CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—NOV. 19, 1999 113 STAT. 2017 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress— (1) urges the President to seek a global consensus supporting— (A) a permanent international ban on tariffs on electronic commerce; and (B) an international ban on bit, itnultiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commcyce and the Internet; (2) urges the President to instruct th(i United States delegation to the November 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle, Washington to seek to make permanent and binding the moratorium on tariffs on electronic trsmsmissions adopted by the World Trade Organization in May 1998; (3) urges the President to seek adoption by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and implementation by the group's 29 member countries, of an international ban on bit, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce and the Internet; and (4) urges the President to oppose any proposal by any country, the United Nations, or any other multilateral organization to establish a "bit tax" on electronic transmissions. Agreed to November 19, 1999. AIR NATIONAL GUARD'S 109TH MRLIFT WING— Nov. 19.1999 SOUTH POLE RESCUE MISSION tn. Con. Res. 205] Whereas the 109th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard is based at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Glenville, New York; Whereas the 109th was called upon by the United States Antarctic Program to undertake a medical evacuation mission to the South Pole to rescue Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician who diagnosed herself with breast cancer; Whereas the 109th is the only unit in the world trained and equipped to attempt such a mission; Whereas the 10 crew members were pilot MEIJ. George R. McAllister Jr., senior mission commander Col. Marion G. Pritchard, copilot Maj. David Koltermann, navigator Lt. Col. Bryan M. Fennessy, engineer Ch. M. Sgt. Michael T. Cristiano, loadmasters Sr. M. Sgt. Kurt A. Garrison and T. Sgt. David M. Vesper, flight nurse Maj. Kimberly Terpening, and medical technicians Ch. M. Sgt. Michael CasateUi and M. Sgt. Kelly McDowell; Whereas the crew departed Stratton Air Base for McMurdo Station in Antarctica via Christchurch, New Zealand, on October 6, 1999; Whereas on October 15, 1999, Aircraft No. 096 departed McMurdo for the South Pole, where the temperature was approximately -53 degrees Celsius; Whereas Major McAllister piloted a 130,000 pound LC-130 Hercules cargo plane equipped with Teflon-coated skis to a safe landing on an icy runway with visibility barely sibove minimums established for safe operations;
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