[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5] [Senate] [Pages 6640-6642] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 351 At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 351, a bill to amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions. S. 400 At the request of Mr. Sununu, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 400, a bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance coverage, and for other purposes. S. 522 At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 522, a bill to safeguard the economic health of the United States and the health and safety of the United States citizens by improving the management, coordination, and effectiveness of domestic and international intellectual property rights enforcement, and for other purposes. S. 582 At the request of Mr. Smith, the names of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) were added as cosponsors 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. 605 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 605, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to promote and improve the allied health professions. S. 661 At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 661, a bill to establish kinship navigator programs, to establish guardianship assistance payments for children, and for other purposes. S. 678 At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama) 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. 771 At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) were added as cosponsors of S. 771, a bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve the nutrition and health of schoolchildren by updating the definition of ``food of minimal nutritional value'' to conform to current nutrition science and to protect the Federal investment in the national school lunch and breakfast programs. S. 911 At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) 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. [[Page 6641]] S. 989 At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 989, a bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program. S. 1605 At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1605, 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. 1675 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1675, a bill to implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service. S. 1694 At the request of Mr. Specter, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 1694, a bill to authorize resources for sustained research and analysis to address colony collapse disorder and the decline of North American pollinators. S. 1760 At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 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. 1924 At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1924, a bill to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that a disability or death of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by any of certain diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty. S. 2069 At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2069, a bill to increase the United States financial and programmatic contributions to promote economic opportunities for women in developing countries. S. 2314 At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) 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. 2320 At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2320, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide continued entitlement to coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries under the Medicare Program that have received a kidney transplant and whose entitlement to coverage would otherwise expire, and for other purposes. S. 2444 At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2444, a bill to direct the Secretary of Education to provide grants to establish and evaluate sustainability programs, charged with developing and implementing integrated environmental, economic, and social sustainability initiatives, and to direct the Secretary of Education to convene a summit of higher education experts in the area of sustainability. S. 2523 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2523, a bill to establish the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States to provide for the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families. S. 2533 At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2533, a bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act. S. 2585 At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) 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. 2702 At the request of Mr. Salazar, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2702, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and increase utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under the Medicare part B Program. S. 2715 At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2715, a bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. S. 2775 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor 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. 2786 At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2786, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to health care under the Medicare program for beneficiaries residing in rural areas. S. 2819 At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the names of the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) 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. 2829 At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2829, a bill to make technical corrections to section 1244 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which provides special immigrant status for certain Iraqis, and for other purposes. S. 2840 At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) 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 Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2844, a bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to modify provisions relating to beach monitoring, and for other purposes. S. 2860 At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2860, a bill to diminish predatory lending by enhancing appraisal quality and standards, to improve appraisal oversight, to ensure mortgage appraiser independence, to provide for enhanced remedies and enforcement, and for other purposes. [[Page 6642]] S. 2871 At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2871, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to recodify as part of that title chapter 1607 of title 10, United States Code, to enhance the program of educational assistance under that chapter, and for other purposes. S. 2874 At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) were added as cosponsors 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. 2890 At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2890, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a highway fuel tax holiday. S. 2892 At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2892, a bill to promote the prosecution and enforcement of frauds against the United States by suspending the statute of limitations during times when Congress has authorized the use of military force. S. 2895 At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2895, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to maintain eligibility, for Federal PLUS loans, of borrowers who are 90 or more days delinquent on mortgage loan payments, or for whom foreclosure proceedings have been initiated, with respect to their primary residence. S. 2899 At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Obama), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 2899, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on suicides among veterans. S. RES. 482 At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 482, a resolution designating July 26, 2008, as ``National Day of the American Cowboy''. S. RES. 515 At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 515, a resolution commemorating the life and work of Dith Pran. S. RES. 524 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 524, a resolution honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of the owners of small business concerns in the United States during National Small Business Week, beginning April 21, 2008. ____________________