[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 126 (Monday, September 23, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6683-S6684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 114

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 114, a bill to amend title 
11, United States Code, with respect to certain exceptions to discharge 
in bankruptcy.


                                 S. 231

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


                                 S. 232

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 232, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on 
medical devices.


                                 S. 313

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. 
King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 313, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts 
established under State programs for the care of family members with 
disabilities, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 315

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 315, a bill to 
reauthorize and extend the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy 
Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008.


                                 S. 411

  At the request of Mr. Thune, his name 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. 429

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 429, a bill to enable 
concrete masonry products manufacturers to establish, finance, and 
carry out a coordinated program of research, education, and promotion 
to improve, maintain, and develop markets for concrete masonry 
products.


                                 S. 559

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) 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 Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) 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. 635

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott) and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 635, a bill to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to 
provide an exception to the annual written privacy notice requirement.


                                 S. 820

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 820, a bill 
to provide for a uniform national standard for the housing and 
treatment of egg-laying hens, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 822

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 822, a bill to protect crime victims' rights, 
to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from 
crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA 
testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to 
increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to 
develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA 
evidence, to provide post conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State 
capital cases, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 948

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 948, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage and payment 
for complex rehabilitation technology items under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1235

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Chambliss) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1235, a bill to restrict 
any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax 
on cell phone services, providers, or property.


                                S. 1249

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1249, a bill 
to rename the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the 
Department of State the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in 
Persons and to provide for an Assistant Secretary to head such Bureau, 
and for other purposes.

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                                S. 1302

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) were added as 
cosponsors 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. 1335

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1335, a bill to 
protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, 
and shooting, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1369

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1369, a bill to provide 
additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the 
unique characteristics of the business of insurance, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1381

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1381, a bill to 
amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to clarify provisions enacted by 
the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, to further the conservation of certain 
wildlife species, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1405

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1405, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of 
certain ambulance add-on payments under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1406

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1406, a bill to amend the Horse 
Protection Act to designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, 
strengthen penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of 
Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1413

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1413, a bill to exempt 
from sequestration certain fees of the Food and Drug Administration.


                                S. 1445

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1445, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of 
optometrists in the National Health Service Corps scholarship and loan 
repayment programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1472

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1472, a bill to create a 
division within the Congressional Budget Office that would perform 
regulatory analysis.


                                S. 1490

  At the request of Mr. Flake, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1490, a bill to delay the application of 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                S. 1500

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1500, a bill to declare 
the November 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood, Texas, a terrorist attack, 
and to ensure that the victims of the attack and their families receive 
the same honors and benefits as those Americans who have been killed or 
wounded in a combat zone overseas and their families.


                                S. 1503

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1503, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
increase the preference given, in awarding certain asthma-related 
grants, to certain States (those allowing trained school personnel to 
administer epinephrine and meeting other related requirements).


                              S. RES. 225

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 225, a resolution to 
express the sense of the Senate that Congress should establish a joint 
select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United 
States diplomatic facility and American personnel in Benghazi, Libya, 
on September 11, 2012.

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