April 1, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 56 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages S2118-S2120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS


                                 S. 178

  At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 178, a bill to condemn 
gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and 
calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of 
these communities inside and outside China.


                                 S. 179

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 179, a bill to direct 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a clinical trial of the 
effects of cannabis on certain health outcomes of adults with chronic 
pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 260

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New 
Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 260, a bill to 
assist employers providing employment under special certificates issued 
under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to 
transform their business and program models, to support individuals 
with disabilities to transition to competitive integrated employment, 
to phase out the use of such special certificates, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 362

  At the request of Mr. Wyden, the name of the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 362, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform taxation of alcoholic 
beverages.


                                 S. 427

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Alabama 
(Mr. Jones) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 427, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
enhance activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to 
research on autism spectrum disorder and enhance programs relating to 
autism, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 433

  At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Young) was added as a cosponsor of S. 433, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms 
under the Medicare program.


                                 S. 456

  At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from California 
(Ms. Harris) was added as a cosponsor of S. 456, a bill to provide for 
the adjustment of status of certain nationals of Liberia to that of 
lawful permanent residents, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 518

  At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from 
Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), the 
Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) and the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 518, a bill to amend title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of 
certain lymphedema compression treatment items as items of durable 
medical equipment.


                                 S. 521

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. 
Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 521, a bill to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset 
and windfall elimination provisions.


                                 S. 546

  At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from 
Missouri (Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 546, a bill to 
extend authorization for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 
2001 through fiscal year 2090, and for other purposes.

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                                 S. 559

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin 
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 559, a bill to amend the 
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide leave because of the 
death of a son or daughter.


                                 S. 600

  At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the names of the Senator from Indiana 
(Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 600, a bill to require the Secretary of 
Transportation to establish a working group to study regulatory and 
legislative improvements for the livestock, insect, and agricultural 
commodities transport industries, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 629

  At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 629, a bill to require 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to review the processes and 
requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs for scheduling 
appointments for health care and conducting consultations under the 
laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 635

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the name of the Senator from New Jersey 
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 635, a bill to restore 
statutory rights to the people of the United States from forced 
arbitration.


                                 S. 655

  At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the 
Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. 
Wyden), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 655, a bill to impose additional restrictions on 
tobacco flavors for use in e-cigarettes.


                                 S. 698

  At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 698, a bill 
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide equitable 
treatment for residents of Puerto Rico with respect to the refundable 
portion of the child tax credit and to provide the same treatment to 
families in Puerto Rico with one child or two children that is 
currently provided to island families with three or more children.


                                 S. 703

  At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 703, a bill to amend 
title 10, United States Code, to address health, safety, and 
environmental hazards at private military housing units, to prohibit 
the payment by members of the Armed Forces of deposits or other fees 
relating to such housing units, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 741

  At the request of Ms. Smith, the names of the Senator from Arkansas 
(Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) were 
added as cosponsors of S. 741, a bill to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to require group and individual health insurance coverage 
and group health plans to provide for cost sharing for oral anticancer 
drugs on terms no less favorable than the cost sharing provided for 
anticancer medications administered by a health care provider.


                                 S. 778

  At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Maine 
(Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 778, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to conduct coastal community 
vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification, and for other 
purposes.


                                 S. 814

  At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 814, a bill to amend 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to diabetes 
outpatient self-management training services, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 815

  At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from New 
Mexico (Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 815, a bill to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable tax credit 
against income tax for the purchase of qualified access technology for 
the blind.


                                 S. 827

  At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Ohio 
(Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 827, a bill to designate 
certain National Forest System land and certain public land under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior in the States of Idaho, 
Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic 
rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors, 
and for other purposes.


                                 S. 846

  At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the names of the Senator from Florida 
(Mr. Rubio) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 846, a bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
limit certain rolling stock procurements, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 854

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Oregon 
(Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) were added 
as cosponsors of S. 854, a bill to require human rights certifications 
for arms sales, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 879

  At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the names of the Senator from 
Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), and the 
Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were added as cosponsors of S. 
879, a bill to provide a process for granting lawful permanent resident 
status to aliens from certain countries who meet specified eligibility 
requirements, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 910

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the names of the Senator from 
Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan) 
were added as cosponsors of S. 910, a bill to reauthorize and amend the 
National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 914

  At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Alaska 
(Mr. Sullivan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 914, a bill to 
reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 
2009, to clarify the authority of the Administrator of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with respect to post-storm 
assessments, and to require the establishment of a National Water 
Center, and for other purposes.


                                 S. 931

  At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 931, a bill to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the Child and Dependent Care 
Tax Credit and make the credit fully refundable.


                                 S. 949

  At the request of Mr. Udall, the names of the Senator from Virginia 
(Mr. Warner) and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) were added as 
cosponsors of S. 949, a bill to expand Americans' access to the ballot 
box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen 
ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.


                              S.J. RES. 11

  At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 11, a joint 
resolution to prohibit the unauthorized use of United States Armed 
Forces in hostilities with respect to Venezuela.


                               S. RES. 85

  At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Washington 
(Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the 
Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. 
Durbin), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) were added as 
cosponsors of S. Res. 85, a resolution recognizing the 100th 
anniversary of the founding of Easterseals, a leading advocate and 
service provider for children and adults with disabilities, including 
veterans and older adults, and their caregivers and families.


                               S. RES. 99

  At the request of Mr. Peters, the names of the Senator from Montana

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(Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from 
Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) were 
added as cosponsors of S. Res. 99, a resolution expressing the sense of 
the Senate that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure 
that the United States Postal Service remains an independent 
establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to 
privatization.


                              S. RES. 120

  At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Montana 
(Mr. Daines), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from 
Delaware (Mr. Carper) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 120, a 
resolution opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the 
Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel.


                              S. RES. 123

  At the request of Mr. Risch, the names of the Senator from New Mexico 
(Mr. Udall), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) and the Senator from 
Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 123, a 
resolution supporting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and 
recognizing its 70 years of accomplishments.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 205

  At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Cardin), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator 
from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. 
Baldwin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator 
from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from California (Ms. 
Harris), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from 
Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), 
the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from Vermont 
(Mr. Sanders), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator 
from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) were added as cosponsors of amendment 
No. 205 intended to be proposed to H.R. 268, a bill making supplemental 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for 
other purposes.


                           AMENDMENT NO. 228

  At the request of Mr. Schumer, the names of the Senator from Colorado 
(Mr. Bennet), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), the Senator 
from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) 
and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) were added as cosponsors of 
amendment No. 228 intended to be proposed to H.R. 268, a bill making 
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2019, and for other purposes.

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