[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 9 (Monday, January 23, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S42-S44]
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 Arkansas
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 20, a bill to protect
American job creation by striking the job-killing Federal employer
mandate.
S. 296
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from New
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow)
were added as cosponsors 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. 381
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Michigan
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 381, a bill to amend the
Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms listed as
curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a licensed
importer without obtaining authorization from the Department of State
or the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
S. 412
At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 412, a bill to ensure
that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for
harbor maintenance.
S. 418
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) 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. 506
At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were added as
cosponsors 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. 547
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 547, a bill to direct the
Secretary of Education to establish an award program recognizing
excellence exhibited by public school system employees providing
services to students in pre-kindergarten through higher education.
S. 567
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to amend the
small, rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income
school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965.
S. 634
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 634, a bill to
ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial
forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against
any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the
deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration
camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs
and survivors of such persons.
S. 665
At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from New
York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 665, a bill to
promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker
training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.
S. 752
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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. 829
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr.
Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 829, a bill to amend title XVIII
of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient
rehabilitation therapy caps.
S. 968
At the request of Mr. Hatch, his name and the names of the Senator
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from New Hampshire
(Ms. Ayotte) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) were withdrawn as
cosponsors of S. 968, a bill to prevent online threats to economic
creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for other purposes.
At the request of Mr. Bennet, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor
of S. 968, supra.
S. 1018
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor
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of S. 1018, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, and the Ike
Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 to
provide for implementation of additional recommendations of the Defense
Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services.
S. 1039
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Wyden) 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. 1241
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from North
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1241, a bill to
amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across
State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of
parents in abortion decisions.
S. 1245
At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Connecticut
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1299
At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr.
Grassley), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) and the Senator from
Nebraska (Mr. Johanns) were added as cosponsors 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. 1355
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1355, a bill to
regulate political robocalls.
S. 1591
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were
added as cosponsors of S. 1591, a bill to award a Congressional Gold
Medal to Raoul Wallenberg, in recognition of his achievements and
heroic actions during the Holocaust.
S. 1597
At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from New
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1597, a bill to
provide assistance for the modernization, renovation, and repair of
elementary school and secondary school buildings in public school
districts and community colleges across the United States in order to
support the achievement of improved educational outcomes in those
schools, and for other purposes.
S. 1607
At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Rhode
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1607, a bill to
include shellfish to the list of crops eligible for the noninsured crop
disaster assistance program and the emergency assistance for livestock
program of the Department of Agriculture.
S. 1680
At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1680, a bill to amend title
XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect and preserve access of
Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers under
the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
S. 1707
At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr.
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1707, a bill to amend title 38,
United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain
persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain
purposes.
S. 1802
At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1802, a bill
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out programs and
activities that connect Americans, especially children, youth, and
families, with the outdoors.
S. 1816
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1816, a bill to
amend title 23, United States Code, to modify a provision relating to
minimum penalties for repeat offenders for driving while intoxicated or
driving under the influence.
S. 1845
At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1845, a bill to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment
credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other
purposes.
S. 1863
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1863, a bill
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage alternative
energy investments and job creation.
S. 1896
At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1896, a bill to eliminate the
automatic inflation increases for discretionary programs built into the
baseline projections and require budget estimates to be compared with
the prior year's level.
S. 1925
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator
from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders)
were added as cosponsors of S. 1925, a bill to reauthorize the Violence
Against Women Act of 1994.
S. 1930
At the request of Mr. Johanns, his name was added as a cosponsor of
S. 1930, a bill to prohibit earmarks.
At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1930, supra.
S. 1941
At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from
Florida (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1941, a bill to
amend the securities laws to establish certain thresholds for
shareholder registration, and for other purposes.
S. 1963
At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) were
added as cosponsors of S. 1963, a bill to revoke the charters for the
Federal National Mortgage Corporation and the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation upon resolution of their obligations, to create a
new Mortgage Finance Agency for the securitization of single family and
multifamily mortgages, and for other purposes.
S. 1994
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1994, a bill to
prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.
S. 2003
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as cosponsors of S.
2003, a bill to clarify that an authorization to use military force, a
declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the
detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent
resident of the United States and for other purposes.
S. 2006
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2006, a bill to
amend the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act
of 1987 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to permit Federal
regulation and review of tolls and toll increases on certain surface
transportation facilities, and for other purposes.
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S. 2010
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2010, a bill to amend title
II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset
and windfall elimination provisions.
S.J. RES. 29
At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator
from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 29, a
joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to
affect elections.
S. RES. 232
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) 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.
S. RES. 310
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) 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.
At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 310, supra.
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