[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 13 (Monday, February 23, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S846-S847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 194

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 194, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the section 170(e)(5) 
rules pertaining to gifts of publicly-traded stock to certain private 
foundations and for other purposes.


                                 S. 356

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 356, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Public Health Service Act, the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the title XVIII and 
XIX of the Social Security Act to assure access to emergency medical 
services under group health plans, health insurance coverage, and the 
medicare and medicaid programs.


                                 S. 467

  At the request of Mr. Wellstone, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Ms. Moseley-Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 467, a bill 
to prevent discrimination against victims of abuse in all lines of 
insurance.


                                 S. 497

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 497, a bill to 
amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to 
repeal the provisions of the Acts that require employees to pay union 
dues or fees as a condition of employment.


                                 S. 531

  At the request of Mr. Roth, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Moseley-Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 531, a bill to 
designate a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as 
wilderness.


                                 S. 837

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Thurmond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 837, a bill to 
exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State 
laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms and to allow States 
to enter into compacts to recognize other States' concealed weapons 
permits.


                                 S. 990

  At the request of Mr. Faircloth, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) was added as a cosponsor of S. 990, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Institute 
of Biomedical Imaging.


                                S. 1042

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1042, a bill to require 
country of origin labeling of perishable agricultural commodities 
imported into the United States and to establish penalties for 
violations of the labeling requirements.


                                S. 1151

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Daschle) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1151, a bill to amend subpart 8 of part A of title IV 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to support the participation of 
low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of 
campus-based child care.


                                S. 1204

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the names of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1204, a bill to simplify and expedite 
access to the Federal courts for injured parties whose rights and 
privileges, secured by the United States Constitution, have been 
deprived by final actions of Federal agencies, or other government 
officials or entities acting under color of State law; to prevent 
Federal courts from abstaining from exercising Federal jurisdiction in 
actions where no State law claim is alleged; to permit certification of 
unsettled State law questions that are essential to resolving Federal 
claims arising under the Constitution; and to clarify when government 
action is sufficiently final to ripen certain Federal claims arising 
under the Constitution.


                                S. 1283

  At the request of Mr. Bumpers, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Daschle), 
the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Ford), the Senator 
from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Kerrey), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), the Senator 
from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from South Dakota

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(Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Kennedy), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Glenn), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), and the 
Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1283, a 
bill to award Congressional gold medals to Jean Brown Trickey, Carlotta 
Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray 
Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, and 
Jefferson Thomas, commonly referred collectively as the ``Little Rock 
Nine'' on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integration of 
the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.


                                S. 1334

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Robb) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1334, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
establish a demonstration project to evaluate the feasibility of using 
the Federal Employees Health Benefits program to ensure the availablity 
of adequate health care for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries under the 
military health care system.


                                S. 1350

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Gregg) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1350, a bill to amend section 332 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 to preserve State and local authority to 
regulate the placement, construction, and modification of certain 
telecommunications facilites, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1421

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1421, A bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional support for 
and to expand clinical research programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1422

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Hollings), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Robb), and the 
Senator from Washington (Mr. Gorton) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1422, a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to promote 
competition in the market for delivery of multichannel video 
programming and for other purposes.


                                S. 1460

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1460, a bill for 
the relief of Alexandre Malofienko, Olga Matsko, and their son Vladimir 
Malofienko.


                                S. 1461

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1461, a bill to establish a 
youth mentoring program.


                                S. 1569

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Gramm) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1569, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to raise the 15 percent income tax 
bracket into middle class income levels, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1578

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Robb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1578, a bill to make 
available on the Internet, for purposes of access and retrieval by the 
public, certain information available through the Congressional 
Research Service web site.


                                S. 1580

  At the request of Mr. Shelby, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1580, a bill to amend 
the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to place an 18-month moratorium on the 
prohibition of payment under the medicare program for home health 
services consisting of venipuncture solely for the purpose of obtaining 
a blood sample, and to require the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to study potential fraud and abuse under such program with 
respect to such services.


                                S. 1605

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1605, a bill to establish a 
matching grant program to help States, units of local government, and 
Indian tribes to purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement 
officers.


                                S. 1621

  At the request of Mr. Grams, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1621, A bill 
to provide that certain Federal property shall be made available to 
States for State use before being made available to other entities, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1643

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1643, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to delay for one year 
implementation of the per beneficiary limits under the interim payment 
system to home health agencies and to provide for a later base year for 
the purposes of calculating new payment rates under the system.


                       Senate Joint Resolution 30

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Abraham), and the 
Senator from Virginia (Mr. Robb) were added as cosponsors of Senate 
Joint Resolution 30, A joint resolution designating March 1, 1998 as 
``United States Navy Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day,'' and for other 
purposes.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 30

  At the request of Mr. Helms, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar) were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Concurrent Resolution 30, A concurrent resolution 
expressing the sense of the Congress that the Republic of China should 
be admitted to multilateral economic institutions, including the 
International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 71

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Brownback) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 
71, A concurrent resolution condemning Iraq's threat to international 
peace and security.


                         Senate Resolution 170

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Bumpers) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland) were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Resolution 170, A resolution expressing the sense 
of the Senate that the Federal investment in biomedical research should 
be increased by $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1999.


                         Senate Resolution 171

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Biden), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Moseley- Braun), the 
Senator from New York (Mr. D'Amato), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. 
Abraham), the Senator from New York (Mr. Moynihan), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the 
Senator from Ohio (Mr. Glenn), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl), 
the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici), the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the Senator 
from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Thurmond), and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Thompson) were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Resolution 171, A resolution designating March 25, 
1998, as ``Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of 
Greek and American Democracy.''

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