[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 5163-5164]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE


                          enrolled bill signed

  At 12:19 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, announced that the Speaker 
has signed the following enrolled bill:

       H.R. 2. An act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to repeal the Medicare

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     sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by 
     improving physician payments and making other improvements, 
     to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, and 
     for other purposes.

  The enrolled bill was subsequently signed by the President pro 
tempore (Mr. Hatch).
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  At 12:39 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H.R. 709. An act to provide for the termination of 
     employment of employees of the Internal Revenue Service who 
     take certain official actions for political purposes.
       H.R. 1026. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to permit the release of information regarding the 
     status of certain investigations.
       H.R. 1058. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to clarify that a duty of the Commissioner of Internal 
     Revenue is to ensure that Internal Revenue Service employees 
     are familiar with and act in accord with certain taxpayer 
     rights.
       H.R. 1104. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide a deduction from the gift tax for gifts made 
     to certain exempt organizations.
       H.R. 1152. An act to prohibit officers and employees of the 
     Internal Revenue Service from using personal email accounts 
     to conduct official business.
       H.R. 1295. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to improve the process for making determinations with 
     respect to whether organizations are exempt from taxation 
     under 501(c)(4) of such Code.
       H.R. 1314. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal 
     relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of 
     certain organizations.
       H.R. 1562. An act to prohibit the awarding of a contract or 
     grant in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold 
     unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in 
     writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the 
     contractor or grantee has no seriously delinquent tax debts, 
     and for other purposes.

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