[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 22 (Monday, February 22, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S620-S622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 182

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 182, a bill to amend 
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies 
to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of 
sex, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 213

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 213, a bill to amend 
title 49, United States Code, to ensure air passengers have access to 
necessary services while on a grounded air carrier, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 471

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Begich) 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. 504

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 504, a bill to 
redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy 
and Marine Corps.


                                 S. 571

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 571, a bill to strengthen 
the Nation's research efforts to identify the causes and cure of 
psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, expand psoriasis and psoriatic 
arthritis data collection, and study access to and quality of care for 
people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 656

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 656, a bill to provide for 
the adjustment of status of certain nationals of Liberia to that of 
lawful permanent residents.


                                 S. 678

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 678, a bill to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 796

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 796, a bill to modify the 
requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain land, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 841

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Bingaman) were added as cosponsors 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. 854

  At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 854, a bill to 
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to update a program to 
provide assistance for the planning, design, and construction of 
treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat municipal 
combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows, and to require 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to update 
certain guidance used to develop and determine the financial capability 
of communities to implement clean water infrastructure programs.


                                 S. 938

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 938, a bill to 
require the President to call a White House Conference on Children and 
Youth in 2010.


                                 S. 987

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 987, a bill to protect girls 
in developing countries through the prevention of child marriage, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1039

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1039, a bill to 
provide grants for the renovation, modernization or construction of law 
enforcement facilities.


                                S. 1055

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1055, a bill to grant the 
congressional gold medal, collectively, to the 100th Infantry Battalion 
and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, United States Army, in 
recognition of their dedicated service during World War II.


                                S. 1066

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1066, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to 
ambulance services under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1067

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) 
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. 1173

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr.

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Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1173, a bill to establish a 
demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as 
health care professionals, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1203

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) 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. 1237

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1237, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the grant program for 
homeless veterans with special needs to include male homeless veterans 
with minor dependents and to establish a grant program for 
reintegration of homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with 
children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1244

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1244, a bill to 
amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new 
mothers, to provide for a performance standard for breast pumps, and to 
provide tax incentives to encourage breastfeeding.


                                S. 1400

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) 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. 1414

  At the request of Mr. Bond, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1414, a bill to confer upon the United States Court of Federal Claims 
jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal 
or equitable claim against the United States to receive just 
compensation for the taking of certain lands in the State of Missouri, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1480

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1480, a bill to amend the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to establish a program to improve the 
health and education of children through grants to expand school 
breakfast programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1547

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1547, a bill to amend title 38, United States 
Code, and the United States Housing Act of 1937 to enhance and expand 
the assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to homeless veterans and 
veterans at risk of homelessness, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1589

  At the request of Mr. Specter, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1589, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify 
the incentives for the production of biodiesel.
  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1589, supra.


                                S. 1610

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1611

  At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1611, a bill to provide 
collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by 
States or their political subdivisions.


                                S. 1646

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1646, a bill to keep 
Americans working by strengthening and expanding short-time 
compensation programs that provide employers with an alternative to 
layoffs.


                                S. 1681

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, her name 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. 1743

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1743, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the rehabilitation credit, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1756

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1756, a bill to amend the 
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify the appropriate 
standard of proof.


                                S. 1791

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1791, a bill to 
establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression 
Demonstration Incentive Program within the Department of Education to 
promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire 
suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing 
and dormitories, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1799

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1799, a bill to amend 
the Truth in Lending Act, to establish fair and transparent practices 
related to the marketing and provision of overdraft coverage programs 
at depository institutions, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1859

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


                                S. 2052

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2052, a bill 
to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of 
Energy to carry out a research and development and demonstration 
program to reduce manufacturing and construction costs relating to 
nuclear reactors, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2128

  At the request of Mr. LeMieux, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) 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. 2736

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2736, a bill to reduce the 
rape kit backlog and for other purposes.


                                S. 2747

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were 
added as cosponsors 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. 2869

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and 
the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns) were added as cosponsors 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. 2904

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2904, a bill to 
amend title

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10, United States Code, to require emergency contraception to be 
available at all military health care treatment facilities.


                                S. 2924

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) and the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) were added as cosponsors of S. 2924, a bill to 
reauthorize the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in the wake of its 
Centennial, and its programs and activities.


                                S. 2946

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2946, a bill to 
direct the Secretary of the Army to take action with respect to the 
Chicago waterway system to prevent the migration of bighead and silver 
carps into Lake Michigan, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2961

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2961, a bill 
to provide debt relief to Haiti, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2977

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 2977, a bill to prohibit the use of Department of Justice funds 
for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of 
individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.


                                S. 2983

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2983, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from employer 
social security taxes with respect to previously unemployed 
individuals, and to provide a credit for the retention of such 
individuals for at least 1 year.


                                S. 2989

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2989, a bill to 
improve the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2990

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2990, a bill to establish 
an earmark moratorium for fiscal years 2010 and 2011.


                                S. 2998

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2998, a bill to temporarily expand the V 
nonimmigrant visa category to include Haitians whose petition for a 
family-sponsored immigrant visa was approved on or before January 12, 
2010.


                                S. 3003

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3003, a bill to enhance Federal 
efforts focused on public awareness and education about the risks and 
dangers associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome.


                              S.J. RES. 27

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 27, a joint 
resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States.


                              S. RES. 400

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 400, a resolution 
urging the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to address 
instability in Yemen.


                              S. RES. 404

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 404, a 
resolution supporting full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace 
Agreement and other efforts to promote peace and stability in Sudan, 
and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 409

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Casey) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 409, a resolution calling on members of the 
Parliament in Uganda to reject the proposed ``Anti-Homosexuality 
Bill'', and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 416

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 416, a resolution 
amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to provide for cloture to be 
invoked with less than a three-fifths majority after additional debate.

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