[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 50 (Monday, April 4, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1639-S1642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 192

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 192, a bill to 
reauthorize the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 314

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) 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. 386

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 386, a bill to limit the 
authority of States to tax certain income of employees for employment 
duties performed in other States.


                                 S. 578

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) 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

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services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 579

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 579, a bill to amend the 
Inspector General Act of 1978 to strengthen the independence of the 
Inspectors General, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 682

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mrs. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 682, a bill to amend the 
Truth in Lending Act to modify the definitions of a mortgage originator 
and a high-cost mortgage.


                                 S. 763

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 763, a bill to amend 
title XII of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain 
trauma care programs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 804

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) 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 Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) 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. 901

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 901, a bill to establish in the Department of 
Veterans Affairs a national center for research on the diagnosis and 
treatment of health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed 
to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces that are related 
to that exposure, to establish an advisory board on such health 
conditions, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 979

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 979, 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, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1566

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1566, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health 
insurance coverage and group health plans to provide for coverage of 
oral anticancer drugs on terms no less favorable than the coverage 
provided for anticancer medications administered by a health care 
provider.


                                S. 1715

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1715, a bill to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the 
arrival of the Pilgrims.


                                S. 1726

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1726, a bill to create 
protections for depository institutions that provide financial services 
to marijuana-related businesses, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1774

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1774, a bill to amend 
title 11 of the United States Code to treat Puerto Rico as a State for 
purposes of chapter 9 of such title relating to the adjustment of debts 
of municipalities.


                                S. 1890

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1890, a bill to amend 
chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal 
jurisdiction for the theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1982

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Gardner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1982, a bill to authorize 
a Wall of Remembrance as part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial and 
to allow certain private contributions to fund the Wall of Remembrance.


                                S. 2042

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2042, a bill to amend 
the National Labor Relations Act to strengthen protections for 
employees wishing to advocate for improved wages, hours, or other terms 
or conditions of employment and to provide for stronger remedies for 
interference with these rights, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2180

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2180, a bill to 
amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and other laws 
to clarify appropriate standards for Federal employment discrimination 
and retaliation claims, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2219

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2219, a bill to require the Secretary of Commerce 
to conduct an assessment and analysis of the outdoor recreation economy 
of the United States, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2283

  At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2283, a bill to ensure 
that small business providers of broadband Internet access service can 
devote resources to broadband deployment rather than compliance with 
cumbersome regulatory requirements.


                                S. 2311

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2311, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to States for 
screening and treatment for maternal depression.


                                S. 2348

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2348, a bill to 
implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about 
pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and 
prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, to 
prevent DNA analysis backlogs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2358

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2358, a bill to direct the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a 
pilot program to work with municipalities that are seeking to develop 
and implement integrated plans to meet wastewater and stormwater 
obligations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2423

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2423, a bill making 
appropriations to address the heroin and opioid drug abuse epidemic for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2438

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2438, a bill to amend 
titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a 
comprehensive and nationwide system to evaluate the quality of care 
provided to beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children's Health 
Insurance Program and to provide incentives for voluntary quality 
improvement.

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                                S. 2468

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2468, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a 5-year demonstration 
program to provide grants to eligible Indian tribes for the 
construction of tribal schools, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2502

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2502, a bill to amend the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that 
retirement investors receive advice in their best interests, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2505

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2505, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that retirement investors 
receive advice in their best interests, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2531

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2531, a bill to authorize 
State and local governments to divest from entities that engage in 
commerce-related or investment-related boycott, divestment, or 
sanctions activities targeting Israel, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2541

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2541, a bill to amend the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 to clarify provisions enacted by the Captive 
Wildlife Safety Act to further the conservation of prohibited wildlife 
species.


                                S. 2572

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2572, a bill to 
make demonstration grants to eligible local educational agencies or 
consortia of eligible local educational agencies for the purpose of 
increasing the numbers of school nurses in public elementary schools 
and secondary schools.


                                S. 2592

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2592, a bill 
to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act by instituting a 180-day waiting 
period before medical debt will be reported on a consumer's credit 
report and removing paid-off and settled medical debts from credit 
reports that have been fully paid or settled, to amend the Fair Debt 
Collection Practices Act by providing for a timetable for verification 
of medical debt and to increase the efficiency of credit markets with 
more perfect information, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2596

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2596, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-
connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military 
aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members 
of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.


                                S. 2631

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2631, a bill to amend the 
Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to define 
environmental intervention blood lead level, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2659

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2659, a bill to reaffirm that the 
Environmental Protection Agency cannot regulate vehicles used solely 
for competition, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2662

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2662, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code to include in income the unrepatriated 
earnings of groups that include an inverted corporation.


                                S. 2679

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2679, a bill to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish 
within the Department of Veterans Affairs a center of excellence in the 
prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of 
health conditions relating to exposure to burn pits.


                                S. 2693

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2693, a bill to ensure the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allocates its resources 
appropriately by prioritizing complaints of discrimination before 
implementing the proposed revision of the employer information report 
EEO-1, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2697

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2697, a bill to amend the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 to prevent 
wage theft and assist in the recovery of stolen wages, to authorize the 
Secretary of Labor to administer grants to prevent wage and hour 
violations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2705

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2705, a bill to authorize 
Federal agencies to establish prize competitions for innovation or 
adaptation management development relating to coral reef ecosystems and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2707

  At the request of Mr. Scott, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2707, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Labor to nullify the proposed rule regarding defining and 
delimiting the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, 
outside sales, and computer employees, to require the Secretary of 
Labor to conduct a full and complete economic analysis with improved 
economic data on small businesses, nonprofit employers, Medicare or 
Medicaid dependent health care providers, and small governmental 
jurisdictions, and all other employers, and minimize the impact on such 
employers, before promulgating any substantially similar rule, and to 
provide a rule of construction regarding the salary threshold exemption 
under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2710

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2710, a bill to increase 
the participation of historically underrepresented demographic groups 
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and 
industry.


                                S. 2716

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2716, a bill 
to update the oil and gas and mining industry guides of the Securities 
and Exchange Commission.


                                S. 2726

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2726, a bill to hold Iran 
accountable for its state sponsorship of terrorism and other 
threatening activities and for its human rights abuses, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2738

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2738, a bill to amend 
the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require the disclosure of 
political intelligence activities, to amend title 18, United States 
Code, to provide for restrictions on former officers, employees, and 
elected officials of the executive and legislative branches regarding 
political intelligence contacts, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 394

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the 
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Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) 
were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 394, a resolution recognizing the 
195th anniversary of the independence of Greece and celebrating 
democracy in Greece and the United States.

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