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                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 3:02 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced the House has passed 
the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 302. An act to impose limits on excepting competitive 
     service positions from the competitive service, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 2988. An act to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
     modify and enhance protections for Federal Government 
     whistleblowers, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 8326. An act to amend title 13, United States Code, to 
     improve the operations of the Bureau of the Census, and for 
     other purposes.
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  At 3:57 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Clerk of 
the House be directed to return to the Senate the bill (S. 1198) to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and expand the Solid 
Start program of the Department Veterans Affairs, and for other 
purposes, in compliance with a request of the Senate for the return 
thereof.

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