[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 7044-7046]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 22

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island 
(Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 22, a bill to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to establish a program of educational assistance 
for members of the Armed Forces who serve in the Armed Forces after 
September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 186

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 186, a bill to provide appropriate protection to 
attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product.


                                 S. 223

  At the request of Mr. Feingold, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 223, a bill to require Senate candidates 
to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.


                                 S. 380

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 380, a bill to reauthorize 
the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 638

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 638, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate 
housing and infrastructure grants.


                                 S. 678

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Webb) was added as a cosponsor of S. 678, a bill to amend title 
49, United States Code, to ensure air passengers have access to 
necessary services while on a grounded air carrier and are not 
unnecessarily held on a grounded air carrier before or after a flight, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 932

  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 932, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize physical therapists to 
evaluate and treat Medicare beneficiaries without a requirement for a 
physician referral, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1232

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Dorgan) 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. 1675

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1675, a bill to 
implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission 
report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.


                                S. 1755

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1755, a bill to amend the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to make permanent the 
summer food service pilot project for rural areas of Pennsylvania and 
apply the program to rural areas of every State.


                                S. 2314

  At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) 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. 2337

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2337, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow long-term care insurance to be 
offered under

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cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements and to provide 
additional consumer protections for long-term care insurance.


                                S. 2369

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2369, a bill to 
amend title 35, United States Code, to provide that certain tax 
planning inventions are not patentable, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2407

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2407, a bill to provide for 
programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy 
children, and support new parents.


                                S. 2426

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2426, a bill to provide for congressional oversight of United States 
agreements with the Government of Iraq.


                                S. 2575

  At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2575, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to remove certain limitations on the transfer 
of entitlement to basic educational assistance under Montgomery GI 
Bill, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2619

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Craig), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens) and the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) were added as cosponsors of S. 2619, a bill to 
protect innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks.


                                S. 2681

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Martinez), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Bayh) 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. 2688

  At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2688, a bill to improve the 
protections afforded under Federal law to consumers from contaminated 
seafood by directing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program, 
in coordination with other appropriate Federal agencies, to strengthen 
activities for ensuring that seafood sold or offered for sale to the 
public in or affecting interstate commerce is fit for human 
consumption.


                                S. 2726

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2726, a bill to amend the 
Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to help offset the costs of intrastate transportation, 
storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to States and 
food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.


                                S. 2758

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2758, a bill to 
authorize the exploration, leasing, development, production, and 
economically feasible and prudent transportation of oil and gas in and 
from the Coastal Plain in Alaska.


                                S. 2766

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the names of the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 2785

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2785, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Security Act to preserve access to physicians' services under the 
Medicare program.


                                S. 2819

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2819, a bill to 
preserve access to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance 
Program during an economic downturn, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2836

  At the request of Mr. Chambliss, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) 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. 2867

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2867, a bill 
to authorize additional resources to identify and eliminate illicit 
sources of firearms smuggled into Mexico for use by violent drug 
trafficking organizations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2874

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2874, a bill to amend titles 
5, 10, 37, and 38, United States Code, to ensure the fair treatment of 
a member of the Armed Forces who is discharged from the Armed Forces, 
at the request of the member, pursuant to the Department of Defense 
policy permitting the early discharge of a member who is the only 
surviving child in a family in which the father or mother, or one or 
more siblings, served in the Armed Forces and, because of hazards 
incident to such service, was killed, died as a result of wounds, 
accident, or disease, is in a captured or missing in action status, or 
is permanently disabled, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2886

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2886, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to amend certain expiring 
provisions.


                                S. 2895

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2895, a bill to amend the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 to maintain eligibility, for Federal PLUS 
loans, of borrowers who are 90 or more days delinquent on mortgage loan 
payments, or for whom foreclosure proceedings have been initiated, with 
respect to their primary residence.


                                S. 2899

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar) were added as cosponsors of S. 2899, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on suicides among 
veterans.


                                S. 2919

  At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2919, a bill to promote 
the accurate transmission of network traffic identification 
information.


                                S. 2920

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin) 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. RES. 523

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 523, a resolution 
expressing the strong support of the Senate for the declaration of the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the Bucharest Summit that Ukraine 
and Georgia will become members of the alliance.


                              S. RES. 533

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Delaware

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(Mr. Biden), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator 
from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) and 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as cosponsors of S. 
Res. 533, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 
political situation in Zimbabwe.

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