[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 60 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3080-S3082]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 38

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 38, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program for 
the provision of readjustment and mental health services to veterans 
who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 358

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator 
from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) were added as cosponsors of S. 358, a 
bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information 
with respect to health insurance and employment.


                                 S. 548

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) 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. 561

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 561, a bill to repeal the 
sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 
with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption 
assistance programs.


                                 S. 638

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Domenici) was added as a cosponsor of S. 638, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate 
housing and infrastructure grants.


                                 S. 691

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 691, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the benefits under the 
Medicare program for beneficiaries with kidney disease, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 746

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) 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. 1019

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1019, a bill to provide 
comprehensive reform of the health care system of the United States, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1070

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1070, a bill to amend the Social Security Act to 
enhance the social security of the Nation by ensuring adequate public-
private infrastructure and to resolve to prevent, detect, treat, 
intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1117

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1117, a bill to establish a grant program to 
provide vision care to children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1120

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1120, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for the training of 
graduate medical residents in preventive medicine and public health.


                                S. 1313

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1313, a bill to amend the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide relief for servicemembers 
with respect to contracts for cellular phone service, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1437

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1437, a bill to 
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of 
the semicentennial of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


                                S. 1588

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

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                                S. 1661

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar) 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. 1738

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1738, a bill to establish a 
Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction 
within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, to improve the 
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for 
regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to 
increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and 
prosecute predators.


                                S. 1998

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1998, a bill to 
reduce child marriage, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2056

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2056, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial 
stability to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident 
physicians.


                                S. 2183

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2183, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide grants for community-based mental 
health infrastructure improvement.


                                S. 2262

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2262, a bill 
to authorize the Preserve America Program and Save America's Treasures 
Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2347

  At the request of Mr. Reid, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2347, a bill to restore and protect access to discount drug prices for 
university-based and safety-net clinics.


                                S. 2369

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2369, a bill to 
amend title 35, United States Code, to provide that certain tax 
planning inventions are not patentable, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2426

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, his name was added as a 
cosponsor of S. 2426, a bill to provide for congressional oversight of 
United States agreements with the Government of Iraq.


                                S. 2498

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2498, a bill to authorize 
the minting of a coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 
founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to occur in 2010.


                                S. 2507

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2507, a bill to address the 
digital television transition in border states.


                                S. 2510

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2510, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to provide revised standards for quality 
assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology 
preparations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2555

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2555, a bill to permit California and 
other States to effectively control greenhouse gas emissions from motor 
vehicles, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2614

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2614, a bill to facilitate 
the development, demonstration, and implementation of technology for 
the use in removing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the 
atmosphere.


                                S. 2667

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2667, a bill to direct the 
Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child Is Missing 
Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies in the 
rapid recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2689

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2689, a bill to amend 
section 411h of title 37, United States Code, to provide travel and 
transportation allowances for family members of members of the 
uniformed services with serious inpatient psychiatric conditions.


                                S. 2743

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2743, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the 
establishment of financial security accounts for the care of family 
members with disabilities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2758

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2758, a bill to authorize 
the exploration, leasing, development, production, and economically 
feasible and prudent transportation of oil and gas in and from the 
Coastal Plain in Alaska.


                                S. 2774

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2774, a bill to provide for the 
appointment of additional Federal circuit and district judges, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2799

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2799, a bill to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to expand and improve health care services 
available to women veterans, especially those serving in Operation 
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, from the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2819

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) and the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2819, a bill to preserve access to Medicaid and the State Children's 
Health Insurance Program during an economic downturn, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2829

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2829, a bill to make 
technical corrections to section 1244 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which provides special 
immigrant status for certain Iraqis, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2852

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2852, a bill to provide 
increased accessibility to information on Federal spending, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2858

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2858, a bill to establish 
the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel 
to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy 
issues associated with recruitment, retention, research, and 
reinvestment in the profession of social work, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2863

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2863, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax 
credit for certain stem cell research expenditures.


                              S.J. RES. 28

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr.

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Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 28, a joint resolution 
disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications 
Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.


                             S. CON. RES. 1

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the names of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. 
Res. 1, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that 
an artistic tribute to commemorate the speech given by President Ronald 
Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987, should be placed 
within the United States Capitol.


                              S. RES. 482

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Coburn) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 482, a resolution 
designating July 26, 2008, as ``National Day of the American Cowboy''.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4527

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 4527 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1195, a bill to 
amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 
Act: A Legacy for Users to make technical corrections, and for other 
purposes.

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