[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 100 (Thursday, July 21, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8665-S8667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 313

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 313, a bill to improve 
authorities to address urgent nonproliferation crises and United States 
nonproliferation operations.


                                 S. 333

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) 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. 381

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 381, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income 
payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds 
at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such 
payments.


                                 S. 397

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor 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.
  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 397, supra.


                                 S. 453

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 453, a bill to amend 
section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide for an extension of eligibility 
for supplemental security income through fiscal year 2008 for refugees, 
asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants.


                                 S. 489

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 489, a bill to amend 
chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, to limit the duration of 
Federal consent decrees to which State and local governments are a 
party, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 528

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 528, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services to provide grants to States to conduct demonstration 
projects that are designed to enable medicaid-eligible individuals to 
receive support for appropriate and necessary long-term services in the 
settings of their choice.


                                 S. 543

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 543, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the availability of the cash 
method of accounting for small businesses, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 544

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 544, a bill 
to amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide for the 
improvement of patient safety and to reduce the incidence of events 
that adversely effect patient safety.


                                 S. 548

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), and the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) 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.


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  On page S8665, July 21, 2005, under ``ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS'', 
the following sentence appeared: S. 548 At the request of Mr. 
CONRAD, the names of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), was 
added as a cosponsor 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.
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: S. 548 At the 
request of Mr. CONRAD, the names of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Isakson), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), and the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) 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.


 ========================= END NOTE ========================= 



                                 S. 557

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 557, a bill to provide 
that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or effect, to prohibit 
the use of funds for certain purposes, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 601

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 601, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include combat pay in determining an 
allowable contribution to an individual retirement plan.


                                 S. 662

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


                                 S. 722

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor 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. 737

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 737, a bill to amend the USA 
PATRIOT ACT to place reasonable limitations on the use of surveillance 
and the issuance of search warrants, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 770

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 770, a bill to amend the 
Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to 
reauthorize and improve that Act.


                                 S. 792

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 792, a bill to establish a 
National sex offender registration database, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 859

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 859, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an income tax credit 
for the provision of homeownership and community development, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 919

  At the request of Mr. Burns, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Thomas) was added as a cosponsor of S. 919, a bill to amend title 
49, United States Code, to enhance competition among and between rail 
carriers in order to ensure efficient rail service and reasonable rail 
rates, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 963

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 963, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to provide for a guaranteed adequate 
level of funding for veterans' health care, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to improve access to health 
care for rural veterans, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 984

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 984, a bill to amend the 
Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 
1988

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to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1064

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1064, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to improve stroke prevention, 
diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.


                                S. 1066

  At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1066, a bill to 
authorize the States (and subdivisions thereof), the District of 
Columbia, territories, and possessions of the United States to provide 
certain tax incentives to any person for economic development purposes.


                                S. 1112

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1112, a bill to make 
permanent the enhanced educational savings provisions for qualified 
tuition programs enacted as part of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief 
Reconciliation Act of 2001.


                                S. 1120

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1120, a bill to reduce hunger in the United States by 
half by 2010, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1142

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1142, a bill to provide 
pay protection for members of the Reserve and the National Guard, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1157

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1157, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat gold, silver, platinum, and 
palladium, in either coin or bar form, in the same manner as equities 
and mutual funds for purposes of maximum capital gains rate for 
individuals.


                                S. 1172

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Sarbanes) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1172, a bill to provide for programs to increase 
the awareness and knowledge of women and health care providers with 
respect to gynecologic cancers.


                                S. 1180

  At the request of Mr. Obama, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1180, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to reauthorize various programs servicing 
the needs of homeless veterans for fiscal years 2007 through 2011, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1191

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. 1191, a bill to establish a 
grant program to provide innovative transportation options to veterans 
in remote rural areas.


                                S. 1197

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1197, a bill to reauthorize 
the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.


                                S. 1215

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1215, a bill to 
authorize the acquisition of interests in underdeveloped coastal areas 
in order better to ensure their protection from development.


                                S. 1249

  At the request of Mr. Corzine, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1249, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Education to rebate the amount of Federal Pell 
Grant aid lost as a result of the update to the tables for State and 
other taxes used in the Federal student aid need analysis for award 
year 2005-2006.


                                S. 1281

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1281, a bill to 
authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration for science, aeronautics, exploration, exploration 
capabilities, and the Inspector General, and for other purposes, for 
fiscal years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.


                                S. 1289

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1289, a bill to provide 
for research and education with respect to uterine fibroids, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1300

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1300, a bill to amend the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to establish a voluntary program for 
the provision of country of origin information with respect to certain 
agricultural products, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1317

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1317, a bill to provide for 
the collection and maintenance of cord blood units for the treatment of 
patients and research, and to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
authorize the Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Cell Transplantation Program 
to increase the number of transplants for recipients suitable matched 
to donors of bone marrow and cord blood.


                                S. 1321

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1321, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone 
and other communications.


                                S. 1340

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1340, a bill to amend the 
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to extend the date after 
which surplus funds in the wildlife restoration fund become available 
for apportionment.


                                S. 1352

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1352, a bill 
to provide grants to States for improved workplace and community 
transition training for incarcerated youth offenders.


                                S. 1356

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1356, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide incentives for the 
provision of high quality care under the medicare program.


                                S. 1360

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 1360, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from 
gross income for employer-provided health coverage to designated plan 
beneficiaries of employees, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1367

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1367, a bill to provide for 
recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting a national teacher 
corps in underserved communities.


                                S. 1423

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1423, a bill to provide for a medal of appropriate 
design to be awarded by the President to the next of kin or other 
representatives of those individuals killed as a result of the 
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.


                                S. 1424

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1424, a bill to remove the restrictions on commercial air service at 
Love Field, Texas.


                              S. RES. 182

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the 
Senator

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from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 182, a 
resolution supporting efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness, 
treatment, and research.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1312

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 1312 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill 
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1313

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1313 proposed to S. 
1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1314

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1314 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other 
purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Levin, his name and the name of the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1314 
proposed to S. 1042, supra.
  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
DeWine), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1314 proposed to S. 1042, supra.
  At the request of Mr. Byrd, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1314 proposed to S. 1042, supra.

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