[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16503-16504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                S. 1022

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Burns) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1022, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health 
insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for 
TRICARE supplemental premiums.


                                S. 1224

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1224, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the availability of medicare 
cost contracts for 10 years.


                                S. 1934

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1934, a bill to amend the 
Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to permit certain annuitants of 
the retirement programs of the United States Park Police and United 
States Secret Service Uniformed Division to receive the adjustments in 
pension benefits to which such annuitants would otherwise be entitled 
as a result of the conversion of members of the United States Park 
Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new 
salary schedule under the amendments made by such Act.


                                S. 2268

  At the request of Mr. Miller, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2268, a bill to amend the Act establishing the 
Department of Commerce to protect manufacturers and sellers in the 
firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or 
foreign commerce.


                                S. 2490

  At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2490, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the quality of, and 
access to, skilled nursing facility services under the medicare 
program.


                                S. 2512

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2512, a bill to 
provide grants for training court reporters and closed captioners to 
meet requirements for realtime writers under the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2560

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2560, a bill to provide 
for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research 
regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control 
the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the 
incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the 
disease, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2654

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2654, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income loan 
payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan 
Repayment Program established in the Public Health Service Act.


                                S. 2664

  At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2664, a bill to amend the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to 
establish a program to provide assistance to enhance the ability of 
first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism, including 
incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2674

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the names of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2674, a bill to improve access to health care 
medically underserved areas.


                                S. 2869

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the 
Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2869, a bill to facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction 
winners to pursue alternative measures required in the public interest 
to meet the needs of wireless telecommunications consumers.


                                S. 2874

  At the request of Mr. Dayton, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Torricelli) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2874, a bill to provide 
benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.


                                S. 2896

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Thurmond), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton), the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell) were added as cosponsors of S. 2896, a bill to enhance the 
operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in order to 
facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for enhanced 
notification on highways of alerts and information on such children, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2896

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2896, supra.


                                S. 2901

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2901, a bill to provide that 
bonuses and other extraordinary or excessive compensation of corporate 
insiders and wrongdoers may be included in the bankruptcy estate.


                              S. RES. 239

  At the request of Mr. Allen, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 239, A resolution 
recognizing the lack of historical recognition of the gallant exploits 
of the officers and crew of the S.S. Henry Bacon, a Liberty ship that 
was sunk February 23, 1945, in the waning days of World War II.


                              S. RES. 305

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the names of the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Allen), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
Bunning), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Campbell), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from 
Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the 
Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Massachusetts 
(Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. 
Lincoln), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Nickles), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Sessions), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Thompson)

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and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) were added as cosponsors of 
S. Res. 305, A resolution designating the week beginning September 15, 
2002, as ``National Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
Week''.


                              S. RES. 307

  At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 307, A 
resolution reaffirming support of the Convention on the Prevention and 
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and anticipating the commemoration 
of the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Genocide Convention 
Implementation Act of 1987 (the Proxmire Act) on November 4, 2003.


                              S. RES. 316

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Fitzgerald) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 316, a bill 
designating the year beginning February 1, 2003, as the ``Year of the 
Blues''.


                              S. RES. 324

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), 
the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 324, A resolution 
congratulating the National Farmers Union for 100 years of service to 
family farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.


                            S. CON. RES. 129

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 129, A concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the establishment 
of the month of November each year as ``Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary 
Disease Awareness Month''.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4510

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 4510 intended to be 
proposed to H.R. 5005, a bill to establish the Department of Homeland 
Security, and for other purposes.

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