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Feb. 23 sees Congressional Record publish “ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS”

Volume 167, No. 34 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 - 2022) 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 S822-S823 on Feb. 23.

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. 68

At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from Louisiana

(Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 68, a bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.

S. 85

At the request of Mr. Schumer, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 85, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the deduction for certain taxes, including State and local property and income taxes.

S. 89

At the request of Ms. Sinema, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 89, a bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to secure medical opinions for veterans with service-connected disabilities who die from COVID-19 to determine whether their service-connected disabilities were the principal or contributory causes of death, and for other purposes.

S. 141

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

(Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 141, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the deduction for advertising and promotional expenses for prescription drugs.

S. 152

At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 152, a bill to allow States to approve the use of diagnostic tests during a public health emergency.

S. 153

At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 153, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and improve health savings accounts, and for other purposes.

S. 172

At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis) was added as a cosponsor of S. 172, a bill to authorize the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.

S. 193

At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 193, a bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to update the modeling used for lifecycle greenhouse gas assessments for corn-based ethanol and biodiesel, and for other purposes.

S. 198

At the request of Ms. Rosen, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) were added as cosponsors of S. 198, a bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to incorporate data on maternal health outcomes into its broadband health maps.

S. 209

At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) and the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) were added as cosponsors of S. 209, a bill to provide for assistance to rural water, wastewater, and waste disposal systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

S. 218

At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 218, a bill to approve certain advanced biofuel registrations, to require the consideration of certain advanced biofuel pathways, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and for other purposes.

S. 221

At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 221, a bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a grant program to increase cooperation on post-traumatic stress disorder research between the United States and Israel.

S. 225

At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 225, a bill to reform the antitrust laws to better protect competition in the American economy, to amend the Clayton Act to modify the standard for an unlawful acquisition, to deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers, to enhance the ability of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the antitrust laws, and for other purposes.

S. 251

At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 251, a bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

S. 254

At the request of Mr. Reed, the names of the Senator from Georgia

(Mr. Warnock) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were added as cosponsors of S. 254, a bill to establish a Homeowner Assistance Fund at the Department of the Treasury.

S. 321

At the request of Mr. Moran, the names of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California

(Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) were added as cosponsors of S. 321, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the Women's Army Corps who were assigned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the ``Six Triple Eight''.

S. RES. 33

At the request of Mr. Toomey, the names of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) and the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 33, a resolution supporting the contributions of Catholic schools.

S. RES. 34

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren), the Senator from Pennsylvania

(Mr. Casey), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from West Virginia

(Mrs. Capito) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 34, a resolution recognizing the 200th anniversary of the independence of Greece and celebrating democracy in Greece and the United States.

S. RES. 37

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Delaware

(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 37, a resolution expressing solidarity with the San Isidro Movement in Cuba, condemning escalated attacks against artistic freedoms in Cuba, and calling for the repeal of laws that violate freedom of expression and the immediate release of arbitrarily detained artists, journalists, and activists.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 34