[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 59 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2379-S2381]
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 Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) 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. 367

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 367, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare 
outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.


                                 S. 489

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Flake) was added as a cosponsor 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. 576

  At the request of Mr. Johanns, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 576, a bill to reform laws 
relating to small public housing agencies, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 734

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor 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. 917

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 917, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a reduced rate of excise tax 
on beer produced domestically by certain qualifying producers.


                                S. 1163

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1163, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include automated fire 
sprinkler system retrofits as section 179 property and classify certain 
automated fire sprinkler system retrofits as 15-year property for 
purposes of depreciation.


                                S. 1174

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1174, a bill to 
award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment, known 
as the Borinqueneers.


                                S. 1189

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1189, a bill to 
adjust the boundaries of Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park 
to include Hinchliffe Stadium, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1431

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1431, a bill to 
permanently extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act.


                                S. 1468

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, his name was added as a 
cosponsor of S. 1468, a bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to 
establish the Network for Manufacturing Innovation and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1500

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) 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.

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                                S. 1507

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1507, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of general 
welfare benefits provided by Indian tribes.


                                S. 1530

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1530, a bill to realign structures and 
reallocate resources in the Federal Government, in keeping with the 
core American belief that families are the best protection for children 
and the bedrock of any society, to bolster United States diplomacy and 
assistance targeted at ensuring that every child can grow up in a 
permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving family, and to strengthen 
intercountry adoption to the United States and around the world and 
ensure that it becomes a viable and fully developed option for 
providing families for children in need, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1622

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1622, a bill to 
establish the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on 
Native Children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1645

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1645, a bill to 
limit the authority of States to tax certain income of employees for 
employment duties performed in other States.


                                S. 1728

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1728, a bill to amend the Uniformed and Overseas 
Citizens Absentee Voting Act to improve ballot accessibility to 
uniformed services voters and overseas voters, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1802

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1802, a bill to provide 
equal treatment for utility special entities using utility operations-
related swaps, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1839

  At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1839, a bill to 
make certain luggage and travel articles eligible for duty-free 
treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1862

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 1862, a bill to 
grant the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the Monuments Men, 
in recognition of their heroic role in the preservation, protection, 
and restitution of monuments, works of art, and artifacts of cultural 
importance during and following World War II.


                                S. 1975

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Paul) and the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1975, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide an above-the-line deduction for child care 
expenses, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1996

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Walsh) and the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Burr) were added as cosponsors of S. 1996, a bill to protect and 
enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2037

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2037, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification 
requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services.


                                S. 2078

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2078, a bill to prohibit 
Federal funding for motorcycle checkpoints, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2082

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2082, a bill to provide for 
the development of criteria under the Medicare program for medically 
necessary short inpatient hospital stays, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2091

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2091, a bill to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to improve the processing by the Department of Veterans 
Affairs of claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2100

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2100, a bill to 
promote the use of clean cookstoves and fuels to save lives, improve 
livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a 
thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking 
solutions.


                                S. 2103

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2103, a bill to direct the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue or revise 
regulations with respect to the medical certification of certain small 
aircraft pilots, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2140

  At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2140, a bill to improve the 
transition between experimental permits and commercial licenses for 
commercial reusable launch vehicles.


                                S. 2163

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2163, a bill to 
establish an emergency watershed protection disaster assistance fund to 
be available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for 
any natural disaster.


                                S. 2178

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2178, a bill to amend the 
National Labor Relations Act with respect to the timing of elections 
and pre-election hearings and the identification of pre-election 
issues, and to require that lists of employees eligible to vote in 
organizing elections be provided to the National Labor Relations Board.


                                S. 2182

  At the request of Mr. Walsh, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2182, a bill to expand and 
improve care provided to veterans and members of the Armed Forces with 
mental health disorders or at risk of suicide, to review the terms or 
characterization of the discharge or separation of certain individuals 
from the Armed Forces, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for 
psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans Health Administration 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2223

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from 
Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), the 
Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. 
Durbin), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), 
the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Franken), the

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Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. 2223, a bill to provide for an 
increase in the Federal minimum wage and to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to extend increased expensing limitations and the 
treatment of certain real property as section 179 property.


                            S. CON. RES. 34

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 34, a concurrent 
resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the President should 
hold the Russian Federation accountable for being in material breach of 
its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.


                              S. RES. 413

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 413, a resolution recognizing 20 years 
since the genocide in Rwanda, and affirming it is in the national 
interest of the United States to work in close coordination with 
international partners to help prevent and mitigate acts of genocide 
and mass atrocities.

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