[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15193-15194]
[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. McINTYRE:
       H.R. 2501. A bill to clarify the boundaries of Coastal 
     Barrier Resources System Cape Fear Unit NC-07P; to the 
     Committee on Resources.
           By Mr. BEREUTER:
       H.R. 2502. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to reduce estate and gift tax rates, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. COLLINS (for himself, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. 
             Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Ms. 
             Lee, Mr. Conyers, Mr. English, and Mr. Foley):
       H.R. 2503. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide that tax attributes shall not be reduced in 
     connection with a discharge of indebtedness in a title 11 
     case of a company having asbestos-related claims against it; 
     to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. DAVIS of Illinois:
       H.R. 2504. A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
     to improve the opportunity for Federal student loan borrowers 
     to consolidate their loans at reasonable interest rates; to 
     the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
           By Ms. DeLAURO:
       H.R. 2505. A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 
     to permit refinancing of student consolidation loans, 
     increase Pell Grant maximum awards, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
           By Mr. ENGEL (for himself, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Olver, Mr. 
             Kirk, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Towns):
       H.R. 2506. A bill to provide for the establishment of the 
     Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund to promote small business 
     and microcredit lending and housing construction and 
     reconstruction for Kosova; to the Committee on International 
     Relations.
           By Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon:
       H.R. 2507. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for a public response to the public health crisis of 
     pain, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and 
     Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
     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. Smith of Washington, 
             Mr. Dicks, Mr. McDermott, and Mr. Larsen of 
             Washington):
       H.R. 2508. A bill to prohibit the Department of Energy from 
     disposing low-level radioactive waste in certain landfills; 
     to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
           By Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas:
       H.R. 2509. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide for capital gains treatment for certain 
     termination payments received by former insurance salesmen; 
     to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Ms. LEE:
       H.R. 2510. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 2000 Allston Way in 
     Berkeley, California, as the ``Maudelle Shirek Post Office 
     Building''; to the Committee on Government Reform.
           By Mr. MICHAUD:
       H.R. 2511. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     direct the Secretary of Defense to provide veterans who have 
     a 100 percent service-connected disability with space-
     available travel on military aircraft in the same manner and 
     to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces; to 
     the Committee on Armed Services.
           By Mr. SWEENEY:
       H.R. 2512. A bill to establish a realistic, threat-based 
     allocation of grant funds for first responders; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. THOMPSON of California (for himself, Mrs. 
             Tauscher, Mr. Sandlin, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Israel, Mr. 
             Boswell, Mr. Berry, Mr. Case, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Bishop 
             of Georgia, Mr. Farr, and Mrs. Capps):
       H.R. 2513. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide for the immediate and permanent repeal of the 
     estate tax on family-owned businesses and farms, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
           By Mr. WEXLER (for himself, Mr. Stark, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
             Brown of Ohio, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
             Nadler, Mr. Conyers, and Mr. Grijalva):
       H.R. 2514. A bill to freeze and repeal portions of the tax 
     cut enacted in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief 
     Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to apply savings therefrom to 
     a comprehensive Medicare outpatient prescription drug 
     benefit; to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition 
     to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico (for herself, Mr. Green of 
             Texas, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Dingell, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. 
             Conyers, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Markey, Mr. Pitts, Mr. 
             Boucher, Mr. Walden of Oregon, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Terry, 
             Mr. Stupak, Mr. Pence, Ms. McCarthy of Missouri, Mr. 
             Frelinghuysen, Mr. Strickland, Mr. McInnis, Mrs. 
             Capps, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. Baca, Mr. 
             Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Skelton, and 
             Mr. Langevin):
       H.R. 2515. A bill to prevent unsolicited commercial 
     electronic mail; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. ROHRABACHER (for himself and Mr. LoBiondo):
       H. Con. Res. 222. Concurrent resolution expressing the 
     sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp 
     should be

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     issued in honor of the United States merchant marine; to the 
     Committee on Government Reform.

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