[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 57 (Monday, April 20, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4445-S4448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 21

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 21, a bill to reduce unintended 
pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care.


                                 S. 46

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 46, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation 
therapy caps.


                                 S. 167

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 167, a bill 
to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 244

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 244, a bill 
to expand programs of early childhood home visitation that increase 
school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early 
identification of developmental and health delays, including potential 
mental health concerns, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 245

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 245, a bill to expand, 
train, and support all sectors of the health care workforce to care for 
the growing population of older individuals in the United States.


                                 S. 251

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 251, a bill to 
amend the Communications Act of 1934 to permit targeted interference 
with mobile radio services within prison facilities.


                                 S. 307

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 307, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide flexibility in the manner 
in which beds are counted for purposes of determining whether a 
hospital may be designated as a critical access hospital under the 
Medicare program and to exempt from the critical access hospital 
inpatient bed limitation the number of beds provided for certain 
veterans.


                                 S. 386

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), the 
Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), 
the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Rockefeller) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 386, a bill to improve enforcement of 
mortgage fraud, securities fraud, financial institution fraud, and 
other frauds related to federal assistance and relief

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programs, for the recovery of funds lost to these frauds, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 423

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the names of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Corker), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) and the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as cosponsors of S. 423, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize advance appropriations 
for certain medical care accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
by providing two-fiscal year budget authority, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 427

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 427, a bill to amend title 
XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain 
funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available 
resources under the supplemental security income program.


                                 S. 435

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Kaufman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 435, a bill to provide for 
evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help 
build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to 
ensure that youth lead productive, safe, health, gang-free, and law-
abiding lives.


                                 S. 450

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 450, a bill to 
understand and comprehensively address the oral health problems 
associated with methamphetamine use.


                                 S. 451

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Kaufman) were added as cosponsors of S. 451, a bill to 
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of 
the centennial of the establishment of the Girl Scouts of the United 
States of America.


                                 S. 454

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Martinez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 454, a bill to improve 
the organization and procedures of the Department of Defense for the 
acquisition of major weapon systems, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 455

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 455, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of 5 United 
States Army Five-Star Generals, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, 
Dwight Eisenhower, Henry ``Hap'' Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of 
the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort 
Leavenworth, Kansas, to coincide with the celebration of the 132nd 
Anniversary of the founding of the United States Army Command and 
General Staff College.


                                 S. 456

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) 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. 471

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 471, a bill to amend 
the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to require the Statistics 
Commissioner to collect information from coeducational secondary 
schools on such schools' athletic programs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 475

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 475, a bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief 
Act to guarantee the equity of spouses of military personnel with 
regard to matters of residency, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 482

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


                                 S. 484

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were 
added as cosponsors 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. 491

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 491, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance 
premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE 
supplemental premiums.


                                 S. 511

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) 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. 535

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Colorado (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), 
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Montana (Mr. 
Baucus), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 535, a bill to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to repeal requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under 
the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' dependency and indemnity 
compensation, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 536

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 536, a bill to amend the Clean 
Air Act to modify the definition of the term ``renewable biomass''.


                                 S. 541

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 541, a bill to increase 
the borrowing authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 543

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 543, a bill to require a pilot program on 
training, certification, and support for family caregivers of seriously 
disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces to provide caregiver 
services to such veterans and members, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 546

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Snowe), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 546, 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. 548

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 548, a bill to amend the 
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal 
energy efficiency resource standard for retail electricity

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and natural gas distributors, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 599

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor 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. 608

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 608, a bill to amend the 
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to exclude secondary 
sales, repair services, and certain vehicles from the ban on lead in 
children's products, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 614

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus), the 
Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. 
Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 614, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots 
(``WASP'').


                                 S. 624

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 624, a bill to provide 
100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and 
sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of 
the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon 
Water for the Poor Act of 2005.


                                 S. 636

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 636, a bill to amend the 
Clean Air Act to conform the definition of renewable biomass to the 
definition given the term in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
of 2002.


                                 S. 638

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Burris) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 638, a bill to provide grants to promote financial 
and economic literacy.


                                 S. 645

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor 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. 654

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 654, a bill to amend title 
XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services delivered by 
podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to 
appropriate quality foot and ankle care.


                                 S. 658

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 658, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, 
to improve health care for veterans who live in rural areas, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 671

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 671, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family 
therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of 
the Medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 682

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 682, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to improve mental and behavioral health services on college 
campuses.


                                 S. 686

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 686, a bill to establish the Social Work 
Reinvestment Commission to advise Congress and the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services on policy issues associated with the profession of 
social work, to authorize the Secretary to make grants to support 
recruitment for, and retention, research, and reinvestment in, the 
profession, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 687

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 687, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to permit direct payment under the Medicare program for 
clinical social worker services provided to residents of skilled 
nursing facilities.


                                 S. 700

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 700, a bill to amend title II of the 
Social Security Act to phase out the 24-month waiting period for 
disabled individuals to become eligible for Medicare benefits, to 
eliminate the waiting period for individuals with life-threatening 
conditions, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 714

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 714, a bill to establish the National Criminal Justice 
Commission.


                                 S. 715

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 715, a bill to establish a 
pilot program to provide for the preservation and rehabilitation of 
historic lighthouses.


                                 S. 717

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 717, a bill to modernize cancer research, increase 
access to preventative cancer services, provide cancer treatment and 
survivorship initiatives, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 718

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 718, a bill to amend the Legal 
Services Corporation Act to meet special needs of eligible clients, 
provide for technology grants, improve corporate practices of the Legal 
Services Corporation, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 723

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 723, a bill to prohibit the 
introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of 
novelty lighters, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 723, supra.


                                 S. 733

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 733, a bill to ensure 
the continued and future availability of life saving trauma health care 
in the United States and to prevent further trauma center closures and 
downgrades by assisting trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, 
core mission services, and emergency needs.


                                 S. 739

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 739, a bill to 
require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to study drywall 
imported from China in 2004 through 2007, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 781

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 781, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate housing and 
infrastructure grants.


                                 S. 801

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) and the Senator from Alaska

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(Mr. Begich) were added as cosponsors of S. 801, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to waive charges for humanitarian care provided 
by the Department of Veterans Affairs to family members accompanying 
veterans severely injured after September 11, 2001, as they receive 
medical care from the Department and to provide assistance to family 
caregivers, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 812

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 812, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for 
contributions of qualified conservation contributions.


                                 S. 819

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator 
from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) were added as cosponsors of S. 819, a 
bill to provide for enhanced treatment, support, services, and research 
for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families.


                            S. CON. RES. 11

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 11, 
a concurrent resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and 
reaffirming the support of Congress for the mandate of the Special 
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, and for other purposes.


                               S. RES. 71

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 71, a resolution 
condemning the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution 
of the Baha'i minority in Iran and its continued violation of the 
International Covenants on Human Rights.

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