[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7156-S7157]
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 Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself, Mr. King, and Ms. 
             Murkowski):
       S. 3080. A bill to state the policy of the United States 
     regarding the need for strategic placement of military assets 
     in the Arctic, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Armed Services.
           By Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Markey):
       S. 3081. A bill to promote free and fair elections, 
     political freedoms, and human rights in Cambodia, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. 
             Grassley):
       S. 3082. A bill to establish a program to establish 
     permanent features for flood control in areas in which 
     temporary features have been constructed, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen):
       S. 3083. A bill to authorize a new type of housing choice 
     voucher to help achieve the goals of ending homelessness 
     among families with children, increasing housing 
     opportunities, and improving life outcomes of poor children; 
     to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Tester):
       S. 3084. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     modify the limitation on pay for certain high-level employees 
     and officers of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. CRAPO (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal):
       S. 3085. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers 
     under the Medicare program, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. 
             Blunt, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Roberts, and Ms. Sinema):
       S. 3086. A bill to provide for the conversion of temporary 
     judgeships to permanent judgeships, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. 
             Gardner)):
       S. 3087. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs from denying home loans for veterans who legally work 
     in the marijuana industry on the basis of the nature of such 
     work, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' 
     Affairs.
           By Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. 
             Booker):
       S. 3088. A bill to provide assistance to public housing 
     agencies that have failing properties in their inventories in 
     order to protect the health and safety of public housing 
     residents, to allow consortia to enter into single annual 
     contributions contracts, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. Hawley):
       S. 3089. A bill to improve the construction and leasing of 
     medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. SMITH (for herself and Ms. Klobuchar):
       S. 3090. A bill to establish a grant program to provide 
     amounts to public housing agencies to install automatic 
     sprinkler systems in public housing, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. COONS (for himself and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 3091. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid 
     to surviving spouses of veterans who die from amyotrophic 
     lateral sclerosis, regardless of how long the veterans had 
     such disease prior to death, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. SMITH (for herself and Mr. Braun):
       S. 3092. A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act with respect to the 180-day exclusivity period, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MERKLEY:
       S. 3093. A bill to improve the collection of broadband 
     speed data by the Federal Communications Commission in order 
     to support the effective deployment of broadband services to 
     all areas in the United States, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. MERKLEY:
       S. 3094. A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 
     1936 to authorize the Administrator of the Rural Utilities 
     Service to make telecommunications grants for the collection 
     of broadband infrastructure data by local governments, 
     economic development or other community organizations, 
     electric or telephone cooperatives, and small internet 
     providers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for Ms.WARREN (for herself, Mr. Bennet, 
             Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Tester, and Ms. Ernst)):
       S. 3095. A bill to develop voluntary guidelines for 
     accessible postsecondary electronic instructional materials 
     and related technologies, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. DURBIN:
       S. 3096. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     authorize the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
     Prevention to develop a program to prevent the use of 
     electronic nicotine delivery systems among students in middle 
     and high schools, to award grants to State and local health 
     agencies to implement such program, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Ms. Warren):
       S. 3097. A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act to provide an exception from the grounds of 
     inadmissibility for participation in a cannabis business 
     operating in compliance with State law; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.
           By Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Mr. Isakson):
       S. 3098. A bill to redesignate the Jimmy Carter National 
     Historic Site as the ``Jimmy Carter National Historical 
     Park''; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Ms. MURKOWSKI:
       S. 3099. A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain 
     property to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium 
     located in Sitka, Alaska, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Ms. MURKOWSKI:
       S. 3100. A bill to convey land in Anchorage, Alaska, to the 
     Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Crapo):
       S. 3101. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled 
     spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands and to 
     transfer a portion of such cover over to the Puerto Rico 
     Conservation Trust Fund; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Udall, 
             Mr. Peters, Ms. Smith, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Hassan, Ms. 
             Klobuchar, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Warren, 
             Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hirono, Mr.

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             Wyden, Mr. Booker, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Brown, Mr. 
             Bennet, Mr. Reed, Mr. Warner, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Casey, 
             and Mr. Markey):
       S. 3102. A bill to require the Bureau of Economic Analysis 
     of the Department of Commerce to provide estimates relating 
     to the distribution of aggregate economic growth across 
     specific percentile groups of income; to the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mr. Lankford):
       S. 3103. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to restore State authority to waive for certain 
     facilities the 35-mile rule for designating critical access 
     hospitals under the Medicare program; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Murray, 
             Mr. Reed, Mr. Schatz, and Ms. Cantwell):
       S. 3104. A bill to make technical corrections relating to 
     parental leave for Federal employees; to the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Mr. Young):
       S. 3105. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in 
     Indianapolis, Indiana, as the ``Richard G. Lugar Post 
     Office''; considered and passed.

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