[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 13, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1894-S1896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 41

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 41, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act to require coverage of hearing devices and 
systems in certain private health insurance plans, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 51

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 51, a bill to provide for the admission of 
the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.


                                 S. 56

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 56, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for training and 
support services for families and caregivers of people living with 
Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.


                                 S. 57

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 57, a bill to increase the 
ability of nursing facilities to access telehealth services and obtain 
technologies to allow virtual visits during the public health emergency 
relating to an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 65

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 65, 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. 288

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 288, a bill to 
reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 321

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms.

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Cortez Masto), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 321, a bill to award a Congressional Gold 
Medal to the members of the Women's Army Corps who were assigned to the 
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the ``Six Triple 
Eight''.


                                 S. 346

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mr. Padilla) was added as a cosponsor of S. 346, 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. 350

  At the request of Ms. Hassan, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 350, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain programs under part A 
of title XI of such Act relating to genetic diseases, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 366

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 366, a bill to remove all statues of individuals 
who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display 
in the United States Capitol.


                                 S. 373

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 373, a bill to strengthen 
the use of patient-experience data within the benefit-risk framework 
for approval of new drugs.


                                 S. 377

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Ms. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 377, a bill to promote and 
protect from discrimination living organ donors.


                                 S. 382

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 382, a bill to 
establish the Office of the Ombudsperson for Immigrant Children in 
Government Custody, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 409

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 409, a bill to amend the 
Commodity Exchange Act to modify the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission Customer Protection Fund, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 441

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 441, a bill to require the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product 
safety rule for free-standing clothing storage units to protect 
children from tip-over related death or injury, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 452

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Wyoming 
(Ms. Lummis) was added as a cosponsor of S. 452, 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. 464

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Marshall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 464, a bill to amend the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group 
health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with 
such a plan to provide an exceptions process for any medication step 
therapy protocol, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 477

  At the request of Ms. Cortez Masto, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 477, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a refundable tax 
credit for travel expenditures, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 497

  At the request of Mr. Sullivan, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 497, a bill to establish the 
American Fisheries Advisory Committee to assist in the awarding of 
fisheries research and development grants, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 535

  At the request of Ms. Ernst, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator 
from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Rounds), and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 535, a bill to authorize the location of a memorial on 
the National Mall to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed 
Forces that served on active duty in support of the Global War on 
Terrorism, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 538

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 538, a bill to repeal portions of 
a regulation issued by the State Superintendent of Education of the 
District of Columbia that require child care workers to have a degree, 
a certificate, or a minimum number of credit hours from an institution 
of higher education.


                                 S. 552

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 552, a bill to 
direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development to submit to Congress a report on the impact of the COVID-
19 pandemic on global basic education programs.


                                 S. 596

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young) was added as a cosponsor of S. 596, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coordination of 
programs to prevent and treat obesity, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 627

  At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 627, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for energy storage 
technologies, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 660

  At the request of Ms. Smith, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 660, a bill to require parity in the 
coverage of mental health and substance use disorder services provided 
to enrollees in private insurance plans, whether such services are 
provided in-person or through telehealth.


                                 S. 721

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 721, a bill to amend the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to impose time limits on the 
completion of certain required actions under the Act, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 749

  At the request of Ms. Hassan, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), and the Senator 
from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) were added as cosponsors of S. 749, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance tax benefits for 
research activities.


                                 S. 792

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the names of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Risch) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 792, a bill to amend the Motor Carrier Safety 
Improvement Act of 1999 to modify certain agricultural exemptions for 
hours of service requirements, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 799

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Hickenlooper) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 799, a bill to require the Secretary of 
Energy to establish programs for carbon dioxide capture, transport, 
utilization, and storage, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 806

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor

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of S. 806, a bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to require the 
Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to provide grants to 
carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway 
rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally 
appropriate grasses and wildflowers, including milkweed, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 809

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 809, a bill to encourage and facilitate 
efforts by States and other stakeholders to conserve and sustain the 
western population of monarch butterflies, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 862

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 862, a bill to create a 
safe harbor for insurers engaging in the business of insurance in 
connection with a cannabis-related legitimate business, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 868

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 868, a bill to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the five-month waiting 
period for disability insurance benefits under such title and waive the 
24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals with 
Huntington's disease.


                                 S. 876

  At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 876, a bill to 
amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to make loan guarantees and grants to finance 
certain improvements to school lunch facilities, to train school food 
service personnel, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 937

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), 
the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) and the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) were added as cosponsors of S. 937, a bill to facilitate 
the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 951

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 951, a bill to 
direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible 
organizations to provide service dogs to veterans with severe post-
traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 984

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 984, a bill to amend the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use 
plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of 
producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of 
their consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from 
consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human 
food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1032

  At the request of Mr. Warnock, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1032, a bill direct the 
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of 
Shirley Chisholm for placement in the United States Capitol.


                                S. 1034

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1034, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to extend the publicly traded partnership ownership structure to 
energy power generation projects and transportation fuels, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1040

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1040, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for hospital 
care, medical services, and nursing home care from the Department of 
Veterans Affairs to include veterans of World War II.


                                S. 1071

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1071, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to 
provide pension claim enhancement assistance to individuals submitting 
claims for pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for 
other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 3

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Hagerty) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 3, a joint 
resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of 
Congress may serve.


                              S. RES. 140

  At the request of Mr. Warnock, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) 
were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 140, a resolution condemning the 
horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021, and 
reaffirming the commitment of the Senate to combating hate, bigotry, 
and violence against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.


                              S. RES. 148

  At the request of Ms. Warren, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) were added 
as cosponsors of S. Res. 148, a resolution recognizing the importance 
of paying tribute to those individuals who have faithfully served and 
retired from the Armed Forces of the United States, designating April 
18, 2021, as ``Military Retiree Appreciation Day'', and encouraging the 
people of the United States to honor the past and continued service of 
military retirees to their local communities and the United States

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