[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10480-10481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 198

  At the request of Mr. Craig, the names of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 198, a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior 
to establish a program to provide assistance through States to eligible 
weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, nonnative 
weeds on public and private land.


                                S. 1114

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Hollings) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1114, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of 
educational benefits for veterans under the Montgomery GI Bill.


                                S. 1785

  At the request of Mr. Cleland, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1785, a bill to urge the 
President to establish the White House Commission on National Military 
Appreciation Month, and for other purposes.

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                                S. 2025

  At the request of Mr. Hutchinson, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2025, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rate of special 
pension for recipients of the Medal of Honor and to make that special 
pension effective from the date of the act for which the recipient is 
awarded the Medal of Honor and to amend title 18, United States Code, 
to increase the criminal penalties associated with misuse or fraud 
relating to the Medal of Honor.


                                S. 2053

  At the request of Mr. Frist, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Bunning) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2053, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to improve immunization rates by increasing 
the distribution of vaccines and improving and clarifying the vaccine 
injury compensation program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2070

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2070, a bill 
to amend part A of title IV to exclude child care from the 
determination of the 5-year limit on assistance under the temporary 
assistance to needy families program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2210

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2210, a bill to amend 
the International Financial Institutions Act to provide for 
modification of the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) 
Initiative.


                                S. 2215

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2215, a bill to halt Syrian 
support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, stop its 
development of weapons of mass destruction, cease its illegal 
importation of Iraqi oil, and by so doing hold Syria accountable for 
its role in the Middle East, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2239

  At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Miller) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2239, a bill to amend the National Housing Act to 
simplify the downpayment requirements for FHA mortgage insurance for 
single family homebuyers.


                                S. 2246

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2246, a bill to improve 
access to printed instructional materials used by blind or other 
persons with print disabilities in elementary and secondary schools, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2250

  At the request of Mr. Corzine, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2250, a bill to 
amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of 
military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 55.


                                S. 2428

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2428, a bill to amend the 
National Sea Grant College Program Act.


                                S. 2471

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2471, a bill to 
provide for the independent investigation of Federal wildland 
firefighter fatalities.


                                S. 2482

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2482, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to grant to Deschutes and Crook Counties in 
the State of Oregon a right-of-way to West Butte Road.


                                S. 2490

  At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Johnson) were added as cosponsors 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. 2570

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2570, a bill to 
temporarily increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the 
medicaid program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2577

  At the request of Mr. Fitzgerald, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2577, a bill to 
repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation 
Act of 2001 with respect to the exclusion from Federal income tax for 
restitution received by victims of the Nazi Regime.


                                S. 2591

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2591, a bill to reauthorize the Mammography Quality 
Standards Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2611

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2611, a bill to reauthorize 
the Museum and Library Services Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2626

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Chafee) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2626, a bill to protect the public health by 
providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to 
regulate tobacco products.

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