[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16949-16950]
[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. KIRK (for himself and Mr. Rockefeller):
       S. 1688. A bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 
     the members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 
     collectively, in recognition of their superior service and 
     major contributions during World War II; to the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. SCHUMER:
       S. 1689. A bill to treat payments by charitable 
     organizations with respect to certain firefighters as exempt 
     payments; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Durbin, Ms. 
             Klobuchar, Mr. Franken, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Brown, Ms. 
             Landrieu, and Mr. Menendez):
       S. 1690. A bill to reauthorize the Second Chance Act of 
     2007; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. McCain):
       S. 1691. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
     improve the security of the United States border and to 
     provide for reforms and rates of pay for border patrol 
     agents; to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs.
           By Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. 
             Klobuchar, and Mr. Markey):
       S. 1692. A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation 
     to modify the final rule relating to flightcrew member duty 
     and rest requirements for passenger operations of air 
     carriers to apply to all-cargo operations of air carriers, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, 
     Science, and Transportation.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Mr. Udall of Colorado, 
             Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Merkley, and Mrs. Feinstein):
       S. 1693. A bill to amend the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act to extend the initial open enrollment 
     period; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. HARKIN (for himself and Mr. Heller):
       S. 1694. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to allow a credit against income tax for the purchase of 
     hearing aids; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mr. Kirk):
       S. 1695. A bill to designate a portion of the Arctic 
     National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness; to the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. 
             Boxer, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Harkin, Mr. 
             Whitehouse, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schumer, Mrs. Murray, 
             Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Brown, 
             Ms. Warren, Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Heinrich, 
             Mr. Coons, Mr. Markey, Mr. Merkley, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. 
             Mikulski, Mr. Booker,

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             Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Franken, 
             Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Cardin, and Mrs. McCaskill):
       S. 1696. A bill to protect a women's right to determine 
     whether and when to bear a child or end a pregnancy by 
     limiting restrictions on the provision of abortion services; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. HARKIN (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Casey, Ms. 
             Hirono, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. 
             Warren, Mr. Coons, Mr. Kaine, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. 
             Wyden, and Mr. Franken):
       S. 1697. A bill to support early learning; to the Committee 
     on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MARKEY:
       S. 1698. A bill to provide for the establishment of clean 
     technology consortia to enhance the economic, environmental, 
     and energy security of the United States by promoting 
     domestic development, manufacture, and deployment of clean 
     technologies; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself and Mrs. 
             Shaheen):
       S. 1699. A bill to permit individuals to renew certain 
     health insurance coverage offered in the individual or small 
     group markets and to provide that such individuals would not 
     be subject to the individual mandate penalty; to the 
     Committee on Finance.

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