[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 22834-22835]
[From the U.S. 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. LARSON:
       H.R. 5473. A bill to assist workers who are displaced by 
     trade or technology through no fault of their own by 
     providing medical benefits, increasing government job search 
     assistance, eliminating taxes on certain severance packages, 
     planning for a pilot program to provide public employment for 
     dislocated workers, increasing funding for the International 
     Program of Child Labor of the International Labor 
     Organization, establishing the Office of Community Economic 
     Adjustment in the Economic Development Administration of the 
     Department of Commerce to coordinate the Federal response in 
     regions and communities experiencing severe and sudden 
     economic distress, helping these regions and communities in 
     restructuring their economies, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Ways and Means, and in

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     addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, 
     Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Banking and 
     Financial Services, and International Relations, 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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