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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 51

At the request of Mr. Biden, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Baucus) was added as a cosponsor of S. 51, a bill to reauthorize
the Federal programs to prevent violence against women, and for other
purposes.

S. 71

At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 71, a bill to amend title
38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-
connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other
purposes.

S. 424

At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the names of the Senator from
Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) were added
as cosponsors of S. 424, a bill to preserve and protect the free choice
of individuals and employees to form, join, or assist labor
organizations, or to refrain from such activities.

S. 469

At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. Bryan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 469, a bill to encourage the
timely development of a more cost effective United States commercial
space transportation industry, and for other purposes.

S. 655

At the request of Mr. Lott, the names of the Senator from North
Dakota (Mr. Conrad) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added
as cosponsors of S. 655, a bill to establish nationally uniform
requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage,
nonrepairable, and rebuilt vehicles.

S. 664

At the request of Mr. Chafee, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mrs. Hutchison) was added as a cosponsor of S. 664, a bill to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income
tax to individuals who rehabilitate historic homes or who are the first
purchasers of rehabilitated historic homes for use as a principal
residence.

S. 665

At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 665, a bill to amend the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to prohibit
the consideration of retroactive tax increases.

S. 666

At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr.
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 666, a bill to authorize a new
trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa.

S. 784

At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from
Michigan (Mr. Levin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 784, a bill to
establish a demonstration project to study and provide coverage of
routine patient care costs for medicare beneficiaries with cancer who
are enrolled in an approved clinical trial program.

S. 914

At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr.
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 914, a bill to amend the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act to require that discharges from combined
storm and sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow
Control Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other
purposes.

S. 922

At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from North
Carolina (Mr. Helms) was added as a cosponsor of S. 922, a bill to
prohibit the use of the ``Made in the USA'' label on products of the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and to deny such products
duty-free and quota-free treatment.

S. 935

At the request of Mr. Lugar, the name of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 935, a bill to
amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 to authorize research to promote the conversion of
biomass into biobased industrial products, and for other purposes.

S. 1020

At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Burns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1020, a bill to amend
chapter 1 of title 9, United States Code, to provide for greater
fairness in the arbitration process relating to motor vehicle franchise
contracts.

S. 1023

At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Rhode
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1023, a bill to amend
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize indirect graduate
medical education payments.

S. 1024

At the request of Mr. Moynihan, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mr. Bond) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1024, a bill to amend title
XVIII of the Social Security Act to carve out from payments to
Medicare+Choice organizations amounts attributable to disproportionate
share hospital payments and pay such amounts directly to those
disproportionate share hospitals in which their enrollees receive care.

S. 1028

At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1028, a bill to simplify
and expedite access to the Federal courts for injured parties whose
rights and privileges, secured by the United States Constitution, have
been deprived by final actions of Federal agencies, or other government
officials or entities acting under color of State law, and for other
purposes.

S. 1070

At the request of Mr. Bond, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Grams) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1070, a bill to require the
Secretary of Labor to wait for completion of a National Academy of
Sciences study before promulgating a standard, regulation or guideline
on ergonomics.

S. 1086

At the request of Mrs. Hutchison, the names of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) were added as
cosponsors of S. 1086, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 to waive the income inclusion on a distribution from an individual
retirement account to the extent that the distribution is contributed
for charitable purposes.

S. 1140

At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1140, a bill
to require the

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Secretary of Labor to issue regulations to eliminate or minimize the
significant risk of needlestick injury to health care workers.

S. 1142

At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1142, a bill to protect
the right of a member of a health maintenance organization to receive
continuing care at a facility selected by that member, and for other
purposes.

S. 1211

At the request of Mr. Bennett, the name of the Senator from Wyoming
(Mr. Thomas) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1211, a bill to amend the
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize additional
measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of Imperial Dam
in a cost-effective manner.

S. 1225

At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Allard) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1225, a bill to provide for
a rural education initiative, and for other purposes.

