[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 24, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9832-S9834]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 294

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 294, a bill to 
reauthorize Amtrak, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 442

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 442, a bill to provide 
for loan repayment for prosecutors and public defenders.


                                 S. 444

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 444, a bill to establish 
the South Park National Heritage Area in the State of Colorado, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 543

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 543, a bill 
to improve Medicare beneficiary access by extending the 60 percent 
compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a 
hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare 
program.


                                 S. 573

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 573, a bill to 
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health 
Service Act to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of 
heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.


                                 S. 661

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the 
Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) were added as cosponsors of S. 
661, a bill to establish kinship navigator programs, to establish 
guardianship assistance payments for children, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 719

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 719, a bill to 
amend section 10501 of title 49, United States Code, to exclude solid 
waste disposal from the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation 
Board.


                                 S. 737

  At the request of Mr. Obama, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 737, a bill to amend the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 in order to measure, compare, and improve 
the quality of voter access to polls and voter services in the 
administration of Federal elections in the States.


                                 S. 746

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 746, a bill to 
establish a competitive grant program to build capacity in veterinary 
medical education and expand the workforce of veterinarians engaged in 
public health practice and biomedical research.


                                 S. 803

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 803, a bill to 
repeal a provision enacted to end Federal matching of State spending of 
child support incentive payments.


                                 S. 838

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 838, a bill to authorize 
funding for eligible joint ventures between United States and Israeli 
businesses and academic persons, to establish the International Energy 
Advisory Board, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 961

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 961, a bill to 
amend title 46, United States Code, 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, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 972

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 972, a bill to 
provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other 
sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1204

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1204, a bill to enhance 
Federal efforts focused on public awareness and education about the 
risks and dangers associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome.


                                S. 1338

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Lott) were 
added

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as cosponsors of S. 1338, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to provide for a two-year moratorium on certain Medicare 
physician payment reductions for imaging services.


                                S. 1343

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1343, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to prevention and treatment of 
diabetes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1356

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1356, a bill 
to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to establish industrial bank 
holding company regulation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1375

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1375, a bill to 
ensure that new mothers and their families are educated about 
postpartum depression, screened for symptoms, and provided with 
essential services, and to increase research at the National Institutes 
of Health on postpartum depression.


                                S. 1428

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1428, a bill to amend part B 
of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to assure access to durable 
medical equipment under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1492

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1492, a bill to improve 
the quality of Federal and State data regarding the availability and 
quality of broadband services and to promote the deployment of 
affordable broadband services to all parts of the Nation.


                                S. 1496

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1496, a bill to 
amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to include pollinators in certain 
conservation programs.


                                S. 1514

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1514, a bill to revise and extend 
provisions under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.


                                S. 1576

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1576, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to improve the health and healthcare of 
racial and ethnic minority groups.


                                S. 1603

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1603, a bill to authorize 
Congress to award a gold medal to Jerry Lewis, in recognition of his 
outstanding service to the Nation.


                                S. 1661

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1661, a bill to 
communicate United States travel policies and improve marketing and 
other activities designed to increase travel in the United States from 
abroad.


                                S. 1678

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1678, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely 
access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the 
Medicare program.


                                S. 1716

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. 
Landrieu) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1716, a bill to amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, 
Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery and Iraq Accountability Appropriations 
Act, 2007, to strike a requirement relating to forage producers.


                                S. 1755

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1755, a bill to amend the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make permanent the 
summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and 
apply the program to rural areas of every State.


                                S. 1763

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1763, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to provide for the award of a military 
service medal to members of the Armed Forces who served honorably 
during the Cold War era.


                                S. 1780

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1780, a bill to 
require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast 
of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or 
image may be considered indecent.


                                S. 1801

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1801, a bill to require a 
study on the relocation of the Sector Buffalo facilities of the Coast 
Guard, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1805

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1805, a bill to 
amend the National Housing Act to increase the mortgage amount limits 
applicable to housing insured by FHA mortgage insurance.


                                S. 1812

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1812, a bill to 
amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen 
mentoring programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1816

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1816, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in 
connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link 
properties that are historically and thematically associated with the 
struggle for women's suffrage, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1842

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1842, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to provide for patient protection by limiting the 
number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work in 
certain providers of services to which payments are made under the 
Medicare Program.


                                S. 1848

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1848, a bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 
to address the impact of globalization, to reauthorize trade adjustment 
assistance, to extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers, 
communities, firms, and farmers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1852

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1852, a bill to 
designate the Friday after Thanksgiving of each year as ``Native 
American Heritage Day'' in honor of the achievements and contributions 
of Native Americans to the United States.


                                S. 1855

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 1855, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide relief to 
individuals from the penalty for failure to pay estimated taxes

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on amounts attributable to the alternative minimum tax in cases where 
the taxpayer was not subject to the alternative minimum tax in the 
preceding year.
  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1855, supra.


                              S. RES. 276

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy), the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole), the Senator 
from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. 
Sununu) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 276, a resolution calling 
for the urgent deployment of a robust and effective multinational 
peacekeeping mission with sufficient size, resources, leadership, and 
mandate to protect civilians in Darfur, Sudan, and for efforts to 
strengthen the renewal of a just and inclusive peace process.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2067

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2067 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2108

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2108 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2381

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Coburn) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2381 proposed to 
S. 1642, a bill to extend the authorization of programs under the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Enzi, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 2381 proposed to S. 1642, supra.

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