[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 156 (Monday, October 26, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10735-S10737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 148

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 148, a bill to restore 
the rule that agreements between manufacturers and retailers, 
distributors, or wholesalers to set the minimum price below which the 
manufacturer's product or service cannot be sold violates the Sherman 
Act.


                                 S. 229

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 229, a bill to empower 
women in Afghanistan, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 453

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 453, a bill to 
authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants 
and offer technical assistance to local governments and others to 
design and implement innovative policies, programs, and projects that 
address widespread property vacancy and abandonment, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 512

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Vermont (Mr. 
Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 512, a bill to amend chapter 1 of 
title 9, United States Code with respect to arbitration.


                                 S. 736

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 736, a bill to provide for 
improvements in the Federal hiring process and for other purposes.


                                 S. 812

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) 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. 891

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 891, a bill to require 
annual

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disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission of activities 
involving columbite-tantalite, cassiterite, and wolframite from the 
Democratic Republic of Congo, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1156

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1156, a bill to amend the 
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 
Legacy for Users to reauthorize and improve the safe routes to school 
program.


                                S. 1183

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1183, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to the Government of 
Haiti to end within 5 years the deforestation in Haiti and restore 
within 30 years the extent of tropical forest cover in existence in 
Haiti in 1990, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1304

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1304, a bill to restore 
the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1313

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1313, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the 
charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.


                                S. 1345

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1345, a bill to aid and 
support pediatric involvement in reading and education.


                                S. 1400

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1400, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make 
permanent the depreciation classification of motorsports entertainment 
complexes.


                                S. 1470

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1470, a bill to sustain the 
economic development and recreational use of National Forest System 
land and other public land in the State of Montana, to add certain land 
to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to release certain 
wilderness study areas, to designate new areas for recreation, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1610

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1610, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 
and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in 
the United States.


                                S. 1652

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1652, a bill to amend part B of the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal 
funding of such part.


                                S. 1668

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1668, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inclusion of 
certain active duty service in the reserve components as qualifying 
service for purposes of Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1678

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1678, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time 
homebuyer tax credit, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1681

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1681, a bill 
to ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice 
insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market 
allocations to the detriment of competition and consumers.


                                S. 1683

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1683, a bill to apply 
recaptured taxpayer investments toward reducing the national debt.


                                S. 1686

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1686, a bill to 
place reasonable safeguards on the use of surveillance and other 
authorities under the USA PATRIOT Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1730

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1730, a bill to provide for 
minimum loss ratios for health insurance coverage.


                                S. 1731

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1731, a bill to require 
certain mortgagees to make loan modifications, to establish a grant 
program for State and local government mediation programs, to create 
databases on foreclosures, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1740

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1740, a bill to promote the 
economic security and safety of victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1744

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1744, a bill to require 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe 
regulations to ensure that all crewmembers on air carriers have proper 
qualifications and experience, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1748

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1748, a bill to 
establish a program of research, recovery, and other activities to 
provide for the recovery of the southern sea otter.


                                S. 1781

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1781, a bill to 
provide for a demonstration program to reduce frequent use of health 
services by Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic illnesses by providing 
coordinated care management and community support services.


                                S. 1832

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1832, a bill to increase 
loan limits for small business concerns, provide for low interest 
refinancing for small business concerns, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1833

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1833, a bill to amend 
the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 
2009 to establish an earlier effective date for various consumer 
protections, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1834

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1834, a bill to amend the Animal 
Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research 
facilities are obtained legally.


                                S. 1859

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1859, a bill to 
reinstate Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive 
payments.


                              S. RES. 312

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Lugar) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 312, a resolution expressing the sense of the 
Senate on empowering and strengthening the United

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States Agency for International Development (USAID).


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2699

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), 
the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 2699 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 3548, a bill to amend the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for the temporary availability of 
certain additional emergency unemployment compensation, and for other 
purposes.

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