[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 9895]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                      MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME

  The following bill was read the first time:

       H.R. 1256. An act to protect the public health by providing 
     the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to 
     regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States 
     Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings 
     Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal 
     Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.

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