[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 201 (Thursday, December 24, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S14140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME--H.R. 3961 and H.R. 4154

  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I understand there are two bills at the 
desk, and I ask for their first reading en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk report the bills by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 3961) 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.
       A bill (H.R. 4154) 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.

  Mr. CARDIN. I now ask for a second reading en bloc, and I object to 
my own request en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bills will have their 
second reading on the next legislative day.

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