And he does have Democratic co-sponsors, something that is critical given the composition of the Senate.
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It has two Democratic co-sponsors, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and Bill Nelson of Florida.
The letter seeks additional original co-sponsors for the bill, which is expected to be introduced Thursday.
Several concessions were offered by the co-sponsors during the negotiating process over a new draft.
The most recent of these, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011, attracted 22 co-sponsors.
In 2008, with midterm and Presidential elections looming, the Roadmap attracted just eight co-sponsors.
But the bill, which also had a Republican sponsor and five Republican co-sponsors, died in conference.
My bet is you'll get a handful of moderate GOPers as co-sponsors--including the bipartisan Sen.
Moreover, a bill introduced in Congress to provide FCC authority for such regulation garnered only 27 co-sponsors.
Orrin Hatch, a Republican senator from Utah, first introduced the measure in 2001 with six Republican co-sponsors.
The bill had 149 co-sponsors, but it never came up for a full vote in the House.
So just what would the bill (PDF here), which now has 10 Democratic co-sponsors, including New York Sen.
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The bill has passed the House and has 82 co-sponsors in the Senate.
The SDA, introduced last year with 49 co-sponsors was re-introduced with 51 co-sponsors.
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Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, the Democratic and Republican leaders, are among the bill's 51 co-sponsors in the Senate.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) has already introduced legislation that would do just that, and it continues to gather co-sponsors.
Earlier this month, Rep. Joe Walsh and 30 co-sponsors issued a resolution supporting Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria.
The bill now has 11 more co-sponsors, four of which joined this month.
"This bill was so reckless that it had no co-sponsors, " said Mr. Racicot.
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They sponsored a bill about Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006 with 40 Democratic co-sponsors, no Republican co-sponsors.
Kentucky's legislation, sponsored in the House by state Rep. Sannie Overly, D-Paris, has bipartisan support and more than 80 co-sponsors.
Co-sponsors of the legislation include Republican leaders Richard Armey and Tom DeLay, and Democratic leaders Richard Gephardt and David Bonior.
Once the President endorsed that idea, seven, I believe, co-sponsors on the Republican side of that legislative proposal withdrew their support.
And because of that, despite what was represented in variations on the email, the bill has not attracted any co-sponsors.
But he hopes to get it passed as an amendment to another bill, and notes that he has many Democratic co-sponsors.
Does the President have any co-sponsors yet for his American Jobs Act?
It has more than 100 co-sponsors, a fifth of whom are Republicans.
Dingell said the bill favored by Democrats and his Republican co-sponsors, Reps.
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Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) has introduced the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 with co-sponsors Jared Polis (D-CO), Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY).
Co-sponsors include U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), U.S. Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).
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