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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 7

At the request of Mr. Kyl, the name of the Senator from Mississippi
(Mr. Lott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 7, a bill to increase
American jobs and economic growth by making permanent the individual
income tax rate reductions, the reduction in the capital gains and
dividend tax rates, and the repeal of the estate, gift, and generation-
skipping transfer taxes.

S. 151

At the request of Mr. Coleman, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 151, a bill to amend title
38, United States Code, to require an annual plan on outreach
activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

S. 246

At the request of Mr. Bunning, the names of the Senator from Utah
(Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were added as
cosponsors of S. 246, a bill to repeal the sunset of the Economic
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the
expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.

S. 319

At the request of Mr. Domenici, the name of the Senator from Iowa
(Mr. Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 319, a bill to amend the
Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum allotments
under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
program.

S. 372

At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 372, a bill to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that a deduction equal to
fair market value shall be allowed for charitable contributions of
literacy, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the
donor.

S. 392

At the request of Mr. Levin, the names of the Senator from
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Lott)
were added as cosponsors of S. 392, a bill to authorize the President
to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress, collectively, to the
Tuskegee Airmen in recognition of their unique military record, which
inspired revolutionary reform in the Armed Forces.

S. 397

At the request of Mr. Craig, the name of the Senator from West
Virginia (Mr. Byrd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 397, a bill to
prohibit civil liability actions from being brought or continued
against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms
or ammunition for damages, injunctive or other relief resulting from
the misuse of their products by others.

S. 457

At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Hawaii
(Mr. Akaka) was added as a cosponsor of S. 457, a bill to require the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance for,
and provide oversight of, the management of micropurchases made with
Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and for other purposes.

S. 470

At the request of Mr. Dodd, the names of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added as
cosponsors of S. 470, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to
expand the clinical trials drug data bank.

S. 512

At the request of Mr. Santorum, the names of the Senator from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins)
were added as cosponsors of S. 512, a bill to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as 5-
year property for purposes of depreciation.

S. 558

At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 558, a bill to amend title
10, United States Code, to permit certain additional retired members of
the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive
both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs
for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of
military service or Combat-Related Special compensation and to
eliminate the phase-in period under current law with respect to such
concurrent receipt.

S. 828

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr.
Lautenberg) were added as cosponsors of S. 828, a bill to enhance and
further research into paralysis and to improve rehabilitation and the
quality of life for persons living with paralysis and other physical
disabilities, and for other purposes.

S. 914

At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from Michigan
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 914, a bill to amend the
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Health Service Act to establish a competitive grant program to build
capacity in veterinary medical education and expand the workforce of
veterinarians engaged in public health practice and biomedical
research.

S. 1014

At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1014, a bill to provide
additional relief for small business owners ordered to active duty as
members of reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.

S. 1081

At the request of Mr. Kyl, the name of the Senator from Nebraska (Mr.
Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1081, a bill to amend title
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a minimum update for
physicians' services for 2006 and 2007.

S. 1089

At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1089, a bill to establish
the National Foreign Language Coordination Council to develop and
implement a foreign language strategy, and for other purposes.

S. 1110

At the request of Mr. Allard, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Domenici) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1110, a bill to amend the
Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require engine coolant and
antifreeze to contain a bittering agent in order to render the coolant
or antifreeze unpalatable.

S. 1158

At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1158, a bill to
impose a 6-month moratorium on terminations of certain plans instituted
under section 4042 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974 in cases in which reorganization of contributing sponsors is
sought in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.

S. 1172

At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) and
the Senator from Maine (Ms. Snowe) were added as cosponsors of S. 1172,
a bill to provide for programs to increase the awareness and knowledge
of women and health care providers with respect to gynecologic cancers.

S. 1179

At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from New
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1179, a bill to
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that benefits
under part D of such title have no impact on benefits under other
Federal programs.

S. 1191

At the request of Mr. Salazar, the names of the Senator from
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens)
were added as cosponsors of S. 1191, a bill to establish a grant
program to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in
remote rural areas.

S. 1308

At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Alaska
(Mr. Stevens), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the
Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr.
Bayh) were added as cosponsors of S. 1308, a bill to establish an
Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, and for other purposes.

