[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 74 (Thursday, May 26, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3428-S3430]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 195

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 195, a bill to 
reinstate Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive 
payments.


                                 S. 274

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 274, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to medication therapy 
management services under the Medicare prescription drug program.


                                 S. 311

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 311, a bill to provide for 
the coverage of medically necessary food under Federal health programs 
and private health insurance.


                                 S. 341

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, the names of the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts) were added as cosponsors of S. 341, a bill to require the 
rescission or termination of Federal contracts and subcontracts with 
enemies of the United States.


                                 S. 394

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 394, a bill 
to amend the Sherman Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels 
illegal.


                                 S. 483

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 483, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of 
clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing 
clinical psychologist services under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 501

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 501, a bill to establish 
pilot projects under the Medicare program to provide incentives for 
home health agencies to utilize home monitoring and communications 
technologies.


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 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. 570

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 570, a bill to 
prohibit the Department of Justice from tracking and cataloguing the 
purchases of multiple rifles and shotguns.


                                 S. 598

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 598, a bill to 
repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State 
regulation of marriage.


                                 S. 658

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Brown), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and

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the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) 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. 699

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 699, a bill to 
authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to demonstrate 
the commercial application of integrated systems for long-term 
geological storage of carbon dioxide, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 738

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 738, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of comprehensive 
Alzheimer's disease and related dementia diagnosis and services in 
order to improve care and outcomes for Americans living with 
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias by improving detection, 
diagnosis, and care planning.


                                 S. 755

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) 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. 756

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 756, a bill to 
amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for the public 
availability of Medicare claims data.


                                 S. 757

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 757, a bill to 
provide incentives to encourage the development and implementation of 
technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute sources on a 
significant scale using direct air capture technologies.


                                 S. 792

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 792, a bill to authorize 
the waiver of certain debts relating to assistance provided to 
individuals and households since 2005.


                                 S. 800

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) 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. 857

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 857, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to aid gifted and 
talented learners, including high-ability learners not formally 
identified as gifted.


                                 S. 868

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Corker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 868, a bill to restore the 
longstanding partnership between the States and the Federal Government 
in managing the Medicaid program.


                                 S. 891

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 891, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of 
attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice 
patients.


                                 S. 895

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 895, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to invest in innovation 
for education.


                                 S. 906

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) 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. 948

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 948, a bill to promote the deployment of plug-in 
electric drive vehicles, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 951

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 951, a bill to improve 
the provision of Federal transition, rehabilitation, vocational, and 
unemployment benefits to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 952

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 952, a bill to authorize 
the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien 
students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the 
United States as children and for other purposes.


                                 S. 958

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 958, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of payments to 
children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs.


                                 S. 968

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added 
as cosponsors 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 name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor 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. 998

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 998, a bill to amend title 
IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require 
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in the case of airline pilots 
who are required by regulation to retire at age 60, to compute the 
actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity 
commencing at age 60.


                                S. 1025

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) 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. 1039

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1042

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. DeMint) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1042, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medicare 
payment option for

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patients and physicians or practitioners to freely contract, without 
penalty, for Medicare fee-for-service items and services, while 
allowing Medicare beneficiaries to use their Medicare benefits.


                                S. 1043

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1043, a bill to amend the 
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to promote energy security 
through the production of petroleum from oil sands, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1048

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, his name 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.
  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1048, supra.


                                S. 1049

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


                                S. 1059

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator 
from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) 
and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1059, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
provide liability protections for volunteer practitioners at health 
centers under section 330 of such Act.


                                S. 1064

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1064, a bill to make 
effective the proposed rule of the Food and Drug Administration 
relating to sunscreen drug products, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 150

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 150, a resolution calling for the protection of 
religious minority rights and freedoms in the Arab world.


                              S. RES. 162

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator 
from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 
162, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that stable and 
affordable housing is an essential component of an effective strategy 
for the prevention, treatment, and care of human immunodeficiency 
virus, and that the United States should make a commitment to providing 
adequate funding for the development of housing as a response to the 
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome pandemic.


                              S. RES. 172

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) 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. 185

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator 
from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Nelson) 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.
  At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. Res. 185, supra.


                              S. RES. 188

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 188, a resolution opposing 
State bailouts by the Federal Government.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 360

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 360 intended 
to be proposed to S. 990, a bill to provide for an additional temporary 
extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small 
Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes.

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