[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11313]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

  The following reports of committees were submitted:

       By Mr. LIEBERMAN, from the Committee on Governmental 
     Affairs, without amendment:
       S. 2530: A bill to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 
     (5 U.S .C. App.) to establish police powers for certain 
     Inspector General agents engaged in official duties and 
     provide an oversight mechanism for the exercise of those 
     powers. (Rept. No. 107-176).
       By Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
     and an amendment to the title:
       S. 281: A bill to authorize the design and construction of 
     a temporary education center at the Vietnam Veterans 
     Memorial. (Rept. No . 107-177).
       By Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute:
       S. 1240: A bill to provide for the acquisition of land and 
     construction of an interagency administrative and visitor 
     facility at the entrance to American Fork Canyon, Utah, and 
     for other purposes. (Rept. No. 107-178).
       By Mr. SARBANES, from the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
     and Urban Affairs, without amendment:
       S. 2673: An original bill to improve quality and 
     transparency in financial reporting and independent audits 
     and accounting services for public companies, to create a 
     Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the 
     standard setting process for accounting practices, to 
     strengthen the independence of firms that audit public 
     companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the 
     usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the 
     objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to 
     improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and 
     oversight, and for other purposes.

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