[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1118-S1120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 11

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 11, a bill to protect the 
separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States by 
ensuring that the President takes care that the laws be faithfully 
executed, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 117

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 117, a bill to recognize 
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, to relocate to Jerusalem the United 
States Embassy in Israel, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 139

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 139, a bill to permanently 
allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and 
the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who 
participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.


                                 S. 144

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 144, a bill to prohibit the 
Federal Government from mandating, incentivizing, or making financial 
support conditioned upon a State, local educational agency, or school's 
adoption of specific instructional content,

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academic standards, or curriculum, or on the administration of 
assessments or tests, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 148

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 148, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to require State licensure and bid 
surety bonds for entities submitting bids under the Medicare durable 
medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) 
competitive acquisition program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 153

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 153, a bill to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to authorize additional visas for well-educated aliens 
to live and work in the United States, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 166

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) and the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of S. 166, a bill to stop 
exploitation through trafficking.


                                 S. 170

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 170, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children 
eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 185

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 185, a bill to create a 
limited population pathway for approval of certain antibacterial drugs.


                                 S. 200

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 200, a bill to amend the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for macroeconomic analysis 
of the impact of major revenue legislation.


                                 S. 223

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 223, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program on awarding 
grants for provision of furniture, household items, and other 
assistance to homeless veterans to facilitate their transition into 
permanent housing, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 226

  At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 226, a bill to amend 
chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules 
of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint 
resolution of approval is enacted into law.


                                 S. 239

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 239, a bill to amend 
title 49, United States Code, with respect to apportionments under the 
Airport Improvement Program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 246

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 246, a bill to establish 
the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native 
Children, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 253

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 253, a bill to amend the 
Communications Act of 1934 to consolidate the reporting obligations of 
the Federal Communications Commission in order to improve congressional 
oversight and reduce reporting burdens.


                                 S. 262

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 262, a bill to 
reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 269

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 269, a bill to expand sanctions 
imposed with respect to Iran and to impose additional sanctions with 
respect to Iran, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 275

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 275, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of 
home as a site of care for infusion therapy under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 284

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 284, a bill to impose sanctions 
with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of 
internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 289

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 289, a bill to prioritize 
funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical 
research.


                                 S. 299

  At the request of Mr. Flake, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 299, a bill to allow travel 
between the United States and Cuba.


                                 S. 308

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 308, a bill to reauthorize 
21st century community learning centers, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 313

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 313, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists to the list 
of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens arrangements under 
Medicare.


                                 S. 318

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 318, a bill to 
prioritize funding for the National Institutes of Health to discover 
treatments and cures, to maintain global leadership in medical 
innovation, and to restore the purchasing power the NIH had after the 
historic doubling campaign that ended in fiscal year 2003.


                                 S. 332

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 332, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make permanent the 
extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and the 
increased payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.


                                 S. 335

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 335, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve 529 plans.


                                 S. 356

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 356, a bill to improve 
the provisions relating to the privacy of electronic communications.


                                 S. 371

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Markey) were added as cosponsors of S. 371, a bill to remove a 
limitation on a prohibition relating to permits for discharges 
incidental to normal operation of vessels.


                                 S. 373

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), 
the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) were added as cosponsors of S. 373, a bill to 
provide for the establishment of nationally uniform and environmentally 
sound standards governing discharges incidental to the normal operation 
of a vessel.
  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr.

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Sullivan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 373, supra.


                                 S. 394

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 394, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period 
for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant 
property, and qualified retail improvement property.


                                 S. 399

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 399, a bill to amend the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to increase 
transparency in Federal budgeting, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 403

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 403, a bill to revise the 
authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in 
northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to connect 
with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 409

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) and the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Nelson) were added as cosponsors of S. 409, a bill to 
amend the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to require the 
Secretary of Defense to inform the Attorney General of persons required 
to register as sex offenders.


                                 S. 421

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 421, a bill to amend the 
Communications Act of 1934 to provide for greater transparency and 
efficiency in the procedures followed by the Federal Communications 
Commission, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 431

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 431, a bill to permanently extend the 
Internet Tax Freedom Act.


                                 S. 437

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Flake) was added as a cosponsor of S. 437, a bill to provide for 
congressional approval of national monuments and restrictions on the 
use of national monuments, to establish requirements for the 
declaration of marine national monuments, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 474

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 474, a bill to require 
State educational agencies that receive funding under the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to have in effect policies and 
procedures on background checks for school employees.


                                 S. 489

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


                                 S. 498

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 498, a bill to 
allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.


                                 S. 505

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 505, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit.


                                 S. 517

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 517, a bill to extend 
the secure rural schools and community self-determination program, to 
restore mandatory funding status to the payment in lieu of taxes 
program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 527

  At the request of Mr. Sessions, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 527, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in 
Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery 
Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for 
the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


                                 S. 532

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 532, a bill 
to improve highway-rail grade crossing safety, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 539, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient 
rehabilitation therapy caps.


                                 S. 546

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 546, a bill to 
establish the Railroad Emergency Services Preparedness, Operational 
Needs, and Safety Evaluation (RESPONSE) Subcommittee under the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency's National Advisory Council to provide 
recommendations on emergency responder training and resources relating 
to hazardous materials incidents involving railroads, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 553

  At the request of Mr. Corker, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 553, a bill to marshal 
resources to undertake a concerted, transformative effort that seeks to 
bring an end to modern slavery, and for other purposes.


                             S. CON. RES. 4

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the names of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Enzi), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) and the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 4, 
a concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.

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