[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 117 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5692]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2342. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2266 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill H.R. 22, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health 
coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken 
into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the 
employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XXXI of division C, add 
     the following:

     SEC. 31304. MONTHLY REPORTS ON PERFORMANCE AT UNITED STATES 
                   PORTS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year before the 
     expiration date of a maritime labor agreement that applies to 
     facilities of a United States port, 3 months before the 
     expiration date of the maritime labor agreement, and monthly 
     thereafter until a new agreement is agreed to, the Secretary 
     of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of 
     Commerce and the Secretary of Labor, shall post on the public 
     website of the Department of Transportation a report that 
     includes port performance indicators at the affected port. If 
     multiple ports are affected by the expiration of the maritime 
     labor agreement, the Secretary of Transportation shall post a 
     report for each affected port.
       (b) Contents.--Each report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include, for the affected port during the previous 
     month--
       (1) the performance indicators listed under section 
     6314(b)(2) of title 49, United States Code;
       (2) the number and type of vessels awaiting berthing, 
     including average wait time;
       (3) the number of cancelled vessel calls;
       (4) an estimate of the economic impact associated with any 
     delays both at the port and across the national economy;
       (5) an estimate of the amount of time required to clear any 
     congestion;
       (6) the average number of labor positions ordered and 
     filled; and
       (7) any other factors that might have created delays, 
     including weather, equipment maintenance or failures, or 
     infrastructure development or repair.
       (c) Effective Period.--The Secretary of Transportation, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary 
     of Labor, shall submit a report required under subsection (a) 
     for an affected port until the date on which a new maritime 
     labor agreement that applies to the facilities of the port is 
     agreed to by all of the parties to that maritime labor 
     agreement.
       (d) Definition of Maritime Labor Agreement.--In this 
     section, the term ``maritime labor agreement'' has the 
     meaning given such term in section 40102 of title 46, United 
     States Code.
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