[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3570-S3571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 162

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 162, a bill to reauthorize 
and improve the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act 
of 2004.


                                 S. 204

  At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 204, a bill to 
preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, 
join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such 
activities.


                                 S. 309

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) were added as cosponsors of S. 309, a 
bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of 
the Civil Air Patrol.


                                 S. 357

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 357, a bill to encourage, 
enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the United States in 
order to disseminate information when a law enforcement officer is 
seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.


                                 S. 360

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 360, a bill to 
amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of 
the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide 
service opportunities for young Americans; help restore the nation's 
natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational and scenic 
resources; train a new generation of public land managers and 
enthusiasts; and promote the value of public service.


                                 S. 381

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 381, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the ``Doolittle 
Tokyo Raiders'', for outstanding heroism, valor, skill, and service to 
the United States in conducting the bombings of Tokyo.


                                 S. 466

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 466, a bill to 
assist low-income individuals in obtaining recommended dental care.


                                 S. 541

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 541, a bill to prevent human health 
threats posed by the consumption of equines raised in the United 
States.


                                 S. 545

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 545, a bill to improve 
hydropower, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 557

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 557, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to medication 
therapy management under part D of the Medicare program.


                                 S. 559

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 559, a bill to establish a 
fund to make payments to the Americans held hostage in Iran, and to 
members of their families, who are identified as members of the 
proposed class in case number 1:08-CV-00487 (EGS) of the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 569

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 569, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of 
receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward 
satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of 
skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.


                                 S. 603

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 603, a bill to repeal the 
annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                 S. 650

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 650, a bill to amend title XXVII of the 
Public Health Service Act to preserve consumer and employer access to 
licensed independent insurance producers.


                                 S. 669

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Heller) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 669, a bill to make permanent the Internal Revenue 
Service Free File program.


                                 S. 695

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 695, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to extend the authorization of appropriations 
for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly assistance 
allowance to disabled veterans training or competing for the Paralympic 
Team and the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to United States Paralympics, 
Inc., and for other purposes.


                                 S. 701

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 701, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of full-time 
employee for purposes of the individual mandate in the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                 S. 731

  At the request of Mr. Manchin, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 731, a bill to require the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and 
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to conduct an empirical 
impact study on proposed rules relating to the International Basel III 
agreement on general risk-based capital requirements, as they apply to 
community banks.


                                 S. 769

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 769, a bill to designate 
as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the 
Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for 
the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United 
States.


                                 S. 789

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) 
and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were added as cosponsors of 
S. 789, a bill to grant the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to 
the First Special Service Force, in recognition of its superior service 
during World War II.

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                                 S. 813

  At the request of Mr. Lautenberg, the names of the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator 
from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), 
the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) were added as cosponsors of S. 813, a bill to 
require that Peace Corps volunteers be subject to the same limitations 
regarding coverage of abortion services as employees of the Peace Corps 
with respect to coverage of such services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 815

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 815, a bill to prohibit employment 
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.


                                 S. 850

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 850, a bill to 
prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from taking any action that 
requires a quorum of the members of the Board until such time as Board 
constituting a quorum shall have been confirmed by the Senate, the 
Supreme Court issues a decision on the constitutionality of the 
appointments to the Board made in January 2012, or the adjournment sine 
die of the first session of the 113th Congress.


                                 S. 854

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 854, a bill to 
improve student academic achievement in science, technology, 
engineering, and mathematics subjects.


                                 S. 865

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 865, a bill to 
provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of 
Breast Cancer.


                                 S. 871

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Johanns), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 871, a bill to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to enhance assistance for victims of sexual assault committed by 
members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 892

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 892, a bill to amend 
the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 to impose 
sanctions with respect to certain transactions in foreign currencies, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 896

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 896, a bill to amend 
title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension 
offset and windfall elimination provisions.


                                 S. 897

  At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 897, a bill to prevent 
the doubling of the interest rate for Federal subsidized student loans 
for the 2013-2014 academic year by providing funds for such loans 
through the Federal Reserve System, to ensure that such loans are 
available at interest rates that are equivalent to the interest rates 
at which the Federal Government provides loans to banks through the 
discount window operated by the Federal Reserve System, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 931

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 931, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to raise awareness of, and to educate breast 
cancer patients anticipating surgery, especially patients who are 
members of racial and ethnic minority groups, regarding the 
availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and 
other options.


                                 S. 942

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 942, a bill to eliminate 
discrimination and promote women's health and economic security by 
ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability 
to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, 
or a related medical condition.


                                 S. 945

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 945, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to 
diabetes self-management training by authorizing certified diabetes 
educators to provide diabetes self-management training services, 
including as part of telehealth services, under part B of the Medicare 
program.


                                 S. 953

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 953, a bill to amend the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for 
undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans, to modify required 
distribution rules for pension plans, to limit earnings stripping by 
expatriated entities, to provide for modifications related to the Oil 
Spill Liability Trust Fund, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 955

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 955, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide liability protections for 
volunteer practitioners at health centers under section 330 of such 
Act.


                                 S. 959

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 959, a bill 
to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to 
compounding drugs.


                                 S. 962

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 962, a bill to prohibit 
amounts made available by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 from 
being transferred to the Internal Revenue Service for implementation of 
such Acts.


                            S. CON. RES. 15

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 15, 
a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the 
Chained Consumer Price Index should not be used to calculate cost-of-
living adjustments for Social Security or veterans benefits, or to 
increase the tax burden on low- and middle-income taxpayers.


                              S. RES. 133

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the names of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Enzi), the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. McCain) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 133, a resolution expressing the sense 
of the Senate that Congress and the States should investigate and 
correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.


                              S. RES. 139

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 139, a resolution celebrating the 20th 
anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

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