[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 2365-2366]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 524

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) and the 
Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) were added as cosponsors of S. 524, a 
bill to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the 
national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use.
  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 524, supra.


                                 S. 553

  At the request of Mr. Corker, the name of the Senator from Minnesota 
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 553, a bill to marshal 
resources to undertake a concerted, transformative effort that seeks to 
bring an end to modern slavery, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 968

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 968, a bill 
to require the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical 
and evaluation criteria for determining disability in a person 
diagnosed with Huntington's Disease and to waive the 24-month waiting 
period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by 
Huntington's Disease.


                                S. 1555

  At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Rhode 
Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1555, a bill to 
award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the Filipino 
veterans of World War II, in recognition of the dedicated service of 
the veterans during World War II.


                                S. 1597

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Cotton) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1597, a bill to enhance 
patient engagement in the medical product development process, and for 
other purposes.


                                S. 1641

  At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Kirk) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1641, a bill to improve the 
use by the Department of Veterans Affairs of opioids in treating 
veterans, to improve patient advocacy by the Department, and to expand 
availability of complementary and integrative health, and for other 
purposes.


                                S. 1651

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. 
King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1651, a bill to amend title II of 
the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and 
windfall elimination provisions.


                                S. 1775

  At the request of Ms. Ayotte, her name was added as a cosponsor of S. 
1775, 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. 1890

  At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1890, a bill to 
amend chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal 
jurisdiction for the theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2236

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2236, a bill to provide that 
silencers be treated the same as long guns.


                                S. 2344

  At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mr. Sasse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2344, a bill to provide 
authority for access to certain business records collected under the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 prior to November 29, 
2015, to make the authority for roving surveillance, the authority to 
treat individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers, and title VII 
of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 permanent, and to 
modify the certification requirements for access to telephone toll and 
transactional records by the Federal Bureau

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of Investigation, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2390

  At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the 
Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Tillis) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 2390, a bill to provide adequate protections for 
whistleblowers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


                                S. 2408

  At the request of Mr. Franken, the name of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Wyden) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2408, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard 
to reduce injuries to patients, nurses, and all other health care 
workers by establishing a safe patient handling, mobility, and injury 
prevention standard, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2423

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from 
Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2423, a bill making appropriations to 
address the heroin and opioid drug abuse epidemic for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2426

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2426, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to obtain observer status 
for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for 
other purposes.
  At the request of Mr. Gardner, the names of the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 2426, supra.


                                S. 2437

  At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Georgia 
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2437, a bill to amend title 
38, United States Code, to provide for the burial of the cremated 
remains of persons who served as Women's Air Forces Service Pilots in 
Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2454

  At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from Nebraska 
(Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2454, a bill to limit the 
period of authorization of new budget authority provided in 
appropriation Acts, to require analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of 
existing programs for which continued new budget authority is proposed 
to be authorized by committees of Congress, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2487

  At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2487, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to identify mental health care and 
suicide prevention programs and metrics that are effective in treating 
women veterans as part of the evaluation of such programs by the 
Secretary, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2540

  At the request of Mr. Reid, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2540, a bill 
to provide access to counsel for unaccompanied children and other 
vulnerable populations.


                                S. 2549

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Kansas 
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2549, a bill to require 
the Transportation Security Administration to conduct security 
screening at certain airports, and for other purposes.


                                S. 2602

  At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. 
McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2602, a bill to prohibit the 
Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband Internet 
access service as a telecommunications service and from imposing 
certain regulations on providers of such service.


                              S. RES. 372

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 372, a 
resolution celebrating Black History Month.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 3324

  At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. 
Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 3324 intended to be 
proposed to S. 2012, an original bill to provide for the modernization 
of the energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes.

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