A few interesting bills that Kerry sponsored and co-sponsored this week

[Mass]

Most of them about retirement and other benefits towards small businesses, minorities, and partners (interesting this one was sponsored by Lieberman).

By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mr. KERRY):

S. 3950. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for qualified equity investments in certain small businesses; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SMITH (for himself, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. KERRY, and Mr. BINGAMAN):

S. 3951. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to increase the retirement security of women and small business owners, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.


By Mr. KERRY:

S. 3953. A bill to foster development of minority-owned small businesses; to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.


By Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself, Mr. SMITH, Mr. AKAKA, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CHAFEE, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. MURRAY, and Mr. WYDEN):

S. 3955. A bill to provide benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

[Mass]

1. In addition of these two, of course

At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. KERRY), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. LAUTENBERG), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. SALAZAR), the Senator from New York (Mrs. CLINTON) and the Senator from Nevada (Mr. REID) were added as cosponsors of S. 3943, a bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to reimburse jurisdictions for amounts paid or incurred in preparing, producing, and using contingency paper ballots in the November 7, 2006, Federal general election.

The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated:

By Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself and Mr. KERRY):

S. Res. 588. A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that States should have in place backup systems to deal with any failure of electronic voting equipment during the November 7, 2006, general election; to the Committee on Rules and Administration.