[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 72 (Wednesday, June 5, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5041-S5043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 170

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Kohl) 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. 442

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Thurmond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 442, a bill to 
exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State 
laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms and to allow States 
to enter into compacts to recognize other States' concealed weapons 
permits.


                                 S. 677

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), and the 
Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) were added as cosponsors 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. 776

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 776, a bill to amend 
title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the floor for 
treatment as an extremely low DSH State to 3 percent in fiscal year 
2002.


                                 S. 841

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 841, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate discriminatory 
copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services under the Medicare 
Program.


                                 S. 913

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 913, a bill to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the medicare 
program of all oral anticancer drugs.


                                S. 1005

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1005, a bill to 
provide assistance to mobilize and support United States communities in 
carrying out community-based youth development programs that assure 
that all youth have access to programs and services that build the 
competencies and character development needed to fully prepare the 
youth to become adults and effective citizens, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1016

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1016, a bill to 
amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve the 
health benefits coverage of infants and children under the medicaid and 
State children's health insurance program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1038

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1038, a bill 
to amend the

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Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve access to tax-exempt debt for 
small nonprofit health care and educational institutions.


                                S. 1103

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1103, a bill to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance competition among and 
between rail carriers in order to ensure efficient rail service and 
reasonable rail rates in any case in which there is an absence of 
effective competition, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1309

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1309, a bill to amend the 
Water Desalination Act of 1996 to reauthorize that Act and to authorize 
the construction of a desalination research and development facility at 
the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1339

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 1339, a bill to amend the Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000 to 
provide an asylum program with regard to American Persian Gulf War POW/
MIAs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1394

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1394, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the medicare 
outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.


                                S. 1549

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1549, a bill to provide for 
increasing the technically trained workforce in the United States.


                                S. 1626

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1626, a bill to 
provide disadvantaged children with access to dental services.


                                S. 1679

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1679, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to accelerate the reduction on the amount of 
beneficiary copayment liability for medicare outpatient services.


                                S. 1840

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1840, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 20 percent 
inpatient limitation under the medicare program on the proportion of 
hospice care that certain rural hospice programs may provide.


                                S. 1851

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1851, a bill to 
amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
continuous open enrollment and disenrollment in Medicare+Choice plans 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1934

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1934, a bill to amend the 
Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to permit certain annuitants of 
the retirement programs of the United States Park Police and United 
States Secret Service Uniformed Division to receive the adjustments in 
pension benefits to which such annuitants would otherwise be entitled 
as a result of the conversion of members of the United Stats Park 
Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new 
salary schedule under the amendments made by such Act.


                                S. 1995

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1995, a bill to prohibit 
discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to 
health insurance and employment.


                                S. 2006

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2006, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the eligibility of 
certain expenses for the low-income housing credit.


                                S. 2025

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, the names of the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Miller) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2025, a bill to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to increase the rate of special pension for recipients of the 
Medal of Honor and to make that special pension effective from the date 
of the act for which the recipient is awarded the medal of Honor and to 
amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the criminal penalties 
associated with misuse or fraud relating to the Medal of Honor.


                                S. 2038

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2038, a bill to 
provide for homeland security block grants.


                                S. 2067

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2067, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to enhance the access of medicare beneficiaries who 
live in medically underserved areas to critical primary and preventive 
health care benefits, to improve the Medicare+Choice program, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2135

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2135, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to provide for a 5-year extension of the 
authorization for appropriations for certain medicare rural grants.


                                S. 2211

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, the name of the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Miller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2211, a bill to 
amend title 10, United States Code, to apply the additional retired pay 
percentage for extraordinary heroism to the computation of the retired 
pay of enlisted members of the Armed Forces who are retired for any 
reason, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2221

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2221, a bill 
to temporarily increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for 
the medicaid program.


                                S. 2245

  At the request of Mr. Burns, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2245, a bill to amend title 49, 
United States Code, to enhance competition between and among rail 
carriers, to provide for expedited alternative dispute resolution of 
disputes involving rail rates, rail service, or other matters of rail 
operations through arbitration, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2430

  At the request of Mr. Nickles, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Shelby) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2430, a bill to provide for 
parity in regulatory treatment of broadband services providers and of 
broadband access services providers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2480

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2480, a bill to amend title 18, United 
States Code, to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement 
officers from state laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed 
handguns.
  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Nickles) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2480, supra.

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                                S. 2490

  At the request of Mr. Specter, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2490, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
ensure the quality of, and access to, skilled nursing facility services 
under the medicare program.


                                S. 2492

  At the request of Mr. Cleland, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2492, a bill to amend title 
5, United States Code, to require that agencies, in promulgating rules, 
take into consideration the impact of such rules on the privacy of 
individuals, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2512

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), and 
the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 2512, a bill to provide grants for training court reporters and 
closed captioners to meet requirements for realtime writers under the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2528

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Breaux) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2528, a bill to 
establish a National Drought Council within the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, to improve national drought preparedness, 
mitigation, and response efforts, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2533

  At the request of Mr. Smith of Oregon, the name of the Senator from 
Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2533, a bill to 
amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for miscellaneous 
enhancements in Social Security benefits, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2544

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2544, a bill to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants for remediation of 
sediment contamination in areas of concern, to authorize assistance for 
research and development of innovative technologies for such 
remediation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2545

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2545, a bill to extend and improve 
United States programs on the proliferation of nuclear materials, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2569

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2569, a bill to award a 
congressional gold medal to Dr. Dorothy Height, in recognition of her 
many contributions to the Nation.


                                S. 2570

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2570, a bill to 
temporarily increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the 
medicaid program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2577

  At the request of Mr. Fitzgerald, the name of the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2577, a bill to 
repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation 
Act of 2001 with respect to the exclusion from Federal income tax for 
restitution received by victims of the Nazi Regime.


                              S.J. RES. 10

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 10, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relative to equal rights for women and men.


                              S. RES. 242

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the names of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), and the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Smith) were added as cosponsors of S. 
Res. 242, a resolution designating August 16, 2002, as ``National 
Airborne Day.''


                              S. RES. 270

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 270, a resolution 
designating the week of October 13, 2002, through October 19, 2002, as 
``National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week.''


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3561

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Lott), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Miller), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), and the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 3561 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 4775, a bill making supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3562

  At the request of Ms. Collins, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 3562 intended to be proposed to H.R. 4775, a bill making 
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2002, and for other purposes.

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