[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 114 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8732-S8733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 61

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 61, a bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to extend 
eligibility for veterans' burial benefits, funeral benefits, and 
related benefits for veterans of certain service in the United States 
merchant marine during World War II.


                                 S. 102

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Lieberman] was added as a cosponsor of S. 102, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve medicare 
treatment and education for beneficiaries with diabetes by providing 
coverage of diabetes outpatient self-management training services and 
uniform coverage of blood-testing strips for individuals with diabetes.


                                 S. 230

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
[Mr. Ashcroft] was added as a cosponsor of S. 230, a bill to amend 
section 1951 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the 
Hobbs Act), and for other purposes.


                                 S. 364

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Dodd] and the Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack] were 
added as cosponsors of S. 364, a bill to provide legal standards and 
procedures for suppliers of raw materials and component parts for 
medical devices.


                                 S. 385

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota [Mr. Dorgan] was added as a cosponsor of S. 385, a bill to 
provide reimbursement under the medicare program for telehealth 
services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 394

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota [Mr. Johnson] was added as a cosponsor of S. 394, a bill to 
partially restore compensation levels to their past equivalent in terms 
of real income and establish the procedure for adjusting

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future compensation of justices and judges of the United States.


                                 S. 532

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi [Mr. Lott] was added as a cosponsor of S. 532, a bill to 
authorize funds to further the strong Federal interest in the 
improvement of highways and transportation, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 772

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi [Mr. Cochran] was added as a cosponsor of S. 772, a bill to 
establish an Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring, to provide for 
the imposition of sanctions against countries engaged in a pattern of 
religious persecution, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 803

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the name of the Senator from Montana 
[Mr. Burns] was added as a cosponsor of S. 803, a bill to permit the 
transportation of passengers between United States ports by certain 
foreign-flag vessels and to encourage United States-flag vessels to 
participate in such transportation.


                                 S. 852

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the names of the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 
Brownback] and the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Cochran] were added as 
cosponsors of S. 852, a bill to establish nationally uniform 
requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage, 
nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles.


                                 S. 863

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 863, a bill to authorize the Government of India to establish a 
memorial to honor Mahatma Gandhi in the District of Columbia.


                                 S. 887

  At the request of Ms. Moseley-Braun, the names of the Senator from 
Illinois [Mr. Durbin], the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Specter], the 
Senator from Washington [Mrs. Murray], and the Senator from Maryland 
[Mr. Sarbanes] were added as cosponsors of S. 887, a bill to establish 
in the National Service the National Underground Railroad Network to 
Freedom program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 912

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
[Mr. Hutchinson] was added as a cosponsor of S. 912, a bill to provide 
for certain military retirees and dependents a special medicare part B 
enrollment period during which the late enrollment penalty is waived 
and a special medigap open period during which no under-writing is 
permitted.


                                 S. 927

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island [Mr. Chafee], the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Robb], the Senator 
from Washington [Mrs. Murray], the Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Akaka], and 
the Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack] were added as cosponsors of S. 927, 
a bill to reauthorize the Sea Grant Program.


                                 S. 980

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Iowa [Mr. 
Harkin] was added as a cosponsor of S. 980, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Army to close the United States Army School of the 
Americas.


                                S. 1051

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado [Mr. Allard], and the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Hutchinson] 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1051, a bill to amend the Communications 
Act of 1934 to enhance protections against unauthorized changes of 
telephone service subscribers from one telecommunications carrier to 
another, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1062

  At the request of Mr. D'Amato, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
[Mr. DeWine], the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Specter], the Senator 
from Nevada [Mr. Reid], the Senator from Maine [Ms. Collins], the 
Senator from Virginia [Mr. Warner], and the Senator from New Hampshire 
[Mr. Gregg] were added as cosponsors of S. 1062, a bill to authorize 
the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to 
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in recognition of his outstanding and 
enduring contributions toward religious understanding and peace, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1100

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, his name was withdrawn as a 
cosponsor of S. 1100, a bill to amend the Covenant to Establish a 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with 
the United States of America, the legislation approving such covenant, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1105

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi [Mr. Lott], and the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Thompson] 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1105, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a sound budgetary mechanism for 
financing health and death benefits of retired coal miners while 
ensuring the long-term fiscal health and solvency of such benefits, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1133

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi [Mr. Cochran], the Senator from Arizona [Mr. Kyl], and the 
Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Thompson] were added as cosponsors of S. 
1133, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-
free expenditures from education individual retirment accounts for 
elementary and secondary school expenses and to increase the maximum 
annual amount of contributions to such accounts.


                                S. 1141

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota [Mr. Daschle], the Senator from Missouri [Mr. Bond], the Senator 
from Nebraska [Mr. Kerrey], the Senator from Iowa [Mr. Harkin], and the 
Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Ford] were added as cosponsors of S. 1141, a 
bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to take into account newly 
developed renewable energy-based fuels and to equalize alternative fuel 
vehicle acquisition incentives to increase the flexibility of 
controlled fleet owners and operators, and for other purposes.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 32

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
Senate Concurrent Resolution 32, a concurrent resolution recognizing 
and commending American airmen held as political prisoners at the 
Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II for their service, 
bravery, and fortitude.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 42

  At the request of Mr. D'Amato, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
[Mr. DeWine], the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Specter], the Senator 
from Nevada [Mr. Reid], and the Senator from Maine [Ms. Collins] were 
added as cosponsors of Senate Concurrent Resolution 42, a concurrent 
resolution to authorize the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a 
congressional ceremony honoring Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.


                          Senate Resolution 94

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
[Mr. Cleland] and the Senator from Louisiana [Ms. Landrieu] were added 
as cosponsors of Senate Resolution 94, a resolution commending the 
American Medical Association on its 150th anniversary, its 150 years of 
caring for the United States, and its continuing effort to uphold the 
principles upon which Nathan Davis, M.D. and his colleagues founded the 
American Medical Association to ``promote the science and art of 
medicine and the betterment of public health.''


                         Senate Resolution 111

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota [Mr. Conrad] and the Senator from Illinois [Ms. Moseley-Braun] 
were added as cosponsors of Senate Resolution 111, a resolution 
designating the week beginning September 14, 1997, as ``National 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week,'' and for other 
purposes.

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