51.   No bill has been filed.

52.   One legislator filed a bill last year to close the loophole, but it went nowhere.

53.   Party leaders have accused Young, who is openly pro-statehood, of filing a bill that is weighted heavily in favor of the New Progressive Party.

54.   Other reform bills have been filed as well.

55.   Rep. Ron Lewis, D-Mauriceville, who filed a bill last session, agreed.

56.   Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Massachusetts, said Tuesday he will file a bill next week calling for a seven-year reduction in nicotine in cigarettes.

57.   Rep. Robert Puente, D-San Antonio, has filed a bill that would eliminate the junior-rights provision for transfers within regional planning areas.

58.   Representative George Miller of California has filed a bill that would raise the Northern Marianas wage to the federal level.

59.   Prospects for new pipeline safety legislation had appeared doubtful until last month, when Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, filed the bill.

60.   Rogeness filed the bill after one of her constituents, a member of the military, told her that he suffered lung problems after taking the vaccine.