[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 106 (Tuesday, July 23, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5840-S5842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 101

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 101, a bill to prohibit 
the provision of Federal funds to State and local governments for 
payment of obligations, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System from financially assisting State and local 
governments, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 119

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 119, a bill to 
prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility 
requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to 
the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961.


                                 S. 231

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 231, a bill to 
reauthorize the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal 
Stamp.


                                 S. 234

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 234, a bill to 
amend title 10, United States Code, to permit certain retired members 
of the uniformed services who have a service-connected disability to 
receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their 
years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 308

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Harkin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 308, a bill to amend title II of 
the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make 
improvements in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance 
program, to provide for cash relief for years for which annual COLAs do 
not take effect under certain cash benefit programs, and to provide for 
Social Security benefit protection.


                                 S. 316

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 316, a bill 
to recalculate and restore retirement annuity obligations of the United 
States Postal Service, to eliminate the requirement that the United 
States Postal Service prefund the Postal Service Retiree Health 
Benefits Fund, to place restrictions on the closure of postal 
facilities, to create incentives for innovation for the United States 
Postal Service, to maintain levels of postal service, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 338

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 338, a bill to 
amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide 
consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land 
and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund 
for future generations, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 403

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 403, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and take 
action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.


                                 S. 411

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 411, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the 
railroad track maintenance credit.


                                 S. 420

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from North Dakota 
(Ms. Heitkamp) was added as a cosponsor of S. 420, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the logical flow of return 
information between partnerships, corporations, trusts, estates, and 
individuals to better enable each party to submit timely, accurate 
returns and reduce the need for extended and amended returns, to 
provide for modified due dates by regulation, and to conform the 
automatic corporate extension period to longstanding regulatory rule.


                                 S. 462

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 462, a bill to enhance 
the strategic partnership between the United States and Israel.


                                 S. 489

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 489, a bill to amend the Tariff Act of 
1930 to increase and adjust for inflation the maximum value of articles 
that may be imported duty-free by one person on one day, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 541

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 541, a bill to prevent human 
health threats posed by the consumption of equines raised in the United 
States.


                                 S. 553

  At the request of Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, the name of the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 553, a 
bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an 
exclusion for assistance provided to participants in certain veterinary 
student loan repayment or forgiveness programs.


                                 S. 557

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 557, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of

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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. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Harkin) 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. 567

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to improve the 
retirement of American families by strengthening Social Security.


                                 S. 569

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 582

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 582, a bill to approve the 
Keystone XL Pipeline.


                                 S. 629

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 629, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to recognize the service in the 
reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring 
them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 686

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 686, a bill to extend the 
right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to certain 
employees of the United States Postal Service.


                                 S. 723

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 723, a bill to 
require the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical and 
evaluation criteria for determining disability in a person diagnosed 
with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting period for 
Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.


                                 S. 734

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. 
Shaheen) were added as cosponsors of S. 734, a bill to amend title 10, 
United States Code, to repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor 
annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' dependency and 
indemnity compensation.


                                 S. 826

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, his name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 826, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform 
and enforce taxation of tobacco products.


                                 S. 836

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator 
from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 836, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to strengthen the earned income 
tax credit and make permanent certain tax provisions under the American 
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


                                 S. 912

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 912, a bill 
to allow multichannel video programming distributors to provide video 
programming to subscribers on an a la carte basis, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 929

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 929, a bill to impose 
sanctions on individuals who are complicit in human rights abuses 
committed against nationals of Vietnam or their family members, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 945

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 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. 971

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 971, a bill to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exempt the conduct of 
silvicultural activities from national pollutant discharge elimination 
system permitting requirements.


                                S. 1012

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1012, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve operations of recovery 
auditors under the Medicare integrity program, to increase transparency 
and accuracy in audits conducted by contractors, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1044

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1044, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War 
II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an 
inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed 
with the United States on D-Day, June 6, 1944.


                                S. 1068

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1068, a bill to reauthorize 
and amend the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
Commissioned Officer Corps Act of 2002, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1072

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1072, a bill to 
ensure that the Federal Aviation Administration advances the safety of 
small airplanes and the continued development of the general aviation 
industry, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1091

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1091, a bill 
to provide for the issuance of an Alzheimer's Disease Research 
Semipostal Stamp.


                                S. 1128

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1128, a bill to clarify the 
orphan drug exception to the annual fee on branded prescription 
pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers.


                                S. 1188

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1188, 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. 1204

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1204, a bill to 
amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to protect rights 
of conscience with regard to requirements for coverage of specific 
items and services, to amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit 
certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1235

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 1235, a bill to restrict any State or

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local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone 
services, providers, or property.


                                S. 1251

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1251, a bill 
to establish programs with respect to childhood, adolescent, and young 
adult cancer.


                                S. 1271

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1271, a bill to direct the 
President to establish guidelines for the United States foreign 
assistance programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1279

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1279, a bill to prohibit 
the revocation or withholding of Federal funds to programs whose 
participants carry out voluntary religious activities.


                                S. 1282

  At the request of Ms. Warren, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1282, a bill to reduce risks to the financial 
system by limiting banks' ability to engage in certain risky activities 
and limiting conflicts of interest, to reinstate certain Glass-Steagall 
Act protections that were repealed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1292

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Johanns) and the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1292, a bill to prohibit the funding of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act.


                                S. 1296

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1296, a 
bill to amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline 
for the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1302

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1302, a bill to amend the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for cooperative and small employer 
charity pension plans.


                                S. 1320

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1320, a bill to establish a 
tiered hiring preference for members of the reserve components of the 
armed forces.


                                S. 1334

  At the request of Mr. Manchin, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1334, a bill to establish student loan interest 
rates, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1335

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the names of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as cosponsors of S. 1335, a bill 
to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, 
and shooting, and for other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 19

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. J. Res. 19, a 
joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to 
affect elections.


                            S. CON. RES. 13

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 13, a 
concurrent resolution commending the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for 
its role in improving outcomes for millions of young people and 
thousands of communities.


                               S. RES. 75

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. 
Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 75, a resolution condemning 
the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its 
Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International 
Covenants on Human Rights.


                              S. RES. 198

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 198, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the Government of the Russian 
Federation should turn over Edward Snowden to United States 
authorities, and for other purposes.

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