BALDWIN, TAMMY (a Senator from Wisconsin)

Amendments

Armed Forces: restore full working-age military retiree cost-of-living adjustment (S. 1982), S1181, S1182 [26FE]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction (S. 2410), S4169, S4170 [26JN]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize and improve the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program (S. 1086), S1556, S1588, S1591 [12MR], S1655 [13MR]

Employment: reform and strengthen the workforce investment system (H.R. 803), S4006 [25JN]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exempt emergency services volunteers from individual health insurance mandate (H.R. 3979), S6578 [10DE]

Privacy: reform Federal authority to require production of business records, conduct surveillance, and certain forms of information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes (S. 2685), S6101 [18NO]

Science, Depts. of Justice and Commerce, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 4660), S3818, S3819 [18JN]

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), S4276 [8JY]

Taxation: extend certain expiring provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and make technical corrections (H.R. 5771), S6454 [9DE]

——— provide incentives for businesses to bring jobs and business activity back to the U.S. (S. 2569), S4782 [23JY]

Unemployment: extend unemployment benefits (S. 1845), S148 [8JA]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S1181, S1182 [26FE]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

American Education Week: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 591), S6205 [20NO]

American Fighter Aces: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 1827), S1693 [24MR]

Armed Forces: award Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the Borinqueneers (see S. 1174), S1775 [26MR]

——— ensure women members and their families have access to contraception and family planning (see S. 2687), S5134 [30JY]

——— restore full working-age military retiree cost-of-living adjustment (see S. 1963), S853 [10FE] (see S. 1982), S1175 [26FE]

Baker, Howard H., Jr.: tribute (see S. Res. 494), S4154 [26JN]

Black History Month: observance (see S. Res. 363), S1174 [26FE]

BLM: designate certain portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range Deserts in Utah as wilderness (see S. 769), S3295 [22MY]

Canada: ensure that the Canadian government does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin (see S. Res. 565), S5783 [18SE]

Career and Technical Education Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 362), S1174 [26FE]

CFTC: take certain actions to reduce excessive speculation in energy markets (see S. 2548), S4153 [26JN]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see S. 2199), S2196 [7AP]

Climate: express that global climate change is occurring and will continue to pose ongoing risks and challenges (see S. Res. 524), S4997 [28JY]

Commission on Native Children: establish (see S. 1622), S4003 [25JN]

Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Women’s History Museum: establish (see S. 398), S2240 [8AP]

Congo, Democratic Republic of the: resume processing adoption cases and issuance of exit permits for adopted Congolese children seeking to depart the country with their adoptive parents (see S. Res. 502), S4503 [15JY]

Contraceptives: establish a public education and awareness and access program on emergency contraception (see S. 2876), S6024 [17NO]

——— establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (see S. 2625), S4620 [17JY]

Corporal Justin D. Ross Post Office Building, De Pere, WI: designate (see S. 2185), S1870 [31MR]

Corps of Engineers: carry out projects necessary to separate the hydrologic connection between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River to prevent interbasin transfer of aquatic invasive species (see S. 3002), S6626 [11DE]

Credit: prohibit use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purpose of making adverse employment decisions (see S. 1837), S2566 [30AP]

——— provide for affordable refinancing of mortgages held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (see S. 249), S69 [7JA]

Crime: stop exploitation through human trafficking (see S. 1733), S3238 [21MY] (see S. 2599), S4454 [14JY]

Denton, Jeremiah: tribute (see S. Res. 407), S1871 [31MR]

Dept. of Commerce: establish the Network for Manufacturing Innovation (see S. 1468), S5919 [12NO]

Dept. of Defense: review discharge characterizations of former members of the Armed Forces discharged for sexual orientation (see S. 1956), S949 [12FE]

Dept. of Education: allow certain student loan borrowers to refinance current loans (see S. 2292), S2718 [6MY] (see S. 2432), S3424 [4JN]

——— create career and technical education teacher training grant partnership (see S. 2867), S5782 [18SE]

——— establish a grant program to enable States to promote participation in high school/college dual enrollment programs (see S. 2349), S4155 [26JN]

——— protect students from inappropriate seclusion and physical restraint in schools (see S. 2036), S1175 [26FE]

——— require institutions of higher education that receive Federal funds to adopt policies to prevent harassment and bullying (see S. 2164), S1818 [27MR]

