[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 126 (Thursday, October 7, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10702-S10703]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS

  The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the 
first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

           By Mr. DURBIN:
       S. 2910. A bill to establish the Food Safety Administration 
     to protect the public health by preventing food-borne 
     illness, ensuring the safety of food intended for human 
     consumption, improving research on contaminants leading to 
     food-borne illness, and improving security of food from 
     intentional contamination; to the Committee on Agriculture, 
     Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. GRAHAM of Florida:
       S. 2911. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to make improvements in the medicare competitive 
     acquisition programs for certain items and services; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. NELSON of Nebraska:
       S. 2912. A bill to award grants for the support of full-
     service community schools, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. FEINGOLD:
       S. 2913. A bill to establish a demonstration project to 
     train unemployed workers for employment as health care 
     professionals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Ms. MIKULSKI:
       S. 2914. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide incentives for alternative fuels and alternative 
     fuel vehicles; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mr. Bond):
       S. 2915. A bill to reauthorize programs under section 7(a) 
     of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)) through 
     September 30, 2005; to the Committee on Small Business and 
     Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Schumer, and Mr. 
             Specter):
       S. 2916. A bill to combat unlawful commercial sex 
     activities by targeting demand, to protect children from 
     being exploited by such activities, to prohibit the operation 
     of sex tours, to assist State and local governments to 
     enforce laws dealing with commercial sex activities, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. BROWNBACK (for himself and Mr. McCain):
       S. 2917. A bill to amend the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Act of 1958 to establish a centennial challenge program and 
     establish a National Aeronautics and Space Foundation; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. ALLEN:
       S. 2918. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide that distributions from an individual retirement 
     plan, a section 401(k) plan, or a section 403(b) contract 
     shall not be includible in gross income to the extent used to 
     pay long-term care insurance premiums; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. Daschle):
       S. 2919. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide funding for Indian tribal prison facilities, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. ENSIGN:
       S. 2920. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a 
     taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business 
     travel; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Breaux, Mrs. Feinstein, 
             Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. Sessions):
       S. 2921. A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to 
     mint coins in commemoration of the 50th aniversary of the 
     establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. CORNYN:
       S. 2922. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for the expansion, intensification, and coordination 
     of the activities of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood

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     Institute with respect to research on pulmonary hypertension; 
     to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. BIDEN (for himself, Mr. Specter, Mr. Bingaman, 
             and Ms. Landrieu):
       S. 2923. A bill to reauthorize the grant program of the 
     Department of Justice for reentry of offenders into the 
     community, to establish a task force on Federal programs and 
     activities relating to the reentry of offenders into the 
     community, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. SANTORUM:
       S. 2924. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for clinical research support grants, clinical 
     research infrastructure grants, and a demonstration program 
     on partnerships in clinical research, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. SANTORUM (for himself and Mrs. Lincoln):
       S. 2925. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to expand the tip credit to certain employers and to promote 
     tax compliance; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. VOINOVICH (for himself and Mr. Coleman):
       S. 2926. A bill to amend the internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to allow taxpayers a credit against income tax for 
     expenditures to remediate contaminated sites; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. Graham of South 
             Carolina, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. Dodd):
       S. 2927. A bill to amend the Exchange Rates and 
     International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to 
     clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to 
     currency, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. SMITH (for himself and Mr. Wyden):
       S. 2928. A bill to clarify the status of certain employee 
     benefit plans under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the 
     Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. ROCKEFELLER:
       S. 2929. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing 
     claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments 
     from secondary payor status to primary payor status; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. CANTWELL:
       S. 2930. A bill to require the establishment of a Consumer 
     Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living 
     increases for Social Security benefits under title II of the 
     Social Security Act; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. McConnell, and Mr. 
             McCain):
       S. 2931. A bill to enable drivers to choose a more 
     affordable form of auto insurance that also provides for more 
     adequate and timely compensation for accident victims, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
     and Transportation.
           By Mr. SMITH:
       S. 2932. A bill to establish the Mark O. Hatfield-Elizabeth 
     Furse Scholarship and Excellence in Tribal Governance 
     Foundation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Johnson, and 
             Mr. Wyden):
       S. 2933. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     expand the clinical trials drug data bank; to the Committee 
     on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Ms. CANTWELL:
       S. 2934. A bill to combat methamphetamine abuse in the 
     United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. ROCKEFELLER:
       S. 2935. A bill to amend section 35 of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 to improve the health coverage tax credit, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CAMPBELL:
       S. 2936. A bill to restore land to the Enterprise Rancheria 
     to rectify an inequitable taking of the land; to the 
     Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mr. Reed):
       S. 2937. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     establish a grant program to provide supportive services in 
     permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless 
     individuals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. DASCHLE (for himself, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Inouye, 
             Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bingaman, and Ms. Landrieu):
       S. 2938. A bill to grant a Federal charter to the National 
     American Indian Veterans, Incorporated; read the first time.
           By Mr. LUGAR (for himself, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Chafee, Mr. 
             Feingold, and Mr. Coleman):
       S. 2939. A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
     to provide assistance for orphans and other vulnerable 
     children in developing countries, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. GREGG:
       S. 2940. An original bill to amend the Older Americans Act 
     of 1965 to assist States in preventing, detecting, treating, 
     intervening in, and responding to elder abuse, neglect, and 
     exploitation, and for other purposes; from the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; placed on the 
     calendar.
           By Mr. CORNYN:
       S. 2941. A bill to authorize the President to negotiate the 
     creation of a North American Investment Fund to promote 
     economic and infrastructure integration among Canada, Mexico, 
     and the United States, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. PRYOR (for himself, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Akaka, Mr. 
             Baucus, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Bingaman, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. 
             Cantwell, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Daschle, Mr. 
             Dayton, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
             Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Graham of Florida, Mr. 
             Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
             Lautenberg, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. 
             Mikulski, Mr. Miller, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Nelson of 
             Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Reid, Mr. 
             Rockefeller, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Schumer, and Ms. 
             Stabenow):
       S. 2942. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide that combat pay be treated as earned income for 
     purposes of the earned income credit; to the Committee on 
     Finance.

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