How to Use cosponsor in a Sentence

cosponsor

noun

• 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
• The most recent version of the bill filed by Jackson Lee has 155 cosponsors, all Democrats.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But Murray said the goal at present is to get as many cosponsors as possible before bringing the bill to Senate leadership.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 2 May 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Vance is also a cosponsor of legislation to cap insulin costs in the commercial market at $35.
  — Victoria Knight, Axios, 15 July 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024