——— strengthen research in adult education (see S. 2802), S5630 [16SE]

Dept. of Energy: modify efficiency standards for grid-enabled water heaters (see S. 1739), S6351 [4DE]

Dept. of HHS: include occupational therapists as behavioral and mental health professionals for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (see S. 1815), S6205 [20NO]

Dept. of Justice: make grants to States that have in place laws that terminate the parental rights of men who father children through rape (see S. 2443), S3474 [5JN]

Dept. of State: establish a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Peoples in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (see S. 2472), S3668 [12JN]

——— rename the Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking as the Bureau To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and provide for an Assistant Sec., to head such Bureau (see S. 1249), S6388 [8DE]

Dept. of the Treasury: extend termination date of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (see S. 2244), S4503 [15JY]

Dept. of Transportation: extend motor carrier exemption from hours of service regulations in the transportation of propane and other home heating fuels to address shortages (see S. 2085), S1315 [5MR]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: extend and modify the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (see S. 2607), S4904 [24JY]

——— improve access of veterans to medical services by improving scheduling, staff training and hiring, access to care from non-departmental providers, and administrative matters (see S. 2422), S3367 [3JN] (see S. 2450), S3605 [11JN]

——— inter in national cemeteries individuals who supported the U.S. in Laos during the Vietnamese Conflict era (see S. 2337), S3864 [19JN]

Developing countries: provide assistance to support the rights of women and girls (see S. 2591), S5994 [13NO]

District of Columbia: statehood (see S. 132), S5588 [15SE]

Dixon, Alan J.: tribute (see S. Res. 496), S4224 [7JY]

Drugs: focus limited Federal resources on the most serious offenders by modifying sentencing guidelines for certain drug offenses (see S. 1410), S4455 [14JY]

Employment: allow workers to make requests about schedules without fear of retaliation and ensure employers consider such requests in order to provide more stable and predictable schedules for employees (see S. 2642), S5786 [18SE]

Executive Office of the President: require development of a National Manufacturing Strategy (see S. 544), S4705 [22JY]

Expatriation Act: express regret to descendants of women whose citizenship was revoked because of marriage to foreign nationals (see S. Res. 402), S2196 [7AP]

Family and Medical Leave Act: allow leave because of the death of a son or daughter (see S. 226), S440 [16JA]

FCC: ensure the integrity of voice communications and prevent discrimination among areas in the delivery of such communications by requiring providers to register and comply with basic quality standards (see S. 2125), S2406 [11AP]

FDA: incentivize the development of treatments and vaccines for ebola by adding the disease to priority review voucher program (see S. 2917), S5918 [12NO]

FEMA: establish the Railroad Emergency Services Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation (RESPONSE) Subcommittee under the National Advisory Council (see S. 2547), S4663 [21JY]

Financial institutions: clarify application of certain leverage and risk-based capital requirements (see S. 2270), S3342 [2JN]

——— ensure that customers can immediately close accounts at insured depository institutions on demand and without cost, and that consumers receive any balance in accounts immediately (see S. 1534), S3939 [24JN]

Firearms: protect victims of domestic abuse by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms (see S. 2483), S4155 [26JN]

Forests: provide for wildfire suppression and prevention operations (see S. 1875), S487 [27JA]

Health: require Dept. of HHS to establish a Regenerative Medicine Coordinating Council and GAO to submit report identifying all Federal programs and activities relative to regenerative medicine (see S. 2126), S2567 [30AP]

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: authorizing appropriations (see S. 2789), S6351 [4DE]

Insurance: ensure that employers that provide health benefits to their employees cannot deny any specific health benefits, including contraception coverage (see S. 2578), S4336 [9JY]

International Year of Family Farming: designate (see S. Res. 544), S5588 [15SE]

Iraq: protect religious minorities from persecution by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (terrorist organization) (see S. Res. 530), S5135 [30JY]

Israel: strengthen strategic alliance with the U.S. (see S. 2673), S5137 [30JY]

Jeffords, James M.: tribute (see S. Res. 539), S5434 [9SE]

Juneteenth Independence Day: observance (see S. Res. 474), S3668 [12JN]

Mathews, Harlan: tribute (see S. Res. 444), S2953 [13MY]

