[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 52 (Tuesday, April 24, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3852-S3855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS--MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2001


                                 S. 21

  At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 21, a bill to establish an 
off-budget lockbox to strengthen Social Security and Medicare.


                                 S. 133

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 133, 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. 152

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Smith of New Hampshire) was added as a cosponsor of S. 
152, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the 
60-month limit and increase the income limitation on the student loan 
interest deduction.


                                 S. 170

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard), and the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mr. Helms) were added as cosponsors of S. 170, a 
bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members 
of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive 
both military retired pay by reason of their years of military service 
and disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
their disability.


                                 S. 177

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. Carnahan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 177, a bill to amend the 
provisions of title 39, United States Code, relating to the manner in 
which pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for 
postmasters are established.


                                 S. 219

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 219, a bill to suspend for 
two years the certification procedures under section 490(b) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in order to foster greater multilateral 
cooperation in international counternarcotics programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 311

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 311, a bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 to provide for partnerships in character 
education.


                                 S. 326

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) was added as a cosponsor of S. 326, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 15 
percent reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system 
for home health services and to permanently increase payments for such 
services that are furnished in rural areas.


                                 S. 388

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 388, a bill to 
protect the energy and security of the United States and decrease 
America's dependency on foreign oil sources to 50 percent by the year 
2011 by enhancing the use of renewable energy resources conserving 
energy resources, improving energy efficiencies, and increasing 
domestic energy supplies; improve environmental quality by reducing 
emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases; mitigate the effect 
of increases in energy

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prices on the American consumer, including the poor and the elderly; 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 389

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 389, a bill to 
protect the energy and security of the United States and decrease 
America's dependency on foreign oil sources to 50 percent by the year 
2011 by enhancing the use of renewable energy resources conserving 
energy resources, improving energy efficiencies, and increasing 
domestic energy supplies; improve environmental quality by reducing 
emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases; mitigate the effect 
of increases in energy prices on the American consumer, including the 
poor and the elderly; and for other purposes.


                                 S. 392

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Bond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 392, a bill to grant a 
Federal Charter to Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 440

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Hutchinson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 440, a bill to 
establish a matching grant program to help State and local 
jurisdictions purchase bullet-resistant equipment for use by law 
enforcement departments.


                                 S. 441

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Hutchinson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 441, a bill to provide 
Capitol-flown flags to the families of law enforcement officers and 
firefighters killed in the line of duty.


                                 S. 452

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the names of the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 
452, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure 
that the Secretary of Health and Human Services provides appropriate 
guidance to physicians, providers of services, and ambulance providers 
that are attempting to properly submit claims under the medicare 
program to ensure that the Secretary does not target inadvertent 
billing errors.


                                 S. 461

  At the request of Mr. Frist, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 461, a bill to support 
educational partnerships, focusing on mathematics, science, and 
technology, between institutions of higher education and elementary 
schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 497

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Kohl), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Daschle), the Senator 
from Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Chafee), and 
the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 497, a bill to express the sense of Congress that the Department of 
Defense should field currently available weapons, other technologies, 
tactics and operational concepts that provide suitable alternatives to 
anti-personnel mines and mixed anti-tank mine systems and that the 
United States should end its use of such mines and join the Convention 
on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines as soon as possible, to 
expand support for mine action programs including mine victim 
assistance, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 590

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the names of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Torricelli) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 590, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable tax credit for health 
insurance costs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 655

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 655, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt from income taxation income 
derived from natural resources-related activity by a member of an 
Indian tribe directly or through a qualified Indian entity.


                                 S. 656

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 656, a bill to provide for the 
adjustment of status of certain nationals of Liberia to that of lawful 
permanent residence.


                                 S. 660

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 660, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the issuance of tax-exempt 
bonds by Indian tribal governments, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 707

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 707, a bill to provide grants for 
special environmental assistance for the regulation of communities and 
habitat (``SEARCH grants'') to small communities.


                                 S. 718

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Edwards) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Fitzgerald) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 718, a bill to direct the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a program to support 
research and training in methods of detecting the use of performance-
enhancing drugs by athletes, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 721

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, the name of the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 721, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to establish a Nurse Corps and 
recruitment and retention strategies to address the nursing shortage, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 742

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 742, a bill to provide 
for pension reform, and for other purposes.


                               S. RES. 66

  At the request of Mr. Thomas, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Graham), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Allen), and the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 66, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the release of 
twenty-four United States military personnel currently being detained 
by the People's Republic of China.


                            S. CON. RES. 14

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 14, a concurrent resolution 
recognizing the social problem of child abuse and neglect, and 
supporting efforts to enhance public awareness of it.


                            S. CON. RES. 24

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 24, a concurrent resolution 
expressing support for a National Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) 
Awareness Month.


