[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

  Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions were 
introduced and severally referred, as follows:

           By Mr. ETHERIDGE (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Weldon of 
             Pennsylvania, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Pascrell, 
             Mr. Smith of Michigan, and Mr. Watt of North 
             Carolina):
       H.R. 5334. A bill to ensure that a public safety officer 
     who suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty 
     shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for 
     purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. HOBSON (for himself, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Brown of 
             Ohio, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Gillmor, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, 
             Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Ney, 
             Mr. Oxley, Mr. Portman, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. 
             Regula, Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Strickland, Mr. Tiberi, and 
             Mr. Wolf):
       H.R. 5335. A bill to designate the Federal building and 
     United States courthouse located at 200 West 2nd Street in 
     Dayton, Ohio, as the ``Tony Hall Federal Building and United 
     States Courthouse''; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.
           By Mr. KING (for himself, Mr. Grucci, Mr. Israel, Mrs. 
             McCarthy of New York, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Meeks of New 
             York, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Towns, Mr. 
             Fossella, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Gilman, Mr. 
             Boehlert, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Sweeney, Mr. 
             Quinn, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Engel, Mr. McHugh, Mr. 
             LaFalce, Mr. Owens, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Serrano, Mrs. 
             Lowey, Mr. Nadler, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
             Reynolds, Ms. Slaughter, and Ms. Velazquez):
       H.R. 5336. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 380 Main Street in 
     Farmingdale, New York, as the ``Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Post 
     Office Building''; to the Committee on Government Reform.
           By Mrs. MORELLA:
       H.R. 5337. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
     allow periods of certain service performed as an employee 
     under certain Cooperative Federal-State programs to be 
     creditable for purposes of civil service retirement; to the 
     Committee on Government Reform.
           By Mr. POMEROY:
       H.R. 5338. A bill to provide emergency disaster assistance 
     to agricultural producers; to the Committee on Agriculture.
           By Mr. REYNOLDS:
       H.R. 5339. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to repeal the provision that limited the interest 
     deduction on refinanced home mortgage indebtedness to the 
     amount of the indebtedness being refinanced; to the Committee 
     on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. SHERMAN (for himself, Mr. Issa, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
             Lantos, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Condit, 
             Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Farr of California, Ms. Lofgren, 
             Mr. Becerra, Mr. Royce, Mrs. Bono, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. 
             Thompson of California, Mr. Berman, Mr. Ose, Mr. 
             Schiff, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. McKeon, Mr. 
             Honda, Mr. Pombo, and Mr. Gallegly):
       H.R. 5340. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 5805 White Oak Avenue in 
     Encino, California, as the ``Francis Dayle `Chick' Hearn Post 
     Office''; to the Committee on Government Reform.
           By Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina:
       H.R. 5341. A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to take actions to promptly address the risk of 
     fire and insect infestation in National Forest System lands, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, and 
     in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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.
           By Mr. THUNE:
       H.R. 5342. A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture 
     to conduct a demonstration forest management project in the 
     Black Hills National Forest in the States of South Dakota and 
     Wyoming; to the Committee on Resources.
           By Mr. POMEROY (for himself, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Peterson 
             of Minnesota, Mr. Thune, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Simpson, Ms. 
             Baldwin, Mr. Baldacci, and Mr. Boswell):
       H. Con. Res. 462. Concurrent resolution congratulating the 
     National Farmers Union for 100 years of service to family 
     farmers and ranchers and rural communities; to the Committee 
     on Agriculture.
           By Mrs. THURMAN:
       H. Res. 517. A resolution providing for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 1862) to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act to provide greater access to affordable 
     pharmaceuticals; to the Committee on Rules.

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