To prevent the United States Preventive Service Task Force recommendations from restricting mammograms for women.
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Senate amendment submitted
December 2, 2009
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Senate amendment submitted
December 2, 2009
Senate amendment agreed to: Amendment SA 2808 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
December 2, 2009
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 2808 proposed by Senator Durbin for Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 2791.(consideration: CR S12152; text: CR S12152)
December 2, 2009
Amendment SA 2808 proposed by Senator Durbin for Senator Vitter to Amendment SA 2791. (consideration: CR S12152; text: CR S12152) To prevent the United States Preventive Service Task Force recommendations from restricting mammograms for women.
December 2, 2009
Amendment SA 2808 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
December 2, 2009
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SA 2808. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2791 proposed by Ms. Mikulski (for herself, Mr. Harkin, Mrs. Boxer, and Mr. Franken) to the amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 2 of the amendment, after line 15 insert the following: ``(5) for the purposes of this Act, and for the purposes of any other provisions of law, the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Service Task Force regarding breast cancer screening, mammography, and prevention shall be considered the most current other than those issued in or around November 2009.'' ______