June 3, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 92 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       22. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Legislative 
     Assembly of Puerto Rico, relative to Senate Concurrent 
     Resolution 60, requesting the Congress of the United States 
     of America to take action to appropriate funds and resources 
     as are necessary to dredge the Dos Bocas, Loco, Loiza 
     (Carraizo), and Lucchetti reservoirs, which were adversely 
     affected by excessive sedimentation in the catastrophic wake 
     of hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico; to the Committee 
     on Appropriations.
       23. Also, a petition of the Board of Supervisors of the 
     City and County of San Francisco, CA, relative to Resolution 
     No. 209-19, condemning the Government of the Philippines for 
     its role in state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings by police 
     and for its continued detention of Senator Lelia de Lima, 
     condemning the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug 
     war that has taken the lives of over 29,000 Filipinos, and 
     urging San Francisco's Federal representatives to support 
     congressional hearing of the consequences of U.S. tax dollars 
     being used to fund these activities, and advocating for the 
     U.S. to cut aid to the Duterte regime; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs.
       24. Also, a petition of the House of Representatives of the 
     Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, relative to 
     House Joint Resolution 21-1, HD1, to request the Honorable 
     Ralph DLG. Torres and the Honorable Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan 
     to convey the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' 
     position to exempt the Northern Mariana Islands from the ban 
     on workers from the Philippines from the H-2B worker program 
     to our federal partners; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       25. Also, a petition of the Board of Supervisors of the 
     City and County of San Francisco, CA, relative to Resolution 
     No. 208-19, supporting United States House of Representatives 
     Bill 1856, the Ending Homelessness Act of 2019, which 
     appropriates funds to provide a path to end homelessness in 
     the United States, and for other purposes; jointly to the 
     Committees on Financial Services and the Budget.