[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 7112-7114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 22

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor 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. 45

  At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S. 45, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make a technical correction 
in the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services.


                                 S. 211

  At the request of Mrs. Dole, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Brownback) was added as a cosponsor of S. 211, a bill to facilitate 
nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and 
referral on human services, volunteer services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 579

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 579, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the 
development and operation of research centers regarding environmental 
factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.


                                 S. 727

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 727, a bill to improve and 
expand geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 12 students 
in the United States by improving professional development programs for 
kindergarten through grade 12 teachers offered through institutions of 
higher education.


                                 S. 911

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 911, a bill to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to advance medical research and treatments into 
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cancers, ensure patients and families have access to the current 
treatments and information regarding pediatric cancers, establish a 
population-based national childhood cancer database, and promote public 
awareness of pediatric cancers.


                                 S. 994

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 994, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the deductible and change 
the method of determining the mileage reimbursement rate under the 
beneficiary travel program administered by the Secretary of Veteran 
Affairs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1075

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1075, a bill to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to expand access to 
contraceptive services for women and men under the Medicaid program, 
help low income women and couples prevent unintended pregnancies and 
reduce abortion, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1410

  At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1410, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against 
income tax for the purchase of hearing aids.


                                S. 1445

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Lautenberg) were added as cosponsors of S. 1445, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, 
research, and medical management referral program for hepatitis C virus 
infection.


                                S. 1515

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1515, a bill to 
establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent 
domestic violence victims.


                                S. 1743

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1743, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on 
contributions to funeral trusts.


                                S. 1760

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1760, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to the Healthy Start Initiative.


                                S. 1779

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1779, a bill to 
establish a program for tribal colleges and universities within the 
Department of Health and Human Services and to amend the Native 
American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize the provision of grants and 
cooperative agreements to tribal colleges and universities, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1838

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1838, a bill to provide for 
the health care needs of veterans in far South Texas.


                                S. 2002

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2002, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify certain provisions applicable 
to real estate investment trusts, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2059

  At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2059, a bill to amend the 
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the eligibility 
requirements with respect to airline flight crews.


                                S. 2144

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2144, a bill to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study 
of feasibility relating to the construction and operation of pipelines 
and carbon dioxide sequestration facilities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2161

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Corker) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2161, a bill to ensure and foster continued 
patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply 
to negotiations between groups of independent pharmacies and health 
plans and health insurance issuers (including health plans under parts 
C and D of the Medicare Program) in the same manner as such laws apply 
to protected activities under the National Labor Relations Act.


                                S. 2173

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2173, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for 
physical education.


                                S. 2209

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2209, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to improve 
America's research competitiveness, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2369

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 2465

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2465, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social 
Security Act to include all public clinics for the distribution of 
pediatric vaccines under the Medicaid program.


                                S. 2495

  At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2495, a bill to amend title 18, 
United States Code, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure with 
respect to bail bond forfeitures.


                                S. 2498

  At the request of Mr. Domenici, the names of the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens), the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. 
Sessions), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from 
Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole), the 
Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe), 
the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Isakson), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Martinez), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Allard), the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Smith), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Bond), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator 
from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the 
Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Coleman), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Burr), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar), the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Voinovich), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator 
from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) were added as cosponsors of S. 2498, a bill 
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authorize the minting of a coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of 
the founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to occur in 2010.


                                S. 2569

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2569, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National 
Cancer Institute to make grants for the discovery and validation of 
biomarkers for use in risk stratification for, and the early detection 
and screening of, ovarian cancer.


                                S. 2598

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2598, a bill to increase the 
supply and lower the cost of petroleum by temporarily suspending the 
acquisition of petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.


                                S. 2630

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2630, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act 
to establish a Federal grant program to provide increased health care 
coverage to and access for uninsured and underinsured workers and 
families in the commercial fishing industry, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2686

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator 
from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) were added as cosponsors of S. 2686, a 
bill to ensure that all users of the transportation system, including 
pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users as well as children, older 
individuals, and individuals with disabilities, are able to travel 
safely and conveniently on streets and highways.


                                S. 2689

  At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Domenici) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2689, a bill to amend 
section 411h of title 37, United States Code, to provide travel and 
transportation allowances for family members of members of the 
uniformed services with serious inpatient psychiatric conditions.


                                S. 2758

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) 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. 2760

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2760, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to enhance the national defense through 
empowerment of the National Guard, enhancement of the functions of the 
National Guard Bureau, and improvement of Federal-State military 
coordination in domestic emergency response, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2766

  At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Bond) 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. 2819

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from 
South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) and 
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) were added as cosponsors 
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. 2874

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) 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. 2883

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Indiana (Mr. Lugar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2883, a bill to 
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of 
the centennial of the establishment of Mother's Day.


                                S. 2912

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) and 
the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as cosponsors of S. 
2912, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain 
interstate conduct relating to exotic animals.


                                S. 2917

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2917, a bill to strengthen 
sanctions against the Government of Syria, to enhance multilateral 
commitment to address the Government of Syria's threatening policies, 
to establish a program to support a transition to a democratically-
elected government in Syria, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2927

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2927, a bill to 
increase the supply and lower the cost of petroleum by temporarily 
suspending the acquisition of petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve and to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include 
additional acquisition requirements for the Reserve.


                              S. RES. 537

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator 
from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 537, a 
resolution commemorating and acknowledging the dedication and sacrifice 
made by the men and women who have lost their lives while serving as 
law enforcement officers.

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