[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 50 (Tuesday, April 1, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2295-S2297]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 41
At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 41, a bill to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to improve America's
research competitiveness, and for other purposes.
S. 59
At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 59, a bill to amend title
XIX of the Social Security Act to improve access to advanced practice
nurses and physician assistants under the Medicaid Program.
S. 60
At the request of Mr. Inouye, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 60, a bill to amend the
Public Health Service Act to provide a means for continued improvement
in emergency medical services for children.
S. 450
At the request of Mr. Ensign, the name of the Senator from South
Carolina (Mr. DeMint) was added as a cosponsor of S. 450, a bill to
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the medicare
outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
S. 495
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 495, a bill to prevent and
mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of
security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement
assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent
access, and misuse of personally identifiable information.
S. 582
At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Washington
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 582, a bill to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire sprinkler
systems as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.
S. 678
At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the names of the Senator from New York
(Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) were added
as cosponsors 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. 819
At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 819, a bill to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from
individual retirement accounts for charitable purposes.
S. 898
At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. 898, a bill to amend the
Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease
research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public
education about prevention.
S. 906
At the request of Mr. Obama, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 906, a bill to prohibit the
sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for
other purposes.
S. 911
At the request of Mr. Vitter, his name was added as a cosponsor of S.
911, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to advance medical
research and treatments into pediatric 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. 937
At the request of Mr. Reed, his name was added as a cosponsor of S.
937, a bill to improve support and services for individuals with autism
and their families.
S. 972
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 972, a bill
to provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and
other sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.
S. 1003
At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Indiana
(Mr. Bayh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1003, a bill to amend title
XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to emergency medical
services and the quality and efficiency of care furnished in emergency
departments of hospitals and critical access hospitals by establishing
a bipartisan commission to examine factors that affect the effective
delivery of such services, by providing for additional payments for
certain physician services furnished in such emergency departments, and
by establishing a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Working
Group, and for other purposes.
S. 1176
At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1176, a bill to require
enhanced disclosure to consumers regarding the consequences of making
only minimum required payments in the repayment of credit card debt,
and for other purposes.
S. 1310
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. Ensign) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1310, a bill to amend title
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of
increased payments for ground ambulance services under the Medicare
program.
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S. 1359
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1359, a bill to amend the
Public Health Service Act to enhance public and health professional
awareness and understanding of lupus and to strengthen the Nation's
research efforts to identify the causes and cure of lupus.
S. 1382
At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr.
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1382, a bill to amend the Public
Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis Registry.
S. 1410
At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from Michigan
(Ms. Stabenow) 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. 1430
At the request of Mr. Kennedy, his name was added as a cosponsor of
S. 1430, a bill to authorize State and local governments to direct
divestiture from, and prevent investment in, companies with investments
of $20,000,000 or more in Iran's energy sector, and for other purposes.
S. 1689
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1689, a bill to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts
received on account of claims based on certain unlawful discrimination
and to allow income averaging for backpay and frontpay awards received
on account of such claims, and for other purposes.
At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman)
were added as cosponsors of S. 1689, supra.
S. 2035
At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2035, a bill to
maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing
conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by
certain persons connected with the news media.
S. 2042
At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2042, a bill to
authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct
activities to rapidly advance treatments for spinal muscular atrophy,
neuromuscular disease, and other pediatric diseases, and for other
purposes.
S. 2056
At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2056, a bill to amend
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to restore financial stability
to Medicare anesthesiology teaching programs for resident physicians.
S. 2127
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2127, a bill to provide
assistance to families of miners involved in mining accidents.
S. 2159
At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from
Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2159, a bill to
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
S. 2279
At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Smith), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator
from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) were added as cosponsors of S. 2279, a
bill to combat international violence against women and girls.
S. 2314
At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from Tennessee
(Mr. Alexander) 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. 2366
At the request of Mr. Vitter, the names of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) were added as
cosponsors of S. 2366, a bill to provide immigration reform by securing
America's borders, clarifying and enforcing existing laws, and enabling
a practical verification program.
S. 2408
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added
as cosponsors of S. 2408, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social
Security Act to require physician utilization of the Medicare
electronic prescription drug program.
S. 2420
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
Voinovich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2420, a bill to encourage the
donation of excess food to nonprofit organizations that provide
assistance to food-insecure people in the United States in contracts
entered into by executive agencies for the provision, service, or sale
of food.
S. 2426
At the request of Mr. Kerry, his 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. 2433
At the request of Mr. Kerry, his name was added as a cosponsor of S.
2433, a bill to require the President to develop and implement a
comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy
objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination
of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people
worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
S. 2485
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms.
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2485, a bill to amend the
Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical
therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program,
and for other purposes.
S. 2533
At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2533, a bill to enact a
safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act.
S. 2555
At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2555, a bill to permit
California and other States to effectively control greenhouse gas
emissions from motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
S. 2580
At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms.
Collins) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as
cosponsors of S. 2580, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965
to improve the participation in higher education of, and to increase
opportunities in employment for, residents of rural areas.
S. 2585
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2585, a bill to provide
for the enhancement of the suicide prevention programs of the
Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
S. 2607
At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2607, a bill to make a
technical correction to section 3009 of the Deficit Reduction Act of
2005.
S. 2618
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) 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,
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Emery-Dreifuss Facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and
oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies.
S. 2625
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Michigan
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2625, a bill to ensure
that deferred Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits that
are received in a lump sum amount or in prospective monthly amounts, be
excluded from consideration as annual income when determining
eligibility for low-income housing programs.
S. 2639
At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr.
Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2639, a bill to amend title 38,
United States Code, to provide for an assured adequate level of funding
for veterans health care.
S. 2660
At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2660, a bill to amend the
Federal Power Act to ensure that the mission and functions of Regional
Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators include
keeping energy costs as low as reasonably possible for consumers, and
for other purposes.
S. 2672
At the request of Mr. Conrad, the names of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Collins), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) and the Senator
from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) were added as cosponsors of S. 2672, a
bill to provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and
medically underserved communities.
S. 2684
At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2684, a bill
to reform the housing choice voucher program under section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
S. 2719
At the request of Mrs. Dole, the names of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) and the Senator
from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint) were added as cosponsors of S. 2719, a
bill to provide that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or
effect, and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes.
S. 2722
At the request of Mrs. Dole, the names of the Senator from North
Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the
Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr.
Sessions) were added as cosponsors of S. 2722, a bill to prohibit
aliens who are repeat drunk drivers from obtaining legal status or
immigration benefits.
S. 2729
At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, her name was added as a cosponsor
of S. 2729, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to
modify Medicare physician reimbursement policies to ensure a future
physician workforce, and for other purposes.
S. 2760
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski),
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs.
Lincoln) were added as cosponsors 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 names of the Senator
from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms.
Mikulski) 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.
At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2766, supra.
S. 2774
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2774, a bill to provide
for the appointment of additional Federal circuit and district judges,
and for other purposes.
S. 2785
At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, her name was added as a cosponsor
of S. 2785, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Security Act to preserve
access to physicians' services under the Medicare program.
S. RES. 138
At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 138, a
resolution honoring the accomplishments and legacy of Cesar Estrada
Chavez.
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