Definition of COSPONSOR

Other Words from cosponsor

cosponsor or transitive verb cosponsored or co-sponsored; cosponsoring or co-sponsoring

This year Simpson is carrying on the legislative struggle without Mazzoli, who has declined to cosponsor the bill without support from the Democratic House leadership … — George Russell The following summer, Bingham returned to Machu Picchu with an expedition co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society. — Duane Damon

cosponsorship \ (ˌ)kō-ˈspän(t)-sər-ˌship

\ or co-sponsorship noun

Increasingly, large urban malls are being built with the co-sponsorship of city governments. — Witold Rybczynski

Examples of cosponsor in a Sentence

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According to the Sunrise Movement, all the major Democratic presidential candidates, except Joe Biden, are in support, with 104 cosponsors in the House and Senate. — Teen Vogue, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joined Bernie Sanders and the Sunrise Movement to Speak on Climate Change and a Green New Deal," 14 May 2019 But the fact of the matter is there are 194 House Democrats, 122 of them have signed on as cosponsors to Medicare-for-all, which is single- payer health care, which would cost $32 trillion. — Fox News, "Rep. Trey Gowdy on Helsinki summit fallout," 22 July 2018 My cosponsors include Democrats and Republicans, and some of Congress’ leading marijuana legalization proponents. — Andy Harris, WSJ, "Pot-Smoking Agitators Burst Into My Office," 3 Oct. 2018 McCain and cosponsor Russ Feingold, a progressive Democrat representing Wisconsin, had little institutional power and were regarded by their colleagues as moralists, rather than the wheeler-dealers who are presumed to get things done in the Senate. — Mark Schmitt, Vox, "John McCain’s signature campaign finance law was a real achievement — for its time," 26 Aug. 2018 Funke and the bill’s cosponsor, Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, a Democrat from Rochester, have both lost adult children. — Andrew O'reilly, Fox News, "NY bill mandates 3 months paid bereavement leave, even when grandparents die," 7 Aug. 2018 Excited to announce our legislation to honor former @Saints star Steve Gleason with the #CongressionalGoldMedal now has 67 Senate cosponsors--enough for the legislation to move forward in the Senate! — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, "Congress finally finds something it can agree on: Steve Gleason," 6 June 2018 Corker has drawn eight Republican cosponsors — and five Democrats — for a bill that would force the president to get congressional approval before imposing tariffs in the name of national security. — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, "The Finance 202: Sen. Flake’s pledge to block Trump judges could force showdown on trade," 25 June 2018 Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand are all cosponsors. — Gregory Krieg, CNN, "There's a new Democratic agenda taking shape. It's more and more progressive. Can it survive success?," 30 Apr. 2018

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