[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23500]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   INTERNATIONAL PATIENT ACT OF 2000

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of 
H.R. 2961, and the Senate then proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 2961) to amend the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act to authorize a 3-year pilot program under which the 
     Attorney General may extend the period for voluntary 
     departure in the case of certain nonimmigrant aliens who 
     require medical treatment in the United States and were 
     admitted under the visa waiver pilot program, and for other 
     purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read the third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon 
the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be printed in 
the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 2961) was read the third time and passed.

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