[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 107 (Monday, July 18, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4641-S4643]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 20

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 20, a bill to protect 
American job creation by striking the job-killing Federal employer 
mandate.


                                 S. 211

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 211, a bill to provide for 
a biennial budget process and a biennial appropriations process and to 
enhance oversight and performance of the Federal Government.


                                 S. 384

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) and the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 384, a bill to amend title 39, United States Code, 
to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a 
semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research.


                                 S. 411

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 411, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to enter into agreements with States and nonprofit 
organizations to collaborate in the provision of case management 
services associated with certain supported housing programs for 
veterans, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 418

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 418, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air 
Patrol.


                                 S. 542

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 542, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to authorize space-available travel on 
military aircraft for members of the reserve components, a member or 
former member of a reserve component who is eligible for retired pay 
but for age, widows and widowers of retired members, and dependents.


                                 S. 609

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 609, a bill to provide for the 
establishment of a committee to assess the effects of certain Federal 
regulatory mandates.


                                 S. 633

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 633, a bill to 
prevent fraud in small business contracting, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 641

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) 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 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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. 735

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 735, a bill to reauthorize the Belarus 
Democracy Act of 2004.


                                 S. 752

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 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. 891

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka) 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. 965

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 965, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for 
the costs of certain infertility treatments, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 966

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 966, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide for osteoporosis and related bone 
disease education, research, and surveillance, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 979

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) 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. 1013

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1013, a bill 
to renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies 
in State child welfare programs.


                                S. 1048

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) 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. 1122

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1122, a bill to amend title 
23, United States Code, to establish standards limiting the amounts of 
arsenic and lead contained in glass beads used in pavement markings.


                                S. 1173

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1173, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to

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modernize payments for ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare 
program.


                                S. 1176

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1176, a bill to amend the Horse Protection Act to 
prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, 
possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other 
equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1206

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1206, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require drug 
manufacturers to provide drug rebates for drugs dispensed to low-income 
individuals under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program.


                                S. 1245

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Coats) and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1245, a bill to provide for the establishment of 
the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities 
in the Near East and South Central Asia.


                                S. 1262

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1262, a bill to improve 
Indian education, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1265

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1265, a bill to amend the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide consistent and 
reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land and water 
conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
generations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1299

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1299, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 
centennial of the establishment of Lions Clubs International.


                                S. 1340

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) and the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby) were added as cosponsors of S. 1340, a bill to 
cut, cap, and balance the Federal budget.


                                S. 1360

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from 
New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were added as cosponsors of S. 1360, a bill to 
amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require shareholder 
authorization before a public company may make certain political 
expenditures, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1369

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1369, a bill to amend 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exempt the conduct of 
silvicultural activities from national pollutant discharge elimination 
system permitting requirements.


                                S. 1375

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1375, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that corporate tax 
benefits based upon stock option compensation expenses be consistent 
with accounting expenses shown in corporate financial statements for 
such compensation.


                              S.J. RES. 17

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns), the 
Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) 
and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) were added as cosponsors 
of S.J. Res. 17, a joint resolution approving the renewal of import 
restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 
2003.
  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Bennet) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were 
added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 17, supra.


                              S.J. RES. 21

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 21, a 
joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States relative to equal rights for men and women.


                               S. RES. 80

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. 
Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 80, a resolution condemning 
the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its 
Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International 
Covenants on Human Rights.


                              S. RES. 132

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the names of the Senator 
from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), 
the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 132, a resolution 
recognizing and honoring the zoos and aquariums of the United States.


                              S. RES. 180

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor 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.


                              S. RES. 228

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the 
Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Harkin), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the 
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Conrad), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator 
from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), 
the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Coats) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 228, a resolution expressing the sense 
of the Senate regarding coming together as a Nation and ceasing all 
work or other activity for a moment of remembrance beginning at 1:00 
p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2011, in honor of the 10th 
anniversary of the terrorist attacks committed against the United 
States on September 11, 2001.


                              S. RES. 232

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 232, a resolution 
recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in 
China on the 12th anniversary of the campaign by the Chinese Communist 
Party to suppress the Falun Gong movement, recognizing the Tuidang 
movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chinese 
Communist Party and its affiliates, and calling for an immediate end to 
the campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 553

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 553 
proposed

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to H.R. 2055, a bill making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2012, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 556

  At the request of Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, the name of the 
Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 556 proposed to H.R. 2055, a bill making appropriations 
for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for 
other purposes.

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