[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 9341-9343]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 146

  At the request of Mr. Flake, the name of the Senator from Tennessee 
(Mr. Alexander) was added as a cosponsor of S. 146, a bill to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to enter 
into agreements with States and political subdivisions of States 
providing for the continued operation, in whole or in part, of public 
land, units of the National Park System, units of the National Wildlife 
Refuge System, and units of the National Forest System in the State 
during any period in which the Secretary of the Interior or the 
Secretary of Agriculture is unable to maintain normal level of 
operations at the units due to a lapse in appropriations, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 280

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 280, a bill to improve the 
efficiency, management, and interagency coordination of the Federal 
permitting process through reforms overseen by the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 299

  At the request of Mr. Flake, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from Washington (Ms. 
Cantwell) were added as cosponsors of S. 299, a bill to allow travel 
between the United States and Cuba.


                                 S. 488

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) 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. 512

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Connecticut 
(Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 512, a bill to amend title 
18, United States Code, to safeguard data stored abroad from improper 
government access, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 578

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) 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.
  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 578, supra.


                                 S. 629

  At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Burr) was added as a cosponsor of S. 629, a bill to 
enable hospital-based nursing programs that are affiliated with a 
hospital to maintain payments under the Medicare program to hospitals 
for the costs of such programs.


                                 S. 637

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 637, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track 
maintenance credit.


                                 S. 682

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Coats) was added as a cosponsor of S. 682, a bill to amend the 
Truth in Lending Act to modify the definitions of a mortgage originator 
and a high-cost mortgage.

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                                 S. 843

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from North 
Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) 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. 890

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 890, a bill 
to amend title 54, United States Code, 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. 1049

  At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) 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. 1099

  At the request of Mr. Scott, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 1099, a bill to amend the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act to provide States with flexibility in determining 
the size of employers in the small group market.


                                S. 1115

  At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1115, a bill to 
close out expired, empty grant accounts.


                                S. 1121

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Nevada 
(Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1121, 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. 1140

  At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the names of the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 1140, a bill to require the Secretary of the 
Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
propose a regulation revising the definition of the term ``waters of 
the United States'', and for other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Sasse, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1140, supra.


                                S. 1170

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) were 
added as cosponsors 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.


                                S. 1178

  At the request of Mr. Flake, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. 
Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1178, a bill to prohibit 
implementation of a proposed rule relating to the definition of the 
term ``waters of the United States'' under the Clean Water Act, or any 
substantially similar rule, until a Supplemental Scientific Review 
Panel and Ephemeral and Intermittent Streams Advisory Committee produce 
certain reports, and for other purposes.


                                S. 1182

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 1182, a bill to exempt application of JSA 
attribution rule in case of existing agreements.


                                S. 1214

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1214, a bill to 
prevent human health threats posed by the consumption of equines raised 
in the United States.


                                S. 1239

  At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Sasse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1239, a bill to amend the 
Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for the Reid vapor 
pressure limitations under that Act.


                                S. 1476

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Maryland 
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1476, a bill to require 
States to report to the Attorney General certain information regarding 
shooting incidents involving law enforcement officers, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1495

  At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1495, a bill to curtail the 
use of changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund 
to inflate spending.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1473

  At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1473 proposed to 
H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1559

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1559 proposed 
to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1567

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1567 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1578

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Michigan (Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1578 
proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1605

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Sasse) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1605 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1771

  At the request of Mr. Sanders, the names of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) and the Senator 
from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 
1771 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1783

  At the request of Mr. Blunt, his name was added as a cosponsor of 
amendment No. 1783 intended to be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for

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military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 1987

  At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 1987 intended to 
be proposed to H.R. 1735, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
and for other purposes.

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