[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 71 (Monday, May 12, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2911-S2912]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 357

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) 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. 506

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 506, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide recruitment and retention 
incentives for volunteer emergency service workers.


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 539, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to foster more effective implementation and coordination of 
clinical care for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes.


                                 S. 635

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Walsh) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) 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. 865

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) 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. 917

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) 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. 933

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 933, a bill 
to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership 
Grant Program through fiscal year 2018.


                                 S. 942

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) 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. 1012

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) 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. 1174

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1174, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to 
the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the Borinqueneers.


                                S. 1188

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) 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. 1208

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1208, a bill to 
require meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase 
agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such 
agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under 
such agreements, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1307

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1307, a bill to provide for 
evidence-based and promising practices related to juvenile delinquency 
and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help 
build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to 
ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-
abiding lives.


                                S. 1397

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1397, a bill to improve the efficiency, management, 
and interagency coordination of the Federal permitting process through 
reforms overseen by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1507

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Walsh) 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. 1517

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1517, a bill 
to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to 
extend health information technology assistance eligibility to 
behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse professionals and 
facilities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1622

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) 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. 1708

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1708, a bill to 
amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the establishment 
of performance measures for the highway safety improvement program, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1823

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1823, a bill to amend 
part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to better enable State 
child welfare agencies to prevent human trafficking of children and 
serve the needs of children who are victims of human trafficking, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 1862

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Harkin), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) 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. 2009

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2009, a bill to 
improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to veterans in rural and highly rural areas, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2013

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) and the Senator

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from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were added as cosponsors of S. 2013, a bill 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal of 
Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for performance, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2018

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2018, a bill to provide for 
the use of hand-propelled vessels in Yellowstone National Park, Grand 
Teton National Park, and the National Elk Refuge, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2042

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2042, a bill to 
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
National Estuary Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2113

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. 
King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2113, a bill to provide taxpayers 
with an annual report disclosing the cost and performance of Government 
programs and areas of duplication among them, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2152

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2152, a bill to direct 
Federal investment in carbon capture and storage and other clean coal 
technologies, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2154

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2154, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Emergency Medical Services 
for Children Program.


                                S. 2190

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2190, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to exempt 
employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans 
Administration from being taken into account for purposes of the 
employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                S. 2206

  At the request of Mr. Coburn, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2206, a bill to streamline the collection and 
distribution of government information.


                                S. 2213

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2213, a bill to replace 
the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a 
five-person Commission.


                                S. 2255

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2255, a bill to remove the 
Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan from 
treatment as terrorist organizations and for other purposes.


                                S. 2270

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2270, a bill 
to clarify the application of certain leverage and risk-based 
requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act.


                                S. 2295

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the 
Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. 
Wicker) were added as cosponsors of S. 2295, a bill to establish the 
National Commission on the Future of the Army, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2302

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2302, a bill to 
provide for a 1-year extension of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa 
Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2304

  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2304, a bill to amend the 
charter school program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965.


                                S. 2305

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2305, a bill 
to amend the method by which the Social Security Administration 
determines the validity of marriages under title II of the Social 
Security Act.


                              S.J. RES. 19

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 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.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3009

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the name of the Senator 
from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
3009 intended to be proposed to S. 2262, a bill to promote energy 
savings in residential buildings and industry, and for other purposes.

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