Two stoutly conservative senators were sponsoring legislation to compel 'illegitimate fathers' to support their irregular offspring.

Several senators, including Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, are sponsoring an amendment to oppose greater federal authority.

But other senators actually sponsored the bill.

Eight senators have sponsored the measure.

In response to the Supreme Court decision, in July 2012 Merkley and six other senators sponsored the Disclose Act.

Four senators are sponsoring similar legislation.

That bill would be separate from a bill the senator is already sponsoring that would prohibit all human cloning.

Sixty-seven senators had sponsored a resolution disapproving the sale, a sufficient number to override a Presidential veto.

A senior official of the institute said today that he thought a senator would sponsor the amendment in the next few days.

The two senators have sponsored a wide-ranging measure to overhaul the Social Security system that includes as one element individual accounts that would be opened at citizens' birth.