[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 16225-16227]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 15

  At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
McCain) was added as a cosponsor of S. 15, a bill to amend chapter 8 of 
title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules of the 
executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint 
resolution of approval is enacted into law.


                                 S. 29

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 29, a bill to amend 
title 31, United States Code, to provide for automatic continuing 
resolutions.


                                 S. 116

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Washington 
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 116, a bill to revise and 
extend provisions under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.


                                 S. 177

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. 
Enzi) was added as a cosponsor of S. 177, a bill to repeal the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education 
Reconciliation Act of 2010 entirely.


                                 S. 273

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 273, a bill to 
modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership 
plans.


                                 S. 338

  At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 338, a bill to amend the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide consistent and 
reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land and water 
conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future 
generations, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 403

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 403, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and take 
action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.


                                 S. 411

  At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 411, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the 
railroad track maintenance credit.


                                 S. 557

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the names of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 557, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to improve access to medication therapy management under 
part D of the Medicare program.


                                 S. 569

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 569, 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. 619

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 619, a bill to amend title 
18, United States Code, to prevent unjust and irrational criminal 
punishments.


                                 S. 623

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Heller) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 623, a bill to amend title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act to ensure the continued access of Medicare 
beneficiaries to diagnostic imaging services.


                                 S. 629

  At the request of Mr. Pryor, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. 
Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 629, a bill to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to recognize the service in the reserve components 
of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as 
veterans under law, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 635

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 635, a bill to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to 
provide an exception to the annual written privacy notice requirement.


                                 S. 666

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the 
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Franken), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 666, a bill to prohibit attendance of an 
animal fighting venture, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 676

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 676, a bill to prevent tax-
related identity theft and tax fraud.


                                 S. 689

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 689, a bill to reauthorize 
and improve programs related to mental health and substance use 
disorders.


                                 S. 699

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 699, a bill to reallocate 
Federal judgeships for the courts of appeals, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 718

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 718, a bill to 
create jobs in the United States by increasing United States exports to 
Africa by at least 200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 734

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 734, a bill to amend title 
10, United States Code, to repeal the requirement for reduction of 
survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' 
dependency and indemnity compensation.


                                 S. 769

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 769, a bill 
to designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock 
canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the 
State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of 
people in the United States.


                                 S. 815

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
815, a bill to prohibit the employment discrimination on the basis of 
sexual orientation or gender identity.


                                 S. 822

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 822, a bill to protect 
crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA 
samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve 
and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime 
laboratories, to

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increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to 
develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA 
evidence, to provide post conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State 
capital cases, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 842

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 842, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an extension of 
the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program and the increased 
payments under the Medicare low-volume hospital program.


                                 S. 865

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the names of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 865, a bill to provide for the establishment 
of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.


                                 S. 875

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 875, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to require the reporting of cases of infectious 
diseases at facilities of the Veterans Health Administration, and for 
other purposes.


                                 S. 893

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the names of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 893, a bill to provide for an increase, effective 
December 1, 2013, in the rates of compensation for veterans with 
service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, 
and for other purposes.
  At the request of Ms. Landrieu, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 893, supra.


                                 S. 931

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 931, a bill to amend the 
Public Health Service Act to raise awareness of, and to educate breast 
cancer patients anticipating surgery, especially patients who are 
members of racial and ethnic minority groups, regarding the 
availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and 
other options.
  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. 
Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 931, supra.


                                 S. 932

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 932, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to provide for advance appropriations for 
certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs.


                                 S. 981

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 981, a bill to direct the 
Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting deceptive 
advertising of abortion services, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1098

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1098, a bill to 
reform the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 to 
responsibly protect homeownership.


                                S. 1106

  At the request of Mr. Bennet, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1106, a bill 
to improve the accuracy of mortgage underwriting used by Federal 
mortgage agencies by ensuring that energy costs are included in the 
underwriting process, to reduce the amount of energy consumed by homes, 
to facilitate the creation of energy efficiency retrofit and 
construction jobs, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1116

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1116, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross 
income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for 
a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1126

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1126, a bill to aid and 
support pediatric involvement in reading and education.


