[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 186 (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8376-S8377]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 241

  At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 241, a bill to 
expand whistleblower protections to non-Federal employees whose 
disclosures involve misuse of Federal funds.


                                 S. 306

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 306, a bill to establish 
the National Criminal Justice Commission.


                                 S. 339

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 339, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the 
special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions.


                                 S. 581

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 581, a bill to amend the 
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require criminal 
background checks for child care providers.


                                 S. 641

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) 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. 752

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) 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. 1069

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1069, a bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 
certain footwear, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1108

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1108, a bill 
to provide local communities with tools to make solar permitting more 
efficient, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1171

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1171, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from 
gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' 
spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible 
dependent beneficiaries of employees.


                                S. 1176

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1190

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1190, a bill 
to reduce disparities and improve access to effective and cost 
efficient diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through advances 
in testing, research, and education, including through telehealth, 
comparative effectiveness research, and identification of best 
practices in patient education and outreach particularly with respect 
to underserved racial, ethnic and rural populations and men with a 
family history of prostate cancer, to establish a directive on what 
constitutes clinically appropriate prostate cancer imaging, and to 
create a prostate cancer scientific advisory board for the Office of 
the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate 
real-time sharing of the latest research and accelerate movement of new 
medicines to patients.


                                S. 1299

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) 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. 1350

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1350, a bill to expand the research, 
prevention, and awareness activities of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health with respect to 
pulmonary fibrosis, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1360

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr.

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Merkley) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1392

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1392, a bill to 
provide additional time for the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to issue achievable standards for industrial, 
commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters, and 
incinerators, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1397

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1397, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an investment tax credit 
related to the production of electricity from offshore wind.


                                S. 1451

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1451, a bill to 
prohibit the sale of billfish.


                                S. 1465

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1465, a bill to authorize a 
pilot program on enhancements of Department of Defense efforts on 
mental health in the National Guard and Reserves through community 
partnerships, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1544

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1544, a bill to amend 
the Securities Act of 1933 to require the Securities and Exchange 
Commission to exempt a certain class of securities from such Act.


                                S. 1593

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1593, a bill to 
amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require State electronic 
benefit transfer contracts to treat wireless program retail food stores 
in the same manner as wired program retail food stores.


                                S. 1634

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1634, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the approval and 
disapproval of programs of education for purposes of educational 
benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1670

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1670, a bill to eliminate 
racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1711

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1711, a bill to 
enhance reciprocal market access for United States domestic producers 
in the negotiating process of bilateral, regional, and multilateral 
trade agreements.


                                S. 1763

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1763, a bill to decrease the 
incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, to strengthen the 
capacity of Indian tribes to exercise the sovereign authority of Indian 
tribes to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women, and 
to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian 
women are held accountable for that criminal behavior, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1850

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1850, a bill to expand and 
improve opportunities for beginning farmers and ranchers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1872

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1872, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of 
ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family 
members with disabilities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1886

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1886, a bill to prevent trafficking in counterfeit 
drugs.


                                S. 1933

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1933, a bill to increase 
American job creation and economic growth by improving access to the 
public capital markets for emerging growth companies.


                                S. 1944

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator 
from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1944, a bill 
to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle class 
families and businesses, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1945

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1945, a bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court 
proceedings.


                              S. RES. 297

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 297, a 
resolution congratulating the Corporation for Supportive Housing on the 
20th anniversary of its founding.


                              S. RES. 310

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 310, a resolution 
designating 2012 as the ``Year of the Girl'' and Congratulating Girl 
Scouts of the USA on its 100th anniversary.


                              S. RES. 342

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 342, a resolution 
honoring the life and legacy of Laura Pollan.

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