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106TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 106–536

J. SMITH HENLEY FEDERAL BUILDING AND UNITED

STATES COURTHOUSE

MARCH 23, 2000.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

Mr. SHUSTER, from the Committee on Transportation and

Infrastructure, submitted the following

R E P O R T

[To accompany H.R. 1605]

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom

was referred the bill (H.R. 1605) to designate the United States

courthouse building located at 402 North Walnut Street and Prospect Avenue in Harrison, Arkansas, as the ‘‘Judge J. Smith Henley

Federal Building’’, having considered the same, report favorably

thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

The amendments are as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof

the following:

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

The Federal building and United States courthouse located at 402 North Walnut

Street in Harrison, Arkansas, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘J. Smith Henley Federal Building and United States Courthouse’’.

SEC. 2. REFERENCES.

Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the

United States to the Federal building and United States courthouse referred to in

section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘J. Smith Henley Federal Building

and United States Courthouse’’.

Amend the title so as to read:

A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at

402 North Walnut Street in Harrison, Arkansas, as the ‘‘J. Smith Henley Federal

Building and United States Courthouse’’.

Judge J. Smith Henley was born on May 18, 1917, in St. Joe, Arkansas. Judge Henley received his LLB from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1941. He was a member of the American

Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association, the Bar Association of
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Metropolitan St. Louis, the Boone County Bar Association and the

American Judicature Society.

Judge Henley engaged in private practice from 1941 until 1954.

He was a former Referee in Bankruptcy for the Western District

of Arkansas from 1943 until 1945. In 1954 he was an Associate

General Counsel for the Federal Communications Commission and

served as Director of the Office of Administrative Procedure, Department of Justice from 1956 until 1958.

In 1958 Judge Henley was appointed United States District

Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. He

served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District during his entire tenure on the District bench. He was appointed United States Circuit

Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

in March 1975. Judge Henley took Senior status in May 1982, and

continued to carry an active docket until his death in 1987.

This is a fitting honor to a dedicated public servant.

COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

On March 16, 2000, the Committee met in open session and ordered reported H.R. 1605, as amended, designating the Federal

building and United States courthouse located at 402 North Walnut Street in Harrison, Arkansas as the ‘‘J. Smith Henley Federal

Building and United States Courthouse,’’ approved March 15, 2000,

by the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings,

Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Transportation, by voice vote

with a quorum present. There were no recorded votes taken during

Committee consideration of H.R. 1605, as amended.

RECORD VOTES

Clause 3(b) of rule XIII of the House of Representatives requires

each committee report to include the total number of votes cast for

and against on each record vote on a motion to report and on any

amendment offered to the measure or matter, and the names of

those members voting for and against. There were no recorded

votes taken in connection with ordering H.R. 1605, as amended reported. A motion by Mr. Franks to order H.R. 1605, as amended,

favorably reported to the House was agreed to by voice vote, a

quorum being present.

COST OF THE LEGISLATION

Clause 3(d)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives does not apply where a cost estimate and comparison

prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under

section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 has been timely submitted prior to the filing of the report and is included in the

report. Such a cost estimate is included in this report.

COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULE XIII

1. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII

of the Rules of the House of Representatives, and section 308(a) of

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee references

the report of the Congressional Budget Office below.
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2. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII

of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee has

received no report of oversight findings and recommendations from

the Committee on Government Reform on the subject of H.R. 1605,

as amended.

3. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(3) of rule XIII

of the Rules of the House of Representatives and section 402 of the

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee has received the

following cost estimate for H.R. 1605, as amended, from the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.

U.S. CONGRESS, CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, Washington, DC, March 20, 2000.

Hon. BUD SHUSTER,

Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has reviewed the following bills, which were ordered reported by the

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March

16, 2000. CBO estimates that their enactment would have no significant impact on the federal budget, and would not affect direct

spending or receipts; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures would not

apply. The bills contain no intergovernmental or private-sector

mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and

would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments. The

bills reviewed are:

H.R. 938, a bill to designate the federal building located at

290 Broadway in New York, New York, as the ‘‘Ronald H.

Brown Federal Building;’’

H.R. 1279, a bill to designate the federal building and United

States courthouse located at 236 Sharkey Street in Clarksdale,

Mississippi, as the ‘‘Aaron E. Henry Federal Building and

United States Courthouse;’’

H.R. 1605, a bill to designate the federal building and United

States courthouse located at 402 North Walnut Street in Harrison, Arkansas, as the ‘‘J. Smith Henley Federal Building and

United States Courthouse;’’ and

H.R. 2412, a bill to designate the federal building and United

States courthouse located at 1300 South Harrison Street in

Fort Wayne, Indiana, as the ‘‘E. Ross Adair Federal Building

and United States Courthouse.’’

If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be pleased

to provide them. The CBO staff contact is John R. Righter.

Sincerely,

BARRY B. ANDERSON

(For Dan L. Crippen, Director).

CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT

Pursuant to clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House

of Representatives, committee reports on a bill or joint resolution

of a public character shall include a statement citing the specific

powers granted to the Congress in the Constitution to enact the

measure. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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finds that Congress has the authority to enact this measure pursuant to its powers granted under article I, section 8 of the Constitution.

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