[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5906-5907]
[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. BOND (for himself and Mr. Breaux):
       S. 724. A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security 
     Act to provide for coverage of pregnancy-related assistance 
     for targeted low-income pregnant women; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. GRASSLEY:
       S. 725. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to codify the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to 
     issue regulations covering the practices of enrolled agents 
     before the Internal Revenue Service; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. BREAUX (for himself, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Miller, 
             Mr. Cleland, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Bunning, 
             and Mr. Frist):
       S. 726. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide for the treatment of prepayments for natural gas; 
     to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. Feingold):
       S. 727. A bill to provide grants for cardiopulmonary 
     resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. KOHL (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Conrad):
       S. 728. A bill to establish a demonstration project to 
     waive certain nurse aide training requirements for specially 
     trained individuals who perform certain specific tasks in 
     nursing facilities participating in the medicare or medicaid 
     programs, and to conditionally authorize the use of resident 
     assistants in such nursing facilities; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. NELSON of Florida:
       S. 729. A bill to provide grant money to States to enable 
     States to expand the opportunity for citizens to vote over 
     the Internet; to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
           By Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. Hutchinson, and Mrs. 
             Lincoln):
       S. 730. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to provide for the fair treatment of certain physician 
     pathology services under the medicare program; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. NELSON of Florida:
       S. 731. A bill to ensure that military personnel do not 
     lose the right to cast votes in elections in their domicile 
     as a result of their service away from the domicile, to amend 
     the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
     extend the voter registration and absentee ballot protections 
     for absent uniformed services personnel under such Act to 
     State and local elections, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration.
           By Mr. THOMPSON:
       S. 732. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to reduce the depreciation recovery period for certain 
     restaurant buildings, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. DeWINE:
       S. 733. A bill to eliminate the duplicative intent 
     requirement for carjacking; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. BOND (for himself and Mr. Kerry):
       S. 734. A bill to amend the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 
     1926, to expand eligibility for the award of construction 
     contracts under that Act to persons that have performed 
     similar construction work at United States diplomatic or 
     consular establishments abroad under contracts limited to 
     $5,000,000; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. DeWine:
       S. 735. A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code 
     to add a general provision for criminal attempt; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. ALLARD (for himself, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Ensign):
       S. 736. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     provide for the appointment of a Chief of the Veterinary 
     Corps of the Army in the grade of brigadier general, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Armed Services.
           By Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. Ensign):
       S. 737. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 811 South Main Street in 
     Yerington, Nevada, as the ``Joseph E. Dini, Jr. Post 
     Office''; to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire:
       S. 738. A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to 
     protect the voting rights of members of the Armed Forces; to 
     the Committee on Rules and Administration.
           By Mr. WELLSTONE (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Dayton, 
             Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Durbin, 
             Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Reid, and Mr. 
             Johnson):
       S. 739. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve programs for homeless veterans, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. HUTCHINSON:
       S. 740. A bill to preserve open competition and Federal 
     Government neutrality toward the labor relations of Federal 
     Government contractors on Federal and federally funded 
     construction projects; to the Committee on Governmental 
     Affairs.
           By Mr. SESSIONS:
       S. 741. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide tax credits with respect to nuclear facilities, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Graham, 
             Mr. Hatch, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Kerry, Mr. 
             Jeffords, Mr. Torricelli, Mr. Kyl, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. 
             Hutchinson, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
             Gregg, Mr. Schumer, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Bayh, Mr. 
             Chafee, and Mr. Reid):
       S. 742. A bill to provide for pension reform, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. REED (for himself, Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. 
             Schumer):
       S. 743. A bill to establish a medical education trust fund, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Mr. Lieberman, and Mr. 
             Feingold):
       S. 744. A bill to amend section 527 of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 to eliminate notification and return 
     requirements for State and local candidate committees and 
     avoid duplicate reporting by certain State and local 
     political committees of information required to be reported 
     and made publicly available under State law; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Feingold, 
             Mr. Bingaman, and Mr. Dodd):
       S. 745. A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to 
     promote better nutrition among school children participating 
     in the school breakfast and lunch programs; to the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. AKAKA (for himself and Mr. Inouye):
       S. 746. A bill to express the policy of the United States 
     regarding the United States relationship with Native 
     Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the 
     United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mrs. BOXER:
       S. 747. A bill to authorize the Attorney General to make 
     grants to local educational agencies to carry out school 
     violence prevention and school safety activities in secondary 
     schools; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. BOXER:
       S. 748. A bill to make schools safer by waiving the local 
     matching requirement under the Community Policing program for 
     the placement of law enforcement officers in local schools; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. FITZGERALD (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. 
             Jeffords, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. DeWine, Mrs. Clinton, Ms. 
             Collins, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. McCain, Mr. Kerry, Mrs. 
             Feinstein, Ms. Snowe, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Smith of 
             Oregon, and Mr. Torricelli):
       S. 749. A bill to provide that no Federal income tax shall 
     be imposed on amounts received by victims of the Nazi regime 
     or their heirs or estates, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. BIDEN:
       S. 750. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide the same tax treatment for danger pay allowance as 
     for combat pay; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mrs. CLINTON:
       S. 751. A bill to express the sense of the Senate 
     concerning a new drinking water standard for arsenic; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. BURNS:
       S. 752. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to reclassify computer equipment as 3-year property for 
     purposes of depreciation; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. BREAUX (for himself, Mr. Craig, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. 
             Burns, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Enzi, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
             Thomas, Mr. Graham, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Nelson 
             of Nebraska, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Akaka, Mr. 
             Allard, and Mr. Harkin):
       S. 753. A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
     the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar 
     tariff-rate quotas ; to the Committee on Finance.

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           By Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Schumer, and 
             Mr. Durbin):
       S. 754. A bill to enhance competition for prescription 
     drugs by increasing the ability of the Department of Justice 
     and Federal Trade Commission to enforce existing antitrust 
     laws regarding brand name drugs and generic drugs; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Mr. Smith of Oregon):
       S. 755. A bill to continue State management of the West 
     Coast Dungeness Crab fishery; to the Committee on Commerce, 
     Science, and Transportation.

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