                            S. CON. RES. 28

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. 
Sarbanes) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 28, a concurrent 
resolution calling for a United States effort to end restrictions on 
the freedoms and human rights of the enclaved people in the occupied 
area of Cyprus.

             ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS--TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001


                                 S. 39

  At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 39, a bill to provide a 
national medal for public safety officers who act with extraordinary 
valor above and beyond the call of duty, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 41

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 41, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the research credit 
and to increase the rates of the alternative incremental credit.


                                 S. 88

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator

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from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) were added as cosponsors of S. 88, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an incentive to 
ensure that all Americans gain timely and equitable access to the 
Internet over current and future generations of broadband capability.


                                 S. 161

  At the request of Mr. Wellstone, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), and 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes) were added as cosponsors of S. 
161, a bill to establish the Violence Against Women Office within the 
Department of Justice.


                                 S. 170

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Ensign) was added as a cosponsor of S. 170, a bill to amend title 10, 
United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who 
have a service-connected disability to receive both military retired 
pay by reason of their years of military service and disability 
compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their 
disability.


                                 S. 177

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 177, a bill 
to amend the provisions of title 39, United States Code, relating to 
the manner in which pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit 
programs for postmasters are established.


                                 S. 206

  At the request of Mr. Shelby, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 206, a bill to repeal the 
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to enact the Public Utility 
Holding Company Act of 2001, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 281

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 281, a bill to authorize the 
design and construction of a temporary education center at the Vietnam 
Veterans Memorial.


                                 S. 305

  At the request of Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, the name of the Senator 
from Georgia (Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 305, a bill 
to amend title 10, United States Code, to remove the reduction in the 
amount of Survivor Benefit Plan annuities at age 62.


                                 S. 311

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. Carnahan) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 311, a bill to amend the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for partnerships in 
character education.


                                 S. 345

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 345, a bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act 
to strike the limitation that permits interstate movement of live 
birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting 
is lawful.


                                 S. 350

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the names of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 350, a bill to amend the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to 
promote the cleanup and reuse of brownfields, to provide financial 
assistance for brownfields revitalization, to enhance State response 
programs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 403

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 403, a bill to improve the National Writing Project.


                                 S. 413

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 413, a bill to amend part F 
of title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to 
improve and refocus civic education, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 512

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) was added as a cosponsor of S. 512, a bill to 
foster innovation and technological advancement in the development of 
the Internet and electronic commerce, and to assist the States in 
simplifying their sales and use taxes.


                                 S. 567

  At the request of Mr. Sessions, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide capital gain treatment under 
section 631(b) of such Code for outright sales of timber by landowners.


                                 S. 570

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 570, a bill to establish a permanent Violence 
Against Women Office at the Department of Justice.


                                 S. 623

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 623, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Employee Retirement 
Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access to health insurance and 
Medicare benefits for individuals ages 55 to 65, to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 50 percent credit against income tax 
for payment of such premiums and of premiums for certain COBRA 
continuation coverage, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 640

  At the request of Mr. Thompson, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 640, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications 
equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for 
purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.


                                 S. 661

  At the request of Mr. Thompson, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 661, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to repeal the 4.3-cent motor fuel exercise taxes on 
railroads and inland waterway transportation which remain in the 
general fund of the Treasury.


                                 S. 673

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 673, a bill to establish 
within the executive branch of the Government an interagency committee 
to review and coordinate United States nonproliferation efforts in the 
independent states of the former Soviet Union.


                                 S. 676

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 676, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend permanently the subpart F 
exemption for active financing income.


                                 S. 677

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 677, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required use of 
certain principal repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financing to 
redeem bonds, to modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage 
subsidy bond rules based on median family income, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 686

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 686, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against tax for 
energy efficient appliances.


                                 S. 694

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) was added as a cosponsor of S. 694, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction 
equal to fair market value shall be allowed for charitable 
contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions 
created by the donor.

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                                 S. 697

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 697, a bill to modernize the financing of the 
railroad retirement system and to provide enhanced benefits to 
employees and beneficiaries.
  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine), and the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms) were added as cosponsors of S. 
697, supra.
  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine), and the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms) were added as cosponsors of S. 
697, supra.


                            S. CON. RES. 11

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), and 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards) were added as cosponsors 
of S. Con. Res. 11, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of 
Congress to fully use the powers of the Federal Government to enhance 
the science base required to more fully develop the field of health 
promotion and disease prevention, and to explore how strategies can be 
developed to integrate lifestyle improvement programs into national 
policy, our health care system, schools, workplaces, families and 
communities.


                            S. CON. RES. 28

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Torricelli) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 28, a 
concurrent resolution calling for a United States effort to end 
restrictions on the freedoms and human rights of the enclaved people in 
the occupied area of Cyprus.

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