Mayo Clinic: anniversary (see S. Res. 339), S486 [27JA]

Medicaid: extend application of Medicare payment rate floor to primary care services for women, children, and families (see S. 2694), S6302 [3DE]

Medicare: count a period of outpatient observation in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services (see S. 569), S5135 [30JY]

——— develop criteria for medically necessary short inpatient hospital stays (see S. 2082), S5136 [30JY]

——— improve access to medication therapy management under part D (see S. 557), S1819 [27MR]

——— protect relative to reconciliation involving changes to the program and prevent eligibility age increase, privatization, and conversion to a voucher system (see S. 2491), S4004 [25JN]

——— remove the physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services (see S. 2037), S1001 [24FE]

Medicare/Medicaid: repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and improve Medicare and Medicaid payments (see S. 2157), S1872 [31MR]

Minimum wage: increase, and extend increased expensing limitations for depreciable business assets and treatment of certain property as section 179 property (see S. 1737), S28 [6JA] (see S. 2223), S2327 [9AP]

Motor vehicles: enhance the early warning reporting requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers (see S. 2151), S4662 [21JY]

National Adoption Day: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 580), S6023 [17NO]

National Adoption Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 580), S6023 [17NO]

National Bison Day: designate (see S. Res. 543), S5564 [11SE]

National Estuaries Week: designate (see S. Res. 574), S5784 [18SE]

National Mentoring Month: designate (see S. Res. 335), S440 [16JA]

National Native American Heritage Month: observance (see S. Res. 590), S6205 [20NO]

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 536), S5325 [1AU]

National Phenylketonuria Awareness Day: designate (see S. Res. 585), S6205 [20NO]

National Science and Technology Council: establish an interagency coordination committee or subcommittee focused on the nexus between energy and water production, use, and efficiency (see S. 1971), S4004 [25JN]

Native American Heritage Day: observance (see S. Res. 590), S6205 [20NO]

Native Americans: promote academic achievement of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children with the establishment of a Native American language grant program (see S. 1948), S5993 [13NO]

Nicklaus, Jack: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 1040), S5135 [30JY]

NOAA: conduct assessment of cultural and historic resources in the waters of the Great Lakes (see S. 2556), S4154 [26JN]

North Country National Scenic Trail: revise route to extend trail into Vermont to connect with Appalachian National Scenic Trail (see S. 2595), S4404 [10JY]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: allow employees’ dependents access to tax credits if the cost of family coverage through the employer is greater than a certain percentage of household income (see S. 2434), S3474 [5JN]

Peace Corps: subject volunteers to same limitations regarding coverage of abortion services as Peace Corps employees (see S. 2291), S3812 [18JN]

Peres, Shimon: award Congressional Gold Medal (see S. 1456), S1585 [12MR]

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.: anniversary (see S. Res. 527), S5051 [29JY]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see S. 2516), S3938 [24JN]

——— reform financing of Senate elections (see S. 2023), S4337 [9JY]

Power resources: improve propane supply and pricing information, coordinate response to shortages, and study need for regional propane reserves (see S. 2762), S5217 [31JY]

Public works: ensure that transportation and infrastructure projects using Federal financial assistance are constructed with steel, iron, and manufactured goods produced in the U.S. (see S. 2737), S5217 [31JY]

Runaway and Homeless Youth Act: reauthorize (see S. 2646), S5920 [12NO]

Rural areas: recognize that access to hospitals and other health care providers for patients in rural areas is essential to the survival and success of communities (see S. Res. 588), S6205 [20NO]

SBA: provide authority for sole source contracts for certain small business concerns owned and controlled by women (see S. 2481), S5136 [30JY]

——— reauthorize women’s business center program (see S. 2693), S5134 [30JY]

Senate: require candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form (see S. 375), S4662 [21JY]

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (see S. 2363), S4405 [10JY]

SSA: confer spousal benefits to any legally married individual regardless of marriage laws in the State of residence (see S. 2305), S2875 [8MY]

Surface Transportation Board: make more efficient and accessible by increasing investigative authority, improving rate review timelines and advancing important proceedings (see S. 2777), S5786 [18SE]

Taxation: deny tax deductions for corporate regulatory violations (see S. 1654), S5785 [18SE]

——— establish a deduction for married couples who are both employed and have young children, increase the earned income tax credit for childless workers, and close certain tax loopholes (see S. 2162), S3238 [21MY]

