Volume 163, No. 104 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 S3606-S3608 on June 19, 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. 58
At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Colorado
(Mr. Gardner) was added as a cosponsor of S. 58, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.
S. 203
At the request of Mr. Burr, the names of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors 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. 207
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 207, a bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act relating to controlled substance analogues.
S. 231
At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from North Dakota
(Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 231, a bill to implement equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.
S. 322
At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 322, a bill to protect victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and dating violence from emotional and psychological trauma caused by acts of violence or threats of violence against their pets.
S. 407
At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Washington
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 407, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the railroad track maintenance credit.
S. 450
At the request of Mr. Manchin, the name of the Senator from Idaho
(Mr. Crapo) was added as a cosponsor of S. 450, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to members of the Armed Forces who fought in defense of Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippine Archipelago between December 7, 1941 and May 10, 1942, and who died or were imprisoned by the Japanese military in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Wake Island, and Guam from April 9, 1942 until September 2, 1945, in recognition of their personal sacrifice and service to the United States.
S. 540
At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Washington
(Ms. Cantwell) 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. 591
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 591, a bill to expand eligibility for the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand benefits available to participants under such program, to enhance special compensation for members of the uniformed services who require assistance in everyday life, and for other purposes.
S. 694
At the request of Mr. King, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 694, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard charitable mileage rate for delivery of meals to elderly, disabled, frail, and at risk individuals.
S. 740
At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 740, a bill to prohibit mandatory or compulsory checkoff programs.
S. 741
At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul) was added as a cosponsor of S. 741, a bill to prohibit certain practices relating to certain commodity promotion programs, to require greater transparency by those programs, and for other purposes.
S. 911
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 911, a bill to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order with respect to secondary cockpit barriers, and for other purposes.
S. 1015
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Udall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1015, a bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the feasibility of designating a simple, easy-to-remember dialing code to be used for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system.
S. 1028
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Coons), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Donnelly) and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Franken) were added as cosponsors of S. 1028, a bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a National Family Caregiving Strategy, and for other purposes.
S. 1044
At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1044, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure equal access of Medicare beneficiaries to community pharmacies in underserved areas as network pharmacies under Medicare prescription drug coverage, and for other purposes.
S. 1057
At the request of Mr. Nelson, the name of the Senator from Alaska
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1057, a bill to amend the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, and for other purposes.
S. 1146
At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1146, a bill to enhance the ability of the Office of the National Ombudsman to assist small businesses in meeting regulatory requirements and develop outreach initiatives to promote awareness of the services the Office of the National Ombudsman provides, and for other purposes.
S. 1152
At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from Alaska
(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1152, a bill to create protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to cannabis-related businesses, and for other purposes.
S. 1172
At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the names of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin) were added as cosponsors of S. 1172, a bill to impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and for other purposes.
S. 1182
At the request of Mr. Young, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins), the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) were added as cosponsors of S. 1182, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of the 100th anniversary of The American Legion.
S. 1270
At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Washington
(Ms. Cantwell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1270, a bill to direct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to carry out programs and activities to ensure that Federal science agencies and institutions of higher education receiving Federal research and development funding are fully engaging their entire talent pool, and for other purposes.
S. 1292
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1292, a bill to amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to monitor and combat anti-Semitism globally, and for other purposes.
S. 1311
At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1311, a bill to provide assistance in abolishing human trafficking in the United States.
S. 1328
At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Menendez) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1328, a bill to extend the protections of the Fair Housing Act to persons suffering discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and for other purposes.
S. 1357
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1357, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide a standard definition of therapeutic family care services in Medicaid.
S. 1369
At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1369, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an excise tax on certain prescription drugs which have been subject to a price spike, and for other purposes.
S.J. RES. 46
At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Perdue) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 46, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
S. CON. RES. 15
At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mrs. McCaskill) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 15, a concurrent resolution expressing support for the designation of October 28, 2017, as ``Honoring the Nation's First Responders Day''.
S. RES. 162
At the request of Mr. Lankford, the name of the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 162, a resolution reaffirming the commitment of the United States to promoting religious freedom, and for other purposes.
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