[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 52 (Thursday, March 26, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3898-S3899]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 21

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 21, a bill to reduce unintended 
pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care.


                                 S. 277

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 277, a bill to amend the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 355

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Burris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 355, a bill to enhance the 
capacity of the United States to undertake global development 
activities, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 414

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 414, a bill to amend 
the Consumer Credit Protection Act, to ban abusive credit practices, 
enhance consumer disclosures, protect underage consumers, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 422

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 422, a bill to amend the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act 
to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, 
stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.


                                 S. 456

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 456, a bill to direct the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to 
develop guidelines to be used on a voluntary basis to develop plans to 
manage the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools and early 
childhood education programs, to establish school-based food allergy 
management grants, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 468

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 468, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to 
emergency medical services and the quality and efficiency of care 
furnished in emergency departments of hospitals and critical access 
hospitals by establishing a bipartisan commission to examine factors 
that affect the effective delivery of such services, by providing for 
additional payments for certain physician services furnished in such 
emergency departments, and by establishing a Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services Working Group, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 482

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 482, a bill to require 
Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in 
electronic form.


                                 S. 483

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 483, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of Mark Twain.


                                 S. 484

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 484, a bill to 
amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government 
pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.


                                 S. 511

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Corker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 511, a bill to 
amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
an exemption of pharmacies and pharmacists from certain Medicare 
accreditation requirements in the same manner as such exemption applies 
to certain professionals.


                                 S. 524

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Johanns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 524, a bill to amend the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for 
the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions of budget 
authority.


                                 S. 526

  At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Martinez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 526, a bill to 
provide in personam jurisdiction in civil actions against contractors 
of the United States Government performing contracts abroad with 
respect to serious bodily injuries of members of the Armed Forces, 
civilian employees of the United States Government, and United States 
citizen employees of companies performing work for the United States 
Government in connection with contractor activities, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 561

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 561, a bill to authorize a 
supplemental funding source for catastrophic emergency wildland fire 
suppression activities on Department of the Interior and National 
Forest System lands, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to develop a cohesive wildland fire management 
strategy, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 570

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. 570, a bill to stimulate 
the economy and create jobs at no cost to the taxpayers, and without 
borrowing money from foreign governments for which our children and 
grandchildren will be responsible, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 599

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added as cosponsors of S. 
599, a bill to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to 
create a presumption that a disability or death of a Federal employee 
in fire protection activities caused by any certain diseases is the 
result of the performance of such employee's duty.


                                 S. 607

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 607, a bill to 
amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional 
recreational uses of National Forest System land that are subject to 
ski area permits, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 614

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and 
the Senator

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from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) were added as cosponsors of S. 614, a bill 
to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service 
Pilots (``WASP'').


                                 S. 645

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 645, a bill to amend title 32, United 
States Code, to modify the Department of Defense share of expenses 
under the National Guard Youth Challenge Program.


                                 S. 702

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 702, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow long-term care 
insurance to be offered under cafeteria plans and flexible spending 
arrangements and to provide additional consumer protections for long-
term care insurance.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 687

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Hatch) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 687 
proposed to H.R. 1388, a bill entitled ``The Edward M. Kennedy Serve 
America Act, an Act to reauthorize and reform the national service 
laws.''.

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