[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16435-16436]
[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. PAUL:
       H.R. 5356. A bill to abolish the Board of Governors of the 
     Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to 
     repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Financial Services.
           By Mr. BEREUTER:
       H.R. 5357. A bill to provide for the review of agriculture 
     mergers and acquisitions by the Department of Agriculture and 
     to outlaw unfair practices in the agriculture industry, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
     addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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. INSLEE (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, and Ms. 
             Solis):
       H.R. 5358. A bill to ensure that funds made available to 
     implement the National Fire Plan on National Forest System 
     lands and other public lands are used to reduce the threat of 
     catastrophic wildfire in the wildland-urban interface, to 
     support community and private land wildfire control efforts, 
     to require that receipts generated from hazardous fuels 
     reduction projects are returned to the Treasury, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Resources, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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. KANJORSKI:
       H.R. 5359. A bill to rescind the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs memorandum of July 18, 2002, in which Directors of 
     health service networks in the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     are directed to ensure that no marketing activities to enroll 
     new veterans occur within their networks; to the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. RYUN of Kansas (for himself, Mr. Walsh, and Mr. 
             Hansen):
       H.R. 5360 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to allow a credit against income tax for the purchase of 
     hearing aids; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Brown 
             of South Carolina, Mr. Graham, Mr. DeMint, Mr. 
             Spratt, and Mr. Clyburn):
       H.R. 5361. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in 
     Lexington, South Carolina, as the ``Floyd Spence Post Office 
     Building''; to the Committee on Government Reform.
           By Mr. WILSON of South Carolina:
       H. Con. Res. 463. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress that on September 11, 2002, the people 
     of the United States should reaffirm the principles for which 
     the Nation was founded so that freedom may ring from every 
     community in the Nation and be heard around the world; to the 
     Committee on Government Reform.

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           By Mr. GILMAN:
       H. Res. 520. A resolution congratulating Bosnia and 
     Herzegovina on the 10th anniversary of its independence; to 
     the Committee on International Relations.

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