[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3679-S3680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 30

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 30, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of full-time 
employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act.


                                 S. 48

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Lee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 48, a bill to prohibit 
discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or gender, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 202

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 202, a bill to provide for 
a technical change to the Medicare long-term care hospital moratorium 
exception.


                                 S. 311

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 311, 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. 314

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 314, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage 
under the Medicare program of pharmacist services.


                                 S. 439

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 439, a bill 
to end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation 
or gender identity in public schools, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 469

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 469, a bill to improve the 
reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Defense and the 
Department of Veterans Affairs to severely wounded, ill, or injured 
members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their spouses or partners, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 498

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


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Ms. Hirono) 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. 637

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 637, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track 
maintenance credit.


                                 S. 746

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 746, a bill to provide 
for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast 
Cancer.


                                 S. 751

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Sessions) was added as a cosponsor of S. 751, a bill to improve 
the establishment of any lower ground-level ozone standards, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 804

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 804, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to specify coverage of continuous 
glucose monitoring devices, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 843

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 843, 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. 860

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 860, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and generation-
skipping transfer taxes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1073

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1073, a bill to 
amend the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 
2012, including making changes to the Do Not Pay initiative, for 
improved detection, prevention, and recovery of improper payments to 
deceased individuals, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1082

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Mr. Barrasso) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1082, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal or demotion of 
employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs based on performance or 
misconduct, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1119

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1119, a bill to establish the National Criminal 
Justice Commission.


                                S. 1121

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1121, 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. 1126

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1126, a bill to 
modify and extend the National Guard State Partnership Program.

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                                S. 1140

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Lee) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1140, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to propose a regulation revising the definition of 
the term ``waters of the United States'', and for other purposes.


                                S. 1159

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1159, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from 
individual retirement accounts for charitable purposes.


                                S. 1170

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1170, a bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to 
extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a 
semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1190

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1190, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare 
beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network 
pharmacies under Medicare prescription drug coverage, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1193

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1193, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent and expand the 
temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit 
program.


                                S. 1211

  At the request of Mr. Cochran, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1211, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that payment under the 
Medicare program to a long-term care hospital for inpatient services 
shall not be made at the applicable site neutral payment rate for 
certain discharges involving severe wounds, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1214

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1214, a bill to 
prevent human health threats posed by the consumption of equines raised 
in the United States.


                                S. 1252

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1252, a bill to 
authorize a comprehensive strategic approach for United States foreign 
assistance to developing countries to reduce global poverty and hunger, 
achieve food and nutrition security, promote inclusive, sustainable, 
agricultural-led economic growth, improve nutritional outcomes, 
especially for women and children, build resilience among vulnerable 
populations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1270

  At the request of Mr. Gardner, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1270, a bill to amend the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize hydroelectric production 
incentives and hydroelectric efficiency improvement incentives, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1324

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1324, a bill 
to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
fulfill certain requirements before regulating standards of performance 
for new, modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired electric utility 
generating units, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1364

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1364, a bill to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the payment of an 
additional rebate to the State Medicaid plan in the case of increase in 
the price of a generic drug at a rate that is greater than the rate of 
inflation.


                                S. 1385

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1385, a bill to 
prohibit the Federal Government from requiring race or ethnicity to be 
disclosed in connection with the transfer of a firearm.


                               S. RES. 87

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
Res. 87, a resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding the 
rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and to encourage greater cooperation 
with the European governments, the European Union, and the Organization 
for Security and Co-operation in Europe in preventing and responding to 
anti-Semitism.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1466

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. 
Capito) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1466 intended to be 
proposed to H.R. 1735, a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for 
military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1468

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1468 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, a bill to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes.

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