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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Senate section on pages S8456-S8458 on Sept. 10, 2002.
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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 1022
At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Burns) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) were added as cosponsors of S. 1022, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.
S. 1224
At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1224, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the availability of medicare cost contracts for 10 years.
S. 1934
At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1934, a bill to amend the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to permit certain annuitants of the retirement programs of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to receive the adjustments in pension benefits to which such annuitants would otherwise be entitled as a result of the conversion of members of the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule under the amendments made by such Act.
S. 2268
At the request of Mr. Miller, the names of the Senator from Louisiana
(Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) were added as cosponsors of S. 2268, a bill to amend the Act establishing the Department of Commerce to protect manufacturers and sellers in the firearms and ammunition industry from restrictions on interstate or foreign commerce.
S. 2490
At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the name of the Senator from Alaska
(Mr. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2490, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the quality of, and access to, skilled nursing facility services under the medicare program.
S. 2512
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2512, a bill to provide grants for training court reporters and closed captioners to meet requirements for realtime writers under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and for other purposes.
S. 2560
At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Wellstone) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2560, a bill to provide for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes.
S. 2654
At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2654, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in the Public Health Service Act.
S. 2664
At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2664, a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish a program to provide assistance to enhance the ability of first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism, including incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, and for other purposes.
S. 2674
At the request of Mr. Brownback, the names of the Senator from Iowa
(Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) were added as cosponsors of S. 2674, a bill to improve access to health care medically underserved areas.
S. 2869
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the names of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Cleland), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) were added as cosponsors of S. 2869, a bill to facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures required in the public interest to meet the needs of wireless telecommunications consumers.
S. 2874
At the request of Mr. Dayton, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Torricelli) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2874, a bill to provide benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees.
S. 2896
At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Thurmond), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Smith) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) were added as cosponsors of S. 2896, a bill to enhance the operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in order to facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for enhanced notification on highways of alerts and information on such children, and for other purposes.
S. 2896
At the request of Mr. Bingaman, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 2896, supra.
S. 2901
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2901, a bill to provide that bonuses and other extraordinary or excessive compensation of corporate insiders and wrongdoers may be included in the bankruptcy estate.
S. RES. 239
At the request of Mr. Allen, the name of the Senator from Mississippi
(Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 239, A resolution recognizing the lack of historical recognition of the gallant exploits of the officers and crew of the S.S. Henry Bacon, a Liberty ship that was sunk February 23, 1945, in the waning days of World War II.
S. RES. 305
At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the names of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Allen), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Campbell), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Cleland), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Massachusetts
(Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Miller), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Nickles), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Thompson) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 305, A resolution designating the week beginning September 15, 2002, as ``National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week''.
S. RES. 307
At the request of Mr. Torricelli, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 307, A resolution reaffirming support of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and anticipating the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (the Proxmire Act) on November 4, 2003.
S. RES. 316
At the request of Mrs. Lincoln, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Fitzgerald) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 316, a bill designating the year beginning February 1, 2003, as the ``Year of the Blues''.
S. RES. 324
At the request of Mr. Johnson, the names of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 324, A resolution congratulating the National Farmers Union for 100 years of service to family farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
S. CON. RES. 129
At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 129, A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the establishment of the month of November each year as ``Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month''.
AMENDMENT NO. 4510
At the request of Mr. Bayh, the name of the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 4510 intended to be proposed to H.R. 5005, a bill to establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
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