[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 100 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5697-S5699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                S. 1117

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor 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 Montana 
(Mr. Tester) 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. 1232

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1232, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Education, to develop a voluntary policy for managing the 
risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools, to establish school-
based food allergy management grants, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1418

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1418, a bill to provide 
assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in 
developing countries, and for other purposes.

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                                S. 1430

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1430, a bill to authorize State and local governments to direct 
divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with investments 
of $20,000,000 or more in Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1774

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1774, a bill to 
designate the John Krebs Wilderness in the State of California, to add 
certain land to the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park Wilderness, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1921

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1921, a bill to amend the 
American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the authorization 
for that Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2035

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2035, a bill to maintain 
the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for 
the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons 
connected with the news media.


                                S. 2059

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, his name 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.
  At the request of Mr. Akaka, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2059, supra.


                                S. 2396

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2396, a bill 
to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to modernize the quality 
improvement organization (QIO) program.


                                S. 2433

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2433, a bill to require the President to develop and implement a 
comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy 
objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination 
of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium 
Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people 
worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.


                                S. 2439

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2439, a bill to require 
the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime 
Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange 
Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.


                                S. 2550

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2550, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs from collecting certain debts owed to the United States by 
members of the Armed Forces and veterans who die as a result of an 
injury incurred or aggravated on active duty in a combat zone, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2595

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2595, a bill to create a 
national licensing system for residential mortgage loan originators, to 
develop minimum standards of conduct to be enforced by State 
regulators, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2619

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the names of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2619, a bill to protect innocent Americans from 
violent crime in national parks.


                                S. 2667

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) 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. 2668

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 2668, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from 
listed property under section 280F.


                                S. 2874

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2874, a bill to amend titles 
5, 10, 37, and 38, United States Code, to ensure the fair treatment of 
a member of the Armed Forces who is discharged from the Armed Forces, 
at the request of the member, pursuant to the Department of Defense 
policy permitting the early discharge of a member who is the only 
surviving child in a family in which the father or mother, or one or 
more siblings, served in the Armed Forces and, because of hazards 
incident to such service, was killed, died as a result of wounds, 
accident, or disease, is in a captured or missing in action status, or 
is permanently disabled, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2888

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2888, a bill to protect 
the property and security of homeowners who are subject to foreclosure 
proceedings, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2920

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2920, a bill to reauthorize 
and improve the financing and entrepreneurial development programs of 
the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2931

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2931, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to exempt complex rehabilitation 
products and assistive technology products from the Medicare 
competitive acquisition program.


                                S. 2955

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2955, a bill to 
authorize funds to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to carry 
out its Community Safety Initiative.


                                S. 2979

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Gregg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2979, a bill to 
exempt the African National Congress from treatment as a terrorist 
organization, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2983

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2983, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to prevent and cure diabetes and to 
promote and improve the care of individuals with diabetes for the 
reduction of health disparities within racial and ethnic minority 
groups, including the African-American, Hispanic American, Asian 
American and Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native 
communities.


                                S. 2990

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2990, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to improve access of Medicare beneficiaries to 
intravenous immune globulins.


                                S. 3022

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3022, a bill to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the sale of dishwashing 
detergent in the United States if the detergent contains a high level 
of phosphorus.


                                S. 3038

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms.

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Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3038, a bill to amend part E of 
title IV of the Social Security Act to extend the adoption incentives 
program, to authorize States to establish a relative guardianship 
program, to promote the adoption of children with special needs, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 3086

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Bond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3086, a bill to amend the 
antitrust laws to ensure competitive market-based fees and terms for 
merchants' access to electronic payment systems.


                                S. 3118

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3118, a bill to amend 
titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to preserve beneficiary 
access to care by preventing a reduction in the Medicare physician fee 
schedule, to improve the quality of care by advancing value based 
purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and 
to maintain and improve access to care in rural areas, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3130

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3130, a bill to 
provide energy price relief by authorizing greater resources and 
authority for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and for other 
purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 2

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 2, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of 
Congress may serve.


                              S.J. RES. 37

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 37, a 
joint resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the United 
States should sign the Declaration of the Oslo Conference on Cluster 
Munitions and future instruments banning cluster munitions that cause 
unacceptable harm to civilians.


                            S. CON. RES. 88

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 88, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Food and Drug 
Administration's (FDA) new policy restricting women's access to 
medications containing estriol does not serve the public interest.


                              S. RES. 584

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator 
from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Lautenberg), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added as cosponsors of S. 
Res. 584, a resolution recognizing the historical significance of 
Juneteenth Independence Day and expressing the sense of the Senate that 
history should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and 
solving the challenges of the future.

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