[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 157 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S14340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 1999--Resumed

  Pending:

       Kohl amendment No. 2516, to limit the value of certain real 
     or personal property a debtor may elect to exempt under State 
     or local law.
       Sessions amendment No. 2518 (to amendment No. 2516), to 
     limit the value of certain real or personal property a debtor 
     may elect to exempt under State or local law.
       Feingold (for Durbin) amendment No. 2521, to discourage 
     predatory lending practices.
       Feingold amendment No. 2522, to provide for the expenses of 
     long term care.
       Hatch/Torricelli amendment No. 1729, to provide for 
     domestic support obligations.
       Leahy/Murray/Feinstein amendment No. 2528, to ensure 
     additional expenses and income adjustments associated with 
     protection of the debtor and the debtor's family from 
     domestic violence are included in the debtor's monthly 
     expenses.
       Leahy amendment No. 2529, to save United States taxpayers 
     $24,000,000 by eliminating the blanket mandate relating to 
     the filing of tax returns.
       Wellstone amendment No. 2537, to disallow claims of certain 
     insured depository institutions.
       Wellstone amendment No. 2538, with respect to the 
     disallowance of certain claims and to prohibit certain 
     coercive debt collection practices.
       Kennedy amendment No. 2751, to amend the Fair Labor 
     Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage.
       Domenici amendment No. 2547, to increase the Federal 
     minimum wage and protect small business.
       Feinstein amendment No. 1696, to limit the amount of credit 
     extended under an open end consumer credit plan to persons 
     under the age of 21.
       Feinstein amendment No. 2755, to discourage indiscriminate 
     extensions of credit and resulting consumer insolvency.
       Schumer/Durbin amendment No. 2759, with respect to national 
     standards and homeowner home maintenance costs.
       Schumer/Durbin amendment No. 2762, to modify the means test 
     relating to safe harbor provisions.
       Schumer amendment No. 2763, to ensure that debts incurred 
     as a result of clinic violence are nondischargeable.
       Schumer amendment No. 2764, to provide for greater accuracy 
     in certain means testing.
       Schumer amendment No. 2765, to include certain dislocated 
     workers' expenses in the debtor's monthly expenses.
       Levin amendment No. 2768, to prohibit certain retroactive 
     finance charges.
       Levin amendment No. 2772, to express the sense of the 
     Senate concerning credit worthiness.

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