[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 86 (Thursday, June 17, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7232-S7234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 56

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
DeWine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 56, a bill to repeal the Federal 
estate and gift taxes and the tax on generation-skipping transfers.


                                 S. 195

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 195, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 
research credit.


                                 S. 222

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Bingaman) were added as cosponsors of S. 222, a bill to amend title 23, 
United States Code, to provide for a national standard to prohibit the 
operation of motor vehicles by intoxicated individuals.


                                 S. 242

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 242, a bill to amend the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the labeling of imported meat 
and meat food products.


                                 S. 326

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
326, a bill to improve the access and choice of patients to quality, 
affordable health care.


                                 S. 329

  At the request of Mr. Robb, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Nickles) was added as a cosponsor of S. 329, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for hospital care and 
medical services under chapter 17 of that title to veterans who have 
been awarded the Purple Heart, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 343

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 343, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for 100 percent of 
the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.


                                 S. 386

  At the request of Mr. Gorton, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Frist) was added as a cosponsor of S. 386, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax-exempt bond financing 
of certain electric facilities.


                                 S. 400

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 400, a bill to provide 
technical corrections to the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996, to improve the delivery of housing 
assistance to Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of 
tribal self-governance, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 401

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 401, a bill to provide for 
business development and trade promotion for native Americans,and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 424

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 424, a bill to 
preserve and protect the free choice of individuals and employees to 
form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
activities.


                                 S. 434

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 434, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify the method of payment of 
taxes on distilled spirits.


                                 S. 510

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) 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 West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 514, a bill to 
improve the National Writing Project.


                                 S. 541

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 541, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make certain changes 
related to payments for graduate medical education under the medicare 
program.


                                 S. 607

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 607, a bill reauthorize and 
amend

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the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992.


                                 S. 613

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 613, a bill to encourage 
Indian economic development, to provide for the disclosure of Indian 
tribal sovereign immunity in contracts involving Indian tribes, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 614

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 614, a bill to provide for 
regulatory reform in order to encourage investment, business, and 
economic development with respect to activities conducted on Indian 
lands.


                                 S. 659

  At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 659, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require pension plans to 
provide adequate notice to individuals whose future benefit accruals 
are being significantly reduced, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 674

  At the request of Mr. Fitzgerald, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 674, a bill to require truth-in-budgeting 
with respect to the on-budget trust funds.


                                 S. 680

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Bennett) was added as a cosponsor of S. 680, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the research 
credit, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 707

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Hutchinson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 707, a bill to amend 
the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a national family 
caregiver support program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 708

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 708, a bill to improve the 
administrative efficiency and effectiveness of the Nation's abuse and 
neglect courts and the quality and availability of training for judges, 
attorneys, and volunteers working in such courts, and for other 
purposes consistent with the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.


                                 S. 751

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a 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. 796

  At the request of Mr. Wellstone, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 796, a bill to 
provide for full parity with respect to health insurance coverage for 
certain severe biologically-based mental illnesses and to prohibit 
limits on the number of mental illness-related hospital days and 
outpatient visits that are covered for all mental illnesses.


                                 S. 821

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 821, a bill to provide for the 
collection of data on traffic stops.


                                 S. 832

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mr. Gorton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 832, a bill to extend the 
commercial space launch damage indemnification provisions of section 
70113 of title 49, United States Code.


                                 S. 880

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 880, a bill to amend the 
Clean Air Act to remove flammable fuels from the list of substances 
with respect to which reporting and other activities are required under 
the risk management plan program


                                 S. 944

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 944, a bill to amend Public 
Law 105-188 to provide for the mineral leasing of certain Indian lands 
in Oklahoma.


                                 S. 978

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Coverdell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 978, a bill to specify 
that the legal public holiday known as Washington's Birthday be called 
by that name.


                                S. 1006

  At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1006, a bill to end 
the use of conventional steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the 
United States.


                                S. 1020

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1020, a bill to amend 
chapter 1 of title 9, United States Code, to provide for greater 
fairness in the arbitration process relating to motor vehicle franchise 
contracts.


                                S. 1023

  At the request of Mr. Frist, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1023, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
stabilize indirect graduate medical education payments.
  At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1023, supra.


                                S. 1024

  At the request of Mr. Frist, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1024, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to carve 
out from payments to Medicare+Choice organizations amounts attributable 
to disproportionate share hospital payments and pay such amounts 
directly to those disproportionate share hospitals in which their 
enrollees receive care.


                                S. 1025

  At the request of Mr. Frist, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1025, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure 
the proper payment of approved nursing and allied health education 
programs under the medicare program.


                                S. 1128

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1128, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes and the tax on 
generation-skipping transfers, to provide for a carryover basis at 
death, and to establish a partial capital gains exclusion for inherited 
assets.


                                S. 1150

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1150, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to more accurately codify the depreciable 
life of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.


                                S. 1203

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1203, a bill to amend the 
Older Americans Act of 1965 to extend authorizations of appropriations 
for programs under the Act through fiscal year 2004, to establish a 
National Family Caregiver Support Program, to modernize aging programs 
and services, to address the need to engage in life course planning, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1215

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1215, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for marked graves of, or to 
otherwise commemorate, certain individuals.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 34

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Smith), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad), and 
the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added as cosponsors of 
Senate Concurrent Resolution 34, a concurrent resolution relating to 
the observance of ``In Memory'' Day.


                          Senate Resolution 59

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from Iowa

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(Mr. Grassley), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), and the 
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici) were added as cosponsors of 
Senate Resolution 59, a resolution designating both July 2, 1999, and 
July 2, 2000, as ``National Literacy Day.''


                          Senate Resolution 99

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 99, a resolution 
designating November 20, 1999, as ``National Survivors for Prevention 
of Suicide Day.''

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