[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20058]
[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. SCHUMER:
       S. 1479. A bill to amend and extend the Irish Peace Process 
     and Cultural Training Program Act of 1998; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. FEINGOLD:
       S. 1480. A bill to amend the Buy American Act to increase 
     the requirement for American-made content, to tighten the 
     waiver provisions, and for other purposes; to the Committee 
     on Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Jeffords, Mrs. 
             Feinstein, and Mr. Kennedy):
       S. 1481. A bill to prohibit the application of the trade 
     authorities procedures with respect to implementing bills 
     that contain provisions regarding the entry of aliens; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. INOUYE (for himself, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. 
             Cochran):
       S. 1482. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses 
     for business meals and entertainment; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Harkin, Ms. 
             Mikulski, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Bingaman, Mrs. Murray, 
             Mr. Reed, Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Rockefeller, 
             and Mr. Daschle):
       S. 1483. A bill to amend the Head Start Act to reauthorize 
     that Act, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. WYDEN:
       S. 1484. A bill to require a report on Federal Government 
     use of commercial and other databases for national security, 
     intelligence, and law enforcement purposes, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Schumer, 
             Mr. Leahy, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Reid, Mr. 
             Dodd, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Mikulski, and 
             Mrs. Clinton):
       S. 1485. A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
     1938 to protect the rights of employees to receive overtime 
     compensation; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
     and Pensions.
           By Mr. CHAFEE (for himself and Mr. Jeffords):
       S. 1486. A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act 
     and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Roden-
     ticide Act to implement the Stockholm Convention on 
     Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Protocol on Persistent 
     Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-Range Trans-
     boundary Air Pollution, and the Rotterdam Convention on the 
     Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous 
     Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. SPECTER:
       S. 1487. A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to 
     award the Combat Medical Badge or another combat badge for 
     Army helicopter medical evacuation ambulance (Medevac) pilots 
     and crews; to the Committee on Armed Services.
           By Mr. BINGAMAN:
       S. 1488. A bill to establish the Native American 
     Entrepreneurs Program to provide $3,000,000 in grants 
     annually to qualified organizations to provide training and 
     technical assistance to disadvantaged Native American 
     entrepreneurs; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

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