[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 70 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2168-S2170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 40

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 40, a bill to address the 
fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in 
the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 
and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology 
and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its 
subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination 
against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living 
African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on 
appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 168

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 168, a bill to provide temporary licensing 
reciprocity for telehealth and interstate health care treatment.


                                 S. 204

  At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 204, a bill to establish 
the Office of Press Freedom, to create press freedom curriculum at the 
National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 231

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 231, a bill to 
direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
develop guidance for firefighters and other emergency response 
personnel on best practices to protect them from exposure to PFAS and 
to limit and prevent the release of PFAS into the environment, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 306

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 306, a bill to provide a 
process for granting lawful permanent resident status to aliens from 
certain countries who meet specified eligibility requirements, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 386

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 386, a bill to establish a 
public health plan.


                                 S. 444

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 444, a bill to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
provide or assist in providing an additional vehicle adapted for 
operation by disabled individuals to certain eligible persons.


                                 S. 558

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Ms. 
Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 558, a bill to establish a 
national integrated flood information system within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 617

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 617, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer 
taxes, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 657

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 657, 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. 659

  At the request of Mr. Young, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 659, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations relating to 
commercial motor vehicle drivers under the age of 21, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 789

  At the request of Mr. Rounds, the names of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Lujan) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 789, a bill to repeal certain obsolete laws 
relating to Indians.


                                 S. 792

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor 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. 810

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 810, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to expand the list of diseases associated 
with exposure to certain herbicide agents for which there is a 
presumption of service connection for veterans who served in the 
Republic of Vietnam to include hypertension, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 828

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 828, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the 
coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health 
counselor services under part B of the

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Medicare program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 839

  At the request of Mr. Cassidy, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the 
Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Iowa (Ms. 
Ernst), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Grassley), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the 
Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Romney), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Marshall), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Booker), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), 
the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the 
Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. 
Bennet) and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 839, a bill to establish a postsecondary student data 
system.


                                 S. 919

  At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Lujan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 919, a bill to establish 
duties for online service providers with respect to end user data that 
such providers collect and use.


                                 S. 926

  At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 926, a bill to plan, 
develop, and make recommendations to increase access to sexual assault 
examinations for survivors by holding hospitals accountable and 
supporting the providers that serve them.


                                 S. 927

  At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 927, 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. 951

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) 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. 1039

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1039, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to improve compensation for disabilities 
occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1086

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from 
Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Massachusetts 
(Ms. Warren), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator 
from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the 
Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. 
Warner), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from 
New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the 
Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van 
Hollen), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) were added as cosponsors of S. 1086, 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. 1106

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1106, a bill to prohibit 
the sale of shark fins, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1123

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1123, a bill to preserve 
non-interference under the Medicare part D Prescription Drug Benefit 
program.


                                S. 1135

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mr. Padilla) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1135, a bill to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President to set a 
minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1180

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1180, a bill to 
provide for the establishment of Medicare part E public health plans, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1205

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1205, a bill to 
prohibit the use of Federal funds relating to rejoining the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran unless the President commits to 
submitting any successor agreement to the Senate for its advice and 
consent as a treaty.


                                S. 1238

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1238, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces and 
their families have access to the contraception they need in order to 
promote the health and readiness of all members of the Armed Forces, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1251

  At the request of Mr. Braun, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) and the Senator 
from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) were added as cosponsors of S. 1251, a bill to 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a program to reduce 
barriers to entry for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners 
in certain voluntary markets, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1255

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1255, a bill to require the Minority Business 
Development Agency of the Department of Commerce to promote and 
administer programs in the public and private sectors to assist the 
development of minority business enterprises, to ensure that such 
Agency has the necessary supporting resources, particularly during 
economic downturns, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1279

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1279, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option 
for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States age 50 to 64 
to buy into Medicare.


                               S. RES. 97

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 97, a resolution 
calling on the Government of Ethiopia, the Tigray People's Liberation 
Front, and other belligerents to cease all hostilities, protect human 
rights, allow unfettered humanitarian access, and cooperate with 
independent investigations of credible atrocity allegations pertaining 
to the conflict in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.


                              S. RES. 148

  At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor 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

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States to honor the past and continued service of military retirees to 
their local communities and the United States.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1456

  At the request of Mr. Kennedy, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1456 proposed to S. 937, a bill to facilitate the 
expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Hagerty) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1456 proposed 
to S. 937, supra.
  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1456 proposed to S. 937, supra.

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