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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 11
At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Wisconsin
(Mr. Johnson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 11, a bill to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, to relocate to Jerusalem the United States Embassy in Israel, and for other purposes.
S. 16
At the request of Mr. Paul, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 16, a bill to require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States, and for other purposes.
S. 18
At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Inhofe) was added as a cosponsor of S. 18, a bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
S. 26
At the request of Mr. Wyden, the names of the Senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Franken), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) were added as cosponsors of S. 26, a bill to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the disclosure of certain tax returns by Presidents and certain candidates for the office of the President, and for other purposes.
S. 27
At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) were added as cosponsors of S. 27, a bill to establish an independent commission to examine and report on the facts regarding the extent of Russian official and unofficial cyber operations and other attempts to interfere in the 2016 United States national election, and for other purposes.
S. 33
At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 33, a bill to provide for congressional approval of national monuments and restrictions on the use of national monuments, to establish requirements for the declaration of marine national monuments, and for other purposes.
S. 57
At the request of Mr. Cassidy, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. 57, a bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to revoke bonuses paid to employees involved in electronic wait list manipulations, and for other purposes.
S. 59
At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 59, a bill to provide that silencers be treated the same as long guns.
S. 78
At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 78, a bill to provide for reimbursement for the use of modern travel services by Federal employees traveling on official Government business, and for other purposes.
S. 92
At the request of Mr. McCain, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 92, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow for the personal importation of safe and affordable drugs from approved pharmacies in Canada.
S. 104
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from New Hampshire
(Ms. Hassan) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) were added as cosponsors of S. 104, a bill to provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking.
S. 139
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the names of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Perdue) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) were added as cosponsors of S. 139, a bill to implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, to prevent DNA analysis backlogs, and for other purposes.
S. 141
At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 141, a bill to improve understanding and forecasting of space weather events, and for other purposes.
S. 143
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 143, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for amounts paid by a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces for a new State license or certification required by reason of a permanent change in the duty station of such member to another State.
S. 172
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) were added as cosponsors of S. 172, a bill to require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited consideration by Congress.
S. 175
At the request of Mr. Manchin, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse) was added as a cosponsor of S. 175, a bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to transfer certain funds to the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan and the 1974 United Mine Workers of America Pension Plan, and for other purposes.
S. 184
At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) was added as a cosponsor of S. 184, a bill to prohibit taxpayer funded abortions.
S.J. RES. 1
At the request of Mr. Boozman, the names of the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Cotton), the Senator from Iowa (Mrs. Ernst), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) were added as cosponsors of S.J. Res. 1, a joint resolution approving the location of a memorial to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces who served on active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.
S.J. RES. 6
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) 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. CON. RES. 5
At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mrs. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 5, a concurrent resolution affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and protected for all people of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, and recognizing the 231st anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
S. RES. 6
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Hawaii
(Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 6, a resolution objecting to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 and to all efforts that undermine direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians for a secure and peaceful settlement.
S. RES. 15
At the request of Mr. Lee, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 15, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Mexico City policy should be permanently established.
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