[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4659]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               HEALTH CARE SAFETY NET AMENDMENTS OF 2001

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now 
proceed to Calendar No. 192, S. 1533.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1533) to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     reauthorize and strengthen the health centers program and the 
     National Health Service Corps, and to establish the Healthy 
     Communities Access Program, which will help coordinate 
     services for the uninsured and underinsured, and for other 
     purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, it is my understanding Senator Kennedy has a 
substitute amendment at the desk. I ask unanimous consent that the 
amendment be considered, agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be 
laid upon the table; that the bill, as amended, be read the third time, 
passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, without 
intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3134) was agreed to.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  The bill (S. 1533), as amended, was read the third time and passed.

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