[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 216 (Wednesday, December 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9213-S9214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 72

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 72, a bill to require full 
funding of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.


                                 S. 79

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mr. Padilla) was added as a cosponsor of S. 79, a bill to eliminate 
the disparity in sentencing for cocaine offenses, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 344

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 344, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to provide for concurrent receipt of veterans' 
disability compensation and retirement pay for disability retirees with 
fewer than 20 years of service and a combat-related disability, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 464

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) 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. 697

  At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 697, a bill to require the 
Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of 
the Bicentennial of Harriet Tubman's birth.


                                 S. 800

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 800, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit nurse practitioners and 
physician assistants to satisfy the documentation requirement under the 
Medicare program for coverage of certain shoes for individuals with 
diabetes.


                                S. 1108

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1108, a bill to regulate 
large capacity ammunition feeding devices.


                                S. 1125

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1125, a bill to recommend 
that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation test the effect of 
a dementia care management model, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1385

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1385, a bill to amend the 
Animal Welfare Act to establish additional requirements for dealers, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 1574

  At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the names of the 
Senator from Virginia (Mr. Kaine) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) 
were added

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as cosponsors of S. 1574, a bill to codify a statutory definition for 
long-term care pharmacies.


                                S. 1593

  At the request of Mr. Schatz, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1593, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act with respect to the designation of general surgery shortage 
areas, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1813

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1813, a bill to direct the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to support research on, and expanded access to, 
investigational drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1904

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1904, a bill to 
impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for Palestinian 
terrorism, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1907

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1907, a bill to 
require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
develop effluent limitations guidelines and standards and water quality 
criteria for PFAS under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, to 
provide Federal grants to publicly owned treatment works to implement 
such guidelines and standards, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2048

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2048, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of 
outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-
day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing 
facility services under Medicare.


                                S. 2244

  At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Hickenlooper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2244, a bill to amend 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for teacher and school 
leader quality enhancement and to enhance institutional aid.


                                S. 2283

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Lujan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2283, a bill to improve the 
Veterans Crisis Line of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 2391

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2391, a bill 
to provide for clarification and limitations with respect to the 
exercise of national security powers, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2607

  At the request of Mr. Padilla, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Ms. Rosen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2607, a bill to award a 
Congressional Gold Medal to the former hostages of the Iran Hostage 
Crisis of 1979-1981, highlighting their resilience throughout the 
unprecedented ordeal that they lived through and the national unity it 
produced, marking 4 decades since their 444 days in captivity, and 
recognizing their sacrifice to the United States.


                                S. 2769

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2769, a bill to amend 
title XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services 
delivered by podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid 
beneficiaries to appropriate quality foot and ankle care, to amend 
title XVIII of such Act to modify the requirements for diabetic shoes 
to be included under Medicare, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2771

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2771, a bill to designate the 
community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
in San Angelo, Texas, as the ``Colonel Charles and JoAnne Powell 
Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic''.


                                S. 2922

  At the request of Ms. Duckworth, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2922, a bill to establish a 
commission to study the war in Afghanistan.


                                S. 3018

  At the request of Mr. Marshall, the names of the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 3018, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to establish requirements with respect to the use 
of prior authorization under Medicare Advantage plans, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3079

  At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3079, a bill to 
exempt essential workers from Federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates.


                                S. 3108

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3108, a bill to provide 
counsel for unaccompanied children, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3196

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3196, a bill to enhance the policies, procedures, and 
training for midshipmen at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 
and for other purposes.


                                S. 3204

  At the request of Ms. Sinema, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3204, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe 
of Arizona certain land in Pima County, Arizona, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3293

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), and the Senator 
from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville) were added as cosponsors of S. 3293, a 
bill to expand access of veterans to mental health care from the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3354

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3354, a bill to delay the 
implementation of a rule relating to the importation of sheep and goats 
and products derived from sheep and goats, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3362

  At the request of Mr. Warnock, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Marshall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3362, a bill to require 
the Healthy People Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Workgroup and the 
Maternal Health Working Group to establish a formal coordinated 
approach for monitoring maternal health efforts across the Department 
of Health and Human Services.


                                S. 3384

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3384, a bill to establish 
in the Department of State the Office to Monitor and Combat 
Islamophobia, and for other purposes.

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