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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Senate section on pages S581-S582 on Jan. 30, 2018.
The Department is primarily focused on food nutrition, with assistance programs making up 80 percent of its budget. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department implements too many regulations and restrictions and impedes the economy.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 116
At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Florida
(Mr. Nelson) was added as a cosponsor of S. 116, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-
connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.
S. 292
At the request of Mr. Reed, the names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) were added as cosponsors of S. 292, a bill to maximize discovery, and accelerate development and availability, of promising childhood cancer treatments, and for other purposes.
S. 363
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 363, a bill to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes.
S. 534
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 534, a bill to prevent the sexual abuse of minors and amateur athletes by requiring the prompt reporting of sexual abuse to law enforcement authorities, and for other purposes.
S. 660
At the request of Mr. Gardner, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 660, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to fulfill the Federal mandate to provide higher educational opportunities for Native American Indians.
S. 819
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the name of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Jones) was added as a cosponsor of S. 819, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
S. 842
At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 842, a bill to prohibit Federal agencies and Federal contractors from requesting that an applicant for employment disclose criminal history record information before the applicant has received a conditional offer, and for other purposes.
S. 982
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 982, a bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require mandatory reporting of incidents of child abuse or neglect, and for other purposes.
S. 1152
At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from California (Ms. Harris) 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. 1158
At the request of Mr. Nelson, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 1158, a bill to help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes, which threaten national and international security, by enhancing United States Government capacities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such crises.
S. 1257
At the request of Mr. Young, the name of the Senator from Missouri
(Mr. Blunt) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1257, a bill to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to adopt an electronic system to help expedite the placement of children in foster care or guardianship, or for adoption, across State lines, and to provide funding to aid States in developing such a system, and for other purposes.
S. 1509
At the request of Mr. Hatch, the name of the Senator from Florida
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1509, a bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize an extension of exclusivity periods for certain drugs that are approved for a new indication for a rare disease or condition, and for other purposes.
S. 1754
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Jones) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1754, a bill to reauthorize section 340H of the Public Health Service Act to continue to encourage the expansion, maintenance, and establishment of approved graduate medical residency programs at qualified teaching health centers, and for other purposes.
S. 1759
At the request of Ms. Hirono, the name of the Senator from Nevada
(Mr. Heller) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1759, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend authorities relating to homeless veterans, and for other purposes.
S. 1909
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1909, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a system to educate individuals approaching Medicare eligibility, to simplify and modernize the eligibility enrollment process, and for other purposes.
S. 1947
At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1947, a bill to improve food safety, to encourage greater production of agricultural commodities for use in the locality of production, to reauthorize and expand Department of Agriculture support of those efforts, and for other purposes.
S. 2107
At the request of Mr. Heller, the name of the Senator from Kansas
(Mr. Moran) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2107, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Under Secretary of Health to report major adverse personnel actions involving certain health care employees to the National Practitioner Data Bank and to applicable State licensing boards, and for other purposes.
S. 2147
At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Jones) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were added as cosponsors of S. 2147, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation Trust Fund to establish a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined benefit plans, and for other purposes.
S. 2227
At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2227, a bill to reauthorize the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Program.
S. 2269
At the request of Mr. Casey, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2269, a bill to reauthorize the Global Food Security Act of 2016 for 5 additional years.
S. 2278
At the request of Ms. Heitkamp, the names of the Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Jones) and the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) were added as cosponsors of S. 2278, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to improve health care in rural areas.
At the request of Mr. Roberts, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2278, supra.
S. 2335
At the request of Mr. Rounds, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2335, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to issue permits for recreation services on lands managed by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
S. 2340
At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2340, a bill to establish the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Council.
S. 2345
At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2345, a bill to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide additional resources to State and local prosecutors, and for other purposes.
S. RES. 377
At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 377, a resolution recognizing the importance of paying tribute to those individuals who have faithfully served and retired from the Armed Forces of the United States, designating April 18, 2018, as ``Military Retiree Appreciation Day'', and encouraging the people of the United States to honor the past and continued service of military retirees to their local communities and the United States.
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