Volume 157, No. 186 covering the 1st Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) 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 S8376-S8377 on Dec. 6, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 241
At the request of Mrs. McCaskill, the name of the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 241, a bill to expand whistleblower protections to non-Federal employees whose disclosures involve misuse of Federal funds.
S. 306
At the request of Mr. Webb, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Ms. Landrieu) was added as a cosponsor of S. 306, a bill to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission.
S. 339
At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 339, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions.
S. 581
At the request of Mr. Burr, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 581, a bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require criminal background checks for child care providers.
S. 641
At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 641, a bill to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis within six years by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
S. 752
At the request of Mr. Isakson, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 752, a bill to establish a comprehensive interagency response to reduce lung cancer mortality in a timely manner.
S. 1069
At the request of Ms. Cantwell, the names of the Senator from Kansas
(Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) were added as cosponsors of S. 1069, a bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear, and for other purposes.
S. 1108
At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1108, a bill to provide local communities with tools to make solar permitting more efficient, and for other purposes.
S. 1171
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1171, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees' spouses and dependent children to coverage provided to other eligible dependent beneficiaries of employees.
S. 1176
At the request of Ms. Landrieu, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1176, a bill to amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.
S. 1190
At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1190, a bill to reduce disparities and improve access to effective and cost efficient diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through advances in testing, research, and education, including through telehealth, comparative effectiveness research, and identification of best practices in patient education and outreach particularly with respect to underserved racial, ethnic and rural populations and men with a family history of prostate cancer, to establish a directive on what constitutes clinically appropriate prostate cancer imaging, and to create a prostate cancer scientific advisory board for the Office of the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate real-time sharing of the latest research and accelerate movement of new medicines to patients.
S. 1299
At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1299, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of Lions Clubs International.
S. 1350
At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 1350, a bill to expand the research, prevention, and awareness activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health with respect to pulmonary fibrosis, and for other purposes.
S. 1360
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1360, a bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require shareholder authorization before a public company may make certain political expenditures, and for other purposes.
S. 1392
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1392, a bill to provide additional time for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue achievable standards for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters, and incinerators, and for other purposes.
S. 1397
At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Ms. Mikulski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1397, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an investment tax credit related to the production of electricity from offshore wind.
S. 1451
At the request of Mr. Vitter, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1451, a bill to prohibit the sale of billfish.
S. 1465
At the request of Mr. Reed, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1465, a bill to authorize a pilot program on enhancements of Department of Defense efforts on mental health in the National Guard and Reserves through community partnerships, and for other purposes.
S. 1544
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1544, a bill to amend the Securities Act of 1933 to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to exempt a certain class of securities from such Act.
S. 1593
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1593, a bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require State electronic benefit transfer contracts to treat wireless program retail food stores in the same manner as wired program retail food stores.
S. 1634
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1634, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the approval and disapproval of programs of education for purposes of educational benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
S. 1670
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Boxer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1670, a bill to eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
S. 1711
At the request of Mr. Brown of Ohio, the name of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1711, a bill to enhance reciprocal market access for United States domestic producers in the negotiating process of bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements.
S. 1763
At the request of Mr. Akaka, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1763, a bill to decrease the incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, to strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise the sovereign authority of Indian tribes to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women, and to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian women are held accountable for that criminal behavior, and for other purposes.
S. 1850
At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Merkley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1850, a bill to expand and improve opportunities for beginning farmers and ranchers, and for other purposes.
S. 1872
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1872, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax treatment of ABLE accounts established under State programs for the care of family members with disabilities, and for other purposes.
S. 1886
At the request of Mr. Leahy, the names of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Coons) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) were added as cosponsors of S. 1886, a bill to prevent trafficking in counterfeit drugs.
S. 1933
At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1933, a bill to increase American job creation and economic growth by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies.
S. 1944
At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. Reid), the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1944, a bill to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle class families and businesses, and for other purposes.
S. 1945
At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from New York
(Mr. Schumer) and the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1945, a bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
S. RES. 297
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 297, a resolution congratulating the Corporation for Supportive Housing on the 20th anniversary of its founding.
S. RES. 310
At the request of Ms. Mikulski, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 310, a resolution designating 2012 as the ``Year of the Girl'' and Congratulating Girl Scouts of the USA on its 100th anniversary.
S. RES. 342
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 342, a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Laura Pollan.
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