[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 35 (Monday, March 5, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H1152-H1153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

  Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions of the 
following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows:

           By Mr. STEARNS (for himself and Mr. Towns):
       H.R. 4132. A bill to amend section 506 of the Federal Food, 
     Drug, and Cosmetic Act to expedited approval of drugs for 
     serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions; to the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. CANTOR (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. Ros-
             Lehtinen, and Mr. Berman):
       H.R. 4133. A bill to express the sense of Congress 
     regarding the United States-Israel strategic relationship, to 
     direct the President to submit to Congress reports on United 
     States actions to enhance this relationship and to assist in 
     the defense of Israel, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs.
           By Mrs. BLACK:
       H.R. 4134. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to clarify that any person who, for a commercial 
     purpose, makes available for consumer use a machine capable 
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     producing tobacco products, is a manufacturer of tobacco 
     products; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. FLAKE:
       H.R. 4135. A bill to permit United States companies to 
     participate in the exploration for and the extraction of 
     hydrocarbon resources from any portion of a foreign maritime 
     exclusive economic zone that is contiguous to the exclusive 
     economic zone of the United States, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
           By Mr. GARDNER (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
             Bucshon, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, 
             Mr. Canseco, Mr. Terry, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Myrick, 
             Mr. Coffman of Colorado, and Mr. Griffith of 
             Virginia):
       H.R. 4136. A bill to provide for the development of a plan 
     to increase oil and gas production under oil and gas leases 
     of Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the 
     Interior, and the Secretary of Defense in conjunction with a 
     drawdown of petroleum reserves from the Strategic Petroleum 
     Reserve; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas (for himself and Mr. Neal):
       H.R. 4137. A bill to make permanent the exclusion from 
     gross income for employer-provided educational assistance; to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Ms. LEE of California:
       H.R. 4138. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     create a National Neuromyelitis Optica Consortium to provide 
     grants and coordinate research with respect to the causes of, 
     and risk factors associated with, neuromyelitis optica, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California:
       H.R. 4139. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to extend permanently the 100 percent exclusion of gain 
     from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock; 
     to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut:
       H.R. 4140. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     eliminate the time limitation for use of eligibility and 
     entitlement to educational assistance under the Montgomery GI 
     Bill; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition 
     to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
     subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
     consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
     jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
           By Mr. PAYNE (for himself, Mr. Berman, Mr. McGovern, 
             Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Cohen, and Ms. Bass of California):
       H.R. 4141. A bill to direct the Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development to take 
     appropriate actions to improve the nutritional quality, 
     quality control, and cost effectiveness of United States food 
     assistance, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
     Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
     the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
     provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
     concerned.
           By Mr. RUNYAN:
       H.R. 4142. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to be made 
     automatically by law each year in the rates of disability 
     compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities 
     and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for 
     survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans; to 
     the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. TIBERI (for himself and Mr. Pascrell):
       H.R. 4143. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to extend the period during which transfers of excess 
     pension assets may be made to retiree health accounts and to 
     provide for the transfer of such assets to retiree group term 
     life insurance accounts; to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
     and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 
     Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
     Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
     fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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