[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 28, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2467-S2469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 241

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) 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

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not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, 
commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.


                                 S. 277

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 277, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct 
access to audiologists for Medicare beneficiaries, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 333

  At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich) 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. 440

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Sarbanes) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 440, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social 
Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of 
covering physicians services under the medicaid program.


                                 S. 503

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 503, a bill to expand 
Parents as Teachers programs and other quality programs of early 
childhood home visitation, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 718

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 718, a bill to amend 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
provide standards and procedures to guide both State and local law 
enforcement agencies and law enforcement officers during internal 
investigations, interrogation of law enforcement officers, and 
administrative disciplinary hearings, and to ensure accountability of 
law enforcement officers, to guarantee the due process rights of law 
enforcement officers, and to require States to enact law enforcement 
discipline, accountability, and due process laws.


                                 S. 811

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 811, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 
bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.


                                 S. 842

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 842, a bill to 
amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system 
to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to 
provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during 
organizing efforts, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 882

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 882, a bill to designate 
certain Federal land in the State of Utah as wilderness, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1062

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1062, a bill to 
amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase 
in the Federal minimum wage.


                                S. 1086

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Talent) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Salazar) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1086, a bill to improve the national program to 
register and monitor individuals who commit crimes against children or 
sex offenses.


                                S. 1112

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) 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.
  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, his name was added as a 
cosponsor of S. 1112, supra.


                                S. 1263

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1263, a bill to amend the 
Small Business Act to establish eligibility requirements for business 
concerns to receive awards under the Small Business Innovation Research 
Program.


                                S. 1367

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 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. 1691

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1691, a bill to amend 
selected statutes to clarify existing Federal law as to the treatment 
of students privately educated at home under State law.


                                S. 1741

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1741, a bill to amend the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to 
authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection of 
the health and safety of residents, workers, volunteers, and others in 
a disaster area.


                                S. 2083

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Salazar) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2083, a bill to prohibit the Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) 
from removing any item from the current list of items prohibited from 
being carried aboard a passenger aircraft.


                                S. 2087

  At the request of Mr. Chambliss, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2087, a bill 
to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the 
employment of foreign agricultural workers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2178

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2178, a bill to make the 
stealing and selling of telephone records a criminal offense.


                                S. 2296

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 2296, 
a bill to establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of a 
prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances 
surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis 
countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 
through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United 
States, and to recommend appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2314

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2314, a bill 
to suspend the application of any provision of Federal law under which 
persons are relieved from the requirement to pay royalties for 
production of oil or natural gas from Federal lands in periods of high 
oil and natural gas prices, to require the Secretary to seek to 
renegotiate existing oil and natural gas leases to similarly limit 
suspension of royalty obligations under such leases, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2322

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2322, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act 
to make the provision of technical services for medical imaging 
examinations and radiation therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and 
less costly.


                                S. 2370

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2370, a bill 
to promote the development of democratic institutions in areas under 
the administrative control of the Palestinian Authority, and for other 
purposes.

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                                S. 2385

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from South Dakota 
(Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2385, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Combat-Related 
Special Compensation paid by the uniformed services in order to permit 
certain additional retired members who have a service-connected 
disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for that disability and Combat-Related Special 
Compensation by reason of that disability.


                                S. 2437

  At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2437, a bill to increase 
penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary 
servitude, or forced labor.


                            S. CON. RES. 20

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 20, a 
concurrent resolution expressing the need for enhanced public awareness 
of traumatic brain injury and support for the designation of a National 
Brain Injury Awareness Month.


                              S. RES. 371

  At the request of Mr. Frist, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
Res. 371, a resolution designating July 22, 2006, as ``National Day of 
the American Cowboy''.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2944

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2944 proposed 
to S. 2349, an original bill to provide greater transparency in the 
legislative process.
  At the request of Ms. Collins, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 2944 proposed to S. 2349, supra.

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