[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 113 (Thursday, August 1, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6206-S6208]
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 Mrs. HAGAN (for herself and Mr. Hatch):
       S. 1417. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     reauthorize programs under part A of title XI of such Act; to 
     the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. CARDIN:
       S. 1418. A bill to require the Attorney General to make 
     competitive grants to State, tribal, and local governments to 
     establish and maintain witness protection and assistance 
     programs; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 1419. A bill to promote research, development, and 
     demonstration of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy 
     technologies, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mrs. FISCHER (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Crapo, 
             and Mr. Risch):
       S. 1420. A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to 
     provide for transparency of payments made from the Judgment 
     Fund; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. LEAHY:
       S. 1421. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide a refundable tax credit for the installation of 
     sprinklers and elevators in historic structures; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. King, Mr. 
             Udall of New Mexico, and Mrs. Shaheen):
       S. 1422. A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings; to 
     the Committee on the Budget.
           By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself, Mr. Alexander, 
             Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, and Mr. 
             Heinrich):
       S. 1423. A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational 
     Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to strengthen the 
     quality control measures in place for part B lung disease 
     claims and to establish the Advisory Board on Toxic 
     Substances and Worker Health for the contractor employee 
     compensation program under subtitle E of such Act; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MURPHY (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Durbin, 
             Mr. Harkin, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Coons):
       S. 1424. A bill to require the Supreme Court of the United 
     States to promulgate a code of ethics; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.
           By Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal):
       S. 1425. A bill to improve the safety of dietary 
     supplements by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
     Act to require manufacturers of dietary supplements to 
     register dietary supplements with the Food and Drug 
     Administration and to amend labeling requirements with 
     respect to dietary supplements; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Wyden, 
             Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. 
             Schatz):
       S. 1426. A bill to prohibit employers from compelling or 
     coercing any person to authorize access to a protected 
     computer, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. Franken):
       S. 1427. A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code 
     to clarify the rule allowing discharge as a nonpriority claim 
     of governmental claims arising from the disposition of farm 
     assets under chapter 12 bankruptcies; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. Crapo):
       S. 1428. A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for wildfire 
     mitigation grants, and for other purposes; to the Committee 
     on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. DURBIN:
       S. 1429. An original bill making appropriations for the 
     Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 
     30, 2014, and for other purposes; from the Committee on 
     Appropriations; placed on the calendar.
           By Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. Crapo):
       S. 1430. A bill to authorize the continued use of certain 
     water diversions located on National Forest System land in 
     the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the 
     Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. Thune, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. 
             Ayotte, Mr. Begich, Mr. Blunt, Mrs. Hagan, Mr. 
             Heller, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. Udall of 
             Colorado, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. 
             Chambliss, Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin, Mr. Scott, and 
             Mr. Cochran):
       S. 1431. A bill to permanently extend the Internet Tax 
     Freedom Act; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. HIRONO:
       S. 1432. A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
     study the suitability and feasibility of designating portions 
     of the Ka'u Coast in the State of Hawaii as a unit of the 
     National Park System; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. BOOZMAN (for himself and Mr. Pryor):
       S. 1433. A bill to require that members of the Armed Forces 
     who were killed or wounded in the attack that occurred at a 
     recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, 
     are treated in the same manner as members who are killed or 
     wounded in a combat zone; to the Committee on Armed Services.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Roberts):
       S. 1434. A bill to designate the Junction City Community-
     Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 Southwind Drive, 
     Junction City, Kansas, as the Lieutenant General Richard J. 
     Seitz Community-Based Outpatient Clinic; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself and Mr. Menendez):
       S. 1435. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     provide certain port authorities, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. ENZI (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Vitter, Mr. 
             Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Isakson, and Mr. Rubio):

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       S. 1436. A bill to prevent a fiscal crisis by enacting 
     legislation to balance the Federal budget through reductions 
     of discretionary and mandatory spending; to the Committee on 
     the Budget.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Merkley):
       S. 1437. A bill to provide for the release of the 
     reversionary interest held by the United States in certain 
     land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through 
     the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to the State 
     of Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agricultural 
     Research and Extension Center of Oregon State University in 
     Hermiston, Oregon; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. PRYOR (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. 
             Boozman):
       S. 1438. A bill to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide that military 
     technicians (dual status) shall be included in military 
     personnel accounts for purposes of any order issued under 
     that Act; to the Committee on the Budget.
           By Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Isakson):
       S. 1439. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to provide for advanced illness care coordination 
     services for Medicare beneficiaries, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. REID (for Ms. LANDRIEU):
       S. 1440. A bill to amend the Small Business Act to allow 
     the use of physical damage disaster loans for the 
     construction of safe rooms; to the Committee on Small 
     Business and Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. Crapo):
       S. 1441. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to facilitate water leasing and water transfers to promote 
     conservation and efficiency; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. Roberts, Ms. Collins, 
             Mr. King, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Brown, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
             Schumer, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Franken, Mrs. Gillibrand, 
             Mr. Harkin, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Whitehouse, Mrs. 
