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On the recordDecember 18, 2019
I understand there are three bills at the desk, and I ask for their first reading en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the titles of the bills for the first time en bloc. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 397) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation Trust Fund, to establish a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined benefit plans, and for other purposes. A bill (H.R. 1759) to amend title III of the Social Security Act to extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all claimants for unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. A bill (H.R. 4018) to provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma
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govinfo.gov
Dec 18, 2019

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