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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Senate section on pages S10660-S10661 on Oct. 8, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 89
At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
[Mr. Grams] was added as a cosponsor of S. 89, a bill to prohibit discrimination against individuals and their family members on the basis of genetic information, or a request for genetic services.
S. 358
At the request of Mr. DeWine, the names of the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Lautenberg] and the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. Faircloth] were added as cosponsors of S. 358, a bill to provide for compassionate payments with regard to individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated blood products, and for other purposes.
S. 412
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry], the Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Akaka], and the Senator from Utah [Mr. Hatch] were added as cosponsors of S. 412, a bill to provide for a national standard to prohibit the operation of motor vehicles by intoxicated individuals.
S. 621
At the request of Mr. D'Amato, the name of the Senator from Wyoming
[Mr. Thomas] was added as a cosponsor of S. 621, a bill to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to enact the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1997, and for other purposes.
S. 657
At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from Florida
[Mr. Graham] was added as a cosponsor of S. 657, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive military retired pay concurrently with veterans' disability compensation.
S. 803
At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Chafee] was added as a cosponsor of S. 803, a bill to permit the transportation of passengers between United States ports by certain foreign-flag vessels and to encourage United States-flag vessels to participate in such transportation.
S. 1096
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from Ohio
[Mr. DeWine], the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. Enzi], the Senator from Alaska [Mr. Murkowski], the Senator from Kansas [Mr. Roberts], and the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. Thomas] were added as cosponsors of S. 1096, a bill to restructure the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes.
S. 1133
At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Wyoming
[Mr. Thomas] was added as a cosponsor of S. 1133, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses and to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts.
S. 1180
At the request of Mr. Kempthorne, the name of the Senator from Alaska
[Mr. Murkowski] was added as a cosponsor of S. 1180, a bill to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act.
S. 1215
At the request of Mr. Ashcroft, the name of the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Grams] was added as a cosponsor of S. 1215, a bill to prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing.
S. 1226
At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Lott] was added as a cosponsor of S. 1226, a bill to dismantle the Department of Commerce.
At the request of Mr. Nickles, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 1226, supra.
S. 1260
At the request of Mr. Gramm, the names of the Senator from Utah [Mr. Bennett] and the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Grams] were added as cosponsors of S. 1260, a bill to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes.
S. 1264
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Illinois
[Mr. Durbin] was added as a cosponsor of S. 1264, a bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 52
At the request of Mr. Hollings, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Specter] was added as a cosponsor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 52, a concurrent resolution relating to maintaining the current standard behind the ``Made in USA'' label, in order to protect consumers and jobs in the United States.
Senate Resolution 96
At the request of Mr. Craig, the names of the Senator from Tennessee
[Mr. Frist], the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Hagel], the Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Smith], the Senator from Colorado [Mr. Allard], the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. Rockefeller], the Senator from Arkansas
[Mr. Bumpers], the Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Akaka], the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Durbin], the Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski], the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Lautenberg], the Senator from North Dakota
[Mr. Conrad], the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Hollings], the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry], the Senator from Michigan [Mr. Levin], the Senator from New York [Mr. Moynihan], and the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone] were added as cosponsors of Senate Resolution 96, a resolution proclaiming the week of March 15 through March 21, 1998, as ``National Safe Place Week.''
Senate Resolution 124
At the request of Mr. Roth, the name of the Senator from Alaska [Mr. Stevens] was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 124, a resolution to state the sense of the Senate that members of the Khmer Rouge who participated in the Cambodian genocide should be brought to justice before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.
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