[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 95 (Monday, June 15, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4138-S4140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 248

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 248, a bill to clarify the 
rights of Indians and Indian tribes on Indian lands under the National 
Labor Relations Act.


                                 S. 257

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 257, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to physician supervision 
of therapeutic hospital outpatient services.


                                 S. 258

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 258, 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. 314

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) 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. 352

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 352, a bill to amend 
section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an 
additional religious exemption from the individual health coverage 
mandate, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 355

  At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 355, a bill to support the 
provision of safe relationship behavior education and training.


                                 S. 423

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 423, a bill to amend the 
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide an exception to the annual written 
privacy notice requirement.


                                 S. 453

  At the request of Mr. Cassidy, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 453, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide grants to States to streamline 
State requirements and procedures for veterans with military emergency 
medical training to become civilian emergency medical technicians.


                                 S. 491

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 491, a bill 
to lift the trade embargo on Cuba.


                                 S. 578

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Gardner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 578, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home 
health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 590

  At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 590, a bill to amend the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus 
Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to combat campus sexual 
violence, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 599

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 599, a bill to extend and expand 
the Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.


                                 S. 607

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. 607, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a five-year 
extension of the rural community hospital demonstration program, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 667

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 667, a bill to ensure that 
organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to 
continue to provide services for children.


                                 S. 681

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Alaska (Mr. Sullivan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 681, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to 
the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the 
Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 683

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 683, a bill to extend the 
principle of federalism to State drug policy, provide access to medical 
marijuana, and enable research into the medicinal properties of 
marijuana.


                                 S. 812

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 812, a bill to 
enhance the ability of community financial institutions to foster 
economic growth and serve their communities, boost small businesses, 
increase individual savings, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 843

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) 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. 849

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 849, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to provide for systematic data collection and analysis and 
epidemiological research regarding Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's 
disease, and other neurological diseases.


                                S. 1002

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1002, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate 
housing and infrastructure grants.


                                S. 1214

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) 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. 1424

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1424, a bill to prohibit the sale or 
distribution of cosmetics containing synthetic plastic microbeads.


                                S. 1458

  At the request of Mr. Coats, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) and the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) were added as cosponsors of S. 1458, a bill to 
amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to ensure 
scientific transparency in the development of environmental regulations 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1483

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1483, a bill to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating the James K. Polk Home in Columbia, 
Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1495

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1495, a bill to curtail the 
use of changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund 
to inflate spending.


                                S. 1512

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) were added

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as cosponsors of S. 1512, 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. 1513

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1513, a bill to reauthorize the Second Chance Act of 
2007.


                                S. 1532

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1532, a bill 
to ensure timely access to affordable birth control for women.


                                S. 1539

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1539, a bill to 
amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to establish a 
permanent, nationwide summer electronic benefits transfer for children 
program.


                                S. 1547

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1547, a bill to provide 
high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1555

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Donnelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1555, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the Filipino veterans of 
World War II, in recognition of the dedicated service of the veterans 
during World War II.


                                S. 1565

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1565, a bill to allow 
the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to provide greater 
protection to servicemembers.


                              S. RES. 193

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 193, a 
resolution celebrating the 50th anniversary of the historic Griswold v. 
Connecticut decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the case was an important step 
forward in helping ensure that all people of the United States are able 
to use contraceptives to plan pregnancies and have healthier babies.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1474

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1474 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1549

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1549 proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mrs. Ernst, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from 
New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1549 proposed to 
H.R. 1735, supra.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1550

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1550 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1578

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1578 proposed to 
H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1687

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1687 proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1707

  At the request of Mr. Gardner, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1707 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1725

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1725 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1759

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1759 intended to be 
proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1815

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1815 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1889

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the names of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), 
the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski) and the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 1889 proposed to 
H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Murphy, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1889 proposed to H.R. 1735, supra.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1892

  At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
1892 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

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                           AMENDMENT NO. 1966

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1966 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 2013

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2013 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

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