[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23525]
[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. THOMAS:
       H.R. 5763. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide fairness in tax collection procedures and 
     improved administrative efficiency and confidentiality and to 
     reform its penalty and interest provisions; to the Committee 
     on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. ETHERIDGE:
       H.R. 5764. A bill to provide for the resolution of certain 
     labor issues relating to the merger of the Metro-North 
     Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
           By Mr. ISRAEL:
       H.R. 5765. A bill to promote global efforts to protect 
     biological diversity by protecting the Tongass Rain Forest in 
     the Tongass National Forest, to designate the Duke Island 
     Trumpeter Swan Wilderness Area, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Resources.
           By Ms. KILPATRICK:
       H.R. 5766. A bill to create Federal advertising procurement 
     opportunities for minority business concerns, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Government Reform, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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 Ms. MILLENDER-McDONALD:
       H.R. 5767. A bill to accelerate the effective date for the 
     expansion of the adoption tax credit and the adoption 
     assistance programs by 1 year; to the Committee on Ways and 
     Means.
           By Mr. ISRAEL:
       H. Con. Res. 521. Concurrent resolution urging the 
     Government of Egypt and other Arab governments not to allow 
     their government-controlled television stations to broadcast 
     any program that lends legitimacy to the Protocols of the 
     Elders of Zion, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     International Relations.

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