[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6586-S6588]
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 Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock) 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. 403

  At the request of Mr. Young, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 403, a bill to preserve open 
competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor 
relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally 
funded construction projects, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 450

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 450, a bill to award posthumously the 
Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 450, supra.


                                 S. 558

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) 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. 692

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young) was added as a cosponsor of S. 692, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the female telephone operators of the Army 
Signal Corps, known as the ``Hello Girls''.


                                 S. 773

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 773, a bill to enable certain 
hospitals that were participating in or applied for the drug discount 
program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act prior to 
the COVID-19 public health emergency to temporarily maintain 
eligibility for such program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 844

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor of S. 844, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain amounts paid for 
physical activity, fitness, and exercise as amounts paid for medical 
care.


                                 S. 868

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Coons) 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. 1068

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the 
Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. 
Hirono) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1068, a bill to direct the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration to issue an occupational safety and health 
standard to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses.

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                                S. 1106

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


                                S. 1175

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1175, a bill to categorize public 
safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the 
Standard Occupational Classification System.


                                S. 1328

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1328, a bill to amend the 
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the farm to 
school program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1435

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Mr. King), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1435, a bill to amend the Federal Trade 
Commission Act to prohibit product hopping, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1536

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1536, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the availability of 
medical nutrition therapy services under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1568

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. 
Warren) were added as cosponsors of S. 1568, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide a waiver of the cap on 
annual payments for nursing and allied health education payments.


                                S. 1628

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1628, a bill to amend the Children's 
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to strengthen protections 
relating to the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal 
information of children and minors, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1692

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1692, a bill to provide 
better care and outcomes for Americans living with Alzheimer's disease 
and related to dementias and their caregivers, while accelerating 
progress toward prevention strategies, disease modifying treatments, 
and, ultimately, a cure.


                                S. 1780

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1780, a bill to remove 
college cost as a barrier to every student having access to a well-
prepared and diverse educator workforce, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1782

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1782, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to facilitate tree 
planting that reduces residential energy consumption, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1810

  At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1810, a bill to provide incentives to 
physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1848

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1848, a bill to 
prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, 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. 1872

  At the request of Ms. Ernst, the names of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer), the Senator 
from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Barrasso), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the 
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Romney), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville) and the 
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young) were added as cosponsors of S. 1872, 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. 1873

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1873, a bill to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of multi-
cancer early detection screening tests.


                                S. 1909

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1909, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform requirements with respect to 
direct and indirect remuneration under Medicare part D, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1976

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1976, a bill to establish a 
program to oversee the global COVID-19 response and prepare for future 
pandemics, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1987

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Hagerty) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1987, a bill to authorize 
the imposition of sanctions with respect to the deliberate concealment 
or distortion of information about public health emergencies of 
international concern, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2291

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2291, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to establish a tax credit for production of electricity 
using nuclear power.


                                S. 2384

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Cramer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2384, a bill to 
require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of 
the semiquincentennial anniversary of the establishment of the United 
States.


                                S. 2434

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2434, a bill to provide tax incentives that support 
local newspapers and other local media, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2493

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2493, a bill to extend the deadline for eligible 
health care providers to use certain funds received from the COVID-19 
Provider Relief Fund, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2562

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Scott) were added as cosponsors of S. 2562, a bill to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to improve extended care services by 
providing Medicare beneficiaries with an option for cost effective 
home-based extended care under the Medicare program, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2580

  At the request of Ms. Sinema, the names of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2580, a bill to direct

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the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to make 
free National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes available to 
members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2672

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2672, a bill to authorize 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development to transform 
neighborhoods of extreme poverty into sustainable, mixed-income 
neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities, by revitalizing 
severely distressed housing, and investing and leveraging investments 
in well-functioning services, educational opportunities, public assets, 
public transportation, and improved access to jobs, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2675

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2675, a bill to 
amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase appropriations 
to Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2676

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2676, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to provide for the participation of physical 
therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 2736

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Sullivan) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 2736, a bill to exclude vehicles to be used solely 
for competition from certain provisions of the Clean Air Act, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2744

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2744, a bill to clarify the 
meaning of the term ``emergency war funding'' for purposes of 
determining eligible costs for such funding, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2752

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2752, 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.


                                S. 2760

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2760, a bill to amend title 31, United States 
Code, to provide for automatic continuing resolutions.


                             S. CON. RES. 9

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 9, a 
concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.


                              S. RES. 338

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from New Hampshire 
(Ms. Hassan), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator 
from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), 
the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. 
Braun), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. 
Duckworth), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Merkley), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine), the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from New Hampshire 
(Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator 
from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Smith), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 338, a resolution designating September 
2021 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. 359

  At the request of Mr. Graham, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville) were added as cosponsors of S. 
Res. 359, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 
Secretary of State should designate the Afghan Taliban as a Foreign 
Terrorist Organization, freeze all assets of the Government of 
Afghanistan held in the United States, and use all authority and 
influence of the United States Government to prohibit the distribution 
of funds to the Afghan Taliban by other countries and international 
institutions and organizations.


                              S. RES. 367

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 367, a resolution 
designating September 2021 as ``National Ovarian Cancer Awareness 
Month''.

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