[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 20708-20709]
[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. VITTER:
       S. 1726. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 324 Main Street in 
     Grambling, Louisiana, shall be known and designated as the 
     ``Coach Eddie Robinson Post Office Building''; to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. VITTER:
       S. 1727. A bill to provide grants for prosecutions of cases 
     cleared through use of DNA backlog clearance fund; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. INHOFE:
       S. 1728. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to permanently extend the Indian employment credit and the 
     depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an 
     Indian reservation; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. AKAKA:
       S. 1729. A bill to extend the time during which persons 
     affected by Hurricane Katrina may appeal certain decisions of 
     the Board of Veterans' Appeals that are rendered during the 
     period beginning June 1, 2005, and ending November 30, 2005; 
     to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. VOINOVICH (for himself and Mr. Conrad):
       S. 1730. A bill to establish the Trust Fund Administration 
     to invest in non-Federal Government debt instrument index 
     funds all Federal trust fund revenues transferred to the 
     Federal Government upon the issuance of special rate Treasury 
     obligations to such trust funds, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. COBURN (for himself and Mr. Inhofe):
       S. 1731. A bill to designate the Department of Veteran 
     Affairs Medical Center in Muskoee, Oklahoma, as the Jack C. 
     Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; to 
     the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. NELSON of Nebraska:
       S. 1732. A bill to require the Federal Trade Commission to 
     conduct an inquiry into the retail prices of natural gas and 
     gasoline; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation.
           By Mr. THUNE:
       S. 1733. A bill to establish pilot projects under the 
     medicare program to provide incentives for home health 
     agencies to utilize home monitoring and communications 
     technologies; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. BINGAMAN:
       S. 1734. A bill to establish the Valle Vidal National 
     Preserve in the State of New Mexico; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. Reid, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
             Inouye, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. 
             Clinton, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
             Stabenow, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Jeffords, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. 
             Mikulski, Mr. Biden, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Harkin, Mr. 
             Reed, and Mr. Salazar):
       S. 1735. A bill to improve the Federal Trade Commission's 
     ability to protect consumers from price-gouging during energy 
     emergencies, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. 
             Voinovich, Mr. Akaka, and Mr. Vitter):
       S. 1736. A bill to provide for the participation of 
     employees in the judicial branch in the Federal leave 
     transfer program for disasters and emergencies; to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. SANTORUM:
       S. 1737. A bill to prohibit entities that provide nuclear 
     fuel assemblies to Iran from providing such assemblies to the 
     United States, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations.

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