[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 15713-15715]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 539

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 539, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to foster more effective implementation and coordination of 
clinical care for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes.


                                 S. 572

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. 
Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 572, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain 
persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain 
purposes.


                                 S. 641

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 641, a bill to amend 
the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent 
faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic 
medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote 
education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the 
development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.


                                 S. 675

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. 
Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 675, a bill to prohibit 
contracting with the enemy.


                                 S. 742

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) was added as a cosponsor of S. 742, a bill to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Small Business Act to 
expand the availability of employee stock ownership plans in S 
corporations, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 759

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 759, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for 
amounts paid by a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces for a new 
State license or certification required by reason of a permanent change 
in the duty station of such member to another State.


                                S. 1038

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1038, a bill to 
eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1040

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the names of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the 
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. 
Inhofe), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Idaho 
(Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1040, a bill to provide for the award of a gold medal 
on behalf of Congress to Jack Nicklaus, in recognition of his service 
to the Nation in promoting excellence, good sportsmanship, and 
philanthropy.
  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Walsh) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1040, supra.


                                S. 1332

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1332, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home 
health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.


                                S. 1407

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Schumer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1407, a bill to amend the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen elementary 
and secondary computer science education, and for other purposes.

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                                S. 1623

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1623, a bill to amend the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees 
in the private sector.


                                S. 1948

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1948, a bill to promote 
the academic achievement of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native 
Hawaiian children with the establishment of a Native American language 
grant program.


                                S. 2125

  At the request of Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, the name of the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2125, 
a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure the integrity 
of voice communications and to prevent unjust or unreasonable 
discrimination among areas of the United States in the delivery of such 
communications.


                                S. 2332

  At the request of Mr. Coons, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2332, a bill to 
expand benefits to the families of public safety officers who suffer 
fatal climate-related injuries sustained in the line of duty and 
proximately resulting in death.


                                S. 2337

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2337, a bill to 
amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to inter in national cemeteries individuals who 
supported the United States in Laos during the Vietnam War era.


                                S. 2508

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2508, a bill to establish a 
comprehensive United States Government policy to assist countries in 
sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to and the affordability, 
reliability, and sustainability of power, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2581

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2581, a bill to require the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule to require 
child safety packaging for liquid nicotine containers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 2591

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2591, a bill to authorize the Secretary of State and 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development to provide assistance to support the rights of women and 
girls in developing countries, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2646

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2646, a bill to 
reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2646, supra.


                                S. 2663

  At the request of Mr. Isakson, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2663, a bill to provide high-skilled visas for 
nationals of the Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2687

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2687, a bill to amend title 10, United 
States Code, to ensure that women 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. 2689

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Louisiana 
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2689, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to specify coverage of 
continuous glucose monitoring devices, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2694

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2694, a bill to amend 
title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the application of the 
Medicare payment rate floor to primary care services furnished under 
Medicaid and to apply the rate floor to additional providers of primary 
care services.


                                S. 2779

  At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2779, a bill to 
amend section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem 
specified activities in support of terrorism as renunciation of United 
States nationality.


                                S. 2782

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2782, a bill to amend title 
36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans 
of Foreign Wars of the United States, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2812

  At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. 
Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2812, a bill to amend the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a simplified income-driven 
repayment plan, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2814

  At the request of Mr. Alexander, the name of the Senator from South 
Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2814, a bill to 
amend the National Labor Relations Act to reform the National Labor 
Relations Board, the Office of the General Counsel, and the process for 
appellate review, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2816

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2816, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the specific exemption for 
professional football leagues and to provide a special rule for other 
professional sports leagues, and to provide an additional authorization 
of appropriations for the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.


                                S. 2839

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2839, a bill to 
authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the national 
epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use.


                                S. 2841

  At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2841, a bill to provide for a 
study by the Institute of Medicine on health disparities, to direct the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop guidelines on 
reducing health disparities, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2862

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2862, a bill to amend the 
Controlled Substances Act with respect to drug scheduling 
recommendations by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and with 
respect to registration of manufacturers and distributors seeking to 
conduct clinical testing, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2909

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2909, a bill to authorize a 
comprehensive strategic approach for United States foreign assistance 
to developing countries to end extreme global poverty and hunger, 
achieve food and nutrition security, promote endurable, long-term, 
agricultural-led economic growth, improve nutritional outcomes,

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especially for women and children, build resilient, adaptive, local 
capacity of vulnerable populations, and for other related purposes.


                                S. 2917

  At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Kaine), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from 
Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) and the Senator from Louisiana 
(Mr. Vitter) were added as cosponsors of S. 2917, a bill to expand the 
program of priority review to encourage treatments for tropical 
diseases.


                              S. RES. 561

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 561, a resolution 
expressing the sense of the Senate that recently proposed measures that 
will reduce transparency and public participation at the International 
Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) should be disapproved by 
United States representatives to the IAIS.

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