             Feinstein, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
             Blumenthal, Mr. Markey, and Mr. Sanders):
       S. 1442. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to make permanent the minimum low-income housing tax credit 
     rate for unsubsidized buildings and to provide a minimum 4 
     percent credit rate for existing buildings; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself and Mr. Bennet):
       S. 1443. A bill to facilitate the remediation of abandoned 
     hardrock mines, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Isakson):
       S. 1444. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to provide payment under part A of the Medicare Program 
     on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished 
     by an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same 
     manner as payments are provided for anesthesia services 
     furnished by anesthesiologist assistants and certified 
     anesthetists in such hospitals; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. PRYOR:
       S. 1445. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for the participation of optometrists in the National 
     Health Service Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for himself, Mr. Brown, Ms. 
             Stabenow, and Ms. Hirono):
       S. 1446. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to improve the affordability of the health care tax credit, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. UDALL of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. 
             Heinrich):
       S. 1447. A bill to make technical corrections to certain 
     Native American water rights settlements in the State of New 
     Mexico, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Indian 
     Affairs.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mrs. Murray):
       S. 1448. A bill to provide for equitable compensation to 
     the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for 
     the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by 
     the Grand Coulee Dam, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. ROCKEFELLER:
       S. 1449. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide that income attributable to certain passenger 
     cruise voyages beginning or ending in the United States shall 
     be treated as effectively connected with the conduct of a 
     trade or business within the United States; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. ROCKEFELLER:
       S. 1450. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to impose an ad valorem excise tax on certain passenger 
     cruise voyages, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Reid, Mr. Heller, 
             and Mrs. Boxer):
       S. 1451. A bill to provide for environmental restoration 
     activities and forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe 
     Basin, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 
     importation or shipment of quagga mussels, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. FRANKEN (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Udall of 
             New Mexico, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Udall of 
             Colorado, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Tester, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
             Durbin, and Ms. Warren):
       S. 1452. A bill to enhance transparency for certain 
     surveillance programs authorized by the Foreign Intelligence 
     Surveillance Act of 1978 and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. CASEY:
       S. 1453. A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services to establish an interagency coordinating committee 
     on pulmonary hypertension to develop recommendations to 
     advance research, increase awareness and education, and 
     improve health and health care, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. REID (for Ms. LANDRIEU):
       S. 1454. A bill to authorize the Small Business 
     Administrator to establish a grant program to empower encore 
     entrepreneurs; to the Committee on Small Business and 
     Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. COBURN (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. 
             Boozman):
       S. 1455. A bill to condition the provision of premium and 
     cost-sharing subsidies under the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act upon a certification that a program to 
     verify household income is operational; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Ms. AYOTTE (for herself and Mr. Bennet):
       S. 1456. A bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 
     Shimon Peres; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
     Affairs.
           By Mr. McCONNELL (for himself and Mr. Paul):
       S. 1457. A bill to exempt the aging process of distilled 
     spirits from the production period for purposes of 
     capitalization of interest costs; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. HOEVEN (for himself and Mr. Leahy):
       S. 1458. A bill to establish the Daniel Webster 
     Congressional Clerkship Program; to the Committee on Rules 
     and Administration.
           By Mr. KIRK (for himself and Mr. Menendez):
       S. 1459. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     prohibit the transportation of horses in interstate 
     transportation in a motor vehicle containing 2 or more levels 
     stacked on top of one another; to the Committee on Commerce, 
     Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Udall of 
             New Mexico, Mr. Tester, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Heinrich, 
             Mr. Schatz, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Merkley):
       S. 1460. A bill to create two additional judge positions on 
     the court established by the Foreign Intelligence 
     Surveillance Act of 1978 and modify the procedures for the 
     appointment of judges to that court, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. NELSON:
       S. 1461. A bill to establish a National Catastrophe Risks 
     Consortium and a National Homeowners' Insurance Stabilization 
     Program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Banking, 
     Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. THUNE (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mrs. McCaskill, 
             and Mr. Pryor):
       S. 1462. A bill to extend the positive train control system 
     implementation deadline, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mrs. BOXER (for herself and Mr. Vitter):
       S. 1463. A bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 
     to prohibit importation, exportation, transportation, sale, 
     receipt, acquisition, and purchase in interstate or foreign 
     commerce, or in a manner substantially affecting interstate 
     or foreign commerce, of any live animal of any prohibited 
     wildlife species; to the Committee on Environment and Public 
     Works.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Risch):
       S. 1464. A bill to facilitate and enhance the 
     declassification of information that merits declassification, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security 
     and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mrs. 
