[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15574-15575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 400

  At the request of Mr. Sununu, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 400, a bill to amend 
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that dependent students who take a 
medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance 
coverage, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 626

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 626, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
arthritis research and public health, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 972

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 972, a bill to 
provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other 
sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1232

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1232, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Education, to develop a voluntary policy for managing the 
risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools, to establish school-
based food allergy management grants, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1492

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1492, a bill to improve the 
quality of federal and state data regarding the availability and 
quality of broadband services and to promote the deployment of 
affordable broadband services to all parts of the Nation.


                                S. 1603

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1603, a bill to 
authorize Congress to award a gold medal to Jerry Lewis, in recognition 
of his outstanding service to the Nation.


                                S. 1846

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1846, a bill to improve 
defense cooperation between the Republic of Korea and the United 
States.


                                S. 1954

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1954, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to pharmacies 
under part D.


                                S. 2080

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2080, a bill to 
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that sewage 
treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of raw sewage, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2314

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2314, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make geothermal heat pump 
systems eligible for the energy credit and the residential energy 
efficient property credit, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2579

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Lugar), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. 
Sununu) were added as cosponsors of S. 2579, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition and celebration 
of the establishment of the United States Army in 1775, to honor the 
American soldier of

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both today and yesterday, in wartime and in peace, and to commemorate 
the traditions, history, and heritage of the United States Army and its 
role in American society, from the colonial period to today.


                                S. 2599

  At the request of Mr. Corker, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Stevens) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2599, a bill to provide 
enhanced education and employment opportunities for military spouses.


                                S. 2681

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Smith) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2681, a bill to require the issuance of medals to 
recognize the dedication and valor of Native American code talkers.


                                S. 2766

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2766, a bill 
to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to address certain 
discharges incidental to the normal operation of a recreational vessel.


                                S. 2836

  At the request of Mr. Chambliss, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2836, a bill 
to amend title 10, United States Code, to include service after 
September 11, 2001, as service qualifying for the determination of a 
reduced eligibility age for receipt of non-regular service retired pay.


                                S. 2844

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2844, a bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to modify provisions relating to beach monitoring, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2919

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2919, a bill to promote the accurate transmission of network traffic 
identification information.
  At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2919, supra.


                                S. 2920

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2920, a bill to 
reauthorize and improve the financing and entrepreneurial development 
programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3080

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3080, a bill to 
ensure parity between the temporary duty imposed on ethanol and tax 
credits provided on ethanol.


                                S. 3164

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3164, a bill to amend tile 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce fraud under the Medicare 
program.


                                S. 3167

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3167, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which veterans, 
their surviving spouses, and their children may be treated as 
adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.


                                S. 3224

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3224, a bill to 
increase the quantity of solar photovoltaic electricity by providing 
rebates for the purchase and installation of an additional 10,000,000 
photovoltaic systems by 2018.


                                S. 3252

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3252, a bill to amend the 
Consumer Credit Protection Act, to ban abusive credit practices, 
enhance consumer disclosures, protect underage consumers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3263

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3263, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
years 2009 through 2013 to promote an enhanced strategic partnership 
with Pakistan and its people, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3268

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3268, a bill to amend the 
Commodity Exchange Act, to prevent excessive price speculation with 
respect to energy commodities, and for other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 43

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Dole) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 43, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relating to marriage.


                              S.J. RES. 44

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Specter) were added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 44, a joint resolution 
providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained in 
the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the Director 
of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-
003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center.


                            S. CON. RES. 82

  At the request of Mr. Johnson, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. Con. Res. 82, a concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio 
Freedom Act.


                              S. RES. 331

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 331, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that Turkey should end its military 
occupation of the Republic of Cyprus, particularly because Turkey's 
pretext has been refuted by over 13,000,000 crossings of the divide by 
Turkish-Cypriots and Greek Cypriots into each other's communities 
without incident.


                              S. RES. 580

  At the request of Mr. Bayh, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Salazar), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) and the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 580, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on preventing Iran from 
acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4979

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
4979 intended to be proposed to S. 3001, an original bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

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