S. 1309

At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from Maine
(Ms. Snowe), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine), the Senator
from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr.
Bingaman), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator
from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Michigan (Ms.
Stabenow) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) were added as
cosponsors of S. 1309, a bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend
the trade adjustment assistance program to the services sector, and for
other purposes.

S. 1321

At the request of Mr. Santorum, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1321, a bill to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone
and other communications.

S. 1380

At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr.
DeWine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1380, a bill to eliminate unsafe
railway-road grade crossings, to enhance railroad safety through new
safety technology, safety inspections, accident investigations, and for
other purposes.

S. 1405

At the request of Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, the names of the Senator
from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr.
Bingaman) were added as cosponsors of S. 1405, a bill to extend the 50
percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or
unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility and to
establish the National Advisory Council on Medical Rehabilitation.

S. 1408

At the request of Mr. Smith, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Clinton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1408, a bill to
strengthen data protection and safeguards, require data breach
notification, and further prevent identity theft.

S. 1411

At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1411, a bill to direct the
Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot
program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small business
concerns, and for other purposes.

S. 1414

At the request of Mr. Bennett, his name was added as a cosponsor of
S. 1414, a bill to provide for the conduct of a study of the
suitability and feasibility of establishing the Trail of the Ancients
National Heritage Area in the Four Corners region of the States of
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
At the request of Mr. Domenici, his name was added as a cosponsor of
S. 1414, supra.
At the request of Mr. Bingaman, his name was added as a cosponsor of
S. 1414, supra.
At the request of Mr. Allard, his name was added as a cosponsor of S.
1414, supra.

S. 1429

At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu)
were added as cosponsors of S. 1429, a bill to amend the Higher
Education Act of 1965 to assist homeless students in obtaining
postsecondary education, and for other purposes.

S. RES. 104

At the request of Mr. Feingold, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Salazar) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 104, a resolution
expressing the sense of the Senate encouraging the active engagement of
Americans in world affairs and urging the Secretary of State to take
the lead and coordinate with other governmental agencies and non-
governmental organizations in creating an online database of
international exchange programs and related opportunities.

S. RES. 198

At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the names of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Isakson) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as
cosponsors of S. Res. 198, a resolution commemorating the 25th
anniversary of the 1980 worker's strike in Poland and the birth of the
Solidarity Trade Union, the first free and independent trade union
established in the Soviet-dominated countries of Europe.

AMENDMENT NO. 1313

At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from Wyoming
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1313 proposed to
S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1337

At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
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Dayton) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1337 intended to be
proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for
the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1345

At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr.
Sarbanes) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1345 intended to be
proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for
the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1348

At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.
1348 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal
year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1369

At the request of Mr. Dayton, the names of the Senator from
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr.
Lautenberg) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1369 intended to
be proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal
year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1402

At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Mr. Feingold) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1402 intended
to be proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal
year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1410

At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from New
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bayh) were
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1410 intended to be proposed to S.
1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes.

AMENDMENT NO. 1415

At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1415 proposed
to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the
Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

amendment no. 1418

At the request of Mr. Bunning, his name was added as a cosponsor of
amendment No. 1418 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other
purposes.

amendment no. 1422

At the request of Mr. Salazar, the names of the Senator from New
Mexico (Mr. Bingaman) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray)
were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1422 proposed to S. 1042, an
original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes.

amendment no. 1423

At the request of Mr. Salazar, the names of the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Chambliss) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1423 proposed to
S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes.

amendment no. 1425

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Obama), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg)
and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) were added as
cosponsors of amendment No. 1425 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill
to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for
other purposes.

amendment no. 1433

At the request of Mr. Lieberman, the names of the Senator from New
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden) were
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1433 intended to be proposed to S.
1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes.

amendment no. 1435

At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from Hawaii
(Mr. Akaka), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator
from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the
Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Salazar), the Senator from Arkansas (Mrs. Lincoln) and the Senator
from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) were added as cosponsors of amendment No.
1435 proposed to S. 1042, an original bill to authorize appropriations
for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the
Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal
year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

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