How to Use cosponsor in a Sentence

cosponsor

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  • Harris signed on as a cosponsor to the bill last April.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Look for ads in the ADN, which is a cosponsor of this important program.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • That’s the purpose of the trust fund, which was approved by the City Council last year with Dickens as a cosponsor.
    — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 16 May 2022
  • That number has more than tripled to 46 cosponsors in this Congress.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At last check, Villanueva’s bill had 10 cosponsors, all but one of whom are Democrats.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But the bill has dozens of cosponsors, and House passage will increase pressure on the Senate to follow suit.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Manchin is the only Democratic senator who has not signed on as a cosponsor on the For the People Act.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • This article has also been corrected to reflect the fact that Rep. Massie was not a cosponsor of Rep. Rosendale’s bill.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Donnelly, who cites his faith in his decision to cosponsor, is Catholic.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2018
  • But because the bill was filed listing Coats as the sponsor and Donnelly as the cosponsor, it’s not counted as a win for Donnelly.
    — Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2018
  • Hakeem Jeffries, the current House Democratic Leader, was a cosponsor of the bill.
    — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The bill has 73 cosponsors and is expected to pass by a wide bipartisan margin.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 19 July 2019
  • Brochin was cosponsor of a 2009 bill that allows judges to require subjects of temporary protective orders to give up their guns.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 9 June 2018
  • An additional 53 members voted to add their names as cosponsors following the passage of the bill.
    — Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Of the bill’s 24 original cosponsors, nine have yanked their support in the past few weeks, following a massive outcry on social media.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Only two of the Democrats’ 24 money-in-politics bills have more than one Republican cosponsor.
    — Time, 31 Aug. 2017
  • There were no cosponsors and no hearings set on Romanchuk's legislation until this past week.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
  • One of the nine cosponsors was Jimmy Kenney — the same politician who is planning to use his rubber-stamp Art Commission to bury the statue in some undetermined place.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Tillis, the agreement's cosponsor, argued that while border states like Arizona bore the brunt of the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, the effects extend well beyond to other parts of the country.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • However, Republicans have been hesitant to join the bill, with one cosponsor going as far as to pull his support.
    — Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The chief sponsors for all 16 bills are Republicans and only three measures have a Democratic cosponsor.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That helps explain why the bills have attracted so few Republican cosponsors.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 7 June 2018
  • Tuberville is a cosponsor of the Sunshine Protection Act that would make daylight saving time permanent.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Democrat Stephanie Murphy, who represents portions of the Orlando area, is a cosponsor.
    — Max Chesnes, USA TODAY, 9 July 2021
  • Senator Susan Collins signed on to the bill last November, the first republican cosponsor.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • One of the event’s cosponsors was none other than Cresco-Yeltrah, one of the 12 growers/processors with a medical cannabis permit in Pennsylvania.
    — Chris Goldstein, Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The resolution has nearly 50 cosponsors, all Democrats.
    — USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • Once the bills are circulated and have cosponsors signed on, they will be given bill numbers and introduced and voted on in committee meetings.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Gillibrand is a cosponsor of Sanders’ legislation adding a small tax to financial transactions, while Harris is not.
    — Elana Schor, The Denver Post, 20 July 2019
  • His office later cited 13 bills that Hawley has signed onto as a cosponsor since January that include Democrats.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021

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