[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 201 (Thursday, December 24, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S14138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME

  The following bills were read the first time:

       H.R. 3961. An act to amend title XVIII of the Social 
     Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for 
     physicians and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go 
     requirement of budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory 
     spending legislation, enforced by the threat of annual, 
     automatic sequestration.
       H.R. 4154. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to 
     prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance 
     burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, 
     to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, to 
     reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of 
     budget neutrality on new tax and mandatory spending 
     legislation, enforced by the threat of annual, automatic 
     sequestration, and for other purposes.

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