[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3725]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            AMERICA'S SMALL BUSINESS TAX RELIEF ACT OF 2015

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 636) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations, 
     and for other purposes.


                           Amendment No. 3464

       (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute)

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I call up substitute amendment No. 3464.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 3464.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the next 
amendments in order be the following and that it be in order to call 
them up and considered offered in the order listed: Gardner No. 3460; 
Thune No. 3512; Heinrich No. 3482, as modified; Thune No. 3462; Schumer 
No. 3483; Thune No. 3463; and Cantwell No. 3490.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.


                Amendment No. 3460 to Amendment No. 3464

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I call up Gardner amendment No. 3460.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune], for Mr. Gardner, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 3460 to amendment No. 3464.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

(Purpose: To require the FAA Administrator to consider the operational 
 history of a person before authorizing the person to operate certain 
                      unmanned aircraft systems.)

       On page 89, line 3, insert ``and any operational history of 
     the person, as appropriate'' before the period at the end.


                Amendment No. 3512 to Amendment No. 3464

     (Purpose: To enhance airport security, and for other purposes)

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 3512.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. Thune] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 3512 to amendment No. 3464.

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of 
Amendments.'')

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