[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15781-15783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 25

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr.

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Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 25, a bill to phase out the 
Federal sugar program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 164

  At the request of Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, the name of the Senator 
from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 164, a bill 
to repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to 
vendors by government entities.


                                 S. 296

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 296, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act to provide the Food and Drug Administration with improved 
capacity to prevent drug shortages.


                                 S. 390

  At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 390, a bill to 
ensure that the right of an individual to display the Service Flag on 
residential property not be abridged.


                                 S. 424

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 424, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to ambulance 
services under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 504

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 504, a bill to preserve 
and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or 
assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.


                                 S. 506

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 506, a bill to 
amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and 
take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.


                                 S. 652

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 652, a bill to facilitate 
efficient investments and financing of infrastructure projects and new 
job creation through the establishment of an American Infrastructure 
Financing Authority, to provide for an extension of the exemption from 
the alternative minimum tax treatment for certain tax-exempt bonds, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 939

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 939, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the volume cap for 
private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the 
furnishing of water and sewage facilities.


                                S. 1133

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1133, a bill to prevent 
the evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1203

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1203, a bill to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion 
therapy under the Medicare Program.


                                S. 1212

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1212, a bill to amend title 
18, United States Code, to specify the circumstances in which a person 
may acquire geolocation information and for other purposes.


                                S. 1217

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1217, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for custom 
fabricated breast prostheses following a mastectomy.


                                S. 1265

  At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1265, a bill to amend the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide consistent and 
reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land and water 
conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
generations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1299

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1299, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 
centennial of the establishment of Lions Clubs International.


                                S. 1301

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1301, a bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 2012 to 2015 for the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat 
trafficking in person, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1350

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1350, a bill to expand the 
research, prevention, and awareness activities of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health 
with respect to pulmonary fibrosis, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1385

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1385, a bill to terminate 
the $1 presidential coin program.


                                S. 1392

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Texas 
(Mrs. Hutchison) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1392, a bill to provide additional time for the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue 
achievable standards for industrial, commercial, and institutional 
boilers, process heaters, and incinerators, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1407

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1407, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish accreditation 
requirements for suppliers and providers of air ambulance services, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1427

  At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1427, a bill to amend the 
Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to authorize producers on a 
farm to produce fruits and vegetables for processing on the base acres 
of the farm.


                                S. 1440

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1440, a bill to 
reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related 
deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant 
mortality caused by prematurity.


                                S. 1527

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1527, a bill to authorize the award of a 
Congressional gold medal to the Montford Point Marines of World War II.


                                S. 1539

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1539, a bill to 
provide Taiwan with critically needed United States-built multirole 
fighter aircraft to strengthen its self-defense capability against the 
increasing military threat from China.


                                S. 1568

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi

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(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1568, a bill to amend 
section 9401 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 with 
regard to waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements.


                                S. 1578

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1578, a bill to amend the 
Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to consumer confidence reports by 
community water systems.


                                S. 1593

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1593, a bill to amend the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require State electronic benefit 
transfer contracts to treat wireless program retail food stores in the 
same manner as wired program retail food stores.


                                S. 1615

  At the request of Mr. Thune, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1615, a bill to require enhanced economic analysis and justification of 
regulations proposed by certain Federal banking, housing, securities, 
and commodity regulators, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1616

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1616, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to exempt certain stock of real estate investment trusts from the 
tax on foreign investments in United States real property interests, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1666

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1666, a bill to prohibit the 
implementation of certain rules of the National Labor Relations Board 
relating to the posting of notices on unionization.


                                S. 1676

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1676, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for taxpayers making donations 
with their returns of income tax to the Federal Government to pay down 
the public debt.


                                S. 1680

  At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1680, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect and preserve access 
of Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas to health care providers under 
the Medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1707

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1707, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain 
persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain 
purposes.


                                S. 1720

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1720, a bill to provide American jobs through 
economic growth.


                                S. 1723

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1723, a bill to provide for teacher and first 
responder stabilization.
  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 1723, supra.


                              S.J. RES. 28

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 28, a joint resolution 
limiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain 
proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to the Kingdom 
of Bahrain.


                              S. RES. 291

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 291, a 
resolution recognizing the religious and historical significance of the 
festival of Diwali.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 749

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from New Hampshire 
(Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 749 intended to be proposed to 
H.R. 2112, a bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other 
purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 757

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of amendment No. 757 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 2112, a bill making appropriations for 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2012, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 757 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 2112, supra.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 758

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 758 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 2112, a bill making appropriations for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other 
purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 759

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 759 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 2112, a bill making appropriations for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other 
purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 774

  At the request of Mr. DeMint, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 774 intended to be 
proposed to H.R. 2112, a bill making appropriations for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other 
purposes.

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