[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 108 (Thursday, August 1, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7901-S7903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 788

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 788, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to establish a National Organ and Tissue 
Donor Registry that works in conjunction with State organ and tissue 
donor registries, to create a public-private partnership to launch an 
aggressive outreach and education campaign about organ and tissue 
donation and the Registry, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 847

  At the request of Mr. Dayton, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 847, a bill to impose tariff-rate quotas on certain 
casein and milk protein concentrates.


                                 S. 917

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Bennett) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 917, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to exclude from gross income amounts received on account of claims 
based on certain unlawful discrimination and to allow income averaging 
for backpay and frontpay awards received on account of such claims, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1220

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1220, a bill to authorize the 
Secretary of Transportation to establish a grant program for the 
rehabilitation, preservation, or improvement of railroad track.


                                S. 1626

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


                                S. 1777

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1777, a bill to authorize 
assistance for individuals with disabilities in foreign countries, 
including victims of landmines and other victims of civil strife and 
warfare, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1785

  At the request of Mr. Cleland, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1785, a bill to urge the President to establish the 
White House Commission on National Military Appreciation Month, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1867

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Hollings) were added as cosponsors of S. 1867, a bill to establish the 
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1877

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Hollings), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and 
the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1877, a bill to clarify and reaffirm a cause of action and Federal 
court jurisdiction for certain claims against the Government of Iran.


                                S. 1991

  At the request of Mr. Hollings, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1991, to establish 
a national rail passenger transportation system, reauthorize Amtrak, 
improve security and service on Amtrak, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2055

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2055, a bill to make grants 
to train sexual assault nurse examiners, law enforcement personnel, and 
first responders in the handling of sexual assault cases, to establish 
minimum standards for forensic evidence collection kits, to carry out 
DNA analyses of samples from crime scenes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2067

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor 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. 2079

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 2079, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to facilitate and enhance 
judicial review of certain matters regarding veteran's benefits, and 
for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2079, supra.


                                S. 2189

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2189, a bill to amend 
the Trade Act of 1974 to remedy certain effects of injurious steel 
imports by protecting benefits of steel industry retirees and 
encouraging the strengthening of the American steel industry.


                                S. 2250

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2250, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age 
for receipt of military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 
55.


                                S. 2268

  At the request of Mr. Miller, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), 
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were added as cosponsors of S. 2268, a bill to 
amend the Act establishing the Department of Commerce to protect 
manufacturers

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and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions 
on interstate or foreign commerce.


                                S. 2335

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2335, a bill to 
establish the Office of Native American Affairs within the Small 
Business Administration, to create the Native American Small Business 
Development Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2395

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Allen) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 2395, a bill to prevent 
and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2425

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2425, a bill to prohibit United States assistance and commercial arms 
exports to countries and entities supporting international terrorism.


                                S. 2430

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) 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. 2458

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2458, a bill to 
enhance United States diplomacy, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2521

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2521, a bill to 
amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application 
of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined 
monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly 
periodic payments exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated 
implementation of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 amount.


                                S. 2529

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2529, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the medicare 
incentive payment program.


                                S. 2626

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2626, a bill to protect the public health by providing the Food and 
Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco 
products.


                                S. 2643

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2643, a bill to repeal the 
sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 
with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption 
assistance programs.


                                S. 2654

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2654, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income 
loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan 
Repayment Program established in the Public Health Service Act.


                                S. 2700

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2700, a bill to 
amend titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act to limit the amount 
of attorney assessments for representation of claimants and to extend 
the attorney fee payment system to claims under title XVI of that Act.


                                S. 2712

  At the request of Mr. McCain, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2712, a bill to authorize economic and democratic development 
assistance for Afghanistan and to authorize military assistance for 
Afghanistan and certain other foreign countries.
  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Allen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2712, supra.


                                S. 2714

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Torricelli) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2714, a bill to 
extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act 
of 2002.


                                S. 2715

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Torricelli) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2715, a bill to 
provide an additional extension of the period of availability of 
unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of victims of the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001.


                                S. 2748

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2748, a bill to 
authorize the formulation of State and regional emergency telehealth 
network testbeds and, within the Department of Defense, a telehealth 
task force.


                                S. 2749

  At the request of Mr. Specter, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2749, a bill to establish the Highlands Stewardship Area in the 
States of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2762

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2762, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
involuntary conversion tax relief for producers forced to sell 
livestock due to weather-related conditions or Federal land management 
agency policy or action, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Thomas, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Campbell), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici) and the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns) were added as cosponsors of S. 2762, 
supra.


                                S. 2770

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2770, a bill to amend the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 
1990 to adjust the percentage differentials payable to Federal law 
enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas.


                                S. 2777

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2777, a bill to repeal the 
sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 
with respect to the treatment of qualified public educational facility 
bonds as exempt facility bonds.


                                S. 2790

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2790, a bill to provide 
lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National 
Forest System.


                                S. 2794

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2794, a bill to establish a Department of Homeland Security, and for 
other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Gramm, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Campbell), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the 
Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), 
the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Frist), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. 
Hutchinson), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Burns), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond), the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Thomas), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Smith), the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Smith), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Nickles), the Senator from 
Alaska (Mr. Murkowski), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Lott), the

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Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) 
and the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 2794, supra.


                                S. 2798

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Rockefeller) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2798, a bill to protect employees and retirees from 
corporate practices that deprive them of their earnings and retirement 
savings when a business files for bankruptcy under title 11, United 
States Code.


                                S. 2800

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2800, a bill to provide emergency disaster 
assistance to agricultural producers.


                                S. 2814

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2814, a bill to amend the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to clarify the rates 
applicable to marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments 
for other oilseeds.


                                S. 2819

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2819, a bill to 
amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to permit qualifying States 
to use a portion of their unspent allotments under the State children's 
health insurance program to expand health coverage under that program 
or for expenditures under the medicaid program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2820

  At the request of Mrs. Carnahan, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2820, a bill 
to increase the priority dollar amount for unsecured claims, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2826

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the 
Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of S. 2826, a 
bill to improve the national instant criminal background check system, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2830

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2830, a bill to provide emergency disaster 
assistance to agricultural producers.


                            S. CON. RES. 122

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr . 
Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 122, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress that security, 
reconciliation, and prosperity for all Cypriots can be best achieved 
within the context of membership in the European Union which will 
provide significant rights and obligations for all Cypriots, and for 
other purposes.


                            S. CON. RES. 129

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Campbell) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 129, a 
concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the 
establishment of the month of November each year as ``Chronic 
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month''.

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