[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 69 (Wednesday, May 18, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3106-S3107]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 48

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 48, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of 
pharmacists in National Health Services Corps programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 164

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, the name of the Senator 
from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 164, a bill 
to repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to 
vendors by government entities.


                                 S. 245

  At the request of Mr. Corker, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 245, a bill to 
reduce Federal spending in a responsible manner.


                                 S. 486

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 486, a bill to 
amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance protections for 
members of the uniformed services relating to mortgages, mortgage 
foreclosure, and eviction, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 489

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 489, a bill to 
require certain mortgagees to evaluate loans for modifications, to 
establish a grant program for State and local government mediation 
programs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 491

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 491, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to recognize the service in the reserve 
components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with 
status as veterans under law, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 547

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 547, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
Education to establish an award program recognizing excellence 
exhibited by public school system employees providing services to 
students in pre-kindergarten through higher education.


                                 S. 555

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 555, a bill to end 
discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or 
gender identity in public schools, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 565

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 565, a bill to establish an 
employment-based immigrant visa for alien entrepreneurs who have 
received significant capital from investors to establish a business in 
the United States.


                                 S. 567

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) and the Senator 
from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were added as cosponsors of S. 567, a bill to 
amend the small, rural school achievement program and the rural and 
low-income school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


                                 S. 596

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 596, a bill to establish 
a grant program to benefit victims of sex trafficking, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 604

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 604, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of 
marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor 
services under part B of the Medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 615

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 615, a bill to 
improve the accountability and transparency in infrastructure spending 
by requiring a life-cycle cost analysis of major infrastructure 
projects, providing the flexibility to use alternate infrastructure 
type bidding procedures to reduce project costs, and requiring the use 
of design standards to improve efficiency and save taxpayer dollars.


                                 S. 658

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), 
the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) were added as cosponsors of S. 658, a bill to 
provide for the preservation of the Department of Defense of 
documentary evidence of the Department of Defense on incidents of 
sexual assault and sexual harassment in the military, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 668

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 668, a bill to remove 
unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from seniors' personal health 
decisions by repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.


                                 S. 701

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 701, a bill to amend section 
1120A(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to 
assure comparability of opportunity for educationally disadvantaged 
students.


                                 S. 707

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 707, a bill to amend 
the Animal Welfare Act to provide further protection for puppies.


                                 S. 712

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 712, a bill to repeal the 
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.


                                 S. 722

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 722, a bill to strengthen 
and protect Medicare hospice programs.


                                 S. 726

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
Paul) were added as cosponsors of S. 726, a bill to rescind $45 billion 
of unobligated discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 755

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 755, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an offset against income tax 
refunds to pay for restitution and other State judicial debts that are 
past-due.


                                 S. 798

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 798, a bill to provide an 
amnesty period during which veterans and their family members can 
register certain firearms in the National Firearms Registration and 
Transfer Record, and for other purposes.

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                                 S. 800

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 800, 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. 838

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 838, a bill to amend the Toxic 
Substances Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the Environmental 
Protection Agency with respect to certain sporting good articles, and 
to exempt those articles from a definition under that Act.


                                 S. 906

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 906, a bill to prohibit taxpayer 
funded abortions and to provide for conscience protections, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 946

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 946, a bill to establish an 
Office of Rural Education Policy in the Department of Education.


                                 S. 954

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 954, a bill to promote the 
strengthening of the Haitian private sector.


                                 S. 979

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 979, a bill to designate as 
wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the 
Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for 
the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United 
States.


                                 S. 996

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 996, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the new markets tax 
credit through 2016, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1000

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1000, a bill to promote 
energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1009

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1009, a bill to rescind certain Federal funds 
identified by States as unwanted and use the funds to reduce the 
Federal debt.


                                S. 1014

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1014, a bill to 
provide for additional Federal district judgeships.


                              S. RES. 180

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 180, a resolution expressing support for 
peaceful demonstrations and universal freedoms in Syria and condemning 
the human rights violations by the Assad regime.

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