[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17039]
[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 Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mrs. Lincoln):
       S. 1682. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     improve the management of medical care for members of the 
     Armed Forces, to improve the speed and efficiency of the 
     physical disability evaluation system of the Department of 
     Defense, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed 
     Services.
           By Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mr. Voinovich, and Mr. 
             Levin):
       S. 1683. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to exempt from the harbor maintenance tax certain commercial 
     cargo loaded or unloaded at United States ports in the Great 
     Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. BIDEN (for himself and Mr. Lugar):
       S. 1684. A bill to establish the Return of Talent Program 
     to allow aliens who are legally present in the United States 
     to return temporarily to the country of citizenship of the 
     alien if that country is engaged in post-conflict or natural 
     disaster reconstruction, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.

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