[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 63 (Monday, May 7, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2928-S2929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 584

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 584, a bill to 
establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide 
independent counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services on policy issues associated with recruitment, retention, 
research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 657

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 657, a bill to encourage, 
enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the United States in 
order to disseminate information when a law enforcement officer is 
seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.


                                 S. 738

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor 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. 886

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 886, a bill to 
amend the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 to prohibit the use of 
performance-enhancing drugs in horseracing, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1039

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Harkin) 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. 1107

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1107, a bill to 
authorize and support psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis data 
collection, to express the sense of the Congress to encourage and 
leverage public and private investment in psoriasis research with a 
particular focus on interdisciplinary collaborative research on the 
relationship between psoriasis and its comorbid conditions, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1297

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Coats) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1297, a bill to preserve State 
and institutional authority relating to State authorization and the 
definition of credit hour.


                                S. 1454

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1454, a 
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for 
extended months of Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for 
kidney transplant patients and other renal dialysis provisions.


                                S. 1561

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1561, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the 
deductibility of charitable contributions to agricultural research 
organizations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1591

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman) 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. 1629

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1629, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating 
to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the 
Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1670

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


                                S. 1734

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1734, a bill to 
provide incentives for the development of qualified infectious disease 
products.


                                S. 1751

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Lee) were added as cosponsors of S. 1751, a bill to 
amend subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to facilitate recovery 
and beneficial use, and provide for the proper management and disposal, 
of materials generated by the combustion of coal and other fossil 
fuels.


                                S. 1809

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1809, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for viral 
hepatitis surveillance, education, and testing in order to prevent 
deaths from liver cancer, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1884

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) 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. 1935

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1935, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury 
to mint coins in recognition and celebration of the 75th anniversary of 
the establishment of the March of Dimes Foundation.


                                S. 2050

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2050, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain provisions of the 
Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2060

  At the request of Mr. Kohl, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2060, a bill to provide 
for the payment of a benefit to members eligible for participation in 
the Post-Deployment/Mobilization Respite Absence program for days of 
nonparticipation due to Government error.


                                S. 2076

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2076, a bill to 
improve security at State and local courthouses.


                                S. 2112

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2112, 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. 2143

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2143, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that

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paper which is commonly recycled does not constitute a qualified energy 
resource under the section 45 credit for renewable electricity 
production.


                                S. 2160

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2160, a bill to improve 
the examination of depository institutions, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2165

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) and the 
Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2165, a bill to enhance strategic cooperation between the United States 
and Israel, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2179

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2179, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, 
to improve oversight of educational assistance provided under laws 
administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of 
Defense, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2239

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2239, a bill 
to direct the head of each agency to treat relevant military training 
as sufficient to satisfy training or certification requirements for 
Federal licenses.


                                S. 2241

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2241, a bill to ensure 
that veterans have the information and protections they require to make 
informed decisions regarding use of Post-9/11 Educational Assistance, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2244

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2244, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist in the identification of 
unclaimed and abandoned human remains to determine if any such remains 
are eligible for burial in a national cemetery, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2299

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2299, a bill to amend the Servicemembers 
Civil Relief Act and title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
provision of civil relief to members of the uniformed services and to 
improve the enforcement of employment and reemployment rights of such 
members, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2320

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) and 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2320, a bill to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to 
provide for the ongoing maintenance of Clark Veterans Cemetery in the 
Republic of the Philippines, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2325

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2325, a bill to authorize further assistance 
to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.


                                S. 2343

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Rockefeller), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator 
from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were added as cosponsors of S. 2343, a bill 
to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced 
interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2364

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2364, a bill to extend the 
availability of low-interest refinancing under the local development 
business loan program of the Small Business Administration.


                              S. RES. 429

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 429, a resolution 
supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day.

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