[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10485-10486]
[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. SANDERS:
       S. 1677. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to reinstate estate and generation-skipping taxes, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. BOOZMAN:
       S. 1678. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 201 B Street in Perryville, 
     Arkansas, as ``Harold George Bennett Post Office''; to the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. HELLER (for himself and Mr. Tester):
       S. 1679. A bill to amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act 
     of 1973 to require that certain buildings and personal 
     property be covered by flood insurance, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
     Affairs.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. Booker, Mrs. Murray, 
             and Mr. Markey):

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       S. 1680. A bill to improve the condition and performance of 
     the national multimodal freight network, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation.
           By Mr. SCHUMER:
       S. 1681. A bill to criminalize the knowing use of 
     commercial robocalls without the prior express written 
     consent of the recipient, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. KIRK (for himself and Mr. Menendez):
       S. 1682. A bill to extend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 
     and to require the Secretary of the Treasury to report on the 
     use by Iran of funds made available through sanctions relief; 
     to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. HATCH (for himself, Mrs. Ernst, and Mr. Blunt):
       S. 1683. A bill to provide for the establishment of a 
     process for the review of rules and sets of rules, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. KIRK (for himself and Mr. Hoeven):
       S. 1684. A bill to amend the Volunteer Protection Act of 
     1997 to provide for liability protection for organizations 
     and entities; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. WICKER (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal):
       S. 1685. A bill to direct the Federal Communications 
     Commission to extend to private land use restrictions its 
     rule relating to reasonable accommodation of amateur service 
     communications; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation.
           By Ms. BALDWIN (for herself, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. 
             Warren, Mr. Franken, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Reed, Ms. 
             Hirono, Mr. Manchin, and Mr. Blumenthal):
       S. 1686. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide for the proper tax treatment of personal service 
     income earned in pass-thru entities; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. WYDEN:
       S. 1687. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to restrict the insurance business exception to passive 
     foreign investment company rules; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. CARPER (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Boxer, 
             Mr. Booker, Mr. Brown, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
             Franken, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Markey, Mrs. 
             Murray, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
             Cardin, Mr. Reid, and Ms. Mikulski):
       S. 1688. A bill to provide for the admission of the State 
     of New Columbia into the Union; to the Committee on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. BROWN:
       S. 1689. A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to 
     reduce the funding available for a State under the national 
     highway performance program and the surface transportation 
     program if the State issues a license plate that contains an 
     image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, 
     including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of 
     America; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mrs. Murray):
       S. 1690. A bill to establish the Mountains to Sound 
     Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of Washington; 
     to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. BARRASSO:
       S. 1691. A bill to expedite and prioritize forest 
     management activities to achieve ecosystem restoration 
     objectives, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. 
             Donnelly):
       S. 1692. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
     clarify the use of a towaway trailer transportation 
     combination, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Ms. HIRONO:
       S. 1693. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     expand eligibility for reimbursement for emergency medical 
     treatment to certain veterans that were unable to receive 
     care from the Department of Veterans Affairs in the 24-month 
     period preceding the furnishing of such emergency treatment, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' 
     Affairs.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mrs. Murray):
       S. 1694. A bill to amend Public Law 103-434 to authorize 
     Phase III of the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project 
     for the purposes of improving water management in the Yakima 
     River basin, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. BLUNT:
       S. 1695. An original bill making appropriations for the 
     Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
     Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; from the 
     Committee on Appropriations; placed on the calendar.
           By Mr. ISAKSON (for himself and Mr. Perdue):
       S. 1696. A bill to redesignate the Ocmulgee National 
     Monument in the State of Georgia, to revise the boundary of 
     that monument, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Ms. Heitkamp):
       S. 1697. A bill to provide an exception from certain group 
     health plan requirements to allow small businesses to use 
     pre-tax dollars to assist employees in the purchase of 
     policies in the individual health insurance market, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. TILLIS (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
             Kaine, and Mr. Warner):
       S. 1698. A bill to exclude payments from State eugenics 
     compensation programs from consideration in determining 
     eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal public benefits; 
     read the first time.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Merkley):
       S. 1699. A bill to designate certain land administered by 
     the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the 
     State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas 
     and to make additional wild and scenic river designations in 
     the State of Oregon, and for other purposes; to the Committee 
     on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Ms. MURKOWSKI:
       S. 1700. A bill to require the Secretary of the Army, 
     acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a program 
     to provide loans and loan guarantees to enable eligible 
     public entities to purchase credits from mitigation banks or 
     in-lieu fee programs or acquire interests in real property 
     that are acquired pursuant to mitigation projects required 
     under certain Federal Water Pollution Control Act permits, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and 
     Public Works.
           By Ms. MURKOWSKI:
       S. 1701. A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act to modify a provision relating to discharges of 
     dredged or fill material into navigable waters at specified 
     disposal sites; to the Committee on Environment and Public 
     Works.
           By Mr. KING (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Leahy, and 
             Mr. Manchin):
       S. 1702. A bill to require the administering authority to 
     determine an individual countervailable subsidy rate upon 
     request if four or fewer exporters and producers are involved 
     in the investigation or review, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. UDALL:
       S. 1703. A bill to direct the Administrator of the National 
     Highway Traffic Safety Administration to carry out a 
     collaborative research effort to prevent drunk driving 
     injuries and fatalities, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works.
           By Mr. ENZI:
       S.J. Res. 17. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to 
     the Constitution of the United States to give States the 
     right to repeal Federal laws and regulations when ratified by 
     the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.

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