[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 173 (Thursday, November 8, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14192-S14193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 548

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 548, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction equal to fair 
market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of literary, 
musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor.


                                 S. 584

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 584, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rehabilitation 
credit and the low-income housing credit.


                                 S. 594

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 594, a bill to 
limit the use, sale, and transfer of cluster munitions.


                                 S. 597

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 597, a bill to extend the 
special postage stamp for breast cancer research for 2 years.


                                 S. 616

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 616, a bill to 
promote health care coverage parity for individuals participating in 
legal recreational activities or legal transportation activities.


                                 S. 714

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the names of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 714, a bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure 
that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained 
legally.


                                 S. 881

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Salazar) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 881, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance 
credit.


                                 S. 911

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 911, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to advance medical research and treatments 
into pediatric cancers, ensure patients and families have access to the 
current treatments and information regarding pediatric cancers, 
establish a population-based national childhood cancer database, and 
promote public awareness of pediatric cancers.


                                 S. 960

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 960, a bill to establish the 
United States Public Service Academy.


                                S. 1027

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1027, a bill to prevent 
tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1494

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1494, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the special diabetes 
programs for Type I diabetes and Indians under that Act.


                                S. 1588

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1588, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group 
and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide 
coverage for treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental 
deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease.


                                S. 1661

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) 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. 1679

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1679, a bill 
to provide that the great hall of the Capitol Visitor Center shall be 
known as Emancipation Hall.


                                S. 1795

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1795, a bill to 
improve access to workers' compensation programs for injured Federal 
employees.


                                S. 1871

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1871, a bill to provide for special 
transfers of funds to States to promote certain improvements in State 
unemployment compensation laws.


                                S. 1878

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Bond) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1878, a bill to authorize grants for 
contributions toward the establishment of the Woodrow Wilson 
Presidential Library.


                                S. 1905

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1905, a bill to 
provide for a rotating schedule for regional selection of delegates to 
a national Presidential nominating convention, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1958

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1958, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure and foster continued 
patient quality of care by establishing facility and patient criteria 
for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the 
Medicare program.


                                S. 1965

  At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1965, a bill to protect 
children from cybercrimes, including crimes by online predators, to 
enhance efforts to identify and eliminate child pornography, and to 
help parents shield their children from material that is inappropriate 
for minors.


                                S. 1970

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1970, a bill to establish a National Commission on Children and 
Disasters, a National Resource Center on Children and Disasters, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1996

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1996, a bill 
to reauthorize the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2071

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. 
McCaskill) were added as cosponsors of S. 2071, a bill to enhance the 
ability to combat methamphetamine.


                                S. 2136

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey

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(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2136, a bill to address 
the treatment of primary mortgages in bankruptcy, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2140

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2140, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to Francis Collins, in recognition of his 
outstanding contributions and leadership in the fields of medicine and 
genetics.


                                S. 2220

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2220, a bill to amend the 
Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963 to authorize certain appropriations.


                                S. 2246

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2246, a bill 
to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend eligibility for 
Federal TRIO programs to members of the reserve components serving on 
active duty in support of contingency operations.


                                S. 2250

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2250, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to modernize payments for ambulatory 
surgical centers under the Medicare Program.


                                S. 2257

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the name of the Senator from 
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2257, a bill to 
impose sanctions on officials of the State Peace and Development 
Council in Burma, to amend the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 
2003 to prohibit the importation of gemstones and hardwoods from Burma, 
to promote a coordinated international effort to restore civilian 
democratic rule to Burma, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2317

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2317, a bill 
to amend titles 17 and 18, United States Code, and the Trademark Act of 
1946 to strengthen and harmonize the protection of intellectual 
property, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2320

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2320, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide continued entitlement to 
coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries under 
the Medicare Program that have received a kidney transplant and whose 
entitlement to coverage would otherwise expire, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 241

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 241, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should 
reaffirm the commitments of the United States to the 2001 Doha 
Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and to pursuing 
trade policies that promote access to affordable medicines.


                              S. RES. 358

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 358, a resolution 
expressing the importance of friendship and cooperation between the 
United States and Turkey.


                              S. RES. 366

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman), the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold), the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Vitter) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 366, a resolution designating November 2007 as 
``National Methamphetamine Awareness Month'', to increase awareness of 
methamphetamine abuse.


                              S. RES. 368

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) and the Senator 
from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 368, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that, at the 20th Regular 
Meeting of the International Commission on the Conservation of Atlantic 
Tunas, the United States should pursue a moratorium on the eastern 
Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery to ensure control of 
the fishery and further facilitate recovery of the stock, pursue 
strengthened conservation and management measures to facilitate the 
recovery of the Atlantic bluefin tuna, and seek a review of compliance 
by all Nations with the International Commission for the Conservation 
of Atlantic Tunas' conservation and management recommendation for 
Atlantic bluefin tuna and other species, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3501

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the names of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) were added 
as cosponsors of amendment No. 3501 intended to be proposed to H.R. 
2419, a bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs 
through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 3501 intended to be proposed to H.R. 2419, supra.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3508

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 3508 proposed to H.R. 2419, a bill to 
provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal 
year 2012, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3522

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3522 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 2419, a bill to provide for the continuation of 
agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3541

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3541 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 2419, a bill to provide for the continuation of 
agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3543

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) 
were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 3543 intended to be proposed 
to H.R. 2419, a bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural 
programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.

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