[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 137 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5502-S5504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 311

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor 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. 804

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) 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. 1212

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1212, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Small Business Act to 
expand the availability of employee stock ownership plans in S 
corporations, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1566

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Cochran) 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. 1684

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1684, a bill to amend the 
Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 to provide for liability protection 
for organizations and entities.


                                S. 1874

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1874, a bill to provide 
protections for workers with respect to their right to select or 
refrain from selecting representation by a labor organization.


                                S. 2031

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2031, a bill 
to reduce temporarily the royalty required to be paid for sodium 
produced on Federal lands, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2098

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2098, a bill to amend the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the determination of cohort 
default rates and provide for enhanced civil penalties, to ensure 
personal liability of owners, officers, and executives of institutions 
of higher education, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2216

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2216, a bill to provide 
immunity from suit for certain individuals who disclose potential 
examples of financial exploitation of senior citizens, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2531

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the names of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Gardner) and the Senator 
from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) were added as cosponsors 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. 2572

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) 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. 2598

  At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island

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(Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2598, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of the 60th 
anniversary of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.


                                S. 2645

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the 
Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Bennet) were added as cosponsors of S. 2645, a bill to impose sanctions 
with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of 
internationally recognized human rights against lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
and transgender individuals, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2697

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor 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. 2711

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2711, a bill to 
expand opportunity for Native American children through additional 
options in education, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2763

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2763, a bill to provide 
the victims of Holocaust-era persecution and their heirs a fair 
opportunity to recover works of art confiscated or misappropriated by 
the Nazis.


                                S. 2803

  At the request of Mr. Sasse, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2803, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to deposit certain funds into 
the general fund of the Treasury in accordance with provisions of 
Federal law with regard to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act's Transitional Reinsurance Program.


                                S. 2869

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2869, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve college savings under section 
529 programs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2873

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2873, a bill to require studies 
and reports examining the use of, and opportunities to use, technology-
enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models to improve 
programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2932

  At the request of Mr. Cassidy, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2932, a bill to amend the 
Controlled Substances Act with respect to the provision of emergency 
medical services.


                                S. 3065

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator 
from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) were added as cosponsors of S. 3065, a bill 
to amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to invest 
in funding prevention and family services to help keep children safe 
and supported at home, to ensure that children in foster care are 
placed in the least restrictive, most family-like, and appropriate 
settings, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3076

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3076, a 
bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs to furnish caskets and urns for burial in 
cemeteries of States and tribal organizations of veterans without next 
of kin or sufficient resources to provide for caskets or urns, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 3127

  At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3127, a bill to amend title 
18, United States Code, to enhance protections of Native American 
cultural objects, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3130

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3130, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent 
Independence at Home medical practice program under the Medicare 
program.


                                S. 3132

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3132, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to carry out a pilot program to provide service dogs to certain 
veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.


                                S. 3155

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3155, a bill to amend 
chapter 97 of title 28, United States Code, to clarify the exception to 
foreign sovereign immunity set forth in section 1605(a)(3) of such 
title.


                                S. 3164

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from New 
York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 3164, a bill to provide protection for 
survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault under the Fair Housing 
Act.


                                S. 3198

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Manchin) were added as cosponsors of S. 3198, a bill to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care 
services for veterans.


                                S. 3210

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3210, a bill to identify 
and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered system of 
countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and 
their efforts to combat such corruption, and to assess United States 
assistance to designated countries in order to advance anti-corruption 
efforts in those countries and better serve United States taxpayers.


                                S. 3244

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3244, a bill to 
amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to clarify the 
treatment of pediatric dental coverage in the individual and group 
markets outside of Exchanges established under the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3279

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3279, a bill to 
realign structures and reallocate resources in the Federal Government 
in keeping with the core belief that families are the best protection 
for children and the bedrock of any society to bolster United States 
diplomacy targeted at ensuring that every child can grow up in a 
permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving family, and to ensure that 
intercountry adoption to the United States becomes a viable and fully 
developed option for providing families for children in need, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 3285

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats) and the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. 3285, a bill to 
prohibit the President from using funds appropriated under section 1304 
of title 31, United States Code, to make payments to Iran, to impose 
sanctions with respect to Iranian persons that hold or detain United 
States citizens, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3296

  At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor

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of S. 3296, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
provide an exemption to the individual mandate to maintain health 
coverage for individuals residing in counties with fewer than 2 health 
insurance issuers offering plans on an Exchange.


                                S. 3297

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator 
from Colorado (Mr. Gardner) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 3297, a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption to the individual mandate 
to maintain health coverage for certain individuals whose premium has 
increased by more than 10 percent, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3298

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3298, a bill to 
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the label of 
any drug containing an opiate to prominently state that addiction is 
possible.


                             S. CON. RES. 4

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 4, a concurrent 
resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.


                              S. RES. 199

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the names of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) were added 
as cosponsors of S. Res. 199, a resolution expressing the sense of the 
Senate regarding establishing a National Strategic Agenda.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4985

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) were 
added as cosponsors of amendment No. 4985 intended to be proposed to S. 
2848, a bill to provide for the conservation and development of water 
and related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to 
construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of 
the United States, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4988

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 4988 
intended to be proposed to S. 2848, a bill to provide for the 
conservation and development of water and related resources, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for 
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other 
purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4992

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the names of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) were added as cosponsors of 
amendment No. 4992 intended to be proposed to S. 2848, a bill to 
provide for the conservation and development of water and related 
resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various 
projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 4998

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 4998 intended to 
be proposed to S. 2848, a bill to provide for the conservation and 
development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers 
and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes.

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