[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 106 (Friday, July 29, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9469-S9472]
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 Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) 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. 37

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S. 37, a bill to extend the 
special postage stamp for breast cancer research for 2 years.


                                 S. 103

  At the request of Mr. Talent, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) 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. 211

  At the request of Mrs. Dole, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
DeWine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 211, a bill to facilitate 
nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and 
referral on human services, volunteer services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 241

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor 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. 375

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 375, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide for an influenza vaccine awareness 
campaign, ensure a sufficient influenza vaccine supply, and prepare for 
an influenza pandemic or epidemic, to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 to encourage vaccine production capacity, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 392

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. 
Dorgan), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Domenici), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the 
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Bayh), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from 
Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Martinez), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) 
and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) were added as cosponsors 
of S. 392, a bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on 
behalf of Congress, collectively, to the Tuskegee Airmen in recognition 
of their unique military record, which inspired revolutionary reform in 
the Armed Forces.


                                 S. 467

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Talent) was added as a cosponsor of S. 467, a bill to extend the 
applicability of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002.


                                 S. 558

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 558, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to permit certain additional retired members of 
the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive 
both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs 
for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of 
military service or Combat-Related Special compensation and to 
eliminate the phase-in period under current law with respect to such 
concurrent receipt.


                                 S. 566

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 566, a bill to 
continue State coverage of medicaid prescription drug coverage to 
medicare dual eligible beneficiaries for 6 months while still allowing 
the medicare part D benefit to be implemented as scheduled.


                                 S. 577

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 577, a bill to promote 
health care coverage for individuals participating in legal 
recreational activities or legal transportation activities.


                                 S. 603

  At the request of Mr. Hagel, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
603, a bill to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure 
meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, 
including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, 
to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such 
agreements, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 604

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 604, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize expansion of 
medicare coverage of medical nutrition therapy services.


                                 S. 678

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 678, a bill to amend the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over 
the Internet from the definition of public communication.


                                 S. 695

  At the request of Mr. Byrd, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 695, a bill to suspend 
temporarily new shipper bonding privileges.


                                 S. 705

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Allard) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 705, a bill to

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establish the Interagency Council on Meeting the Housing and Service 
Needs of Seniors, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 841

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 841, a bill to 
amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective 
remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the 
basis of sex, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1002

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1002, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to make improvements in payments to 
hospitals under the medicare program, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1002, supra.


                                S. 1007

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Chafee) and 
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1007, a bill to prevent a severe reduction in the Federal medical 
assistance percentage determined for a State for fiscal year 2006.


                                S. 1047

  At the request of Mr. Sununu, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Biden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1047, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of each of the 
Nation's past Presidents and their spouses, respectively to improve 
circulation of the $1 coin, to create a new bullion coin, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1086

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1086, a bill to improve the 
national program to register and monitor individuals who commit crimes 
against children or sex offenses.


                                S. 1190

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1190, a bill to 
provide sufficient blind rehabilitation outpatient specialists at 
medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.


                                S. 1191

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) and the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords) 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. 1215

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) 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. 1227

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1227, a bill to 
improve quality in health care by providing incentives for adoption of 
modern information technology.


                                S. 1272

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the names of the Senator 
from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1272, a bill to amend title 46, United States Code, and title II of the 
Social Security Act to provide benefits to certain individuals who 
served in the United States merchant marine (including the Army 
Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) during World War II.


                                S. 1305

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1305, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase tax benefits for 
parents with children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1308

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1308, a bill to establish 
an Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1309

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1309, a bill to amend the 
Trade Act of 1974 to extend the trade adjustment assistance program to 
the services sector, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1313

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1313, a bill to protect homes, small businesses, 
and other private property rights, by limiting the power of eminent 
domain.


                                S. 1317

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) 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. 1319

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1319, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve the operation of 
employee stock ownership plans, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1321

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the names of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1321, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications.


                                S. 1338

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1338, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation 
and the United States Geological Survey, to conduct a study on 
groundwater resources in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1350

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1350, a bill 
to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to protect the privacy rights 
of subscribers to wireless communications services.


                                S. 1405

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1405, a bill 
to extend the 50 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether 
a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation 
facility and to establish the National Advisory Council on Medical 
Rehabilitation.


                                S. 1411

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1411, a bill to 
direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance 
to small business concerns, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1418

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Allen) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1418, a bill to enhance the adoption of a nationwide 
inter operable health information technology system and to improve the 
quality and reduce the costs of health care in the United States.


                                S. 1424

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1424, a bill to remove the 
restrictions on commercial air service at Love Field, Texas.


                                S. 1462

  At the request of Mr. Corzine, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from

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Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) were added as cosponsors of S. 1462, a bill 
to promote peace and accountability in Sudan, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1462, supra.


                                S. 1479

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1479, a bill to provide 
for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, 
education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other 
tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne 
Diseases Advisory Committee.


                                S. 1488

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Thomas) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1488, a bill to withhold funding from the United 
Nations if the United Nations abridges the rights provided by the 
Second Amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1496

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1496, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a pilot program under which up to 
15 States may issue electronic Federal migratory bird hunting stamps.


                                S. 1500

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1500, a bill to 
authorize the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to 
develop multidisciplinary research centers regarding women's health and 
disease prevention and to conduct and coordinate a research program on 
hormone disruption, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1512

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1512, a bill to grant a 
Federal charter to Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated.


                                S. 1520

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) 
and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added as cosponsors 
of S. 1520, a bill to prohibit human cloning.


                                S. 1524

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1524, a bill to repeal the sunset on the reduction of 
capital gains rates for individuals and on the taxation of dividends of 
individuals at capital gain rates.


                                S. 1538

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1538, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the incentives for 
the construction and renovation of public schools.


                              S.J. RES. 15

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 15, a joint 
resolution to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and 
ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian 
tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the 
United States.


                              S.J. RES. 20

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 20, a joint 
resolution disapproving a rule promulgated by the Adminstrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency to delist coal and oil-direct utility 
units from the source category list under the Clean Air Act.


                            S. CON. RES. 37

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 37, a 
concurrent resolution honoring the life of Sister Dorothy Stang.


                            S. CON. RES. 48

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 48, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative 
postage stamp should be issued to promote public awareness of Down 
syndrome.


                              S. RES. 184

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 184, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding manifestations 
of anti-Semitism by United Nations member states and urging action 
against anti-Semitism by United Nations officials, United Nations 
member states, and the Government of the United States, and for other 
purposes.


                              S. RES. 204

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 204, a 
resolution recognizing the 75th anniversary of the American Academy of 
Pediatrics and supporting the mission and goals of the organization.


                              S. RES. 220

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 220, a resolution to 
express the concern of the Senate regarding the passage of the anti-
secession law by the National People's Congress of the People's 
Republic of China and Taiwan on an equal footing without preconditions.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1435

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) and the Senator 
from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were added as cosponsors of amendment 
No. 1435 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. 1524

  At the request of Mrs. Dole, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1524 intended 
to be 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. 1556

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 1556 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. 1557

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 1557 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. 1619

  At the request of Mr. Corzine, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1619 proposed to 
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.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1620

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) 
were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1620 proposed to S. 397, a 
bill to prohibit civil liability actions from being

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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.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1642

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1642 proposed 
to 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.

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