[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 35 (Monday, March 5, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1384-S1385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 344

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 344, a bill to amend title 10, 
United States Code, to permit certain retired members of the uniformed 
services who have a service-connected disability to receive both 
disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of 
military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 998

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) 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. 1048

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) 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. 1301

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1301, a bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 2012 through 2015 for the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat 
trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1350

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Begich) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1461

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1461, a bill 
to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify the Food 
and Drug Administration's jurisdiction over certain tobacco products, 
and to protect jobs and small businesses involved in the sale, 
manufacturing and distribution of traditional and premium cigars.


                                S. 1497

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1497, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend for 3 years reasonable cost 
contracts under Medicare.


                                S. 1591

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1845

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Lautenberg) 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. 1884

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1884, a bill to provide 
States with incentives to require elementary schools and secondary 
schools to maintain, and permit school personnel to administer, 
epinephrine at schools.


                                S. 1900

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1900, a 
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access 
to urban Medicare-dependent hospitals.


                                S. 1925

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1925, a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women 
Act of 1994.


                                S. 1933

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) 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. 1990

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Udall) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1990, a bill to require the Transportation Security 
Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and 
Reemployment Rights Act.


                                S. 2041

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2041, a bill to approve 
the Keystone XL pipeline project and provide for environmental 
protection and government oversight.


                                S. 2075

  At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2075, a bill to 
close unjustified corporate tax loopholes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2134

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2134, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to provide for certain requirements relating to 
the retirement, adoption, care, and recognition of military working 
dogs, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 380

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), 
and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) were added as cosponsors of 
S. Res. 380, a resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding 
the importance of preventing the Government of Iran from acquiring 
nuclear weapons capability.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1537

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1537 intended 
to be proposed to S. 1813, a bill to reauthorize Federal-aid highway 
and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1724

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Nebraska

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(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1724 intended to 
be proposed to S. 1813, a bill to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and 
highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.

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