[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 77 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4082-S4084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 292

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 292, a bill to 
repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to 
vendors by government entities.


                                 S. 334

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 334, a bill to authorize 
the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations 
treatment) to the products of Moldova.


                                 S. 504

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Johanns), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Kaufman), the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 504, a bill to redesignate the 
Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.


                                 S. 632

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 632, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to require that the payment of the manufacturers' 
excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly.


                                 S. 752

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota

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(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 752, a bill to reform the 
financing of Senate elections, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1445

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) 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 occurrence of sudden unexpected infant death and to enhance public 
health activities related to stillbirth.


                                S. 1674

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1674, a bill to provide for an 
exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the 
Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who 
participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.


                                S. 1788

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1788, a bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to 
issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to 
patients, direct-care registered nurses, and all other health care 
workers by establishing a safe patient handling and injury prevention 
standard, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2781

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor 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. 2900

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2900, a bill to establish 
a research, development, and technology demonstration program to 
improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in combined cycle and 
simple cycle power generation systems.


                                S. 3039

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 
3039, a bill to prevent drunk driving injuries and fatalities, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 3058

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. LeMieux) was added as a cosponsor 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. 3141

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3141, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for treatment of 
low-income housing credits, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3223

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3223, a bill to 
amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the 
Public Health Service Act to provide parity under group health plans 
and group health insurance coverage for the provision of benefits for 
prosthetics and custom orthotics and benefits for other medical and 
surgical services.


                                S. 3227

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3227, a bill to authorize the 
Archivist of the United States to make grants to States for the 
preservation and dissemination of historical records.


                                S. 3248

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the 
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Lautenberg), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator 
from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were added as cosponsors of S. 3248, 
a bill to designate the Department of the Interior Building in 
Washington, District of Columbia, as the ``Stewart Lee Udall Department 
of the Interior Building''.


                                S. 3250

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3250, a bill to provide for 
the training of Federal building personnel, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3262

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3262, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the volume cap for 
private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the 
furnishing of water and sewage facilities.


                                S. 3266

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3266, a bill to ensure the availability of loan 
guarantees for rural homeowners.


                                S. 3278

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3278, a bill to establish 
the Meth Project Prevention Campaign Grant Program.


                                S. 3293

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3293, a bill to 
reauthorize the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004, to 
provide assistance to Best Buddies to support the expansion and 
development of mentoring programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3305

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3305, a bill to amend the 
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay the full cost 
of oil spills, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3306

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 3306, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 3326

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3326, a bill to provide 
grants to States for low-income housing projects in lieu of low-income 
housing credits, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
allow a 5-year carryback of the low-income housing credit, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 3339

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 3339, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
provide a reduced rate of excise tax on beer produced domestically by 
certain small producers.
  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
3339, supra.


                                S. 3345

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3345, a bill to 
amend title 46, United States Code, to remove the cap on punitive 
damages established by the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Company v. 
Baker.


                                S. 3346

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3346, a bill to 
increase the limits on liability under the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act.


                                S. 3358

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3358, a bill to amend the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit the conduct 
of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of 
California, Oregon, and Washington.


                                S. 3361

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris) were 
added

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as cosponsors of S. 3361, a bill to require the Secretary of Defense to 
take illegal subsidization into account in evaluating proposals for 
contracts for major defense acquisition programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3362

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3362, a bill to amend the 
Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to provide competitive grants to publicly funded 
schools to implement effective technologies to reduce air pollutants 
(as defined in section 302 of the Clean Air Act), including greenhouse 
gas emissions, in accordance with that Act.


                                S. 3372

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3372, a bill to modify the 
date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
and applicable States may require permits for discharges from certain 
vessels.


                              S.J. RES. 29

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) were 
added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 29, a joint resolution approving the 
renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and 
Democracy Act of 2003.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3920

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3920 intended 
to be proposed to S. 3217, an original bill to promote the financial 
stability of the United States by improving accountability and 
transparency in the financial system, to end ``too big to fail'', to 
protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers 
from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3922

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3922 
intended to be proposed to S. 3217, an original bill to promote the 
financial stability of the United States by improving accountability 
and transparency in the financial system, to end ``too big to fail'', 
to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect 
consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other 
purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3931

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3931 intended 
to be proposed to S. 3217, an original bill to promote the financial 
stability of the United States by improving accountability and 
transparency in the financial system, to end ``too big to fail'', to 
protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers 
from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3978

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3978 intended to 
be proposed to S. 3217, an original bill to promote the financial 
stability of the United States by improving accountability and 
transparency in the financial system, to end ``too big to fail'', to 
protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers 
from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4091

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 4091 intended to be proposed to S. 3217, an 
original bill to promote the financial stability of the United States 
by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, 
to end ``too big to fail'', to protect the American taxpayer by ending 
bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services 
practices, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4115

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Kaufman), the Senator from 
New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Burris), the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), 
the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. 
Udall), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Webb), the 
Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. 
Murray), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) 
were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 4115 proposed to S. 3217, an 
original bill to promote the financial stability of the United States 
by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, 
to end ``too big to fail'', to protect the American taxpayer by ending 
bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services 
practices, and for other purposes.

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