations of 
     ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to 
     arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these 
     communities inside and outside China.

  The message also announced that the Secretary of the Senate be 
directed to request the House to return to the Senate the bill (S. 
1790) ``An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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.''.

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