[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20916]
[From the U.S. 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. HATCH:
       S. 3161. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to require the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to 
     conduct a study on certain hospital costs; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. HATCH:
       S. 3162. A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
     Streets Act of 1968 to make grants to improve security at 
     schools, including the placement and use of metal detectors; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. HATCH:
       S. 3163. A bill to designate the calendar decade beginning 
     on January 1, 2001, as the ``Decade of Pain Control and 
     Research''; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. BAYH (for himself, Mr. Grams, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. 
             Cleland):
       S. 3164. A bill to protect seniors from fraud; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. ROTH (for himself, Mr. Moynihan, Mr. Jeffords, 
             Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Hatch, and Mr. Kerrey):
       S. 3165. A bill to amend the Social Security Act to make 
     corrections and refinements in the Medicare, Medicaid, and 
     SCHIP health insurance programs, as revised by the Balanced 
     Budget Act of 1997 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
     Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999, and for other 
     purposes; read the first time.
           By Mr. BINGAMAN:
       S. 3166. A bill to amend the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to 
     provide individual federal agencies and the executive branch 
     as a whole with increased incentives to use the share-in-
     savings program under that Act, to ease the use of such 
     program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. Bingaman):
       S. 3167. A bill to establish a physician recruitment and 
     retention demonstration project under the medicare program 
     under title XVIII of the Social Security Act; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. TORRICELLI:
       S. 3168. A bill to eliminate any limitation on indictment 
     for sexual offenses and make awards to States to reduce their 
     DNA casework backlogs; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. SESSIONS (for himself, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Allard 
             , Mr. Johnson, Mr. Crapo, and Mrs. Lincoln):
       S. 3169. A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act and the International Revenue Code of 1986 with 
     respect to drugs for minor animal species, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. DODD (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. 
             Kennedy):
       S. 3170. A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
     to assist institutions of higher education to help at-risk 
     students to stay in school and complete their 4-year 
     postsecondary academic programs by helping those institutions 
     to provide summer programs and grant aid for such students, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MURKOWSKI (for himself, Mr. Breaux, and Mr. 
             Stevens):
       S. 3171. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to extend the section 29 credit for producing fuel from a 
     non-conventional source; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 3172. A bill to provide access to affordable health care 
     for all Americans; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire (for himself, Mr. Warner, 
             Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Bond, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. 
             Crapo, Mr. L. Chafee, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Moynihan, and 
             Mr. Graham):
       S. 3173. A bill to improve the implementation of the 
     environmental streamlining provisions of the Transportation 
     Equity Act for the 21st Century; read the first time.
           By Mr. ABRAHAM:
       S. 3174. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to allow a long-term capital gains deduction for individuals; 
     to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CRAIG (for himself, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Baucus, Mr. 
             Bingaman, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Burns, Mr. Crapo, Mr . 
             Daschle, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Gramm, Mr. Grams, 
             Mr. Gregg, Mr. Harkin, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Jeffords, 
             Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kerrey, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
             Lugar, Ms. Mikulski, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
             Sarbanes, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, Mr. Thomas, and 
             Mr. Wellstone):
       S. 3175. A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act to authorize the National Rural Development 
     Partnership, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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