[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 14, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S7052]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          MEASURES PLACED ON THE CALENDAR--S. 3772 AND S. 3773

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there are two bills at the desk due for a 
second reading.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bills by 
title for a second time.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3772) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
     1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of 
     discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, 
     and for other purposes.
       A bill (S. 3773) to permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 
     tax relief provisions and to provide permanent AMT relief and 
     estate tax relief, and for other purposes.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I object to any further proceedings with 
respect to these two bills.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard. The bills will 
be placed on the calendar.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, these two pieces of legislation are 
important. I am going to do my utmost to see if we can find a way to 
have a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. It is so fair to do that, to 
do a better job of equalizing pay between men and women when they do 
the same work. It seems fairly basic and fair.
  S. 3773 is Senator McConnell's Tax Hike Prevention Act. I am in 
conversations with him on how we are going to proceed on the tax 
issues, relating to the extension of the individual tax benefits. We 
will have more to say about that at a subsequent time.

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