[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 10, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1359-S1360]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 78

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 78, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a full exclusion for gain from 
certain small business stocks.


                                 S. 557

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 557, a bill to encourage, 
enhance, and integrate Silver Alert plans throughout the United States, 
to authorize grants for the assistance of organizations to find missing 
adults, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 582

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 582, a bill to amend the 
Truth in Lending Act to protect consumers from usury, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 634

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 634, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for 
physical education.


                                 S. 653

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 653, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury 
to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the writing of 
the Star-Spangled Banner, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 749

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 749, a bill to improve and expand 
geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 12 students in the 
United States by improving professional development programs for 
kindergarten through grade 12 teachers offered through institutions of 
higher education.


                                 S. 938

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) 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. 1067

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1137

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1137, a bill to amend 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a 
Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee.


                                S. 1156

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) 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. 1204

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1204, a bill to 
amend the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
Enhancement Act of 2001 to require the provision of chiropractic care 
and services to veterans at all Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
centers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1221

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1221, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more appropriate 
payment amounts for drugs and biologicals under part B of the Medicare 
Program by excluding customary prompt pay discounts extended to 
wholesalers from the manufacturer's average sales price.


                                S. 1256

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1256, a bill to amend 
title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish financial incentives 
for States to expand the provision of long-term services and supports 
to Medicaid beneficiaries who do not reside in an institution, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1273

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) were added as cosponsors of S. 1273, a 
bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the 
establishment of permanent national surveillance systems for multiple 
sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological diseases and 
disorders.


                                S. 1558

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Burris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1558, a bill to amend title 
37, United States Code, to provide travel and transportation allowances 
for members of the reserve components for long distance and certain 
other travel to inactive duty training.


                                S. 1584

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1584, a bill to prohibit 
employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender 
identity.


                                S. 1604

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1604, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit 
for eldercare expenses.


                                S. 1681

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) 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. 1700

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from California

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(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1700, a bill to require 
certain issuers to disclose payments to foreign governments for the 
commercial development of oil, natural gas, and minerals, to express 
the sense of Congress that the President should disclose any payment 
relating to the commercial development of oil, natural gas, and 
minerals on Federal land, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1744

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) and the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) were added as cosponsors 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. 1859

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1859, a bill to reinstate Federal matching of 
State spending of child support incentive payments.


                                S. 2781

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the 
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the Senator 
from Virginia (Mr. Warner) 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. 2816

  At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. DeMint) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2816, a bill to 
repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation 
Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and 
adoption assistance programs and to allow the adoption credit to be 
claimed in the year expenses are incurred, regardless of when the 
adoption becomes final.


                                S. 2960

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2960, a bill to exempt 
aliens who are admitted as refugees or granted asylum and are employed 
overseas by the Federal Government from the 1-year physical presence 
requirement for adjustment of status to that of aliens lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2994

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2994, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on excessive 2009 
bonuses received from certain major recipients of Federal emergency 
economic assistance, to limit the deduction allowable for such bonuses, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 3036

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the 
Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added as cosponsors of S. 
3036, a bill to establish the Office of the National Alzheimer's 
Project.


                                S. 3056

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3056, a bill to amend 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal a section of that Act relating 
to exportation and importation of natural gas.


                                S. 3058

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 3058, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act 
to reauthorize the special diabetes programs for Type I diabetes and 
Indians under that Act.


                                S. 3095

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), 
the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Johanns), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator 
from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 3095, a bill to reduce the deficit by 
establishing discretionary caps for non-security spending.


                              S. RES. 412

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 412, a resolution designating September 
2010 as ``National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month''.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3447

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Ensign) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3447 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 4213, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.

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