[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 160 (Thursday, October 2, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10486-S10487]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS ON OCTOBER 1, 2008


                                 S. 602

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 602, a bill to develop the 
next generation of parental control technology.


                                 S. 714

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor 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. 766

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 766, a bill to amend the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies of 
victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 826

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the 
Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) were added as cosponsors 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. 1376

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, his name 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. 1588

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) 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. 2020

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2020, a bill to reauthorize the 
Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2010, to 
rename the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 as the ``Tropical 
Forest and Coral Conservation Act of 2007'', and for other purposes.


                                S. 2510

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) 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. 2736

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2736, a bill to amend 
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 to improve the program under 
such section for supportive housing for the elderly, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2908

  At the request of Mr. Thune, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2908, a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit 
the display of Social Security account numbers on Medicare cards.


                                S. 3140

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3140, a bill to provide 
that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal 
employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3484

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3484, a bill to 
provide for a delay in

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the phase out of the hospice budget neutrality adjustment factor under 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act.


                                S. 3487

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 3487, a bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 
to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other 
purposes.
  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 3487, supra.


                                S. 3507

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3507, a bill to provide for 
additional emergency unemployment compensation.


                                S. 3512

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3512, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to remove social 
security account numbers from Medicare identification cards and 
communications provided to Medicare beneficiaries in order to protect 
Medicare beneficiaries from identity theft.


                                S. 3529

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3529, a bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 2010 through 2014 to provide assistance 
to foreign countries to promote food security, to stimulate rural 
economies, and to improve emergency response to food crises, to amend 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3532

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3532, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to 
establish the standard mileage rate for use of a passenger automobile 
for purposes of the charitable contributions deduction and to exclude 
charitable mileage reimbursements from gross income.


                                S. 3552

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3552, a bill to 
conserve the United States fish and aquatic communities through 
partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation and improve the 
quality of life for the people of the United States and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3553

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3553, a bill 
to exempt certain charitable flights from certain regulations 
applicable to commercial flights.


                                S. 3644

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
3644, a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide crop 
disaster assistance to agricultural producers that suffered qualifying 
quantity or quality losses for the 2008 crop year due to a natural 
disaster.


                                S. 3656

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Salazar), the 
Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) were added as cosponsors of S. 
3656, a bill to preserve access to healthcare under the Medicare and 
Medicaid programs.


                              S. RES. 616

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 616, a resolution 
reducing maternal mortality both at home and abroad.


                              S. RES. 664

  At the request of Mrs. Dole, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 664, a resolution 
celebrating the centennial of Union Station in Washington, District of 
Columbia.

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