Volume 163, No. 44 covering the 1st 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 S1806 on March 14, 2017.
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. 34
At the request of Mr. Johnson, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 34, a bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for the en bloc consideration in resolutions of disapproval for ``midnight rules'', and for other purposes.
S. 205
At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Strange) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) were added as cosponsors of S. 205, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and for other purposes.
S. 206
At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 206, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow the Secretary of Education to award job training Federal Pell Grants.
S. 253
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 253, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
S. 300
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 300, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that return information from tax-exempt organizations be made available in a searchable format and to provide the disclosure of the identity of contributors to certain tax-exempt organizations.
S. 324
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 324, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans.
S. 393
At the request of Mr. Scott, the name of the Senator from Florida
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 393, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for employees who participate in qualified apprenticeship programs.
S. 422
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 422, 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. 428
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Kansas
(Mr. Roberts) was added as a cosponsor of S. 428, a bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to authorize States to provide coordinated care to children with complex medical conditions through enhanced pediatric health homes, and for other purposes.
S. 438
At the request of Mr. Blunt, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 438, a bill to encourage effective, voluntary investments to recruit, employ, and retain men and women who have served in the United States military with annual Federal awards to employers recognizing such efforts, and for other purposes.
S. 479
At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 479, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive coinsurance under Medicare for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening.
S. 486
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 486, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the non-
application of Medicare competitive acquisition rates to complex rehabilitative wheelchairs and accessories.
S. 517
At the request of Mr. Donnelly, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Ms. Duckworth) was added as a cosponsor of S. 517, a bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid vapor pressure limitations under such Act.
S. 544
At the request of Mr. Tester, the names of the Senator from Idaho
(Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) were added as cosponsors of S. 544, a bill to amend Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to modify the termination date for the Veterans Choice Program, and for other purposes.
At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 544, supra.
S. 568
At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Franken), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) were added as cosponsors of S. 568, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to count a period of receipt of outpatient observation services in a hospital toward satisfying the 3-day inpatient hospital requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility services under Medicare.
S.J. RES. 6
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Carper) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 6, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.
S.J. RES. 28
At the request of Mr. Inhofe, the names of the Senator from Wyoming
(Mr. Enzi) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) were added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 28, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to accidental release prevention requirements of risk management programs under the Clean Air Act.
S. CON. RES. 7
At the request of Mr. Roberts, the names of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 7, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically provided and continue to provide critical benefits to the people and communities of the United States.
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