The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Senate section on pages S42-S44 on Jan. 23, 2012.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 20
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 20, a bill to protect American job creation by striking the job-killing Federal employer mandate.
S. 296
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 296, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide the Food and Drug Administration with improved capacity to prevent drug shortages.
S. 381
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Michigan
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 381, a bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department of State or the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
S. 412
At the request of Mr. Levin, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 412, a bill to ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used for harbor maintenance.
S. 418
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 418, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.
S. 506
At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. 506, a bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.
S. 547
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 547, a bill to direct the Secretary of Education to establish an award program recognizing excellence exhibited by public school system employees providing services to students in pre-kindergarten through higher education.
S. 567
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to amend the small, rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
S. 634
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 634, a bill to ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.
S. 665
At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 665, a bill to promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.
S. 752
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 752, a bill to establish a comprehensive interagency response to reduce lung cancer mortality in a timely manner.
S. 829
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 829, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
S. 968
At the request of Mr. Hatch, his name and the names of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from New Hampshire
(Ms. Ayotte) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) were withdrawn as cosponsors of S. 968, a bill to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for other purposes.
At the request of Mr. Bennet, his name was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 968, supra.
S. 1018
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1018, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, and the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 to provide for implementation of additional recommendations of the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services.
S. 1039
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1039, a bill to impose sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, for the conspiracy to defraud the Russian Federation of taxes on corporate profits through fraudulent transactions and lawsuits against Hermitage, and for other gross violations of human rights in the Russian Federation, and for other purposes.
S. 1241
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1241, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.
S. 1245
At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Connecticut
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1245, a bill to provide for the establishment of the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.
S. 1299
At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns) were added as cosponsors of S. 1299, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of Lions Clubs International.
S. 1355
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1355, a bill to regulate political robocalls.
S. 1591
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. 1591, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Raoul Wallenberg, in recognition of his achievements and heroic actions during the Holocaust.
S. 1597
At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1597, a bill to provide assistance for the modernization, renovation, and repair of elementary school and secondary school buildings in public school districts and community colleges across the United States in order to support the achievement of improved educational outcomes in those schools, and for other purposes.
S. 1607
At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1607, a bill to include shellfish to the list of crops eligible for the noninsured crop disaster assistance program and the emergency assistance for livestock program of the Department of Agriculture.
S. 1680
At the request of Mr. Conrad, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1680, 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. 1707
At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1707, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
S. 1802
At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1802, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out programs and activities that connect Americans, especially children, youth, and families, with the outdoors.
S. 1816
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1816, a bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to modify a provision relating to minimum penalties for repeat offenders for driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence.
S. 1845
At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1845, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy investment credit for energy storage property connected to the grid, and for other purposes.
S. 1863
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1863, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage alternative energy investments and job creation.
S. 1896
At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1896, a bill to eliminate the automatic inflation increases for discretionary programs built into the baseline projections and require budget estimates to be compared with the prior year's level.
S. 1925
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were added as cosponsors of S. 1925, a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
S. 1930
At the request of Mr. Johanns, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 1930, a bill to prohibit earmarks.
At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1930, supra.
S. 1941
At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1941, a bill to amend the securities laws to establish certain thresholds for shareholder registration, and for other purposes.
S. 1963
At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) were added as cosponsors of S. 1963, a bill to revoke the charters for the Federal National Mortgage Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation upon resolution of their obligations, to create a new Mortgage Finance Agency for the securitization of single family and multifamily mortgages, and for other purposes.
S. 1994
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1994, a bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.
S. 2003
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as cosponsors of S. 2003, a bill to clarify that an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States and for other purposes.
S. 2006
At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2006, a bill to amend the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to permit Federal regulation and review of tolls and toll increases on certain surface transportation facilities, and for other purposes.
S. 2010
At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2010, a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
S.J. RES. 29
At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 29, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.
S. RES. 232
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 232, a resolution recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 12th anniversary of the campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to suppress the Falun Gong movement, recognizing the Tuidang movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates, and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
S. RES. 310
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 310, a resolution designating 2012 as the ``Year of the Girl'' and Congratulating Girl Scouts of the USA on its 100th anniversary.
At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 310, supra.
____________________
