[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 6163-6164]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 125

  At the request of Ms. Collins, her name was added as a cosponsor of 
S. 125, a bill to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest 
Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020, and for other 
purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 125, supra.


                                 S. 141

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from South 
Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. 141, a bill to 
repeal the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board.


                                 S. 142

  At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 142, 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. 235

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the names of the Senator from Hawaii 
(Ms. Hirono) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 235, a bill to provide for wildfire suppression 
operations, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 258

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 258, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician 
certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital 
services.


                                 S. 377

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 377, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase access to ambulance 
services under the Medicare program and to reform payments for such 
services under such program, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 431

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 431, a bill to permanently 
extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act.


                                 S. 434

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 434, a bill to strengthen the 
accountability of individuals involved in misconduct affecting the 
integrity of background investigations, to update guidelines for 
security clearances, to prevent conflicts of interest relating to 
contractors providing background investigation fieldwork services and 
investigative support services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 439

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 439, a bill to 
end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or 
gender identity in public schools, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 471

  At the request of Mr. Heller, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 471, a bill to improve the provision of 
health care for women veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 488

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Iowa 
(Mrs. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 488, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse 
practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, 
intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs.


                                 S. 578

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 578, 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.

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                                 S. 599

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 599, a bill to extend and 
expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.


                                 S. 621

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 621, a bill to amend 
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety and 
effectiveness of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in 
the prevention and control of animal diseases, in order to minimize the 
development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.


                                 S. 624

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 624, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive coinsurance under 
Medicare for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether 
therapeutic intervention is required during the screening.


                                 S. 689

  At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 689, a bill to provide protections for 
certain sports medicine professionals who provide certain medical 
services in a secondary State.


                                 S. 711

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Michigan 
(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 711, a bill to amend 
section 520J of the Public Service Health Act to authorize grants for 
mental health first aid training programs.


                                 S. 746

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 746, a bill to provide for 
the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast 
Cancer.
  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from 
Virginia (Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 746, supra.


                                 S. 780

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 780, a bill to permit the 
televising of Supreme Court proceedings.


                                 S. 799

  At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the 
Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. 
Baldwin) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 799, a bill to combat the rise of prenatal opioid 
abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome.


                                 S. 843

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 843, 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. 862

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 862, a bill to 
amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective 
remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the 
basis of sex, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 876

  At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 876, a bill to amend the Commodity 
Exchange Act to specify how clearing requirements apply to certain 
affiliate transactions.


                                 S. 962

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 962, a bill to extend the 
same Federal benefits to law enforcement officers serving private 
institutions of higher education and rail carriers that apply to law 
enforcement officers serving units of State and local government.


                                 S. 993

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 993, a bill to 
increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal 
justice, juvenile justice, veterans treatment services, mental health 
treatment, and substance abuse systems.


                                S. 1002

  At the request of Mr. Enzi, the names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. 
Risch) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1002, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide for collegiate housing and infrastructure grants.


                                S. 1049

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1049, a bill to allow the 
financing by United States persons of sales of agricultural commodities 
to Cuba.


                                S. 1073

  At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Missouri 
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1073, a bill to amend 
the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, 
including making changes to the Do Not Pay initiative, for improved 
detection, prevention, and recovery of improper payments to deceased 
individuals, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1131

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1131, a 
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the 
incidence of diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1170

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from 
Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1170, a bill to 
amend title 39, United States Code, to extend the authority of the 
United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for 
breast cancer research, and for other purposes.

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