[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 21, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11135-S11138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 51

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 51, a bill to reauthorize 
the Federal programs to prevent violence against women, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 71

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 71, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-
connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 424

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the names of the Senator from 
Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) were added 
as cosponsors 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. 469

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Bryan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 469, a bill to encourage the 
timely development of a more cost effective United States commercial 
space transportation industry, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 655

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 655, a bill to establish nationally uniform 
requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage, 
nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles.


                                 S. 664

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 664, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income 
tax to individuals who rehabilitate historic homes or who are the first 
purchasers of rehabilitated historic homes for use as a principal 
residence.


                                 S. 665

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 665, a bill to amend the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to prohibit 
the consideration of retroactive tax increases.


                                 S. 666

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 666, a bill to authorize a new 
trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa.


                                 S. 784

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin) was added as a 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. 914

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 914, a bill to amend the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act to require that discharges from combined 
storm and sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow 
Control Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 922

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) was added as a cosponsor of S. 922, a bill to 
prohibit the use of the ``Made in the USA'' label on products of the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and to deny such products 
duty-free and quota-free treatment.


                                 S. 935

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 935, a bill to 
amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to authorize research to promote the conversion of 
biomass into biobased industrial products, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1020

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns) 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. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) 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 Missouri 
(Mr. Bond) 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. 1028

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1028, 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, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1070

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Grams) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1070, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Labor to wait for completion of a National Academy of 
Sciences study before promulgating a standard, regulation or guideline 
on ergonomics.


                                S. 1086

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1086, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to waive the income inclusion on a distribution from an individual 
retirement account to the extent that the distribution is contributed 
for charitable purposes.


                                S. 1140

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1140, a bill 
to require the

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Secretary of Labor to issue regulations to eliminate or minimize the 
significant risk of needlestick injury to health care workers.


                                S. 1142

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1142, a bill to protect 
the right of a member of a health maintenance organization to receive 
continuing care at a facility selected by that member, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1211

  At the request of Mr. Bennett, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Thomas) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1211, a bill to amend the 
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize additional 
measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of Imperial Dam 
in a cost-effective manner.


                                S. 1225

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1225, a bill to provide for 
a rural education initiative, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1232

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1232, a bill to provide for the correction of 
retirement coverage errors under chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United 
States Code.


                                S. 1272

  At the request of Mr. Nickles, the names of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1272, a bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act 
to promote pain management and palliative care without permitting 
assisted suicide and euthanasia, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1300

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1300, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 to prevent the wearing away of an employee's 
accrued benefit under a defined plan by the adoption of a plan 
amendment reducing future accruals under the plan.


                                S. 1308

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1308, a bill to 
amend section 468A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to 
deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants.


                                S. 1452

  At the request of Mr. Shelby, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1452, a bill to modernize 
the requirements under the National Manufactured Housing Construction 
and Safety Standards of 1974 and to establish a balanced consensus 
process for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal 
construction and safety standards for manufactured homes.


                                S. 1473

  At the request of Mr. Robb, the names of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), and the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were added as cosponsors 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. 1478

  At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1478, a bill 
to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide 
equitable access for foster care and adoption services for Indian 
children in tribal areas.


                                S. 1483

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1483, a bill to amend the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 with respect to 
export controls on high performance computers.


                                S. 1547

  At the request of Mr. Burns, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1547, a bill to 
amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal 
Communications Commission to preserve low-power television stations 
that provide community broadcasting, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1548

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1548, a bill to establish 
a program to help States expand the existing education system to 
include at least 1 year of early education preceding the year a child 
enters kindergarten.


                                S. 1571

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1571, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for permanent 
eligibility of former members of the Selected Reserve for veterans 
housing loans.


                                S. 1580

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1580, a bill to 
amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to assist agricultural producers 
in managing risk, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1590

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1590, a bill to amend 
title 49, United States Code, to modify the authority of the Surface 
Transportation Board, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1600

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1600, a bill to amend the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prevent the wearing 
away of an employee's accrued benefit under a defined benefit plan by 
the adoption of a plan amendment reducing future accruals under the 
plan.


                       Senate Joint Resolution 30

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Sarbanes) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 30, 
a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States relative to equal rights for women and men.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 34

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Kerrey) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 
34, a concurrent resolution relating to the observence of ``In Memory'' 
Day.


                          Senate Resolution 69

  At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 69, a 
resolution to prohibit the consideration of retroactive tax increases 
in the Senate.


                          Senate Resolution 92

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 92, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that funding for prostate 
cancer research should be increased substantially.


                          Senate Resolution 99

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Robb), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), and the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Mack) were added as cosponsors of Senate 
Resolution 99, a resolution designating November 20, 1999, as 
``National Survivors for Prevention of Suicide Day.''


                         Senate Resolution 128

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 
128, a resolution designating March 2000, as ``Arts Education Month.''


                         Senate Resolution 179

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the 
Senator from Virginia (Mr. Robb), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Fitzgerald), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), and the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) were added as cosponsors of 
Senate Resolution 179, a

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resolution designating October 15, 1999, as ``National Mammography 
Day.''


                           Amendment No. 1658

  At the request of Mr. Helms the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1658 proposed to 
H.R. 2084, a bill making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

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