[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 16527-16529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 439

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 439, a bill to amend title 10, 
United States Code, to permit certain retired members of the uniformed 
services who have a service-connected disability to

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receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their 
years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation.
  At the request of Mr. Casey, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
439, supra.


                                 S. 535

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 535, a bill to establish an 
Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department 
of Justice, and an Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Investigative Office in 
the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 604

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 604, a bill to 
amend title 10, United States Code, to limit increases in the certain 
costs of health care services under the health care programs of the 
Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Casey, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
604, supra.


                                 S. 935

  At the request of Mr. Casey, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
935, a bill to repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor 
annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' dependency and 
indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 937

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 937, a bill to improve 
support and services for individuals with autism and their families.


                                 S. 988

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 988, a bill to extend the 
termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the 
numerical limitations for temporary workers.


                                S. 1120

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Akaka), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1120, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to provide grants for the training of graduate medical 
residents in preventive medicine and public health.


                                S. 1183

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1183, a bill to enhance and further research into 
paralysis and to improve rehabilitation and the quality of life for 
persons living with paralysis and other physical disabilities, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1800

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1800, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to require emergency contraception to be 
available at all military health care treatment facilities.


                                S. 1986

  At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1986, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of Treasury to prescribe the weights and the compositions 
of circulating coins, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2140

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2140, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to Francis Collins, in recognition of his 
outstanding contributions and leadership in the fields of medicine and 
genetics.


                                S. 2618

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2618, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to 
various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, 
distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss Facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, 
myotonic, and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies.


                                S. 2668

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2668, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from listed 
property under section 280F.


                                S. 2681

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from 
South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the 
Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the Senator from 
Maine (Ms. Snowe), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. 
Vitter) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) 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. 2687

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2687, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance beneficiary 
protections under parts C and D of the Medicare program.


                                S. 2720

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2720, a bill to withhold 
Federal financial assistance from each country that denies or 
unreasonably delays the acceptance of nationals of such country who 
have been ordered removed from the United States and to prohibit the 
issuance of visas to nationals of such country.


                                S. 2920

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) 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. 2977

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2977, a bill to create a 
Federal cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under 
United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been 
brought in foreign courts against United States persons on the basis of 
publications or speech in the United States.


                                S. 3068

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3068, a bill to require 
equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, and 
contraceptive services under health plans.


                                S. 3073

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. DeMint) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3073, a bill to 
amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
improve procedures for the collection and delivery of absentee ballots 
of absent overseas uniformed services voters, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3142

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, his name was added as a 
cosponsor of S. 3142, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
enhance public health activities related to stillbirth and sudden 
unexpected infant death.


                                S. 3311

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3311, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to improve mental and behavioral health 
services on college campuses.

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                                S. 3312

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3312, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that victims of public 
health emergencies have meaningful and immediate access to medically 
necessary health care services.


                            S. CON. RES. 93

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 93, a concurrent 
resolution supporting the goals and ideals of ``National Sudden Cardiac 
Arrest Awareness Month''.


                              S. RES. 598

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 598, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need for 
the United States to lead renewed international efforts to assist 
developing nations in conserving natural resources and preventing the 
impending extinction of a large portion of the world's plant and animal 
species.


                              S. RES. 618

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the names of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Hagel) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 618, a resolution recognizing the tenth 
anniversary of the bombings of the United States embassies in Nairobi, 
Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and memorializing the citizens of 
the United States, Kenya, and Tanzania whose lives were claimed as a 
result of the al Qaeda led terrorist attacks.

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