Volume 161, No. 114 covering the 1st Session of the 114th Congress (2015 - 2016) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Senate section on pages S5211-S5212 on July 21, 2015.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 51
At the request of Mr. Vitter, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) and the Senator from Kentucky
(Mr. Paul) were added as cosponsors of S. 51, a bill to amend title X of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
S. 185
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 185, a bill to create a limited population pathway for approval of certain antibacterial drugs.
S. 238
At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 238, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to issue oleoresin capsicum spray to officers and employees of the Bureau of Prisons.
S. 313
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 313, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum tenens arrangements under Medicare.
S. 314
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 314, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare program of pharmacist services.
S. 330
At the request of Mr. Heller, the names of the Senator from New York
(Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. 330, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions, and for other purposes.
S. 368
At the request of Mr. Toomey, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 368, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to require that the Director of the Bureau of Prisons ensure that each chief executive officer of a Federal penal or correctional institution provides a secure storage area located outside of the secure perimeter of the Federal penal or correctional institution for firearms carried by certain employees of the Bureau of Prisons, and for other purposes.
S. 431
At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mrs. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 431, a bill to permanently extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
S. 540
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 540, a bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan guarantees and grants to finance certain improvements to school lunch facilities, to train school food service personnel, and for other purposes.
S. 571
At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Gardner), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Perdue), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Flake), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were added as cosponsors of S. 571, a bill to amend the Pilot's Bill of Rights to facilitate appeals and to apply to other certificates issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, to require the revision of the third class medical certification regulations issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
S. 586
At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 586, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to foster more effective implementation and coordination of clinical care for people with pre-
diabetes, diabetes, and the chronic diseases and conditions that result from diabetes.
S. 626
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Iowa
(Mrs. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 626, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services delivered by podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to appropriate quality foot and ankle care, to amend title XVIII of such Act to modify the requirements for diabetic shoes to be included under Medicare, and for other purposes.
S. 637
At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from Washington
(Mrs. Murray) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) were added as cosponsors of S. 637, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
S. 681
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Cochran) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were added as cosponsors of S. 681, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.
S. 683
At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Hawaii
(Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 683, a bill to extend the principle of federalism to State drug policy, provide access to medical marijuana, and enable research into the medicinal properties of marijuana.
S. 713
At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 713, a bill to prevent international violence against women, and for other purposes.
S. 746
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) 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.
S. 799
At the request of Mr. McConnell, the names of the Senator from Maine
(Mr. King) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) were added as cosponsors of S. 799, a bill to combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
S. 804
At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 804, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to specify coverage of continuous glucose monitoring devices, and for other purposes.
At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Iowa
(Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte) were added as cosponsors of S. 804, supra.
S. 849
At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 849, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for systematic data collection and analysis and epidemiological research regarding Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease, and other neurological diseases.
S. 928
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 928, a bill to reauthorize the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, and for other purposes.
S. 1056
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Ms. Baldwin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1056, a bill to eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
S. 1081
At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1081, a bill to end the use of body-gripping traps in the National Wildlife Refuge System.
S. 1140
At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor 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.
S. 1169
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the names of the Senator from Utah
(Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added as cosponsors of S. 1169, a bill to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes.
S. 1170
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) 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.
S. 1214
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) were added as cosponsors of S. 1214, a bill to prevent human health threats posed by the consumption of equines raised in the United States.
S. 1380
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1380, a bill to support early learning.
S. 1390
At the request of Mr. Gardner, the name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1390, a bill to help provide relief to State education budgets during a recovering economy, to help fulfill the Federal mandate to provide higher educational opportunities for Native American Indians, and for other purposes.
S. 1445
At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1445, a bill to improve the Microloan Program of the Small Business Administration.
S. 1458
At the request of Mr. Coats, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1458, a bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to ensure scientific transparency in the development of environmental regulations and for other purposes.
S. 1495
At the request of Mr. Toomey, the names of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added as cosponsors of S. 1495, a bill to curtail the use of changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund to inflate spending.
S. 1538
At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Hawaii
(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1538, a bill to reform the financing of Senate elections, and for other purposes.
S. 1603
At the request of Mr. Flake, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1603, a bill to actively recruit members of the Armed Forces who are separating from military service to serve as Customs and Border Protection Officers.
S. 1640
At the request of Mr. Sessions, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1640, a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve immigration law enforcement within the interior of the United States, and for other purposes.
S. 1679
At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1679, a bill to amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to require that certain buildings and personal property be covered by flood insurance, and for other purposes.
S. 1774
At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) were added as cosponsors of S. 1774, a bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code to treat Puerto Rico as a State for purposes of chapter 9 of such title relating to the adjustment of debts of municipalities.
S. 1779
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Sanders) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1779, a bill to prevent conflicts of interest that stem from executive Government employees receiving bonuses or other compensation arrangements from nongovernment sources, from the revolving door that raises concerns about the independence of financial services regulators, and from the revolving door that casts aspersions over the awarding of Government contracts and other financial benefits.
S. RES. 222
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 222, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federation Internationale de Football Association should immediately eliminate gender pay inequity and treat all athletes with the same respect and dignity.
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