[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 83 (Monday, June 9, 2003)]
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                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 98

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 98, a bill to amend the 
Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the 
United States, to prohibit financial holding companies and national 
banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage 
or real estate management activities, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 202

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 202, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow as a deduction in 
determining adjusted gross income that deduction for expenses in 
connection with services as a member of a reserve component of the 
Armed Forces of the United States, to allow employers a credit against 
income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military 
reserve components, and to allow a comparable credit for participating 
reserve component self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 253

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 253, 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.


                                 S. 310

  At the request of Mr. Thomas, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords) was added as a cosponsor of S. 310, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of 
marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor 
services under part B of the medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 349

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 349, a bill to 
amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government 
pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.


                                 S. 374

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 374, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the occupational taxes relating 
to distilled spirits, wine, and beer.


                                 S. 387

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 387, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the eligibility 
periods for geriatric graduate medical education, to permit the 
expansion of medical residency training programs in geriatric medicine, 
to provide for reimbursement of care coordination and assessment 
services provided under the medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 392

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Hollings) 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. 493

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Hollings) was added as a cosponsor of S. 493, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize physical 
therapists to evaluate and treat medicare beneficiaries without a 
requirement for a physician referral, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 504

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 504, a bill to establish 
academics for teachers and students of American history and civics and 
a national alliance of teachers of American history and civics, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 518

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) 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 Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added 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. 564

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Stevens) was added as a cosponsor of S. 564, a bill to facilitate 
the deployment of wireless telecommunications networks in order to 
further the availability of the Emergency Alert System, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 583

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 583, a bill to require the 
provision of information to parents and adults concerning bacterial 
meningitis and the availability of a vaccination with respect to such 
disease.


                                 S. 589

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) 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. 623

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 623, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military 
retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to 
allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.


                                 S. 636

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 636, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent 
increase in medicare payments for home health services that are 
furnished in rural areas.


                                 S. 648

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 648, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to health professions programs 
regarding the practice of pharmacy.

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                                 S. 678

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 678, a bill to amend 
chapter 10 of title 39, United States Code, to include postmasters and 
postmasters organizations in the process for the development and 
planning of certain policies, schedules, and programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 695

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 695, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to increase the above-the-line deduction for teacher classroom supplies 
and to expand such deduction to include qualified professional 
development expenses.


                                 S. 729

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 729, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a pilot program to encourage 
the use of medical savings accounts by public employees of the State of 
Minnesota and political jurisdictions thereof.


                                 S. 852

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 852, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to provide limited TRICARE program 
eligibility for members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces, to 
provide financial support for continuation of health insurance for 
mobilized members of reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 888

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller) and the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. 888, a bill to 
reauthorize the Museum and Library Services Act, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 890

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 890, a bill to amend the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide grants to State 
educational agencies to establish high cost funds from which local 
educational agencies are paid a percentage of the costs of providing a 
free appropriate public education to high need children and other high 
costs associated with educating children with disabilities, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 899

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine), and 
the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Chafee) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 899, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
restore the full market basket percentage increase applied to payments 
to hospitals for inpatient hospital services furnished to medicare 
beneficiaries, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 915

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the names of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Biden), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine), and 
the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 
915, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004, 2005, 
2006, 2007, and 2008 for the Department of Energy Office of Science, to 
ensure that the United States is the world leader in key scientific 
fields by restoring a healthy balance of science funding, to ensure 
maximum use of the national user facilities, and to secure the Nation's 
supply of scientists for the 21st century, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 926

  At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Stevens) was added as a cosponsor of S. 926, a bill to amend 
section 5379 of title 5, United States Code, to increase the annual and 
aggregate limits on student loan repayments by Federal agencies.


                                 S. 937

  At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 937, a bill to 
reauthorize the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control 
Act of 1998, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 939

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) 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. 950

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 950, a bill to allow travel 
between the United States and Cuba.


                                 S. 971

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 971, a bill to amend 
title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide individuals with 
disabilities and older Americans with equal access to community-based 
attendant services and supports, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 979

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 979, a bill to direct the 
Securities and Exchange Commission to require enhanced disclosures of 
employee stock options, to require a study on the economic impact of 
broad-based employee stock option plans, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 982

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Allen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 982, a bill to halt Syrian 
support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, stop its 
development of weapons of mass destruction, cease its illegal 
importation of Iraqi oil, and hold Syria accountable for its role in 
the Middle East, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 988

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 988, a bill to amend the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide for a job training grant 
pilot program.


                                S. 1046

  At the request of Mr. Hollings, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1046, a bill 
to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to preserve localism, to foster 
and promote the diversity of television programming, to foster and 
promote competition, and to prevent excessive concentration of 
ownership of the nation's television broadcast stations.


                                S. 1060

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1060, a bill to designate 
the visitors' center at Organ Piper Cactus National Monument, Arizona, 
as the ``Kris Eggle Visitors' Center.''


                                S. 1076

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1076, a bill to authorize 
construction of an education center at or near the Vietnam Veterans 
Memorial.


                                S. 1108

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Biden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1108, a bill to establish 
within the National Park Service the 225th Anniversary of the American 
Revolution Commemorative Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1120

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1120, a bill to 
establish an Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1121

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1121, a bill to extend 
certain trade benefits to countries of the greater Middle East.


                                S. 1127

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1127, a bill to establish 
administrative law judges involved in the appeals process provided for 
under the medicare program under title XVIII of the

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Social Security Act within the Department of Health and Human Services, 
to ensure the independence of, and preserve the role of, such 
administrative law judges, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1182

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1182, a bill to sanction the ruling 
Burmese military junta, to strengthen Burma's democratic forces and 
support and recognize the National League of Democracy as the 
legitimate representative of the Burmese people, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1182

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1182, supra.


                                S. 1182

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), and 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 1182, supra.


                                S. 1185

  At the request of Mr. Thomas, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Coleman), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1185, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve 
outpatient health care for medicare beneficiaries who reside in rural 
areas, and for other purposes.


                            S. CON. RES. 48

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 48, 
a concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of ``National 
Epilepsy Awareness Month'' and urging funding for epilepsy research and 
service programs.


                              S. RES. 159

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 159, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the June 2, 2003, ruling of the 
Federal Communications Commission weakening the Nation's media 
ownership rules is not in the public interest and should be rescinded.

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