[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 42 (Tuesday, April 12, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3481-S3484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 21

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island

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(Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 21, a bill to provide for 
homeland security grant coordination and simplification, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 35

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 35, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for production of 
electricity from wind.


                                 S. 77

  At the request of Mr. Sessions, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 77, a bill to amend 
titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve death benefits for the 
families of deceased members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 103

  At the request of Mr. Talent, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 103, a bill to 
respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of 
methamphetamine in the United States, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 241

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 241, a bill to amend section 254 of the Communications 
Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service 
contributions and the universal service support programs established 
pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 
31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.


                                 S. 331

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 331, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an assured 
adequate level of funding for veterans health care.


                                 S. 333

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 333, a bill to hold the 
current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to 
support a transition to democracy in Iran.


                                 S. 352

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 352, a bill to revise certain requirements 
for H-2B employers and require submission of information regarding H-2B 
non-immigrants, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 359

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 359, a bill to provide for 
the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker 
program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural 
workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working 
conditions to more workers, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 370

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the name of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Thomas) was added as a cosponsor of S. 370, a bill to preserve and 
protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or 
assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.


                                 S. 397

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 397, a bill to prohibit civil liability actions from 
being brought or continued against manufacturers, distributors, 
dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition for damages, injunctive 
or other relief resulting from the misuse of their products by others.


                                 S. 398

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 398, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the expensing of 
environmental remediation costs.


                                 S. 432

  At the request of Mr. Allen, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum) was added as a cosponsor of S. 432, a bill 
to establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 438

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 438, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to repeal the medicare outpatient rehabilitation 
therapy caps.


                                 S. 477

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 477, a bill to amend the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include Indian tribes among the 
entities consulted with respect to activities carried out by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 484

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) were added as cosponsors of S. 484, 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. 487

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 487, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to provide leave for members of the Armed 
Forces in connection with adoptions of children, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 494

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 494, a bill to amend 
chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures 
of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a 
statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such 
policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure 
protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 495

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, his name was added as a 
cosponsor of S. 495, a bill to impose sanctions against perpetrators of 
crimes against humanity in Darfur, Sudan, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 506

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Biden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 506, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to establish a scholarship and loan repayment 
program for public health preparedness workforce development to 
eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages in 
Federal, State, local, and tribal public health agencies.


                                 S. 512

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 512, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire 
sprinkler systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.


                                 S. 555

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 555, a bill 
to amend the Sherman Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels 
illegal.


                                 S. 582

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Coleman), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus), the 
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Bayh), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator 
from New York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) were added as cosponsors of S. 582, a bill to 
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of 
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50th anniversary of the desegregation of the Little Rock Central High 
School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 586

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 586, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the proper tax treatment 
of certain disaster mitigation payments.


                                 S. 595

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 595, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the work opportunity credit and 
the welfare-to-work credit.


                                 S. 611

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 611, a bill to establish a 
Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services and a 
Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services Advisory 
Council, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 619

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 619, a bill to 
amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government 
pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.


                                 S. 626

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 626, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to 
diabetes self management training by designating certified diabetes 
educators who are recognized by a nationally recognized certifying body 
and who meet the same quality standards set forth for other providers 
of diabetes self management training, as certified providers for 
purposes of outpatient diabetes self-management training services under 
part B of the medicare program.


                                 S. 627

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 627, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
permanently extend the research credit, to increase the rates of the 
alternative incremental credit, and to provide an alternative 
simplified credit for qualified research expenses.


                                 S. 633

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 633, a bill to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of veterans who became disabled 
for life while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.


                                 S. 642

  At the request of Mr. Frist, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 642, a bill to 
support certain national youth organizations, including the Boy Scouts 
of America, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 656

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) 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. 658

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 658, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to prohibit human cloning.


                                 S. 662

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 662, a bill to reform the postal laws of the 
United States.


                                 S. 675

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 675, a bill to reward the 
hard work and risk of individuals who choose to live in and help 
preserve America's small, rural towns, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 722

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Allard), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) and 
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) were added as cosponsors of S. 
722, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the 
tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.


                                 S. 725

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 725, a bill to improve the 
Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program.


                                 S. 756

  At the request of Mr. Bennett, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 756, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to enhance public and health professional 
awareness and understanding of lupus and to strengthen the Nation's 
research efforts to identify the causes and cure of lupus.


                                 S. 758

  At the request of Mr. Allen, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Ensign) was added as a cosponsor of S. 758, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that the federal excise tax on 
communication services does not apply to internet access service.


                               S. RES. 40

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 40, a resolution 
supporting the goals and ideas of National Time Out Day to promote the 
adoption of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare 
Organizations' universal protocol for preventing errors in the 
operating room.


                               S. RES. 82

  At the request of Mr. Allen, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
DeWine) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Talent) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 82, a resolution urging the European Union to add 
Hezbollah to the Eurpoean Union's wide-ranging list of terrorist 
organizations.


                               S. RES. 85

  At the request of Mr. Thomas, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Allen) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 85, a resolution 
designating July 23, 2005, and July 22, 2006, as ``National Day of the 
American Cowboy.''


                           AMENDMENT NO. 204

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 204 proposed to 
S. Con. Res. 18, an original concurrent resolution setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 
2005 and 2007 through 2010.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 316

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. 
Lincoln) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 316 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1268, 
making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for 
State driver's license and identification document security standards, 
to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United 
States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and 
removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border 
fence, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 333

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 333 proposed to 
H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement 
regulations for State driver's license and identification document 
security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws 
of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for 
inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the 
San Diego border fence, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 334

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr.

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Obama), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) and the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 334 
proposed to H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly 
implement regulations for State driver's license and identification 
document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the 
asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds 
for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of 
the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes.

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