[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3069]
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                      PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

  Under clause 5 of rule X and clause 4 of rule XXII, public bills and 
resolutions were introduced and severally referred as follows:

           By Mr. COBLE:
       H.R. 1661. A bill to implement the provisions of the 
     Trademark Law Treaty; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. CAMP (for himself and Mr. Levin):
       H.R. 1662. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 with respect to the treatment of effectively connected 
     investment income of insurance companies; to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means.
           By Mr. DOOLITTLE:
       H.R. 1663. A bill to clarify the intent of the Congress in 
     Public Law 93-632 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to 
     continue to provide for the maintenance of 18 concrete dams 
     and weirs that were located in the Emigrant Wilderness at the 
     time the wilderness area was designated as wilderness in that 
     Public Law; to the Committee on Resources.
           By Mrs. EMERSON (for herself, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Weller, 
             Mr. Skelton, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Wise, Mr. Blunt, Ms. 
             Danner, Mr. Talent, Mr. Clay, Ms. McCarthy of 
             Missouri, and Mr. Hulshof):
       H.R. 1664. A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, 
     relating to the bridge discretionary program; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Mr. HAYWORTH (for himself and Mr. Lewis of Georgia):
       H.R. 1665. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to increase the small issuer exemption from pro rata 
     allocation of interest expenses of financial institutions to 
     tax-exempt interest; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. HEFLEY:
       H.R. 1666. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     eliminate provisions of Federal law that provide special 
     support for, or burdens on, the operation of Amtrak as a 
     passenger rail carrier, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut:
       H.R. 1667. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to increase the amount of the dependent care credit and 
     to allow such credit for respite care expenses; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. KASICH:
       H.R. 1668. A bill to authorize the reburial in the Memorial 
     Ampitheater at Arlington National Cemetery of an unknown 
     American who lost his life while serving in the Union Army of 
     the United States during the Civil War, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       H.R. 1669. A bill to authorize the reburial in the Memorial 
     Ampitheater at Arlington National Cemetery of two unknown 
     Americans who lost their lives during the Civil War, one 
     while serving in the Union Army of the United States and the 
     other while serving in the Army of the Confederate States of 
     America, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut:
       H.R. 1670. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     require air carriers to establish procedures for responding 
     to in-flight medical emergencies, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Mr. MARTINEZ (for himself, Mr. Green, Mr. Kennedy of 
             Massachusetts, and Mr. Filner):
       H.R. 1671. A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 
     to provide for Federal-State performance partnerships, to 
     consolidate all nutrition programs under the act in the 
     Department of Health and Human Services, to extend 
     authorizations of appropriations for programs under the act 
     through fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Education and the Workforce.
           By Mr. SCHUMER:
       H.R. 1672. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to permit tax-free distributions of property by 
     cooperative housing corporations to its shareholders, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. SHAW (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
             Saxton, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Stupak, Mr. McHugh, Mr. 
             Pallone, and Mr. Foley):
       H.R. 1673. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
     Security Act to provide for an increase in update for certain 
     hospitals with a high proportion of Medicare patients; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. SMITH of Michigan:
       H.R. 1674. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to increase the amount of the unified credit against 
     estate and gift taxes and to increase the amount of estate 
     tax deferral available to owners of small businesses; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. SPRATT:
       H.R. 1675. A bill to require the Secretary of the Air Force 
     to conduct a study to identify Air Force property suitable 
     for exchange to acquire land authorized for addition to Shaw 
     Air Force Base in the State of South Carolina; to the 
     Committee on National Security.
       H.R. 1676. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     provide for the competitive selection of lessees when a 
     military department leases certain nonexcess personal 
     property and to ensure that the Government obtains fair 
     market value for the property; to the Committee on National 
     Security.
       H.R. 1677. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 
     certain chemicals; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
       H.R. 1678. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Para 
     ethyl phenol [PEP]; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. STEARNS (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. 
             Bachus, Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, Mr. Boucher, Mr. 
             Burr of North Carolina, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Canady of 
             Florida, Ms. Carson, Mr. Castle, Mr. Clement, Mr. 
             Coyne, Mr. Davis of Virginia, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. 
             Dellums, Mr. Duncan, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
             Fattah, Mr. Foley, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
             Frost, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Goodling, Ms. 
             Christian-Green, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. 
             Hilliard, Mr. Klink, Mr. Leach, Mr. McDermott, Ms. 
             McKinney, Mr. Mascara, Mr. Meehan, Mrs. Mink of 
             Hawaii, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Olver, Mr. 
             Pallone, Mr. Payne, Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
             Rivers, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Shays, Mr. Towns, Mr. Walsh, 
             Mr. Waxman, and Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania):
       H.R. 1679. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for the establishment at the National Heart, Lung, 
     and Blood Institute of a program regarding lifesaving 
     interventions for individuals who experience cardiac arrest, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce.
           By Mr. WELDON of Florida:
       H.R. 1680. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to allow a separate election for each spouse under the 
     one time election to exclude gain on the sale or exchange of 
     a principal residence and to increase the maximum exclusion 
     to $250,000 if both a husband and wife make the election for 
     the same residence; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. GILMAN (for himself and Mr. Hamilton):
       H.R. 1681. A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 
     1961 with respect to the activities of the Overseas Private 
     Investment Corporation; to the Committee on International 
     Relations.
           By Mr. BLUMENAUER:
       H.R. 1682. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide for an exclusion of capital gains upon the 
     sale of a principal residence; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
           By Mr. McCOLLUM (for himself, Ms. Dunn of Washington, 
             Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Ranstad, Mr. 
             Castle, Mr. Foley, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Lampson, Mr. 
             Gutknecht, Mr. Snowbarger, and Ms. Ros-Lehtinen):
       H.R. 1683. A bill to clarify the standards for State sex 
     offender registration programs under the Jacob Wetterling 
     Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender 
     Registration Act; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. SOUDER (for himself, Mr. English of 
             Pennsylvania, Mr. Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. Chabot, and 
             Mr. Hostettler):
       H.R. 1684. A bill to increase the unified estate and gift 
     tax credit to exempt small businesses and farmers from 
     inheritance taxes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. WOLF (for himself, Mr. Porter, Mr. Watts of 
             Oklahoma, Mr. Hall of Ohio, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Smith 
             of New Jersey, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. 
             Rohrabacher, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Bishop, Mr. 
             Towns, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Manton, Mr. Olver, Mr. 
             Gilchrest, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Bob Schaffer, 
             Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Cooksey, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Canady of 
             Florida, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. 
             Ehlers, and Mr. Wamp):
       H.R. 1685. A bill to establish an office of religious 
     persecution monitoring, to provide for the imposition of 
     sanctions against countries engaged in a pattern of religious 
     persecution, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on 
     Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Banking and Financial 
     Services, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
     determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
     such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
     committee concerned.
           By Mr. COLLINS:
       H. Res. 154. Resolution expressing the sense of the House 
     that the Nation's children are its most valuable assets and 
     that their protection should be the Nation's highest 
     priority; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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