[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 120 (Monday, September 10, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6063-S6065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 32

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 32, a bill to 
prohibit the transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition 
feeding devices, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 35

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 35, a bill to 
establish background check procedures for gun shows.


                                 S. 202

  At the request of Mr. Paul, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) were added as cosponsors of S. 202, a 
bill to require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General 
of the United States before the end of 2012, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 503

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 503, a bill to declare 
English as the official language of the United States, to establish a 
uniform English language rule for naturalization, and to avoid 
misconstructions of the English language texts of the laws of the 
United States, pursuant to Congress' powers to provide for the general 
welfare of the United States and to establish a uniform rule of 
naturalization under article I, section 8, of the Constitution.


                                 S. 565

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 565, a bill to 
establish an employment-based immigrant visa for alien entrepreneurs 
who have received significant capital from investors to establish a 
business in the United States.


                                 S. 641

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) 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. 645

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 645, a bill to amend the 
National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent 
background check system.


                                 S. 697

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 697, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for 
amounts paid by a spouse of a member of the Armed Services for a new 
State license or certification required by reason of a permanent change 
in the duty station of such member to another State.


                                 S. 778

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 778, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to physician supervision 
of therapeutic hospital outpatient services.


                                 S. 829

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) 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. 845

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 845, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide for the logical flow of return information between 
partnerships, corporations, trusts, estates, and individuals to better 
enable each party to submit timely, accurate returns and reduce the 
need for extended and amended returns, to provide for modified due 
dates by regulation, and to conform the automatic corporate extension 
period to longstanding regulatory rule.


                                 S. 932

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 932, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a $1,000 refundable credit for 
individuals who are bona fide volunteer members of volunteer 
firefighting and emergency medical service organizations.


                                 S. 998

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) 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. 1108

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 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 names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator 
from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 1278

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1278, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on indoor 
tanning services.


                                S. 1301

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as 
cosponsors 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. 1463

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1463, a 
bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by 
new mothers and to provide for reasonable break time for nursing 
mothers.


                                S. 1512

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1512, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 and the Small Business Act to expand the availability of employee 
stock ownership plans in S corporations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1718

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1718, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the application of 
Medicare secondary payer rules for certain claims.


                                S. 1723

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1723, a bill to 
provide for teacher and first responder stabilization.


                                S. 1872

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. 
Mikulski) were added as cosponsors of S. 1872, a

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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. 1882

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1882, a bill to amend the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that valid generic drugs 
may enter the market.


                                S. 1910

  At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1910, a bill to provide 
benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.


                                S. 1983

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1983, a bill to 
amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country 
numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the 
per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2160

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2160, a bill to improve the examination of depository 
institutions, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2234

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2234, a bill to prevent 
human trafficking in government contracting.


                                S. 2246

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2246, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Labor to provide off-base transition training, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2346

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2346, a bill to amend the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to modify the definition of 
the term ``biobased product''.


                                S. 2364

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) 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. 2374

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2374, a bill to amend the 
Helium Act to ensure the expedient and responsible draw-down of the 
Federal Helium Reserve in a manner that protects the interests of 
private industry, the scientific, medical, and industrial communities, 
commercial users, and Federal agencies, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2620

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2620, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to provide for an extension of the Medicare-dependent 
hospital (MDH) program and the increased payments under the Medicare 
low-volume hospital program.


                                S. 3192

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3192, a bill to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act by establishing an F-4 nonimmigrant 
visa for aliens pursuing an advanced degree in mathematics, 
engineering, technology, or the physical sciences in the United States, 
to authorize such aliens to become permanent residents if they obtain 
employment in the United States related to their field of study, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 3235

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3235, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to require, as a condition on the receipt 
by a State of certain funds for veterans employment and training, that 
the State ensures that training received by a veteran while on active 
duty is taken into consideration in granting certain State 
certifications or licenses, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3243

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3243, a 
bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the amount 
of the low-income housing credit that may be allocated in States 
damaged in 2011 by Hurricane Irene or Tropical Storm Lee.


                                S. 3378

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3378, a bill 
to establish scientific standards and protocols across forensic 
disciplines, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3391

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3391, a bill to amend 
section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification.


                                S. 3394

  At the request of Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, the name of the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3394, 
a bill to address fee disclosure requirements under the Electronic Fund 
Transfer Act, to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act with respect 
to information provided to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 3442

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3442, a bill 
to provide tax incentives for small businesses, improve programs of the 
Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3452

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3452, a 
bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish a national usury 
rate for consumer credit transactions.


                                S. 3457

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. 
Stabenow), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from 
New York (Mr. Schumer) were added as cosponsors of S. 3457, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a veterans jobs 
corps, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3463

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 3463, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to reduce the incidence of diabetes among Medicare 
beneficiaries.


                                S. 3472

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 3472, a bill to amend the Family 
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to provide improvements to 
such Act.


                                S. 3486

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3486, a bill to implement the 
provisions of the Hague Agreement and the Patent Law Treaty.


                                S. 3498

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) were added as cosponsors of S. 3498, 
a bill to provide humanitarian assistance and support a democratic 
transition in Syria, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3516

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Minnesota

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(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3516, a bill to 
encourage spectrum licenses to make unused spectrum available for use 
by rural and smaller carriers in order to expand wireless coverage.


                              S.J. RES. 39

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 39, a joint 
resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal 
rights amendment.


                            S. CON. RES. 48

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mrs. 
Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 48, a concurrent 
resolution recognizing 375 years of service of the National Guard and 
affirming congressional support for a permanent Operational Reserve as 
a component of the Armed Forces.


                            S. CON. RES. 50

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 50, a concurrent resolution expressing the 
sense of Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the 
multistakeholder governance model under which the Internet has thrived.


                               S. RES. 88

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from 
South Dakota (Mr. Thune) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 88, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that businesses of the 
United States should retain the option to organize as those businesses 
choose, including as flow-through entities, and not be forced to 
reorganize as C corporations.


                              S. RES. 448

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 448, a resolution 
recognizing the 100th anniversary of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist 
Organization of America, Inc.


                              S. RES. 543

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from 
Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 543, a 
resolution to express the sense of the Senate on international parental 
child abduction.


                              S. RES. 546

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 546, a resolution 
designating the week of September 10, 2012, as ``National Adult 
Education and Family Literacy Week''.

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