[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 71 (Monday, May 23, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3225-S3226]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 89

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 89, a bill to repeal the 
imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by 
government entities.


                                 S. 248

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 248, a bill to allow an earlier 
start for State health care coverage innovation waivers under the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                 S. 296

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 296, a bill 
to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide the Food 
and Drug Administration with improved capacity to prevent drug 
shortages.


                                 S. 366

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 366, a bill to 
require disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission of certain 
sanctionable activities, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 367

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, the name of the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 367, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the work opportunity 
credit to small businesses which hire individuals who are members of 
the Ready Reserve or National Guard, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 382

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Nevada (Mr. Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 382, a bill to amend 
the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional 
recreational uses of National Forest System land that is subject to ski 
area permits, and for other permits.


                                 S. 406

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 406, a bill to modify the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to require specific 
evidence for access to business records and other tangible things, and 
provide appropriate transition procedures, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 437

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 437, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to provide each individual taxpayer a receipt for an income 
tax payment which itemizes the portion of the payment which is 
allocable to various Government spending categories.


                                 S. 463

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 463, a bill to amend part B 
of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to 
promote effective STEM teaching and learning.


                                 S. 491

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) 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. 506

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 506, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and take 
action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.


                                 S. 555

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) 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. 613

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 613, a bill to amend the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing 
party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be 
awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses.


                                 S. 641

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 641, a bill to provide 
100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and 
sanitation on a sustainable basis within six years by improving the 
capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator 
Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.


                                 S. 649

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 649, a bill to expand 
the research and awareness activities of the National Institute of 
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention with respect to scleroderma, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 668

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) 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. 672

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 672, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the 
railroad track maintenance credit.


                                 S. 696

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 696, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to treat Vet Centers as Department 
of Veterans Affairs facilities for purposes of payments or allowances 
for beneficiary travel to Department facilities, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 737

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 737, a bill to replace the 
Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a 5-person 
Commission, to bring the Bureau into the regular appropriations 
process, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 750

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 750, a bill to reform 
the financing of Senate elections, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 752

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 752, a bill to establish a comprehensive interagency 
response to reduce lung cancer mortality in a timely manner.


                                 S. 812

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 812, a bill to build 
capacity and provide support at the leadership level for successful 
school turnaround efforts.


                                 S. 866

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 866, a bill to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to modify the per-fiscal year calculation of days of certain 
active duty or active service used to reduce the minimum age at which a 
member of a reserve component of the uniformed services may retire for 
non-regular service.


                                 S. 881

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 881, a bill to amend the 
Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the 
terms of rental-purchase agreements, including

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disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide 
substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 906

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) 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 Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 946, a bill to establish 
an Office of Rural Education Policy in the Department of Education.


                                 S. 968

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 968, a bill to prevent 
online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual 
property, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 983

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 983, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow a deduction for 
amounts paid or incurred by a responsible party relating to a discharge 
of oil.


                                S. 1004

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1004, a bill to support 
Promise Neighborhoods.


                                S. 1023

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1023, a bill 
to authorize the President 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. 1025

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1025, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
enhance the national defense through empowerment of the National Guard, 
enhancement of the functions of the National Guard Bureau, and 
improvement of Federal-State military coordination in domestic 
emergency response, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1034

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) were added as cosponsors of S. 1034, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross 
income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for 
a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1039

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1039, a bill to impose sanctions on persons 
responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, for 
the conspiracy to defraud the Russian Federation of taxes on corporate 
profits through fraudulent transactions and lawsuits against Hermitage, 
and for other gross violations of human rights in the Russian 
Federation, and for other purposes.


                             S. CON. RES. 4

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 4, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress that an appropriate site on 
Chaplains Hill in Arlington National Cemetery should be provided for a 
memorial marker to honor the memory of the Jewish chaplains who died 
while on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States.


                            S. CON. RES. 13

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 13, a concurrent 
resolution honoring the service and sacrifice of members of the United 
States Armed Forces who are serving in, or have served in, Operation 
Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn.


                            S. CON. RES. 17

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 17, a 
concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Taiwan 
should be accorded observer status in the International Civil Aviation 
Organization (ICAO).


                              S. RES. 132

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the names of the Senator 
from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 132, a resolution 
recognizing and honoring the zoos and aquariums of the United States.


                              S. RES. 172

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 172, a 
resolution recognizing the importance of cancer research and the 
contributions made by scientists and clinicians across the United 
States who are dedicated to finding a cure for cancer, and designating 
May 2011, as ``National Cancer Research Month''.


                              S. RES. 175

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 175, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to ongoing violations 
of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia and the 
importance of a peaceful and just resolution to the conflict within 
Georgia's internationally recognized borders.

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