[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 217 (Thursday, December 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9261-S9263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 46

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 46, a bill to reauthorize 
the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 and to establish the United 
States Coral Reef Task Force, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 335

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 335, a bill to 
reauthorize the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Act of 
1998.


                                 S. 596

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) 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. 602

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 602, a bill to combat 
forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the 
removal of organs, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 697

  At the request of Ms. Rosen, the names of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as 
cosponsors 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. 764

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 764, 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. 773

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff) 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. 801

  At the request of Mr. Thune, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
801, a bill to identify and address barriers to coverage of remote 
physiologic devices under State Medicaid programs to improve maternal 
and child health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women.


                                 S. 860

  At the request of Mr. Lankford, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 860, a bill to develop 
and deploy firewall circumvention tools for the people of Hong Kong 
after the People's Republic of China violated its agreement under the 
Joint Declaration, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 951

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) 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 name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor 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. 999

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 999, a bill to amend the 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to rural 
health care by ensuring fairness in Medicare hospital payments.


                                S. 1106

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


                                S. 1141

  At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1141, a bill 
to amend title 28, United States Code, to allow for twelve associate 
justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.


                                S. 1175

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) 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. 1273

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1273, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to small 
employers for covering military spouses under retirement plans.


                                S. 1342

  At the request of Ms. Hassan, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1342, a bill to establish an 
interagency committee on the development of green alert systems that 
would be activated when a veteran goes missing, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1385

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Murphy) were added as cosponsors of S. 1385, a bill to amend the Animal 
Welfare Act to establish additional requirements for dealers, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1443

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1443, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit treatment of student loan 
payments as elective deferrals for purposes of employer matching 
contributions, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1451

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1451, a bill to amend 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to implement policies to end 
preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths globally.


                                S. 1468

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1468, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expand the Rural Access Network for 
Growth Enhancement Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs and to 
direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study 
to assess certain mental health care resources of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs available to veterans who live in rural areas.


                                S. 1478

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1478, a bill to protect 
and promote the freedom of the press globally.


                                S. 1486

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1486, a bill to eliminate discrimination and promote 
women's health and economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace 
accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a 
job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical 
condition.


                                S. 1536

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

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                                S. 1692

  At the request of Mrs. Capito, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Tillis) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) 
were added as cosponsors 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. 1813

  At the request of Mr. Warner, his name was added as a cosponsor 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. 1947

  At the request of Mr. Sullivan, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1947, a bill to authorize 
the position of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, 
to statutorily establish the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory 
Board, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2003

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2003, a bill to 
authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 
2021 through 2023 to provide assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and 
Honduras through bilateral compacts to increase protection of women and 
children in their homes and communities and reduce female homicides, 
domestic violence, and sexual assault.


                                S. 2013

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2013, a bill to provide for 
the coverage of medically necessary food and vitamins and individual 
amino acids for digestive and inherited metabolic disorder under 
Federal health programs and private health insurance, to ensure State 
and Federal protection for existing coverage, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2069

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2069, a bill to 
expand the Medicaid certified community behavioral health clinic 
demonstration program and to authorize funding for additional grants to 
certified community behavioral health clinics.


                                S. 2102

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2102, a bill to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to direct the Under Secretary for Health 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide mammography screening 
for veterans who served in locations associated with toxic exposure.


                                S. 2129

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) and the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2129, a bill to promote freedom of 
information and counter censorship and surveillance in North Korea, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 2340

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator 
from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. 
Hirono), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from 
Iowa (Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2340, a bill to improve the safety and security of the 
Federal judiciary.


                                S. 2556

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2556, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to protect beneficiaries with 
limb loss and other orthopedic conditions by providing access to 
appropriate, safe, effective, patient-centered orthotic and prosthetic 
care, to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse with respect to orthotics and 
prosthetics, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2652

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2652, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify congressional intent and 
preserve patient access to home infusion therapy under the Medicare 
program, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2710

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from 
Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 2710, a bill to promote competition and 
reduce gatekeeper power in the app economy, increase choice, improve 
quality, and reduce costs for consumers.


                                S. 2834

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Arizona 
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2834, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to rehabilitation 
innovation centers under the Medicare program.


                                S. 3018

  At the request of Mr. Marshall, the names of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Smith) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) 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. 3039

  At the request of Mr. Young, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3039, a bill to amend 
title XI of the Social Security Act to establish an interagency council 
on social determinants of health, and for other purposes.


                                S. 3071

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3071, a bill to 
protect our Social Security system and improve benefits for current and 
future generations.


                                S. 3147

  At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. 
Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3147, a bill to provide 
members of the reserve components access to the Tour of Duty system.


                                S. 3164

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3164, a bill to require 
non-Federal prison, correctional, and detention facilities holding 
Federal prisoners or detainees under a contract with the Federal 
Government to make the same information available to the public that 
Federal prisons and correctional facilities are required to make 
available.


                                S. 3201

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3201, a bill to 
establish a joint United States-Taiwan Infectious Disease Monitoring 
Center to serve as an early warning center in the case of an infectious 
disease outbreak in the Indo-Pacific region.


                                S. 3233

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3233, a bill to help 
increase the development, distribution, and use of clean cookstoves and 
fuels to improve health, protect the climate and environment, empower 
women, create jobs, and help consumers save time and money.


                                S. 3318

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3318, a 
bill to deter foreign financial institutions from providing banking 
services for the benefit of foreign terrorist organizations and from 
facilitating or promoting payments for acts of terrorism.


                                S. 3349

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3349, a bill to require the 
Administrator of the Small Business Administration to provide 
applicants for certain loans and grants with updates

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                                S. 3356

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3356, a bill to 
effectively staff the high-need public elementary schools and secondary 
schools of the United States with school-based mental health services 
providers.


                                S. 3375

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3375, a bill to promote 
travel and tourism in the United States, to improve the health safety 
and security of international flights entering the United States, and 
for other purposes.


                                S. 3382

  At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the name of the 
Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3382, a 
bill to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration 
from directly making loans under the 7(a) loan program, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 3403

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 3403, a bill to prohibit the disbursement of Federal 
funds to State and local governments that allow individuals who are not 
citizens of the United States to vote in any Federal, State, or local 
election.


                                S. 3407

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3407, a bill to promote security 
partnership with Ukraine.

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