[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 77 (Monday, May 12, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4029-S4030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 22

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 22, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to establish a program of educational 
assistance for members of the Armed Forces who serve in the Armed 
Forces after September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 211

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, her name 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. 329

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 329, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for cardiac 
rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation services.


                                 S. 432

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 432, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for 
kidney disease education services under the Medicare program, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 579

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 579, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the 
Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to 
make grants for the development and operation of research centers 
regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of 
breast cancer.


                                S. 1382

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1382, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry.


                                S. 1437

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. 
Webb) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were added as 
cosponsors 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. 2010

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2010, a bill to 
require prisons and other detention facilities holding Federal 
prisoners or detainees under a contract with the Federal Government to 
make the same information available to the public that Federal prisons 
and detention facilities are required to do by law.


                                S. 2059

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2059, a bill to amend the 
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the eligibility 
requirements with respect to airline flight crews.


                                S. 2123

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2123, a bill to provide 
collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by 
States or their political subdivisions.
  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2123, supra.


                                S. 2130

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2130, a bill to 
express the sense of the Senate on the need for a comprehensive 
diplomatic offensive to help broker national reconciliation efforts in 
Iraq and lay the foundation for the eventual redeployment of United 
States combat forces.


                                S. 2141

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2141, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol 
Syndrome prevention and services program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2279

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2279, a bill to combat international violence against 
women and girls.


                                S. 2369

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) 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. 2465

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2465, a bill to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include all public 
clinics for the distribution of pediatric vaccines under the Medicaid 
program.


                                S. 2504

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Dodd) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2504, a bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to 
grant a Federal charter to the Military Officers Association of 
America, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2511

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2511, a bill to amend the 
grant program for law enforcement armor vests to provide for a waiver 
of or reduction in the matching funds requirement in the case of fiscal 
hardship.


                                S. 2519

  At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 2519, a bill to prohibit the awarding of a contract or grant in 
excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless the prospective 
contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the 
contract or grant that the contractor or grantee has no seriously 
delinquent tax debts, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2555

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor 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. 2618

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2618, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with 
respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, 
congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss Facioscapulohumeral, limb-
girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies.


                                S. 2619

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2619, a bill to 
protect innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks.


                                S. 2702

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2702, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, 
and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under the 
Medicare part B Program.


                                S. 2708

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin

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(Mr. Kohl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2708, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to attract and retain trained health care 
professionals and direct care workers dedicated to providing quality 
care to the growing population of older Americans.


                                S. 2726

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2726, a bill to amend the 
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate transportation, 
storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to States and 
food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.


                                S. 2774

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh) 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. 2790

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2790, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of 
comprehensive cancer care planning under the Medicare program and to 
improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by 
establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants 
programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management programs, 
provider education, and related research.


                                S. 2799

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) 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. 2812

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2812, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the provision 
of telehealth services under the Medicare program.


                                S. 2852

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


                                S. 2930

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2930, a bill to amend title 
37, United States Code, to extend to members with dependents the second 
basic allowance for housing for members of the National Guard and 
Reserve and retired members without dependents who are mobilized in 
support of a contingency operation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2991

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2991, a bill to provide energy price relief and hold 
oil companies and other entities accountable for their actions with 
regard to high energy prices, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 512

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the names of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 512, a resolution honoring the life of 
Charlton Heston.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4737

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the 
Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama), the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Baucus) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 4737 intended to be proposed to S. 
2284, an original bill to amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 
1968, to restore the financial solvency of the flood insurance fund, 
and for other purposes.

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