[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 118 (Monday, September 13, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10782-S10784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 37

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Torricelli) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 37, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to repeal the restriction on payment for certain 
hospital discharges to post-acute care imposed by section 4407 of the 
Balanced Budget Act of 1997.


                                 S. 345

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 345, a bill to 
amend the Animal Welfare Act to remove the limitation that permits 
interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to 
States in which animal fighting is lawful.


                                 S. 391

  At the request of Mr. Kerrey, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 391, a bill to provide 
for payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical 
education programs.


                                 S. 514

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


                                 S. 562

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Kerrey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 562, a bill to provide for 
a comprehensive, coordinated effort to combat methamphetamine abuse, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 659

  At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) 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

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are being significantly reduced, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 690

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the names of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of S. 690, a bill to provide for 
mass transportation in national parks and related public lands.


                                 S. 693

  At the request of Mr. Helms, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 693, a bill to assist in 
the enhancement of the security of Taiwan, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 765

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 765, a bill to 
ensure the efficient allocation of telephone numbers.


                                 S. 805

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 805, a bill to amend 
title V of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment and 
operation of asthma treatment services for children, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 882

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 882, a bill to 
strengthen provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and the Federal 
Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 with respect to 
potential climate change.


                                S. 1023

  At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) 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.


                                S. 1024

  At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) 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. Moynihan, the names of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) were added as cosponsors 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. 1153

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1153, a bill to establish the Office of Rural Advocacy in the Federal 
Communications Commission, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1268

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1268, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide support for the modernization and 
construction of biomedical and behavioral research facilities and 
laboratory instrumentation.


                                S. 1322

  At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1322, a bill to prohibit 
health insurance and employment discrimination against individuals and 
their family members on the basis of predictive genetic information or 
genetic services.


                                S. 1325

  At the request of Mr. Frist, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Thompson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1325, a bill to amend the 
Applachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to add Hickman, Lawrence, 
Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.


                                S. 1332

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1332, a bill to authorize the 
President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Father 
Theodore M. Hesburg, in recognition of his outstanding and enduring 
contributions to civil rights, higher education, the Catholic Church, 
the Nation, and the global community.


                                S. 1399

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), and the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as cosponsors of S. 1399, a 
bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that pay 
adjustments for nurses and certain other health-care professionals 
employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs shall be made in the 
manner applicable to Federal employees generally and to revise the 
authority for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make further 
locality pay adjustments for those professionals.


                                S. 1463

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1463, a bill to establish a 
program to provide assistance for programs of credit and other 
financial services for microenterprises in developing countries, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1466

  At the request of Mr. Thompson, the name of the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Frist) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1466, a bill to 
amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for 
congressional review of rules establishing or increasing taxes.


                                S. 1473

  At the request of Mr. Robb, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1473, a bill to amend section 2007 
of the Social Security Act to provide grant funding for additional 
Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, and Strategic Planning 
Communities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1500

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), the Senator from 
Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Hollings), the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Murkowski), and the Senator from 
North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) were added as cosponsors of S. 1500, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an 
additional payment for services provided to certain high-cost 
individuals under the prospective payment system for skilled nursing 
facility services, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1528

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Frist) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1528, a bill to amend the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 to clarify liability under that Act for certain recycling 
transactions.


                       Senate Joint Resolution 33

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond) were added 
as cosponsors of Senate Joint Resolution 33, a joint resolution 
deploring the actions of President Clinton regarding granting clemency 
to FALN terrorists.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 53

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 
53, a concurrent resolution condemning all prejudice against 
individuals of Asian and Pacific Island ancestry in the United States 
and supporting political and civic participation by such individuals 
throughout the United States.


                          Senate Resolution 92

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Feingold) were added as cosponsors of Senate Resolution 92, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that funding for prostate 
cancer research should be increased substantially.


                         Senate Resolution 108

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms.

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Snowe), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the Senator from 
New Jersey (Mr. Torricelli), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), 
and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of 
Senate Resolution 108, a resolution designating the month of March each 
year as ``National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.''


                         Senate Resolution 133

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Robb) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Resolution 133, a resolution supporting religious 
tolerance toward Muslims.


                         Senate Resolution 163

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 163, 
resolution to establish a special committee of the Senate to study the 
causes of firearms violence in America.


                         Senate Resolution 179

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Smith), the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Abraham) 
were added as cosponsors of Senate Resolution 179, a resolution 
designating October 15, 1999, as ``National Mammography Day.''

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