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Congressional Record publishes “ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” on June 18, 2018

Volume 164, No. 101 covering the 2nd Session of the 115th Congress (2017 - 2018) 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 S3982-S3984 on June 18, 2018.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 198

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 198, a bill to require continued and enhanced annual reporting to Congress in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom on anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, the safety and security of European Jewish communities, and the efforts of the United States to partner with European governments, the European Union, and civil society groups, to combat anti-Semitism, and for other purposes.

S. 203

At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 203, a bill to reaffirm that the Environmental Protection Agency may not regulate vehicles used solely for competition, and for other purposes.

S. 540

At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Maryland

(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 540, a bill to limit the authority of States to tax certain income of employees for employment duties performed in other States.

S. 700

At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 700, a bill to improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to severely wounded, ill, or injured members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their spouses or partners, and for other purposes.

S. 845

At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 845, a bill to protect sensitive community locations from harmful immigration enforcement action, and for other purposes.

S. 936

At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 936, 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. 1095

At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Missouri

(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1095, a bill to ensure that the Secretary of the Interior collaborates fully with State and local authorities and certain nonprofit entities in managing the Corolla Wild Horse population on Federal land.

S. 1320

At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1320, a bill to reform apportionments to general aviation airports under the airport improvement program, to improve project delivery at certain airports, and to designate certain airports as disaster relief airports, and for other purposes.

S. 1909

At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1909, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a system to educate individuals approaching Medicare eligibility, to simplify and modernize the eligibility enrollment process, and for other purposes.

S. 1995

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1995, a bill to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to improve the number of small business investment companies in underlicensed States, and for other purposes.

S. 2076

At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Hawaii

(Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2076, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the expansion of activities related to Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, and brain health under the Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Aging Program, and for other purposes.

S. 2101

At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the names of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and the Senator from Idaho

(Mr. Crapo) were added as cosponsors of S. 2101, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the crew of the USS Indianapolis, in recognition of their perseverance, bravery, and service to the United States.

S. 2139

At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the name of the Senator from Nevada

(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2139, a bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to address critical conservation conditions under the regional conservation partnership program, and for other purposes.

S. 2490

At the request of Mr. Scott, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2490, a bill to amend the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to modify requirements related to mortgage disclosures.

S. 2497

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from New Jersey

(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2497, a bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions and to authorize the appropriations of funds to Israel, and for other purposes.

S. 2506

At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2506, a bill to establish an aviation maintenance workforce development pilot program.

S. 2821

At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2821, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll as radiation exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of service-connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

S. 2864

At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2864, a bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize a Joint Task Force to enhance integration of the Department of Homeland Security's border security operations to detect, interdict, disrupt, and prevent narcotics, such as fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, from entering the United States, and for other purposes.

S. 2937

At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Maryland

(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2937, a bill to protect children affected by immigration enforcement actions.

S. 2957

At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from New Jersey

(Mr. Menendez) and the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) were added as cosponsors of S. 2957, 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. 2960

At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from New Jersey

(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2960, a bill to require health insurance for the treatment of infertility.

S. 3032

At the request of Ms. Warren, the names of the Senator from Arizona

(Mr. Flake) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were added as cosponsors of S. 3032, a bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for a new rule regarding the application of the Act to marihuana, and for other purposes.

S. 3034

At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3034, a bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to reauthorize the rural business investment program, and for other purposes.

S. 3036

At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the names of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Jones), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly), the Senator from North Dakota

(Ms. Heitkamp), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) were added as cosponsors of S. 3036, a bill to limit the separation of families at or near ports of entry.

S. 3042

At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3042, a bill to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.

S. 3047

At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3047, a bill to establish a narcotic drug screening technology pilot program to combat illicit opioid importation, and for other purposes.

S. 3064

At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Hawaii

(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3064, a bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, 1959, and for other purposes.

S. 3077

At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Maryland

(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3077, a bill to provide for certain contracting requirements to promote fair and safe workplaces, and for other purposes.

S. RES. 481

At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Maryland

(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 481, a resolution calling upon the leadership of the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to dismantle its labor camp system, and for other purposes.

S. RES. 549

At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from Iowa

(Mr. Grassley), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 549, a resolution designating June 15, 2018, as ``World Elder Abuse Awareness Day''.

AMENDMENT NO. 2854

At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 2854 intended to be proposed to H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 164, No. 101