——— expand and permanently extend health care tax credit available to laid-off employees receiving trade adjustment assistance and retirees receiving Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., payments (see S. 1446), S891 [11FE]

——— expand availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations (see S. 742), S440 [16JA]

——— expand denial of deduction for certain excessive employee remuneration (see S. 1476), S3864 [19JN]

——— increase alternative tax liability limitation for small property and casualty insurance companies (see S. 1346), S3508 [9JN]

——— limit interest expense deduction to prevent earnings stripping of domestic corporations involved in corporate inversion (see S. 2786), S5507 [10SE]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (see S. 1431), S1871 [31MR]

——— make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions (see S. 526), S487 [27JA]

——— modify rules relative to inverted corporations in order to prevent tax avoidance by domestic companies moving operations to foreign countries (see S. 2360), S4662 [21JY]

——— provide a tax credit to businesses that invest in American jobs, provide fair wages and benefits, employ active duty personnel, recruit veterans, and maintain a diverse workforce (see S. 2540), S4153 [26JN]

——— provide incentives for businesses to bring jobs and business activity back to the U.S. (see S. 2562), S4154 [26JN] (see S. 2569), S4271 [8JY]

Travel Promotion Act: extend (see S. 2250), S4998 [28JY]

$2.13 Day: designate (see S. Res. 356), S948 [12FE]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (see S. 1982), S1175 [26FE]

VFW: amend Federal charter to reflect service of women in the Armed Forces (see S. 2782), S5920 [12NO]

Wilderness Act: anniversary (see S. Res. 573), S5784 [18SE]

Women: combat international violence against women and girls (see S. 2307), S3075 [15MY]

World War I: mint coins in commemoration of centennial (see S. 2714), S5786 [18SE]

World War II: award Congressional Gold Medal to Monuments Men in recognition of their role in preservation, protection, and restitution of monuments, works of art, and articles of cultural importance (see S. 1862), S1776 [26MR]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: establish and adjust boundary to include the lighthouse known as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light (see S. 2031), S948 [12FE]

Copyrights: secure rights of artists of works of visual art to provide royalties (see S. 2045), S1174 [26FE]

Dept. of Education: extend eligibility for Federal student loans to certain short-term career and technical education programs (see S. 2795), S5564 [11SE]

——— increase income allowance for working students receiving need-based Federal financial aid (see S. 2796), S5564 [11SE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: increase number of graduate medical education residency positions at departmental hospitals (see S. 2639), S4705 [22JY]

Employment: clarify appropriate liability standards for Federal antidiscrimination claims relative to workplace harassment (see S. 2133), S1652 [13MR]

Gay, Lesbian, and Allies Senate Staff (GLASS) Caucus Association: anniversary (see S. Res. 505), S4620 [17JY]

Health: improve understanding and coordination of critical care health services (see S. 2966), S6205 [20NO]

Medicaid: provide a standard definition of therapeutic foster care services (see S. 1992), S763 [4FE]

National Blood Donor Month: designate (see S. Con. Res. 31), S599 [29JA]

NOAA: develop information platform to integrate coastal data, decision-support tools, training, and best practices, and coordinate collection of geospatial data to inform and improve management of coastal region (see S. 2890), S5783 [18SE]

Renewable energy: provide support to develop career and technical education programs of study and facilities (see S. 1952), S439 [16JA]

Trails: clarify status of North Country, Ice Age, and New England National Scenic Trails as units of the National Park Service (see S. 2293), S2718 [6MY]

Cloture motions

Agriculture: reauthorize certain programs (H.R. 2642), conference report, S619 [30JA], S689 [3FE]

Armed Forces: restore full working-age military retiree cost-of-living adjustment (S. 1982), S1168 [26FE]

Bay, Norman C.: nomination to FERC, S4324 [9JY], S4472 [15JY]

Bell, Colleen Bradley: nomination to be Ambassador to Hungary, S6187 [20NO], S6230 [1DE]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 2199), S5488 [10SE]

——— improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 2199), motion to proceed, S2179 [7AP], S2299 [9AP]

Colvin, Carolyn Watts: nomination to be SSA Commissioner, S6798 [13DE]

