[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17301-17302]
[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. DODD (for himself and Mr. Allen):
       S. 2966. A bill to enable the United States to maintain its 
     leadership in aeronautics and aviation by instituting an 
     initiative to develop technologies that will significantly 
     lower noise, emissions, and fuel consumption, to reinvigorate 
     basic and applied research in aeronautics and aviation, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
     and Transportation.
           By Mr. BOND (for himself and Ms. Collins):
       S. 2967. A bill to promote the production of affordable 
     low-income housing; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. SARBANES (for himself, Mr. Jeffords, and Mr. 
             Sessions):
       S. 2968. A bill to amend the American Battlefield 
     Protection Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to establish a battlefield acquisition grant 
     program; to the

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     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. Gregg):
       S. 2969. A bill to provide for improvement of Federal 
     education research, statistics, evaluation, information, and 
     dissemination, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. FEINGOLD:
       S. 2970. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to assure fair and adequate payment for high-risk 
     Medicare beneficiaries and to establish payment incentives 
     and to evaluate clinical methods for assuring quality 
     services to people with serious and disabling chronic 
     conditions; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. BINGAMAN:
       S. 2971. A bill to amend the Transportation Equity Act for 
     the 21st Century to provide the Highway Trust Fund additional 
     funding for Indian reservation roads, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Ms. Collins):
       S. 2972. A bill to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
     Conservation and Management Act to provide for a cooperative 
     research and management program, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. Bingaman):
       S. 2973. A bill to to designate the Federal building 
     located at Fifth and Richardson Avenues in Roswell, New 
     Mexico, as the ``Joe Skeen Federal Building''; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. GRAHAM (for himself and Mr. Nelson of Florida):
       S. 2974. A bill to provide that land which is owned by the 
     Seminole Tribe of Florida but which is not held in trust by 
     the United States for the Tribe may be mortgaged, leased, or 
     transferred by the Tribe without further approval by the 
     United States; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
           By Mr. BREAUX (for himself and Ms. Landrieu):
       S. 2975. A bill to authorize the project for hurricane and 
     storm damage reduction, Morganza, Louisiana, to the Gulf of 
     Mexico, Mississippi River and Tributaries; to the Committee 
     on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. BREAUX (for himself and Ms. Landrieu):
       S. 2976. A bill to provide economic disaster assistance to 
     producers of the 202 crop of rice in the State of Louisiana; 
     to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. BAYH (for himself and Mr. Lugar):
       S. 2977. A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to 
     assist in the continued development of the Indianapolis 
     Central Waterfront project in Indianapolis, Indiana; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. BAYH (for himself and Mr. Lugar):
       S. 2978. A bill to modify the project for flood control, 
     Little Calumet River, Indiana; to the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. ALLARD (for himself, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, and 
             Mr. Hagel):
       S. 2979. A bill to identify certain routes in the States of 
     Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota as part of the Heartland 
     Expressway, a high priority corridor on the National Highway 
     System; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. BOND (for himself, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frist, and Mr. 
             Kennedy):
       S. 2980. A bill to revise and extend the Birth Defects 
     Prevention Act of 1998; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. VOINOVICH:
       S. 2981. A bill to exclude certain wire rods from the scope 
     of any anti-dumping or countervailing duty order issued as a 
     result of certain investigations relating to carbon and 
     certain alloy steel rods; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. CORZINE (for himself, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. 
             Sarbanes, and Mr. Akaka):
       S. 2982. A bill to establish a grant program to enhance the 
     financial and retirement literacy of mid-life and older 
     Americans and to reduce financial abuse and fraud among such 
     Americans, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. FRIST (for himself and Mr. Thompson):
       S. 2983. A bill to authorize a project for navigation, 
     Chickamauga Lock and Dam, Tennessee; to the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works.

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