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                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 50

  At the request of Mr. Faircloth, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
[Mr. Murkowski] was added as a cosponsor of S. 50, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a nonrefundable tax credit for 
the expenses of an education at a 2-year college.


                                 S. 89

  At the request of Ms. Snowe, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
[Mr. Durbin] was added as a cosponsor of S. 89, a bill to prohibit 
discrimination against individuals and their family members on the 
basis of genetic information, or a request for genetic services.


                                 S. 92

  At the request of Mr. Kerry, the name of the Senator from Washington 
[Mrs. Murray] was added as a cosponsor of S. 92, a bill to amend title 
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with 
respect to religious accommodation in employment, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 191

  At the request of Mr. Helms, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
[Mr. Hutchinson] was added as a cosponsor of S. 191, a bill to throttle 
criminal use of guns.


                                 S. 232

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] was added as a cosponsor of S. 232, a bill 
to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit 
discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or 
national origin, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 263

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
[Mr. Akaka] was added as a cosponsor of S. 263, a bill to prohibit the 
import, export, sale, purchase, possession, transportation, 
acquisition, and receipt of bear viscera or products that contain or 
claim to contain bear viscera, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 332

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
[Mr. Wellstone] was added as a cosponsor of S. 332, a bill to prohibit 
the importation of goods produced abroad with child labor, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 350

  At the request of Mr. Thurmond, the name of the Senator from Maine 
[Ms. Snowe] was added as a cosponsor of S. 350, a bill to authorize 
payment of special annuities to surviving spouses of deceased members 
of the uniformed services who are ineligible for a survivor annuity 
under transition laws relating to the establishment of the Survivor 
Benefit Plan under chapter 73 of title 10, United States Code.


                                 S. 358

  At the request of Mr. DeWine, the names of the Senator 
from California [Mrs. Feinstein] and the Senator from Utah [Mr. 
Bennett] were added as cosponsors of S. 358, a bill to provide for 
compassionate payments with regard to individuals with blood-clotting 
disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted human immunodeficiency 
virus due to contaminated blood products, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 387

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Nebraska 
[Mr. Kerrey], the Senator from Texas [Mr. Gramm], the Senator from New 
Jersey [Mr. Lautenberg], and the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Robb] were 
added as cosponsors of S. 387, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide equity to exports of software.


                                 S. 389

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina [Mr. Faircloth], and the Senator from Maine [Ms. Collins] were 
added as cosponsors of S. 389, a bill to improve congressional 
deliberation on proposed Federal private sector mandates, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 405

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Kentucky 
[Mr. Ford], the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Hagel], and the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Dodd] were added as cosponsors of S. 405, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 
research credit and to allow greater opportunity to elect the 
alternative incremental credit.


                                 S. 406

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
[Mr. Kerrey] was added as a cosponsor of S. 406, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide clarification for the 
deductibility of expenses incurred by a taxpayer in connection with the 
business use of the home.


                                 S. 433

  At the request of Mr. Brownback, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina [Mr. Faircloth] and the Senator

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from Texas [Mrs. Hutchison] were added as cosponsors of S. 433, a bill 
to require Congress and the President to fulfill their Constitutional 
duty to take personal responsibility for Federal laws.


                                 S. 460

  At the request of Mr. Bond, the names of the Senator from Kentucky 
[Mr. McConnell], and the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Coats] were added as 
cosponsors of S. 460, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to increase the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed 
individuals, to provide clarification for the deductibility of expenses 
incurred by a taxpayer in connection with the business use of the home, 
to clarify the standards used for determining that certain individuals 
are not employees, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 496

  At the request of Mr. Chafee, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
[Mr. Breaux], the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Kerrey], and the Senator 
from Colorado [Mr. Allard] were added as cosponsors of S. 496, 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. 529

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from 
Washington [Mr. Gorton] was added as a cosponsor of S. 529, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain farm rental 
income from net earnings from self-employment if the taxpayer enters 
into a lease agreement relating to such income.


