[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 44 (Thursday, April 14, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3653-S3655]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                  S. 7

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 7, a bill to increase American 
jobs and economic growth by making permanent the individual income tax 
rate reductions, the reduction in the capital gains and dividend tax 
rates, and the repeal of the estate, gift, and generation-skipping 
transfer taxes.


                                 S. 78

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 78, a bill to 
make permanent marriage penalty relief.


                                 S. 172

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 172, a bill to amend the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the regulation of 
all contact lenses as medical devices, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 185

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 185, a bill to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to repeal the requirement for the reduction of certain Survivor 
Benefit Plan annuities by the amount of dependency and indemnity 
compensation and to modify the effective date for paid-up coverage 
under the Survivor Benefit Plan.


                                 S. 267

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 267, a bill to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community 
Self-Determination Act of 2000, and for other purposes.

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                                 S. 268

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 268, a bill to 
provide competitive 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. 285

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 285, a bill to 
reauthorize the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education 
Program.


                                 S. 300

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 300, a bill to extend the 
temporary increase in payments under the medicare program for home 
health services furnished in a rural area.


                                 S. 352

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. DeWine) was added as a cosponsor 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 Maine (Ms. 
Snowe) 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. 408

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 408, a bill to provide for 
programs and activities with respect to the prevention of underage 
drinking.


                                 S. 420

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Martinez) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Lott) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 420, a bill to make the repeal of the estate tax 
permanent.


                                 S. 432

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


                                 S. 461

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 461, a bill to 
amend title 37, United States Code, to require that a member of the 
uniformed services who is wounded or otherwise injured while serving in 
a combat zone continue to be paid monthly military pay and allowances, 
while the member recovers from the wound or injury, at least equal to 
the monthly military pay and allowances the member received immediately 
before receiving the wound or injury, to continue the combat zone tax 
exclusion for the member during the recovery period, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 473

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 473, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to promote and improve the allied health professions.


                                 S. 484

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor 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. 495

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) 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.
  At the request of Mr. Corzine, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 495, supra.


                                 S. 548

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the names of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as cosponsors of S. 548, a bill to 
amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to encourage owners and operators 
of privately-held farm, ranch, and forest land to voluntarily make 
their land available for access by the public under programs 
administered by States and tribal governments.


                                 S. 555

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


                                 S. 579

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 579, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to authorize funding for the establishment of a program on 
children and the media within the National Institute of Child Health 
and Human Development to study the role and impact of electronic media 
in the development of children.


                                 S. 593

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) and the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 
593, a bill to amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide 
that the provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to 
nonmarket economy countries.


                                 S. 602

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 602, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in 
Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers 
and increasing public education about prevention.


                                 S. 614

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 614, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to permit medicare-eligible veterans to 
receive an out-patient medication benefit, to provide that certain 
veterans who receive such benefit are not otherwise eligible for 
medical care and services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 619

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) 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. 638

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Dole) was added as a cosponsor of S. 638, a bill to 
extend the authorization for the ferry boat discretionary program, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 642

  At the request of Mr. Frist, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mrs. 
Hutchison) 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. 662

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Stevens) was added as a cosponsor of S. 662, a bill to reform the 
postal laws of the United States.


                                 S. 666

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 666, a bill to protect 
the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with 
certain authority to regulate tobacco products.


                                 S. 772

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S.

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772, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand 
workplace health incentives by equalizing the tax consequences of 
employee athletic facility use.


                             S. CON. RES. 4

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 4, 
a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
Department of Defense should continue to exercise its statutory 
authority to support the activities of the Boy Scouts of America, in 
particular the periodic national and world Boy Scout Jamborees.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 316

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor 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. 338

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) and the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Talent) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 338 
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. 342

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) were added 
as cosponsors of amendment No. 342 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. 387

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 387 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. 393

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 393 
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. 399

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 399 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. 400

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 400 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. 409

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 409 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.

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