             Feinstein, and Mr. Harkin):
       S. 1465. A bill to ensure that persons who form 
     corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial 
     owners of those corporations, in order to prevent the 
     formation of corporations with hidden owners, stop the misuse 
     of United States corporations by wrongdoers, and assist law 
     enforcement in detecting, preventing, and punishing 
     terrorism, money laundering, tax evasion, and other criminal 
     and civil misconduct involving United States corporations, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. KIRK (for himself and Mr. Manchin):
       S. 1466. A bill to establish a regulatory review process 
     for rules that the Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency plans to propose, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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           By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, 
             Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Udall of New 
             Mexico, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Coons, Mr. Whitehouse, 
             Mr. Tester, Mr. Franken, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Heinrich, 
             Mr. Markey, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Schatz):
       S. 1467. A bill to establish the Office of the Special 
     Advocate to provide advocacy in cases before courts 
     established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
     1978 and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Blunt):
       S. 1468. A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to 
     establish the Network for Manufacturing Innovation and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation.
           By Mr. PAUL:
       S. 1469. A bill to provide higher-quality, lower-cost 
     health care to seniors; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. KAINE (for himself and Mr. Warner):
       S. 1470. A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act with respect to the guidelines for specification 
     of certain disposal sites for dredged or fill material; to 
     the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. COATS (for himself, Mr. Donnelly, and Mr. Burr):
       S. 1471. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs and the Secretary of the Army to reconsider decisions 
     to inter or honor the memory of a person in a national 
     cemetery, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Ms. Collins):
       S. 1472. A bill to create a division within the 
     Congressional Budget Office that would perform regulatory 
     analysis; to the Committee on the Budget.
           By Ms. KLOBUCHAR:
       S. 1473. A bill to develop a model disclosure form to 
     assist consumers in purchasing long-term care insurance; to 
     the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. BEGICH (for himself and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 1474. A bill to encourage the State of Alaska to enter 
     into intergovernmental agreements with Indian tribes in the 
     State relating to the enforcement of certain State laws by 
     Indian tribes, to improve the quality of life in rural 
     Alaska, to reduce alcohol and drug abuse, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. MERKLEY:
       S. 1475. A bill to establish the position of National Nurse 
     for Public Health, to be filled by the same individual 
     serving as the Chief Nurse Officer of the Public Health 
     Service; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
     Pensions.
           By Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal):
       S. 1476. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to expand the denial of deduction for certain excessive 
     employee remuneration, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Thune):
       S. 1477. A bill to clarify the rights of Indians and Indian 
     tribes on Indian lands the National Labor Relations Act; to 
     the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. CARDIN:
       S. 1478. A bill to provide that certain uses of a patent or 
     copyright in compliance with an order of the Federal 
     Communications Commission for emergency communications 
     services shall be construed as use or manufacture for the 
     United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Flake):
       S. 1479. A bill to address the forest health, public 
     safety, and wildlife habitat threat presented by the risk of 
     wildfire, including catastrophic wildfire, on National Forest 
     System land and public land managed by the Bureau of Land 
     Management by requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
     Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management 
     projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest 
     health, and economic development, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand):
       S. 1480. A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
     Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide assistance for 
     condominiums and housing cooperatives damaged by a major 
     disaster, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Ms. KLOBUCHAR:
       S. 1481. A bill to require issuers of long term care 
     insurance to establish third-party review processes for 
     disputed claims; to the Committee on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. HOEVEN (for himself, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Portman, 
             Ms. Heitkamp, and Mr. Vitter):
       S. 1482. A bill to recognize the primacy of States, provide 
     for the consideration of the economic impact of additional 
     regulations, and provide for standards and requirements 
     relating to certain guidelines and regulations relating to 
     health and the environment; to the Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources.
           By Ms. CANTWELL:
       S. 1483. A bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to 
     establish the Federal Oil Spill Research Committee, and to 
     amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to include in a 
     response plan certain planned and demonstrated investments in 
     research relating to discharges of oil and to modify the 
     dates by which a response plan must be updated; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. REID (for Ms. Landrieu (for herself, Mr. Vitter, 
             and Mr. Cornyn)):
       S. 1484. A bill to provide for an exchange of land between 
     the Secretary of Agriculture and the Sabine River Authority 
     of Texas; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry.
           By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Ms. Mikulski):
       S. 1485. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide an income tax credit for eldercare expenses; to 
     the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CARPER (for himself and Mr. Coburn):
       S. 1486. A bill to improve, sustain, and transform the 
     United States Postal Service; to the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs.

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