[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 71 (Monday, May 17, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5424-S5425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 s. 59

  At the request of Mr. Thompson, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 59, a bill to provide 
Government-wide accounting of regulatory costs and benefits, and for 
other purposes.


                                 s. 211

  At the request of Mr. Helms, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
211, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make 
permanent the exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance 
programs, and for other purposes.


                                 s. 285

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Grams) was added as a cosponsor of S. 285, a bill to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to restore the link between the maximum 
amount of earnings by blind individuals permitted without demonstrating 
ability to engage in substantial gainful activity and the exempt amount 
permitted in determining excess earnings under the earnings test.


                                 s. 429

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 429, a bill to designate 
the legal public holiday of ``Washington's Birthday'' as ``Presidents' 
Day'' in honor of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin 
Roosevelt and in recognition of the importance of the institution of 
the Presidency and the

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contributions that Presidents have made to the development of our 
Nation and the principles of freedom and democracy.


                                 s. 510

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 510, a bill to preserve the 
sovereignty of the United States over public lands and acquired lands 
owned by the United States, and to preserve State sovereignty and 
private property rights in non-Federal lands surrounding those public 
lands and acquired lands.


                                 s. 514

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 514, a bill to improve the 
National Writing Project.


                                 s. 517

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 517, a bill to assure access under group health 
plans and health insurance coverage to covered emergency medical 
services.


                                 s. 566

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as cosponsor of S. 566, a bill to amend the 
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to exempt agricultural commodities, 
livestock, and value-added products from unilateral economic sanctions, 
to prepare for future bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations 
affecting United States agriculture, and for other purposes.


                                 s. 631

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as cosponsor of S. 631, a bill to amend 
the Social Security Act to eliminate the time limitation on benefits 
for immunosuppressive drugs under the medicare program, to provide 
continued entitlement for such drugs for certain individuals after 
Medicare benefits end, and to extend certain Medicare secondary payer 
requirements.


                                 s. 648

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as cosponsor of S. 648, a bill to 
provide for the protection of employees providing air safety 
information.


                                 s. 712

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Abraham) was added as cosponsor of S. 712, a bill to amend title 
39, United States Code, to allow postal patrons to contribute to 
funding for highway-rail grade crossing safety through the voluntary 
purchase of certain specially issued United States postage stamps.


                                 s. 751

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as cosponsor of S. 751, a bill to combat 
nursing home fraud and abuse, increase protections for victims of 
telemarketing fraud, enhance safeguards for pension plans and health 
care benefit programs, and enhance penalties for crimes against 
seniors, and for other purposes.


                                 s. 784

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) was added as cosponsor of S. 784, a bill to 
establish a demonstration project to study and provide coverage of 
routine patient care costs for medicare beneficiaries with cancer who 
are enrolled in an approved clinical trial program.


                                 s. 820

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as cosponsor of S. 820, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 4.3-cent motor fuel excise taxes on 
railroads and inland waterway transportation which remain in the 
general fund of the Treasury.


                          senate resolution 59

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Baucus) was added as cosponsor of Senate Resolution 59, a 
resolution designating both July 2, 1999, and July 2, 2000, as 
``National Literacy Day.''


                          senate resolution 81

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Breaux) the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham), the 
Senator from Michigan (Mr. Abraham), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. 
Murray), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle), the Senator from New York (Mr. Moynihan), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Bryan), the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator 
from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), 
the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Biden), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich), the 
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Inhofe), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Roth), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator 
from New Jersey (Mr. Torricelli), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Wellstone), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Kerrey), the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Robb), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator from South Carolina 
(Mr. Thurmond), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator 
from New Hampshire (Mr. Smith), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Dorgan), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Thomas), the 
Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Hollings), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Resolution 81, a resolution designating the year 
of 1999 as ``The Year of Safe Drinking Water'' and commemorating the 
25th anniversary of the enactment of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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