Conservation of energy: promote energy savings in residential buildings and industry (S. 2262), S2763 [7MY], S2899 [12MY]

Dept. of Defense: provide additional enhancements of sexual assault prevention and response programs and activities (S. 1917), S1349 [6MR]

——— reform procedures for determinations to proceed to trial by court-martial for certain offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (S. 1752), S1336, S1348 [6MR]

Dept. of Education: allow certain student loan borrowers to refinance current loans (S. 2432), motion to proceed, S3491 [9JN], S3557 [11JN]

Dept. of the Interior: assemble a team of experts to address energy needs of U.S. territories aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources (H.R. 83), S6741 [12DE], S6809 [13DE]

Elections: constitutional amendment on contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections (S.J. Res. 19), S5487 [10SE], S5543 [11SE]

LaFleur, Cheryl A.: nomination to FERC, S4325 [9JY], S4472 [15JY]

Levy, Jon D.: nomination to be district judge, S2403 [11AP], S2435 [29AP]

Owens, John B.: nomination to be circuit judge, S1770 [26MR], S1799 [27MR]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exempt emergency services volunteers from individual health insurance mandate (H.R. 3979), S1860 [31MR], S2047 [2AP], S2150 [3AP]

——— exempt emergency services volunteers from individual health insurance mandate (H.R. 3979), motion to proceed, S1770 [26MR], S1799 [27MR]

Taxation: provide incentives for businesses to bring jobs and business activity back to the U.S. (S. 2569), motion to proceed, S4650 [21JY], S4728 [23JY]

Unemployment: extend unemployment benefits (S. 1845), S204 [9JA], S312 [14JA]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S1168 [26FE]

Wilkins, Robert L.: nomination to be circuit judge, S209 [9JA]

Williams, Ellen Dudley: nomination to be Dept. of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Director, S6295 [3DE], S6331 [4DE]

Privilege of the floor

Harrison, Theresa, S6354 [4DE]

O’Hern, Larkin, S6794 [12DE]

Remarks

A.O. Smith Corp.: anniversary, S5856• [18SE]

Abortion: limit restrictions on the provision of abortion services to protect a women’s right to determine whether and when to bear a child or end a pregnancy (S. 1696), S503 [28JA], S2936 [13MY]

——— protect pain-capable unborn children (S. 1670), S2936 [13MY]

Appropriations: making consolidated appropriations, S6863 [15DE]

——— making emergency supplemental to address border crisis concerning unaccompanied alien children, wildland fire management, and Israel’s anti-missile defense (S. 2648), S4877 [24JY]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 2199), motion to proceed, S2215 [8AP]

Dept. of Defense: authorizing appropriations for military activities, prescribing personnel strengths, and military construction, S6722 [12DE]

Dept. of Education: allow certain student loan borrowers to refinance current loans (S. 2292), S2783 [7MY]

——— allow certain student loan borrowers to refinance current loans (S. 2432), motion to proceed, S5608 [16SE]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize and improve the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program (S. 1086), S1559 [12MR]

Dept. of the Interior: assemble a team of experts to address energy needs of U.S. territories aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources (H.R. 83), House amendment, S6863 [15DE]

——— transfer land from Badger Army Ammunition Plant to the Ho-Chunk Nation, S6722, S6725 [12DE]

Forest Service: diversion of forest management funding to wildfire suppression and prevention operations, S4877 [24JY]

Minimum wage: increase, and extend increased expensing limitations for depreciable business assets and treatment of certain property as section 179 property (S. 1737), S2146 [3AP]

——— increase, and extend increased expensing limitations for depreciable business assets and treatment of certain property as section 179 property (S. 2223), motion to proceed, S2439 [29AP]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exempt emergency services volunteers from individual health insurance mandate (H.R. 3979), House amendment, S6722 [12DE]

Pepper, Pamela: nomination to be district judge, S6175 [20NO]

Peterson, James D.: nomination to be district judge, S2841 [8MY]

Postal Service: impact of closure and consolidation of mail processing facilities, S6325 [4DE]

——— restrict closure of facilities, create innovation incentives, and maintain level of service, S6325 [4DE]

Summaries

Land Management Plan for Former Badger Army Ammunition Plant Parcels: Ho-Chunk Nation, S6723–S6725 [12DE]

Tributes

Levin, Senator, S6722 [12DE]