                                 S. 578

  At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi [Mr. Lott] was added as a cosponsor of S. 578, a bill to 
permit an individual to be treated by a health care practitioner with 
any method of medical treatment such individual requests, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 599

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
[Mr. Torricelli] was added as a cosponsor of S. 599, a bill to protect 
children and other vulnerable subpopulations from exposure to certain 
environmental pollutants, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 621

  At the request of Mr. D'Amato, the name of the Senator from Utah [Mr. 
Bennett] was added as a cosponsor of S. 621, a bill to repeal the 
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to enact the Public Utility 
Holding Company Act of 1997, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 643

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
[Mr. Wyden] was added as a cosponsor of S. 643, a bill to prohibit the 
Federal Government from providing insurance, reinsurance, or noninsured 
crop disaster assistance for tobacco.


                                 S. 657

  At the request of Mr. Daschle, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota [Mr. Dorgan] was added as a cosponsor of S. 657, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed 
Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive military 
retired pay concurrently with veterans' disability compensation.


                                 S. 673

  At the request of Mr. Breaux, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
[Mr. Kerrey] was added as a cosponsor of S. 673, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974 in order to promote and improve employee stock ownership 
plans.


                                 S. 678

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
[Mr. Robb] was added as a cosponsor of S. 678, a bill to provide for 
the appointment of additional Federal circuit and district judges, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 713

  At the request of Mr. Dodd, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
[Mr. Hutchinson] was added as a cosponsor of S. 713, a bill to amend 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow for additional 
deferred effective dates for approval of applications under the new 
drugs provisions, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 731

  At the request of Mr. Bumpers, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
[Mr. Coverdell] was added as a cosponsor of S. 731, a bill to extend 
the legislative authority for construction of the National Peace Garden 
Memorial, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 755

  At the request of Mr. Campbell, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Lieberman] was added as a cosponsor of S. 755, a bill 
to amend title 10, United States Code, to restore the provisions of 
chapter 76 of that title--relating to missing persons--as in effect 
before the amendments made by the National Defense Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 1997 and to make other improvements to that chapter.


                                 S. 771

  At the request of Mr. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina [Mr. Faircloth] was added as a cosponsor of S. 771, a bill to 
regulate the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 772

  At the request of Mr. Specter, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Santorum] and the Senator from Ohio [Mr. DeWine] were 
added as cosponsors of S. 772, a bill to establish an Office of 
Religious Persecution Monitoring, to provide for the imposition of 
sanctions against countries engaged in a pattern of religious 
persecution, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 781

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Texas 
[Mrs. Hutchison], the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Lott], the Senator 
from Kansas [Mr. Roberts], and the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. 
Thurmond] were added as cosponsors of S. 781, a bill to establish a 
uniform and more efficient Federal process for protecting property 
owners' rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment.


                                 S. 800

  At the request of Mr. Abraham, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
[Mr. Coverdell] was added as a cosponsor of S. 800, a bill to create a 
tax cut reserve fund to protect revenues generated by economic growth.


                    Senate Concurrent Resolution 29

  At the request of Mr. Gorton, the names of the Senator from New York 
[Mr. D'Amato] and the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Durbin] were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Concurrent Resolution 29, a concurrent resolution 
recommending the integration of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


                          Senate Resolution 92

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey [Mr. Torricelli], the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], 
the Senator from Maryland [Mr. Sarbanes], the Senator from South 
Carolina [Mr. Thurmond], the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Cochran], 
the Senator from Michigan [Mr. Levin], the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. 
Hutchinson], the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Roth], the Senator from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry], the Senator from New York [Mr. Moynihan], 
the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Breaux], the Senator from Iowa [Mr. 
Grassley], the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone], the Senator from 
Connecticut [Mr. Lieberman], the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Durbin], 
the Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid], the Senator from Delaware [Mr. 
Biden], and the Senator from New York [Mr. D'Amato] were added as 
cosponsors of Senate Resolution 92, a resolution designating July 2, 
1997, and July 2, 1998, as ``National Literacy Day.''

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