[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 2484-2485]
[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. BROWNBACK (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Burr, 
             Mr. Sessions, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Grassley, 
             Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Thune, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Kyl, and 
             Mr. Allard):
       S. 415. A bill to amend the Revised Statutes of the United 
     States to prevent the use of the legal system in a manner 
     that extorts money from State and local governments, and the 
     Federal Government, and inhibits such governments' 
     constitutional actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth 
     amendments; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 416. A bill for the relief of Denes Fulop and Gyorgyi 
     Fulop; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 417. A bill for the relief of Claudia Marquez Rico; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 418. A bill for the relief of Shigeru Yamada; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 419. A bill for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, 
     Maria Elna Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy 
     Jael Arreola; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 420. A bill for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mrs. FEINSTEIN:
       S. 421. A bill for the relief of Robert Liang and Alice 
     Liang; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mrs. Hutchison):
       S. 422. A bill to authorize any alien who has been issued a 
     valid machine-readable biometric border crossing 
     identification card to be temporarily admitted into the 
     United States upon successfully completing a background 
     check; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. AKAKA (for himself, Mr. Craig, Mr. Rockefeller, 
             Mrs. Murray, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Webb, Mr. Sanders, and 
             Mr. Brown):
       S. 423. A bill to increase, effective as of December 1, 
     2007, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-
     connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
     indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled 
     veterans; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Ms. Snowe):
       S. 424. A bill to require the Secretary of the Army to 
     carry out the Penobscot River Restoration Project; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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           By Mr. SMITH (for himself and Mr. Wyden):
       S. 425. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to expand the resources eligible for the renewable energy 
     credit to kinetic hydropower, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. NELSON of Nebraska:
       S. 426. A bill to provide that all funds collected from the 
     tariff on imports of ethanol be invested in the research, 
     development, and deployment of biofuels, especially 
     cellulosic ethanol produced from biomass feedstocks; to the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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