[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 25, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3339-S3341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 139

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 139, a bill to provide that 
certain tax planning strategies are not patentable, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 146

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 146, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity 
credit to certain recently discharged veterans.


                                 S. 376

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 376, a bill to amend 
title 5, United States Code, to provide that persons having seriously 
delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for Federal employment.


                                 S. 434

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 434, 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. 491

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) 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. 534

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 534, 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.


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 539, a bill 
to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to 
extend health information technology assistance eligibility to 
behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse professionals and 
facilities, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 576

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 576, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for 
physical education.


                                 S. 613

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) 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. 643

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 643, a bill to amend title 
XIX of the Social Security Act to direct Medicaid EHR incentive 
payments to federally qualified health centers and rural health 
clinics.


                                 S. 658

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 658, a bill to provide for the 
preservation by 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. 705

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 705, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate housing and 
infrastructure grants.


                                 S. 742

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 742, a bill to 
amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to set the age 
at which Members of Congress are eligible for an annuity to the same 
age as the retirement age under the Social Security Act.


                                 S. 752

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 752, a bill to 
establish a comprehensive interagency response to reduce lung cancer 
mortality in a timely manner.


                                 S. 769

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Vermont

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(Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) and the Senator from 
Alaska (Mr. Begich) were added as cosponsors of S. 769, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to prevent the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs from prohibiting the use of service dogs on Department of 
Veterans Affairs property.


                                 S. 818

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 818, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of 
outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-
day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing 
facility services under Medicare.


                                 S. 855

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 855, a bill to 
make available such funds as may be necessary to ensure that members of 
the Armed Forces, including reserve components thereof, continue to 
receive pay and allowances for active service performed when a funding 
gap caused by the failure to enact interim or full-year appropriations 
for the Armed Forces occurs, which results in the furlough of non-
emergency personnel and the curtailment of Government activities and 
services.


                                 S. 866

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor 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. 892

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Coburn) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 892, a bill to establish the Department of Energy 
and the Environment, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 946

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


                                 S. 960

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 960, a bill to provide 
for a study on issues relating to access to intravenous immune globulin 
(IVG) for Medicare beneficiaries in all care settings and a 
demonstration project to examine the benefits of providing coverage and 
payment for items and services necessary to administer IVG in the home.


                                 S. 968

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) 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. 972

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 972, a bill to amend titles 23 and 49, 
United States Code, to establish procedures to advance the use of 
cleaner construction equipment on Federal-aid highway and public 
transportation construction projects, to make the acquisition and 
installation of emission control technology an eligible expense in 
carrying out such projects, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 996

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Wyden) 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. 1035

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1035, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include automated fire 
sprinkler systems as section 179 property and classify certain 
automated fire sprinkler systems as 15-year property for purposes of 
depreciation.


                                S. 1048

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1048, a bill to expand 
sanctions imposed with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran, North 
Korea, and Syria, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1049

  At the request of Mr. Kyl, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1049, a bill to lower health 
premiums and increase choice for small business.


                                S. 1056

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1056, a bill to ensure that 
all users of the transportation system, including pedestrians, 
bicyclists, transit users, children, older individuals, and individuals 
with disabilities, are able to travel safely and conveniently on and 
across federally funded streets and highways.


                             S. CON. RES. 4

  At the request of Mr. Levin, his name 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. Reid, his name and the names of the Senator 
from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), 
the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus), the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the 
Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. 
Carper), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the 
Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Cochran), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
DeMint), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from 
Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New York (Mrs. 
Gillibrand), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator 
from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), 
the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), 
the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Heller), the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from South Dakota 
(Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator 
from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), 
the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Kyl), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Lugar), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the 
Senator from

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Nebraska (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), 
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor), the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Reed), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from New York (Mr. 
Schumer), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the 
Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. 
Stabenow), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall), the 
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Vitter), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and 
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as cosponsors 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. RES. 185

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Coburn), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 185, 
a resolution reaffirming the commitment of the United States to a 
negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through 
direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, reaffirming opposition to the 
inclusion of Hamas in a unity government unless it is willing to accept 
peace with Israel and renounce violence, and declaring that Palestinian 
efforts to gain recognition of a state outside direct negotiations 
demonstrates absence of a good faith commitment to peace negotiations, 
and will have implications for continued United States aid.

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