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Nov. 4, 2013 sees Congressional Record publish “ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS”

Volume 159, No. 155 covering the 1st Session of the 113th Congress (2013 - 2014) 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 S7795-S7797 on Nov. 4, 2013.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 264

At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from New York

(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 264, a bill to expand access to community mental health centers and improve the quality of mental health care for all Americans.

S. 381

At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Illinois

(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 381, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the ``Doolittle Tokyo Raiders'', for outstanding heroism, valor, skill, and service to the United States in conducting the bombings of Tokyo.

S. 526

At the request of Mr. Baucus, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 526, 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. 567

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 567, a bill to improve the retirement of American families by strengthening Social Security.

S. 635

At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Indiana

(Mr. Coats) was added as a cosponsor of S. 635, a bill to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide an exception to the annual written privacy notice requirement.

S. 658

At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 658, a bill to amend titles 10 and 32, United States Code, to enhance capabilities to prepare for and respond to cyber emergencies, and for other purposes.

S. 769

At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Washington

(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 769, a bill to designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United States.

S. 809

At the request of Mrs. Boxer, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 809, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that genetically engineered food and foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients be labeled accordingly.

S. 815

At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 815, a bill to prohibit the employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

S. 886

At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from North Dakota

(Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 886, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

S. 1023

At the request of Mr. Corker, the name of the Senator from Virginia

(Mr. Warner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1023, a bill to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, to conduct an interagency review of and report on ways to increase the competitiveness of the United States in attracting foreign investment.

S. 1118

At the request of Mr. Wyden, the names of the Senator from Minnesota

(Mr. Franken) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were added as cosponsors of S. 1118, a bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to better enable State child welfare agencies to prevent sex trafficking of children and serve the needs of children who are victims of sex trafficking, and for other purposes.

S. 1155

At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1155, a bill to provide for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department, and for other purposes.

S. 1158

At the request of Mr. Warner, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1158, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service, and for other purposes.

S. 1188

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

(Mr. Isakson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1188, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of full-time employee for purposes of the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

S. 1226

At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Minnesota

(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1226, a bill to promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.

S. 1258

At the request of Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin, the name of the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1258, a bill to authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing for acts of valor during the Civil War.

S. 1302

At the request of Mr. Harkin, the names of the Senator from North Dakota (Ms. Heitkamp) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of S. 1302, a bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for cooperative and small employer charity pension plans.

S. 1318

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

(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1318, 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. 1416

At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1416, a bill to protect miners from pneumoconiosis (commonly known as black lung disease), and for other purposes.

S. 1446

At the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1446, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve the affordability of the health care tax credit, and for other purposes.

S. 1456

At the request of Ms. Ayotte, the name of the Senator from Virginia

(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1456, a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Shimon Peres.

S. 1505

At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Arkansas

(Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan) were added as cosponsors of S. 1505, a bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to certain sporting good articles, and to exempt those articles from definition under that Act.

S. 1557

At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Minnesota

(Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1557, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for graduate medical education programs in children's hospitals.

S. 1562

At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Alaska

(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1562, a bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

S. 1575

At the request of Mr. Begich, the name of the Senator from Alaska

(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1575, a bill to correct inconsistencies in the definitions relating to Native Americans in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

S. 1581

At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Hawaii

(Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1581, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide counseling and treatment for sexual trauma to members of the Armed Forces, to require the Secretary to screen veterans for domestic abuse, to require the Secretary to submit reports on military sexual trauma and domestic abuse, and for other purposes.

S. 1586

At the request of Mr. Sanders, the name of the Senator from Alaska

(Mr. Begich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1586, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes.

S. 1610

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were added as cosponsors of S. 1610, a bill to delay the implementation of certain provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, and for other purposes.

S. 1614

At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1614, a bill to require Certificates of Citizenship and other Federal documents to reflect name and date of birth determinations made by a State court and for other purposes.

S. 1617

At the request of Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin, the names of the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from Nevada

(Mr. Heller), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Shelby) were added as cosponsors of S. 1617, a bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that individuals can keep their health insurance coverage.

S. 1622

At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the names of the Senator from Alaska

(Mr. Begich), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Johnson) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 1622, a bill to establish the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, and for other purposes.

S. 1630

At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Idaho

(Mr. Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1630, a bill to prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer, relinquishment, or other impairment of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture.

S. 1632

At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1632, a bill to protect 10th Amendment rights by providing special standing for State government officials to challenge proposed regulations, and for other purposes.

S. 1635

At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) were added as cosponsors of S. 1635, a bill to amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend the period during which supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits are temporarily increased.

S. RES. 269

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Vitter), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 269, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on United States policy regarding possession of enrichment and reprocessing capabilities by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 159, No. 155