[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17556-17557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 482

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 482, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the increase in the tax on the 
social security benefits.


                                 S. 721

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 721, a bill to 
allow media coverage of court proceedings.


                                 S. 779

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 779, a bill to provide that 
no Federal income tax shall be imposed on amounts received by Holocaust 
victims or their heirs.


                                S. 1020

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Daschle) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1020, a bill to amend chapter 1 of title 9, United 
States Code, to provide for greater fairness in the arbitration process 
relating to motor vehicle franchise contracts.


                                S. 1805

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1805, a bill to 
restore food stamp benefits for aliens, to provide States with 
flexibility in administering the food stamp vehicle allowance, to index 
the excess shelter expense deduction to inflation, to authorize 
additional appropriations to purchase and make available additional 
commodities under the emergency food assistance program, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1810

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1810, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to clarify and improve veterans' claims and 
appellate procedures.


                                S. 1900

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Inouye) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1900, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit to holders of qualified 
bonds issued by Amtrak, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2299

  At the request of Mr. L. Chafee, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2299, a bill to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to continue State Medicaid 
disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for fiscal year 2001 
at the levels for fiscal year 2000.


                                S. 2334

  At the request of Mr. L. Chafee, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2334, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expensing of 
environmental remediation costs for an additional 6 years and to 
include sites in metropolitan statistical areas.


                                S. 2335

  At the request of Mr. L. Chafee, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2335, a bill 
to authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a program to 
provide assistance in the remediation and restoration of brownfields, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2365

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2365, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 15 percent 
reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for 
home health services.


                                S. 2434

  At the request of Mr. L. Chafee, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Grams), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. 
Lincoln) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2434, a bill to provide that amounts allotted to a 
State under section 2401 of the Social Security Act for each of fiscal 
years 1998 and 1999 shall remain available through fiscal year 2002.


                                S. 2600

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2600, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make enhancements to the 
critical access hospital program under the medicare program.


                                S. 2644

  At the request of Mr. Gorton, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2644, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand medicare 
coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.


                                S. 2703

  At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2703, a bill to amend the 
provisions of title 39, United States Code, relating to the manner in 
which pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for 
postmasters are established.


                                S. 2733

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2733, a bill to provide for 
the preservation of assisted housing for low income elderly persons, 
disabled persons, and other families.


                                S. 2735

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2735, a bill to promote 
access to health care services in rural areas.


                                S. 2787

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2787, a bill to reauthorize the Federal programs to 
prevent violence against women, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2806

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2806, a bill to amend the 
National Housing Act to clarify the authority of the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development to terminate mortgagee origination 
approval for poorly performing mortgagees.


                                S. 2879

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. L. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2879, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to establish programs and 
activities to address diabetes in children and youth, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2887

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Jeffords) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2887, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts 
received on account of claims based on certain unlawful discrimination 
and to allow income averaging for backpay and frontpay awards received 
on account of such claims, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2967

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Breaux) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2967, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to facilitate competition in the electric power industry.


                                S. 3009

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3009, a bill to 
provide funds to the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement.


                                S. 3017

  At the request of Mr. Roth, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr.

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Domenici) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3017, a bill to amend the 
Social Security Act to establish an outpatient prescription drug 
assistance program for low-income medicare beneficiaries and medicare 
beneficiaries with high drug costs.


                              S.J. RES. 30

  At the request of Mr. Lott, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 30, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relative to equal rights for women and men.


                              S. RES. 343

  At the request of Mr. Fitzgerald, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 343, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the International 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement should recognize and admit to full 
membership Israel's Magen David Adom Society with its emblem, the Red 
Shield of David.

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