S. 1232

At the request of Mr. Cochran, the names of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Jeffords) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as
cosponsors of S. 1232, a bill to provide for the correction of
retirement coverage errors under chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United
States Code.

S. 1272

At the request of Mr. Nickles, the names of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Shelby) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) were added
as cosponsors of S. 1272, a bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act
to promote pain management and palliative care without permitting
assisted suicide and euthanasia, and for other purposes.

S. 1300

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1300, a bill to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 to prevent the wearing away of an employee's
accrued benefit under a defined plan by the adoption of a plan
amendment reducing future accruals under the plan.

S. 1308

At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from
Virginia (Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1308, a bill to
amend section 468A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to
deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants.

S. 1452

At the request of Mr. Shelby, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Burns) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1452, a bill to modernize
the requirements under the National Manufactured Housing Construction
and Safety Standards of 1974 and to establish a balanced consensus
process for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal
construction and safety standards for manufactured homes.

S. 1473

At the request of Mr. Robb, the names of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Bingaman), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), and the
Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of S.
1473, a bill to amend section 2007 of the Social Security Act to
provide grant funding for additional Empowerment Zones, Enterprise
Communities, and Strategic Planning Communities, and for other
purposes.

S. 1478

At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1478, a bill
to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide
equitable access for foster care and adoption services for Indian
children in tribal areas.

S. 1483

At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Bingaman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1483, a bill to amend the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 with respect to
export controls on high performance computers.

S. 1547

At the request of Mr. Burns, the name of the Senator from Rhode
Island (Mr. Chafee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1547, a bill to
amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal
Communications Commission to preserve low-power television stations
that provide community broadcasting, and for other purposes.

S. 1548

At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Washington
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1548, a bill to establish
a program to help States expand the existing education system to
include at least 1 year of early education preceding the year a child
enters kindergarten.

S. 1571

At the request of Mr. Jeffords, the name of the Senator from
Wisconsin (Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1571, a bill to
amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for permanent
eligibility of former members of the Selected Reserve for veterans
housing loans.

S. 1580

At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from North
Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1580, a bill to
amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to assist agricultural producers
in managing risk, and for other purposes.

S. 1590

At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1590, a bill to amend
title 49, United States Code, to modify the authority of the Surface
Transportation Board, and for other purposes.

S. 1600

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Cleland) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1600, a bill to amend the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prevent the wearing
away of an employee's accrued benefit under a defined benefit plan by
the adoption of a plan amendment reducing future accruals under the
plan.

Senate Joint Resolution 30

At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Sarbanes) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 30,
a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relative to equal rights for women and men.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 34

At the request of Mr. Specter, the name of the Senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Kerrey) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Concurrent Resolution
34, a concurrent resolution relating to the observence of ``In Memory''
Day.

Senate Resolution 69

At the request of Mr. Coverdell, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 69, a
resolution to prohibit the consideration of retroactive tax increases
in the Senate.

Senate Resolution 92

At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Virginia
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution 92, a
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that funding for prostate
cancer research should be increased substantially.

Senate Resolution 99

At the request of Mr. Reid, the names of the Senator from Virginia
(Mr. Robb), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), and the
Senator from Florida (Mr. Mack) were added as cosponsors of Senate
Resolution 99, a resolution designating November 20, 1999, as
``National Survivors for Prevention of Suicide Day.''

Senate Resolution 128

At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of Senate Resolution
128, a resolution designating March 2000, as ``Arts Education Month.''

Senate Resolution 179

At the request of Mr. Biden, the names of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the
Senator from Virginia (Mr. Robb), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka),
the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Fitzgerald), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), and the
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad) were added as cosponsors of
Senate Resolution 179, a

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resolution designating October 15, 1999, as ``National Mammography
Day.''

Amendment No. 1658

At the request of Mr. Helms the name of the Senator from Mississippi
(Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1658 proposed to
H.R. 2084, a bill making appropriations for the Department of
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

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