[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 173 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6334-S6336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 206

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 206, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 
female telephone operators of the Army Signal Corps, known as the 
``Hello Girls''.


                                 S. 283

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) was added as a cosponsor of S. 283, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and utilization 
of, bone mass measurement benefits under part B of the Medicare program 
by establishing a minimum payment amount under such part for bone mass 
measurement.


                                 S. 377

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 377, a bill 
to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices of 
prescription drugs furnished under part D of the Medicare program.


                                 S. 386

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 386, a bill to amend 
the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country 
numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the 
per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and 
for other purposes.


                                 S. 457

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 457, a bill to 
require that $1 coins issued during 2019 honor President George H.W. 
Bush and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bullion coins 
during 2019 in honor of Barbara Bush.


                                 S. 500

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young) was added as a cosponsor of S. 500, a bill to amend title 
54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and provide for the use of 
amounts in a National Park Service Legacy Restoration Fund to address 
the maintenance backlog of the National Park Service, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 560

  At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-
Smith) were added as cosponsors of S. 560, a bill to amend the Public 
Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 
1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and 
individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide 
coverage for treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth defect.


                                 S. 878

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Hawley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 878, a bill to foster 
security in Taiwan, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 880

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith) and the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 880, a bill to provide outreach and reporting 
on comprehensive Alzheimer's disease care planning services furnished 
under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1007

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1007, 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. 1123

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1123, a bill to transfer and limit Executive 
Branch authority to suspend or restrict the entry of a class of aliens.


                                S. 1218

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1218, a bill 
to require the review of the service of certain members of the Armed 
Forces during World War I to determine if such members should be 
awarded the Medal of Honor, to authorize the award of the Medal of 
Honor based on the results of the review, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1235

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1235, a bill to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of ratification of the 19th 
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving women in the 
United States the right to vote.


                                S. 1257

  At the request of Mr. Cramer, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1257, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from 
individual retirement accounts to include rollovers for charitable 
life-income plans for charitable purposes.


                                S. 1294

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin

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(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1294, a bill to require 
Federal agencies with jurisdiction over broadband deployment to enter 
into an interagency agreement related to certain types of funding for 
broadband deployment.


                                S. 1590

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1590, a bill to 
amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize 
rewards for thwarting wildlife trafficking linked to transnational 
organized crime, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1601

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. McSally), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator 
from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Smith), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator 
from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 1601, a bill to 
direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a rule requiring all 
new passenger motor vehicles to be equipped with a child safety alert 
system, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1657

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1657, a bill to provide assistance to combat the 
escalating burden of Lyme disease and other tick and vector-borne 
diseases and disorders.


                                S. 1703

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1703, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the low-income housing 
credit, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1757

  At the request of Ms. Ernst, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1757, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the United States Army 
Rangers Veterans of World War II in recognition of their extraordinary 
service during World War II.


                                S. 1781

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1781, a bill to 
authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 
2020 through 2022 to provide assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and 
Honduras through bilateral compacts to increase protection of women and 
children in their homes and communities and reduce female homicides, 
domestic violence, and sexual assault.


                                S. 1782

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Rosen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1782, a bill to add suicide 
prevention resources to school identification cards.


                                S. 1812

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
California (Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1812, a bill to 
authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
conduct research on wildfire smoke, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1813

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
California (Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1813, a bill to 
amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act to provide wildfire smoke mitigation assistance to States and units 
of local government, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1814

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
California (Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1814, a bill to 
authorize the President to declare a smoke emergency, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1815

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
California (Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1815, a bill to 
establish an occupational safety and health standard to protect 
farmworkers from wildfire smoke, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1838

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. McSally) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1838, a bill to amend the 
Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2026

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2026, a bill to amend the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the farm to 
school program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2179

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2179, a bill to amend the Older 
Americans Act of 1965 to provide social service agencies with the 
resources to provide services to meet the urgent needs of Holocaust 
survivors to age in place with dignity, comfort, security, and quality 
of life.


                                S. 2246

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. 
Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2246, a bill to amend 
titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide equal 
coverage of in vitro specific IgE tests and percutaneous tests for 
allergies under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2248

  At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the name of the 
Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2248, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to redesignate and 
expand the Troops-to-Teachers Program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2254

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2254, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation 
Trust Fund, to establish a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within 
the Department of the Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined 
benefit plans, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2491

  At the request of Mr. Udall, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2491, a bill to terminate 
certain rules issued by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Commerce relating to endangered and threatened species, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2570

  At the request of Ms. Sinema, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2570, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to Greg LeMond in recognition of his service 
to the United States as an athlete, activist, role model, and community 
leader.


                                S. 2603

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2603, a 
bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to end the immigrant 
visa backlog, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2641

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2641, a bill to promote United States national 
security and prevent the resurgence of ISIS, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2671

  At the request of Ms. Duckworth, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 2671, a bill to build safer, thriving communities, and save lives by 
investing in effective violence reduction initiatives.
  At the request of Mr. Casey, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
2671, supra.


                                S. 2680

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2680, a bill to impose 
sanctions with respect to foreign support for Palestinian terrorism, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2690

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma

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(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2690, a bill to reduce 
mass violence, strengthen mental health collaboration in communities, 
improve school safety, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2695

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2695, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture 
to provide for the defense of United States agriculture and food 
through the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2710

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2710, a bill to 
prohibit the commercial export of covered munitions items to the Hong 
Kong Police Force.


                                S. 2722

  At the request of Ms. Ernst, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2722, a bill to prohibit 
agencies from using Federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2740

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2740, a bill to amend the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify the regulatory 
framework with respect to certain nonprescription drugs that are 
marketed without an approved new drug application, and for other 
purposes.


                              S. RES. 150

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Romney) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 150, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that it is the policy of the United 
States to commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official 
recognition and remembrance.


                              S. RES. 376

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 376, a 
resolution emphasizing the importance of a career, nonpartisan Foreign 
Service of the United States.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1005

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
1005 proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1088

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from California 
(Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1088 proposed to 
H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1099

  At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as 
cosponsors of amendment No. 1099 proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making 
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and 
for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1114

  At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
1114 proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1122

  At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1122 intended 
to be proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1130

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
1130 proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1135

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
California (Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1135 
intended to be proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for 
the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1163

  At the request of Ms. McSally, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1163 proposed to 
H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1182

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1182 proposed 
to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1193

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 
1193 proposed to H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1223

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1223 proposed to 
H.R. 3055, a bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

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