[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9] [Senate] [Pages 11816-11817] [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 California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 186, a bill to provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. S. 411 At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 411, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credit rate parity for all renewable resources under the electricity production credit. S. 507 At the request of Mr. Conrad, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as cosponsors of S. 507, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for reimbursement of certified midwife services and to provide for more equitable reimbursement rates for certified nurse-midwife services. S. 712 At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 712, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes. S. 881 At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 881, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit. S. 911 At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens) 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. 1465 At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1465, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare program of certain medical mobility devices approved as class III medical devices. S. 2337 At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2337, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow long-term care insurance to be offered under cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements and to provide additional consumer protections for long- term care insurance. S. 2401 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2401, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refund of motor fuel excise taxes for the actual off-highway use of certain mobile machinery vehicles. S. 2666 At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2666, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in affordable housing, and for other purposes. S. 2704 At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2704, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of services of qualified respiratory therapists [[Page 11817]] performed under the general supervision of a physician. S. 2760 At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) 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. 2858 At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2858, a bill to establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy issues associated with recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work, and for other purposes. S. 2862 At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2862, a bill to provide for National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration utilization of the Arecibo Observatory. S. 2920 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as cosponsors of S. 2920, a bill to reauthorize and improve the financing and entrepreneurial development programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. S. 2955 At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2955, a bill to authorize funds to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to carry out its Community Safety Initiative. S. 3073 At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3073, a bill to amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to improve procedures for the collection and delivery of absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters, and for other purposes. S. 3092 At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3092, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure sufficient resources and increase efforts for research at the National Institutes of Health relating to Alzheimer's disease, to authorize an education and outreach program to promote public awareness and risk reduction with respect to Alzheimer's disease (with particular emphasis on education and outreach in Hispanic populations), and for other purposes. S. 3098 At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Martinez), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Sununu), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign) were added as cosponsors of S. 3098, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. S. CON. RES. 86 At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 86, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the United States, through the International Whaling Commission, should use all appropriate measures to end commercial whaling in all of its forms and seek to strengthen measures to conserve whale species. S. RES. 575 At the request of Mr. Stevens, the name of the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 575, a resolution expressing the support of the Senate for veteran entrepreneurs. S. RES. 580 At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 580, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. ____________________