[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 155 (Wednesday, September 9, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5511-S5513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 180

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Cramer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 180, a bill to 
streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee 
ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 274

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mrs. Loeffler) was added as a cosponsor of S. 274, a bill to ensure 
that organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to 
continue to provide services for children.


                                 S. 393

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 393, a bill to amend title 
28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices 
and judges of the courts of the United States.


                                 S. 593

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, his name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 593, a bill to amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 
1993 to protect civil rights and otherwise prevent meaningful harm to 
third parties, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Coons, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
593, supra.


                                 S. 849

  At the request of Mr. Cramer, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mrs. Loeffler) was added as a cosponsor of S. 849, a bill to provide 
for the inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall of the names of 
the lost crew members of the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 
1969.


                                 S. 861

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 861, a bill to establish in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, 
and Labor of the Department of State a Special Envoy for the Human 
Rights of LGBTI Peoples, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Ms. Hassan, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
861, supra.


                                 S. 892

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator 
from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez 
Masto), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the 
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Gardner), the Senator from California (Ms. Harris), the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the 
Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 892, a bill to award a Congressional Gold 
Medal, collectively, to the women in the United States who joined the 
workforce during World War

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II, providing the aircraft, vehicles, weaponry, ammunition, and other 
materials to win the war, that were referred to as ``Rosie the 
Riveter'', in recognition of their contributions to the United States 
and the inspiration they have provided to ensuing generations.


                                S. 1068

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Rosen) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1068, a bill to secure the Federal voting rights of 
persons when released from incarceration.


                                S. 1103

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mrs. Loeffler) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1103, a bill to amend 
the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based 
immigration points system, to focus on family-sponsored immigration on 
spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to 
set a limit on the number of refugees admitted annually to the United 
States, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1219

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1219, a bill to provide for 
the discharge of parent borrower liability if a student on whose behalf 
a parent has received certain student loans becomes disabled.


                                S. 1374

  At the request of Ms. McSally, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1374, a bill to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting periods for 
disability insurance benefits and Medicare coverage for individuals 
with metastatic breast cancer, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1609

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1609, a 
bill to amend the Securities Act of 1934 to require country-by-country 
reporting.


                                S. 2001

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2001, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to Willie O'Ree, in recognition of his 
extraordinary contributions and commitment to hockey, inclusion, and 
recreational opportunity.


                                S. 2008

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator 
from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. 
Kaine) were added as cosponsors of S. 2008, a bill to prohibit, as an 
unfair or deceptive act or practice, commercial sexual orientation 
conversion therapy, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2043

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2043, a bill 
to provide incentives for hate crime reporting, provide grants for 
State-run hate crime hotlines, and establish alternative sentencing for 
individuals convicted under the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. 
Hate Crimes Prevention Act.


                                S. 2227

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, her name was added as a cosponsor 
of S. 2227, a bill to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide 
for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on 
Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2898

  At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. 
Warren) 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. 3101

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3101, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover 
over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 
and to transfer a portion of such cover over to the Puerto Rico 
Conservation Trust Fund.


                                S. 3176

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. 
Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3176, a bill to amend the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the United States-Israel Strategic 
Partnership Act of 2014 to make improvements to certain defense and 
security assistance provisions and to authorize the appropriations of 
funds to Israel, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3398

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3398, a bill to establish a 
National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 3424

  At the request of Mr. Udall, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
3424, a bill to end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal 
morbidity in the United States and close disparities in maternal health 
outcomes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3471

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Lankford) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3471, a bill to ensure that goods made with forced 
labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic 
of China do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3705

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3705, a bill to establish a 
private-public partnership to preserve jobs in the aviation 
manufacturing industry, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3872

  At the request of Mr. Braun, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3872, a bill to amend the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a time-limited 
provisional approval pathway, subject to specific obligations, for 
certain drugs and biological products, and for other purposes.


                                S. 4071

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4071, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to adjust identification number 
requirements for taxpayers filing joint returns to receive Economic 
Impact Payments.


                                S. 4124

  At the request of Mr. Braun, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 4124, a bill to expedite hiring by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs of medical department personnel separating from the 
Armed Forces, and for other purposes.


                                S. 4150

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) 
and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors 
of S. 4150, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide 
assistance to certain providers of transportation services affected by 
the novel coronavirus.
  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4150, supra.


                                S. 4202

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4202, a bill to amend the 
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand online benefit redemption 
options under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 4258

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4258, a bill to establish a 
grant program for small live venue operators and talent 
representatives.


                                S. 4275

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Tennessee

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(Mrs. Blackburn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4275, a bill to require 
recipients of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to provide employment 
documentation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 4329

  At the request of Ms. McSally, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4329, a bill to 
provide premium assistance for COBRA continuation coverage, church plan 
continuation coverage, and furloughed continuation coverage for 
individuals and their families.


                                S. 4357

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4357, a bill to 
amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
to promote reforestation following unplanned events on Federal land, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 4380

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator 
from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. McSally) and 
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as cosponsors of S. 
4380, a bill to provide redress to the employees of Air America.


                                S. 4393

  At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. McSally) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4393, a bill to improve 
the provision of health care and other benefits from the Department of 
Veterans Affairs for veterans who were exposed to toxic substances, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 4406

  At the request of Mr. Udall, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4406, a bill 
to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to 
fully protect the safety of children and the environment, to remove 
dangerous pesticides from use, and for other purposes.


                                S. 4424

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4424, a bill to withhold a 
percentage of Federal funding from State and local prosecutors who fail 
to faithfully prosecute crimes related to protests and riots.


                                S. 4441

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4441, a bill to amend title XIX 
of the Social Security Act to encourage State Medicaid programs to 
provide community-based mobile crisis intervention services, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 4442

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4442, a bill to amend 
subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide 
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to individuals with mixed income 
sources, and for other purposes.


                              S. RES. 372

  At the request of Mr. Udall, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 372, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Government should 
establish a national goal of conserving at least 30 percent of the land 
and ocean of the United States by 2030.


                              S. RES. 524

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 524, a resolution 
condemning the practice of politically motivated imprisonment, calling 
for the immediate release of political prisoners in the Russian 
Federation, and urging action by the United States Government to impose 
sanctions with respect to persons responsible for that form of human 
rights abuse.


                              S. RES. 671

  At the request of Mr. Coons, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
Res. 671, a resolution recognizing, commemorating, and celebrating the 
55th anniversary of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and 
reaffirming the Senate's commitment to ensuring the continued vitality 
of the Act and the protection of the voting rights of all citizens of 
the United States.


                              S. RES. 672

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Scott), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. 
Cardin), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator 
from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), the Senator 
from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Murphy) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 672, a resolution 
designating September 2020 as National Democracy Month as a time to 
reflect on the contributions of the system of government of the United 
States to a more free and stable world.


                              S. RES. 675

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 675, a resolution congratulating the men and 
women of the Commercial Crew Program of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation and 
astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley on the successful 
completion of the Crew Dragon Demo-2 test flight.


                              S. RES. 684

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 684, a resolution calling 
on the Government of Cameroon and separatist armed groups from the 
English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions to end all violence, 
respect the human rights of all Cameroonians, and pursue a genuinely 
inclusive dialogue toward resolving the ongoing civil conflict in 
Anglophone Cameroon.

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