[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 3, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6825-S6827]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 225

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 225, a bill to 
provide for partnerships among State and local governments, regional 
entities, and the private sector to preserve, conserve, and enhance the 
visitor experience at nationally significant battlefields of the 
American Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil War, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 279

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 279, a bill 
to allow tribal grant schools to participate in the Federal Employee 
Health Benefits Program.


                                 S. 460

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 460, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion for employer-
provided education assistance to employer payments of student loans.


                                 S. 479

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 479, a bill to revise 
section 48 of title 18, United States Code, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 511

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 511, a bill to 
promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors.


                                 S. 851

  At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 851, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health 
standard that requires covered employers within the health care and 
social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive 
workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 901

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 901, a bill 
to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to support individuals with 
younger onset Alzheimer's disease.


                                S. 1130

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1130, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to improve the health of children and help 
better understand and enhance awareness about unexpected sudden death 
in early life.


                                S. 1190

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1190, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for payments for certain 
rural health clinic and Federally qualified health center services 
furnished to hospice patients under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1354

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1354, a bill to require 
certain protections for student loan borrowers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1376

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1376, a bill to amend parts B 
and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate barriers to 
providing child welfare services for children and youth in need, to 
provide additional resources to implement programmatic changes 
necessary to meet the requirements of the Family First Prevention 
Services Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1381

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1381, a bill to modify the 
presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to 
herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during 
the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1392

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1392, a bill to direct the Comptroller 
General of the United States to conduct an assessment of the 
responsibilities, workload, and vacancy rates of suicide prevention 
coordinators of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1399

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1399, a bill to amend title 
VIII of the Public Health Services Act to revise and extend nursing 
workforce development programs.


                                S. 1657

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Hawley) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1677

  At the request of Mr. Perdue, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Rosen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1677, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide authority to postpone certain 
deadlines by reason of State declared disasters or emergencies.


                                S. 1757

  At the request of Ms. Ernst, the names of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally) and the Senator 
from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan) were added as cosponsors 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 names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) were added 
as cosponsors 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. 1791

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1791, a bill 
to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion,

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sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), and marital 
status in the administration and provision of child welfare services, 
to improve safety, well-being, and permanency for lesbian, gay, 
bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning foster youth, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1891

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1891, a bill to provide 
for the inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall of the names of 
the soldiers who died on Flying Tiger Flight 739 on March 16, 1962.


                                S. 1979

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1979, a bill to amend 
title 49, United States Code, to provide for the minimum size of crews 
of freight trains, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2054

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2054, a bill to 
posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to Glen 
Doherty, Tyrone Woods, J. Christopher Stevens, and Sean Smith, in 
recognition of their contributions to the Nation.


                                S. 2085

  At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2085, a bill to 
authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible 
entities to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2108

  At the request of Mr. Daines, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Lee), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch) were added as cosponsors of S. 2108, a bill to amend 
section 6903 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for additional 
population tiers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2216

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2216, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to formally recognize 
caregivers of veterans, notify veterans and caregivers of clinical 
determinations relating to eligibility for caregiver programs, and 
temporarily extend benefits for veterans who are determined ineligible 
for the family caregiver program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2246

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) 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. 2414

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2414, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit.


                                S. 2427

  At the request of Ms. Cortez Masto, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2427, a bill to 
amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the 
Treasury to mint and issue quarter dollars in commemoration of the 19th 
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2481

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2481, a bill to facilitate 
effective research on and treatment of neglected tropical diseases 
through coordinated domestic and international efforts.


                                S. 2529

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2529, a bill to amend the 
Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to 
modify provisions relating to whistleblower incentives and protection, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2590

  At the request of Mr. Braun, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2590, a bill to 
protect the dignity of fetal remains, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2619

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2619, a bill to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Healthy Start 
program.


                                S. 2680

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Jones) 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. 2772

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2772, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for treatment of 
clinical psychologists as physicians for purposes of furnishing 
clinical psychologist services under the Medicare program.


                                S. 2794

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2794, a bill to provide for 
the creation of the Missing Armed Forces Personnel Records Collection 
at the National Archives, to require the expeditious public 
transmission to the Archivist and public disclosure of Missing Armed 
Forces Personnel records, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2819

  At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2819, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the income-based 
limitations for the Lifetime Learning Credit, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2826

  At the request of Mr. Young, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2826, a bill to require 
a global economic security strategy, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2842

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2842, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 
2018 to expand and expedite access to cardiac rehabilitation programs 
and pulmonary rehabilitation programs under the Medicare program, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2857

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2857, a bill to amend the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 to count military and veterans education benefits 
as Federal educational assistance, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2898

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) and the Senator 
from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 2898, a bill to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for a full annuity 
supplement for certain air traffic controllers.


                                S. 2961

  At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2961, a bill to establish 
duties for online service providers with respect to end user data that 
such providers collect and use.


                            S. CON. RES. 23

  At the request of Mr. Cramer, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 23, a concurrent 
resolution honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge 
fought during World War II, recognizing the valiant efforts of the 
Allied Forces in December 1944, and remembering those who made the 
ultimate sacrifice, all of which contributed to the Allied victory in 
the European Theater.


                               S. RES. 98

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from Nevada

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(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 98, a resolution 
establishing the Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program for 
the placement in offices of Senators of children, spouses, and siblings 
of members of the Armed Forces who are hostile casualties or who have 
died from a training-related injury.


                              S. RES. 404

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 404, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States 
should work in cooperation with the international community and 
continue to exercise global leadership to address the causes and 
effects of climate change, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 410

  At the request of Mr. Jones, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 410, a resolution establishing a McCain-Mansfield 
Fellowship Program in the Senate.


                              S. RES. 411

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 411, a resolution 
affirming that States maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic 
fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and private 
lands, that the President has no authority to declare a moratorium on 
the use of hydraulic fracturing on State and private lands, and that 
the President should not attempt to declare a moratorium on the use of 
hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands (including the Outer Continental 
Shelf) or lands held in trust for an Indian Tribe, unless the 
moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.


                              S. RES. 418

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 418, a 
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Government 
of Turkey's crackdown on dissent related to its incursion into 
northeast Syria, and broader human rights violations.

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