[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 64 (Thursday, May 1, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5651-S5652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 13

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Fitzgerald) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 13, a bill to provide financial security to family 
farm and small business owners while by ending the unfair practice of 
taxing someone at death.


                                 S. 50

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 50, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a guaranteed 
adequate level of funding for veterans health care, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 55

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 55, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the annual determination 
of the rate of the basic benefit of active duty educational assistance 
under the Montgomery GI Bill, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 146

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 146, a bill to amend titles 10 and 18, United States Code, to 
protect unborn victims of violence.


                                 S. 271

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 271, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an additional advance refunding 
of bonds originally issued to finance governmental facilities used for 
essential governmental functions.


                                 S. 300

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine), the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 300, a bill to award a congressional gold 
medal to Jackie Robinson (posthumously), in recognition of his many 
contributions to the Nation, and to express the sense of Congress that 
there should be a national day in recognition of Jackie Robinson.


                                 S. 300

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Talent) was added as a cosponsor of S. 300, supra.


                                 S. 340

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum) was added as a cosponsor of S. 340, a bill 
to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants 
to nonprofit tax-exempt organizations for the purchase of ultrasound 
equipment to provide free examinations to pregnant women needing such 
services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 379

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 379, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the medicare 
incentive payment program.


                                 S. 392

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 392, 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. 518

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 518, a bill to increase the 
supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, to provide better 
coordination of Federal efforts and information on islet cell 
transplantation, and to collect the data necessary to move islet cell 
transplantation from an experimental procedure to a standard therapy.


                                 S. 545

  At the request of Mr. Lott, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor of 
S. 545, a bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs 
with small businesses with respect to medical care for their employees.


                                 S. 567

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for 
sewer overflow control grants.


                                 S. 589

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 589, a bill to 
strengthen and improve the management of national security, encourage 
Government service in areas of critical national security, and to 
assist government agencies in addressing deficiencies in personnel 
possessing specialized skills important to national security and 
incorporating the goals and strategies for recruitment and retention 
for such skilled personnel into the strategic and performance 
management systems of Federal agencies.


                                 S. 595

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich) and the Senator from 
North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) were added as cosponsors of S. 595, a bill to 
amend the Internal

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Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required use of certain principal 
repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financings to redeem bonds, to 
modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules 
based on median family income, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 632

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Ensign), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 
632, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand 
coverage of medical nutrition therapy services under the medicare 
program for beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease.


                                 S. 647

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 647, a bill 
to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for Department of 
Defense funding of continuation of health benefits plan coverage for 
certain Reserves called or ordered to active duty and their dependents, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 652

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 652, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social 
Security Act to extend modifications to DSH allotments provided under 
the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection 
Act of 2000.


                                 S. 661

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Lautenberg) were added as cosponsors of S. 661, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross 
income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for 
a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 764

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Thomas) was added as a cosponsor of S. 764, a bill to extend the 
authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program.


                                 S. 774

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 774, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the use of completed contract 
method of accounting in the case of certain long-term naval vessel 
construction contracts.


                                 S. 789

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 789, a bill to 
change the requirements for naturalization through service in the Armed 
Forces of the United States.


                                 S. 874

  At the request of Mr. Talent, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Campbell) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 874, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social 
Security Act to include primary and secondary preventative medical 
strategies for children and adults with Sickle Cell Disease as medical 
assistance under the medicaid program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 877

  At the request of Mr. Burns, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 877, a bill to regulate interstate 
commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of 
unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.


                                 S. 881

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Dole) was added as a cosponsor of S. 881, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a minimum 
geographic cost-of-practice index value for physicians' services 
furnished under the medicare program.


                                 S. 897

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 897, a bill to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for 
naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United 
States, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 922

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 922, a bill to change the 
requirements for naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of 
the United States, to extend naturalization benefits to members of the 
Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of a reserve component of the 
Armed Forces, to extend posthumous benefits to surviving spouses, 
children, and parents, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 939

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 939, a bill to amend part B 
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full 
Federal funding of such part, to provide an exception to the local 
maintenance of effort requirements, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 942

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 942 , a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
improvements in access to services in rural hospitals and critical 
access hospitals.


                            S. CON. RES. 33

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con . Res. 33, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding scleroderma.

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