                                S. 1143

  At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1143, a bill to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to physician 
supervision of therapeutic hospital outpatient services.


                                S. 1158

  At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. 
Hirono), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) 
and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1158, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins 
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the 
National Park Service, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1183

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1183, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and 
generation-skipping transfer taxes, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1188

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1188, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of 
full-time employee for purposes of the individual mandate in the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


                                S. 1212

  At the request of Mr. Udall of Colorado, the name of the Senator from 
Maine (Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1212, a bill to amend 
the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the 
establishment of additional or expanded public target ranges in certain 
States.


                                S. 1240

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. 
King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1240, a bill to establish a new 
organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for 
siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing 
nuclear waste, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1267

  At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1267, a bill to 
cut taxes for innovative businesses that produce renewable chemicals.


                                S. 1302

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor), the Senator from 
South Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 1302, a bill to amend the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide for cooperative and small employer charity pension 
plans.


                                S. 1320

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Texas 
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1320, a bill to establish a 
tiered hiring preference for members of the reserve components of the 
armed forces.


                                S. 1361

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S.

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1361, a bill to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept 
additional documentation when considering the application for veterans 
status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant 
seaman during World War II, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1369

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1369, a bill to provide additional flexibility to the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital 
standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of 
the business of insurance, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1381

  At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1381, a bill 
to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to clarify provisions enacted 
by the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, to further the conservation of 
certain wildlife species, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1406

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the names of the Senator from New York 
(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. 
Cardin), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), the 
Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. 
Carper), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. 
Klobuchar), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), 
the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken), the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Kirk) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1406, a bill to amend the Horse Protection 
Act to designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen 
penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of Agriculture 
enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1417

  At the request of Mrs. Hagan, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) 
and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) were added as cosponsors of S. 
1417, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
programs under part A of title XI of such Act.


                                S. 1442

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1442, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the minimum low-income 
housing tax credit rate for unsubsidized buildings and to provide a 
minimum 4 percent credit rate for existing buildings.


                                S. 1456

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the names of the Senator from Michigan 
(Mr. Levin), the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Nelson) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1456, a bill to award the Congressional Gold 
Medal to Shimon Peres.


                                S. 1497

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1497, a bill to 
amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to apply the 
provisions of the Act to certain Congressional staff and members of the 
executive branch.


                                S. 1503

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from California 
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1503, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to increase the preference given, in 
awarding certain asthma-related grants, to certain States (those 
allowing trained school personnel to administer epinephrine and meeting 
other related requirements).


                                S. 1517

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1517, a bill 
to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to 
extend health information technology assistance eligibility to 
behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse professionals and 
facilities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1526

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1526, a bill to amend the 
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to prohibit the Public Company Accounting 
Oversight Board from requiring public companies to use specific 
auditors or require the use of different auditors on a rotating basis.


                                S. 1565

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1565, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Labor to maintain a publicly available list of 
all employers that relocate a call center overseas, to make such 
companies ineligible for Federal grants or guaranteed loans, and to 
require disclosure of the physical location of business agents engaging 
in customer service communications, and for other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 19

  At the request of Mr. Udall of New Mexico, the names of the Senator 
from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) 
and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) were added as 
cosponsors of S.J. Res. 19, a joint resolution proposing an amendment 
to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and 
expenditures intended to affect elections.


                               S. RES. 75

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 75, a resolution 
condemning the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution 
of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International 
Covenants on Human Rights.


                              S. RES. 254

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cornyn) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 254, a resolution designating November 2, 2013, 
as ``National Bison Day''.


                              S. RES. 269

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 269, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy regarding 
possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic 
Republic of Iran.


                              S. RES. 270

  At the request of Mr. Kirk, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 270, a resolution supporting 
the goals and ideals of World Polio Day and commending the 
international community and others for their efforts to prevent and 
eradicate polio.

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