[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Pages 29119-29120]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 435

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 435, a bill to provide for 
evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help 
build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to 
ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-
abiding lives.


                                 S. 491

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 491, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military 
retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to 
allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.


                                 S. 497

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 497, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to authorize capitation grants to increase 
the number of nursing faculty and students, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 777

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 777, a bill to 
promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker 
training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 850

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 850, a bill to amend the 
High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the 
conservation of sharks.


                                S. 1019

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1019, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for 
the purchase of hearing aids.


                                S. 1052

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1052, a bill to amend the 
small, rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income 
school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965.


                                S. 1304

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1304, a bill to 
restore the economic rights of automobile dealers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1353

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1353, a bill to amend 
title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1986 to 
include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew members 
and first responders for certain benefits.


                                S. 1374

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1374, a bill to 
amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to minimize 
the adverse effects of employment dislocation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1638

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1638, a bill to permit 
Amtrak passengers to safely transport firearms and ammunition in their 
checked baggage.


                                S. 1744

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1744, a bill to require the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe 
regulations to ensure that all crewmembers on air carriers have proper 
qualifications and experience, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1822

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1822, a bill to amend the Emergency Economic 
Stabilization Act of 2008, with respect to considerations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury in providing assistance under that Act, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1859

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1859, a bill to 
reinstate Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive 
payments.


                                S. 2097

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2097, a bill to authorize the rededication of the 
District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of 
Columbia World War I Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by American 
veterans of World War I.

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                                S. 2128

  At the request of Mr. LeMieux, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Johanns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2128, a bill to provide 
for the establishment of the Office of Deputy Secretary for Health Care 
Fraud Prevention.


                                S. 2727

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2727, a bill to provide 
for continued application of arrangements under the Protocol on 
Inspections and Continuous Monitoring Activities Relating to the Treaty 
Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms 
in the period following the Protocol's termination on December 5, 2009.


                                S. 2730

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2730, a bill to extend and enhance the 
COBRA subsidy program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
of 2009.


                                S. 2781

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Johanns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2781, a bill to change 
references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an 
intellectual disability, and to change references to a mentally 
retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual 
disability.


                                S. 2794

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2794, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the 
donation of wild game meat.


                                S. 2812

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2812, a bill to amend the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry 
out programs to develop and demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor 
designs, and for other purposes.


                            S. CON. RES. 39

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 39, a 
concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that stable 
and affordable housing is an essential component of an effective 
strategy for the prevention, treatment, and care of human 
immunodeficiency virus, and that the United States should make a 
commitment to providing adequate funding for the development of housing 
as a response to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome pandemic.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2790

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2790 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 3590, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 to modify the first--time homebuyers credit in the case of 
members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and 
for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2791

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
2791 proposed to H.R. 3590, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 to modify the first--time homebuyers credit in the case of 
members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and 
for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2793

  At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) were added 
as cosponsors of amendment No. 2793 intended to be proposed to H.R. 
3590, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the 
first--time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed 
Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2795

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added 
as cosponsors of amendment No. 2795 intended to be proposed to H.R. 
3590, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the 
first--time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed 
Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.

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