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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Senate section on pages S5890-S5891 on June 6, 2001.
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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 19
At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 19, a bill to protect the civil rights of all Americans, and for other purposes.
S. 252
At the request of Mr. Voinovich, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 252, a bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.
S. 459
At the request of Mr. Bunning, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 459, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on vaccines to 25 cents per dose.
S. 464
At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 464, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a tax credit for long-term care givers.
S. 487
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were added as cosponsors of S. 487, a bill to amend chapter 1 of title 17, United States Code, relating to the exemption of certain performances or displays for educational uses from copyright infringement provisions, to provide that the making of a single copy of such performances or displays is not an infringement, and for other purposes.
S. 508
At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 508, a bill to authorize the President to promote posthumously the late Raymond Ames Spruance to the grade of Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy, and for other purposes.
S. 554
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Sarbanes) was added as a cosponsor of S. 554, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand medicare coverage of certain self-injected biologicals.
S. 571
At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 571, a bill to provide for the location of the National Museum of the United States Army.
S. 661
At the request of Mr. Thompson, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 661, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 4.3-cent motor fuel exercise taxes on railroads and inland waterway transportation which remain in the general fund of the Treasury.
S. 662
At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Miller) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. DeWine) were added as cosponsors of S. 662, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for marked graves of, or to other wise commemorate , certain individuals.
S. 677
At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 677, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required use of certain principal repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financing to redeem bonds, to modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules based on median family income, and for other purposes.
S. 685
At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Connecticut
(Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 685, a bill to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to strengthen working families, and for other purposes.
S. 697
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 697, a bill to modernize the financing of the railroad retirement system and to provide enhanced benefits to employees and beneficiaries.
At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 697, supra.
S. 700
At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 700, a bill to establish a Federal interagency task force for the purpose of coordinating actions to prevent the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly known as ``mad cow disease'') and foot-and-mouth disease in the United States.
S. 764
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Daschle) was added as a cosponsor of S. 764, a bill to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to impose just and reasonable load-differentiated demand rates or cost-of-service based rates on sales by public utilities of electric energy at wholesale in the western energy market, and for other purposes.
S. 769
At the request of Mr. Brownback, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 769, a bill to establish a carbon sequestration program and an implementing panel within the Department of Commerce to enhance international conservation, to promote the role of carbon sequestration as a means of slowing the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and to reward and encourage voluntary, pro-active environmental efforts on the issue of global climate change.
S. 777
At the request of Mr. Allen, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign) was added as a cosponsor of S. 777, a bill to permanently extend the moratorium enacted by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and for other purposes.
S. 794
At the request of Mr. Thompson, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 794, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to facilitate electric cooperative participation in a competitive electric power industry.
S. 804
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 804, a bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to require phased increases in the fuel efficiency standards applicable to light trucks; to required fuel economy standards for automobiles up to 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight; to raise the fuel economy of the Federal fleet of vehicles, and for other purposes.
S. 805
At the request of Mr. Wellstone, the names of the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were added as cosponsors of S. 805, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, Becker, limb girdle, congenital, facioscapulohumeral, myotonic, oculopharyngeal, distal, and emery-dreifuss muscular dystrophies.
S. 830
At the request of Mr. Chafee, the name of the Senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of S. 830, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
S. 834
At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. 834, a bill to provide duty-free treatment for certain steam or other vapor generating boilers used in nuclear facilities.
S. 857
At the request of Mr. Helms, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Kyl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 857, a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States Government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not a party.
S. 952
At the request of Mr. Gregg, the name of the Senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 952, a bill to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions.
S. 957
At the request of Mr. Wellstone, the names of the Senator from Ohio
(Mr. DeWine) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes) were added as cosponsors of S. 957, a bill to provide certain safeguards with respect to the domestic steel industry.
S. 964
At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Mr. Kohl) was added as a cosponsor of S. 964, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.
S. 965
At the request of Mr. Dorgan, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Corzine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 965, a bill to impose limitations on the approval of applications by major carriers domiciled in Mexico until certain conditions are met.
S. Res. 16
At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the names of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 16, a resolution designating August 16, 2001, as ``National Airborne Day.''
S. Res. 68
At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Daschle), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Baucus) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 68, a resolution designating September 6, 2001 as ``National Crazy Horse Day.''
S. Res. 71
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 71, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need to preserve six day mail delivery.
S. Res. 91
At the request of Mr. Nelson of Florida, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 91, a resolution condemning the murder of a United States citizen and other civilians, and expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the failure of the Indonesian judicial system to hold accountable those responsible for the killings.
S. Con. Res. 17
At the request of Mr. Sarbanes, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 17, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that there should continue to be parity between the adjustments in the compensation of members of the uniformed services and the adjustments in the compensation of civilian employees of the United States.
S. Con. Res. 34
At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Biden) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 34, a concurrent resolution congratulating the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on the tenth anniversary of the reestablishment of their full independence.
S. Con. Res. 43
At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 43, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Republic of Korea's ongoing practice of limiting United States motor vehicles access to its domestic market.
AMENDMENT NO. 459
At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island
(Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 459.
AMENDMENT NO. 509
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Hagel) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 509.
AMENDMENT NO. 517
At the request of Mrs. Clinton, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 517.
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