[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5] [Senate] [Pages 5978-5980] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 186 At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) was added as a cosponsor of S. 186, a bill to provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. S. 267 At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 267, a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to clarify that territories and Indian tribes are eligible to receive grants for confronting the use of methamphetamine. S. 268 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 268, a bill to designate the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, and for other purposes. S. 358 At the request of Ms. Snowe, the names of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added as cosponsors of S. 358, a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. S. 582 At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) 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. 638 At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) 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 Florida (Mr. Nelson) 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. 777 At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 777, a bill to repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities. S. 970 At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 970, a bill to impose sanctions on Iran and on other countries for assisting Iran in developing a nuclear program, and for other purposes. S. 1010 At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1010, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage guaranteed lifetime income payments from annuities and similar payments of life insurance proceeds at dates later than death by excluding from income a portion of such payments. S. 1120 At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1120, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for the training of graduate medical residents in preventive medicine and public health. S. 1390 At the request of Mr. Thune, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 1390, a bill to provide for the issuance of a ``forever stamp'' to honor the sacrifices of the brave men and women of the armed forces who have been awarded the Purple Heart. S. 1483 At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1483, a bill to create a new incentive fund that will encourage States to adopt the 21st Century Skills Framework. S. 1512 At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1512, a bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to expand Federal eligibility for children in foster care who have attained age 18. S. 1638 At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1638, a bill to adjust the salaries of Federal justices and judges, and for other purposes. S. 1711 At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1711, a bill to target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. S. 1926 At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1926, a bill to establish the National Infrastructure Bank to provide funding for qualified infrastructure projects, and for other purposes. S. 2021 At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2021, a bill to provide $50,000,000,000 in new transportation infrastructure funding through bonding to empower States and local governments to complete significant infrastructure projects across all modes of transportation, including roads, bridges, rail and transit systems, ports, and inland waterways, and for other purposes. S. 2035 At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Dole) 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. 2310 At the request of Mr. Martinez, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 2310, a bill to establish a National Catastrophic Risks Consortium and a National Homeowners' Insurance Stabilization Program, and for other purposes. S. 2368 At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2368, a bill to provide immigration reform by securing America's borders, clarifying and enforcing existing laws, and enabling a practical employer verification program. S. 2399 At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) were added as cosponsors of S. 2399, a bill to expand and improve housing counseling services by increasing financial education and counseling services available to homeowners and prospective homebuyers in financial turmoil or who seek credit or other personal financial assistance, and for other purposes. S. 2485 At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) 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. 2498 At the request of Mr. Bingaman, the names of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from [[Page 5979]] Nevada (Mr. Reid), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) were added as cosponsors of S. 2498, a bill to authorize the minting of a coin to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to occur in 2010. S. 2505 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg) were added as cosponsors of S. 2505, a bill to allow employees of a commercial passenger airline carrier who receive payments in a bankruptcy proceeding to roll over such payments into an individual retirement plan, and for other purposes. S. 2510 At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2510, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations, and for other purposes. S. 2598 At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Salazar) 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. 2631 At the request of Mr. McConnell, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2631, a bill to award a congressional gold medal to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in recognition of her courageous and unwavering commitment to peace, nonviolence, human rights, and democracy in Burma. S. 2668 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2668, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from listed property under section 280F. S. 2674 At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Domenici) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2674, a bill to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve and enhance procedures for the retirement of members of the Armed Forces for disability and to improve and enhance authorities for the rating and compensation of service-connected disabilities in veterans, and for other purposes. S. 2681 At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning) 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. 2747 At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2747, a bill to grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated. S. 2756 At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were added as cosponsors of S. 2756, a bill to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system. S. 2758 At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the names of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were added as cosponsors 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 Iowa (Mr. Grassley) 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. 2771 At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama) were added as cosponsors of S. 2771, a bill to require the president to call a White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010. S. 2775 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as cosponsors of S. 2775, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Social Security Act to treat certain domestically controlled foreign persons performing services under contract with the United States Government as American employers for purposes of certain employment taxes and benefits. S. 2785 At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) 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 names of the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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. 2839 At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the names of the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) were added as cosponsors of S. 2839, a bill to provide emergency relief for United States businesses and industries currently employing temporary foreign workers and for other purposes. S. 2840 At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2840, a bill to establish a liaison with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to expedite naturalization applications filed by members of the Armed Forces and to establish a deadline for processing such applications. S. 2844 At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2844, a bill to amend the [[Page 5980]] Federal Water Pollution Control Act to modify provisions relating to beach monitoring, and for other purposes. S. RES. 500 At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 500, a resolution honoring military children during ``National Month of the Military Child''. S. RES. 506 At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 506, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that funding provided by the United States to the Government of Iraq in the future for reconstruction and training for security forces be provided as a loan to the Government of Iraq. S. RES. 513 At the request of Mrs. Dole, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 513, a resolution congratulating the Army Reserve on its centennial, which will be formally celebrated on April 23, 2008, and commemorating the historic contributions of its veterans and continuing contributions of its soldiers to the vital national security interests and homeland defense missions of the United States. ____________________