[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 8, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6441-S6443]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 34

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 34, a bill to promote 
simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of 
sales and use taxes.


                                 S. 43

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 43, a bill to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to preserve and protect Social Security 
benefits of American workers and to help ensure greater congressional 
oversight of the Social Security system by requiring that both Houses 
of Congress approve a totalization agreement before the agreement, 
giving foreign workers Social Security benefits, can go into effect.


                                 S. 439

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 439, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to permit certain retired members of the 
uniformed services who have a service-connected disability to receive 
both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs 
for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of 
military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation.


                                 S. 604

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 604, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to limit increases in the certain costs of 
health care services under the health care programs of the Department 
of Defense, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 826

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 826, a bill to posthumously 
award a Congressional gold medal to Alice Paul, in recognition of her 
role in the women's suffrage movement and in advancing equal rights for 
women.


                                 S. 991

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 991, a bill to establish 
the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation under the authorities of 
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.


                                S. 1376

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1376, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and expand the drug 
discount program under section 340B of such Act to improve the 
provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net 
provides.


                                S. 1689

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1689, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income 
amounts received on account of claims based on certain unlawful 
discrimination and to allow income averaging for backpay and frontpay 
awards received on account of such claims, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1748

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1748, a bill to 
prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the 
fairness doctrine.


                                S. 1906

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1906, a bill to 
understand and comprehensively address the oral health problems 
associated with methamphetamine use.


                                S. 1907

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1907, a bill to 
amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
to understand and comprehensively address the inmate oral health 
problems associated with methamphetamine use, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1926

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1926, a bill to establish 
the National Infrastructure Bank to provide funding for qualified 
infrastructure projects, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1998

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


                                S. 2051

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Colorado

[[Page S6442]]

(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2051, a bill to amend the 
small rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income 
school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965.


                                S. 2059

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) 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. 2140

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) 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. 2173

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Kohl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2173, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for 
physical education.


                                S. 2283

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2283, a bill to preserve the 
use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public land 
administered by the National Park Service, and Bureau of Land 
Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest 
Service on which there is a historical tradition of the use of pack and 
saddle stock animals.


                                S. 2510

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 2576

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2576, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for qualified 
expenditures paid or incurred to replace certain wood stoves.


                                S. 2682

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2682, a bill to direct 
United States funding to the United Nations Population Fund for certain 
purposes.


                                S. 2702

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) 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. 2760

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2760, a bill 
to amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance the national defense 
through empowerment of the National Guard, enhancement of the functions 
of the National Guard Bureau, and improvement of Federal-State military 
coordination in domestic emergency response, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2771

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2771, a bill to 
require the President to call a White House Conference on Children and 
Youth in 2010.


                                S. 2858

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) 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. 2932

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2932, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the poison center national 
toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program to provide 
assistance for poison prevention, sustain the funding of poison 
centers, and enhance the public health of people of the United States.


                                S. 3114

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3114, a bill to provide 
safeguards against faulty asylum procedures, to improve conditions of 
detention for detainees, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3118

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, his name 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. 3141

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3141, a bill to 
provide for nondiscrimination by eligible lenders in the Federal Family 
Education Loan Program.


                                S. 3164

  At the request of Mr. Martinez, the name of the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3164, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce fraud under 
the Medicare program.


                                S. 3167

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and the 
Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) were added as cosponsors of S. 
3167, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the 
conditions under which veterans, their surviving spouses, and their 
children may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain 
purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 43

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 43, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relating to marriage.


                              S. RES. 602

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 602, a 
bill supporting the goals and ideals of ``National Life Insurance 
Awareness Month''.


                              S. RES. 607

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 607, a resolution 
designating July 10, 2008, as ``National Summer Learning Day''.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4979

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 4979 intended to 
be proposed to S. 3001, an original bill to authorize appropriations 
for fiscal year 2009 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. 5009

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 5009 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 3221, a bill to provide needed housing reform 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 5010

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr.

[[Page S6443]]

Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 5010 intended to be 
proposed to H.R. 3221, a bill to provide needed housing reform and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 5064

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) 
were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 5064 proposed to H.R. 6304, a 
bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to 
establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign 
intelligence, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 5066

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 5066 proposed to H.R. 6304, a bill 
to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish 
a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign 
intelligence, and for other purposes.

                          ____________________