[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 20, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S52-S54]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 428

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 428, a bill to allow 
travel between the United States and Cuba.


                                 S. 476

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 476, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to reduce the minimum distance of travel 
necessary for reimbursement of covered beneficiaries of the military 
health care system for travel for specialty health care.


                                 S. 491

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor 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. 624

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) were added 
as cosponsors 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. 663

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 663, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to establish the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation 
Fund to provide benefits to certain individuals who served in the 
United States merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and 
the Naval Transport Service) during World War II.


                                 S. 841

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 841, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Transportation to study and establish a motor vehicle 
safety standard that provides for a means of alerting blind and other 
pedestrians of motor vehicle operation.


                                 S. 870

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 870, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for 
renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from 
biomass for on-site use and to modify the credit period for certain 
facilities producing electricity from open-loop biomass.


                                 S. 891

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the names of the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Bayh) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 891, a bill to require annual 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. 1005

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1005, a bill to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act to 
improve water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States.


                                S. 1067

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) and the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added as cosponsors of S. 1067, a 
bill to support stabilization and lasting peace in northern Uganda and 
areas affected by the Lord's Resistance Army through development of a 
regional strategy to support multilateral efforts to successfully 
protect civilians and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's 
Resistance Army and to authorize funds for humanitarian relief and 
reconstruction, reconciliation, and transitional justice, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1076

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator 
from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the 
Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. 
Warner) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1076, a bill to improve the accuracy of fur product 
labeling, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1111

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) were added as cosponsors of S. 1111, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into agreements with 
States to resolve outstanding claims for reimbursement under the 
Medicare program relating to the Special Disability Workload project.


                                S. 1156

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) 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 
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) 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. 1203

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1203, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the research credit 
through 2010 and to increase and make permanent the alternative 
simplified research credit, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1313

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) 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. 1317

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1317, a bill to 
increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the 
transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives 
licenses to known or suspected dangerous terrorists.


                                S. 1389

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the name of the Senator 
from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1389, a bill 
to clarify the exemption for certain annuity contracts and insurance 
policies from Federal regulation under the Securities Act of 1933.


                                S. 1445

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1445, a bill 
to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health of 
children and reduce the

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occurrence of sudden unexpected infant death and to enhance public 
health activities related to stillbirth.


                                S. 1582

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1582, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax to 
facilitate the accelerated development and deployment of advanced 
safety systems for commercial motor vehicles.


                                S. 1744

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) 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. 1771

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1771, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program of 
grants to newly accredited allopathic medical schools for the purpose 
of increasing the supply of physicians.


                                S. 1787

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1787, a bill to reauthorize 
the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1859

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1859, a bill to reinstate Federal matching of 
State spending of child support incentive payments.


                                S. 2128

  At the request of Mr. LeMieux, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2128, a bill to provide for 
the establishment of the Office of Deputy Secretary for Health Care 
Fraud Prevention.


                                S. 2743

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kirk) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2743, a bill to amend title 10, United 
States Code, to provide for the award of a military service medal to 
members of the Armed Forces who served honorably during the Cold War, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2747

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2747, a bill to amend the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide consistent and 
reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land and water 
conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
generations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2758

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2758, a bill to 
amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
1998 to establish a national food safety training, education, 
extension, outreach, and technical assistance program for agricultural 
producers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2760

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the names of the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) and 
the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 2760, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for 
an increase in the annual amount authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out comprehensive service 
programs for homeless veterans.


                                S. 2781

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) 
and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2781, a bill to change references in Federal law to mental retardation 
to references to an intellectual disability, and to change references 
to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with 
an intellectual disability.


                                S. 2789

  At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2789, a bill to establish a 
scholarship program to encourage outstanding undergraduate and graduate 
students in mission-critical fields to pursue a career in the Federal 
Government.


                                S. 2812

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2812, a bill to amend the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry 
out programs to develop and demonstrate two small modular nuclear 
reactor designs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2853

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 2853, a bill to 
establish a Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action, to 
assure the long-term fiscal stability and economic security of the 
Federal Government of the United States, and to expand future 
prosperity growth for all Americans.
  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor 
of S. 2853, supra.


                                S. 2858

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2858, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to establish an Office of Mitochondrial 
Disease at the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2868

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2868, a bill to 
provide increased access to the General Services Administration's 
Schedules Program by the American Red Cross and State and local 
governments.


                                S. 2869

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2869, a bill to 
increase loan limits for small business concerns, to provide for low 
interest refinancing for small business concerns, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2886

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2886, a bill to prohibit 
certain affiliations (between commercial banking and investment banking 
companies), and for other purposes.


                                S. 2908

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2908, a bill to amend the 
Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Secretary of Energy 
to publish a final rule that establishes a uniform efficiency 
descriptor and accompanying test methods for covered water heaters, and 
for other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 22

  At the request of Mr. LeMieux, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 22, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relative to requiring a balanced budget and granting the 
President of the United States the power of line-item veto.


                              S.J. RES. 23

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 23, a joint 
resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Election 
Commission with respect to travel on private aircraft by Federal 
candidates.


                              S. RES. 316

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 316, a resolution 
calling upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the 
United States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity 
concerning issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and 
genocide documented in the United

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States record relating to the Armenian Genocide, and for other 
purposes.


                              S. RES. 373

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 
and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 373, a resolution designating the month of 
February 2010 as ``National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and 
Prevention Month''.


                              S. RES. 381

  At the request of Mr. Specter, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. Res. 381, a resolution designating the week of February 1 through 
February 5, 2010, as ``National School Counseling Week''.

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