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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security was published in the in the Senate section section on pages S3003-S3004 on June 16.
The Department was built out of more than 20 agencies in 2002. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lower taxes and boosting federal efficiency, argued the Department is burdened with "unneeded bureaucracy" which could be handled by other departments or standalone operations.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 391
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 391, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center of the Department of Homeland Security.
S. 602
At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Tennessee
(Mrs. Blackburn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 602, a bill to combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other purposes.
S. 642
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the name of the Senator from New York
(Mrs. Gillibrand) was added as a cosponsor of S. 642, a bill to protect the rights of passengers with disabilities in air transportation, and for other purposes.
S. 650
At the request of Ms. Cortez Masto, the name of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 650, a bill to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the United States whose employment is authorized pursuant to a grant of deferred action, deferred enforced departure, or temporary protected status.
S. 1125
At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1125, a bill to recommend that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation test the effect of a dementia care management model, and for other purposes.
S. 1544
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Maine
(Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1544, a bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to streamline enrollment under the Medicaid program of certain providers across State lines, and for other purposes.
S. 1618
At the request of Mr. Grassley, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 1618, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow first responders to continue to exclude service-connected disability pension payments after reaching the age of retirement.
S. 2693
At the request of Mr. Padilla, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2693, a bill to amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, and for other purposes.
S. 2700
At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2700, a bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to improve the detection, prevention, and treatment of mental health issues among public safety officers, and for other purposes.
S. 2974
At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2974, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Reducing Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Initiative.
S. 3571
At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the names of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) were added as cosponsors of S. 3571, a bill to promote remediation of abandoned hardrock mines, and for other purposes.
S. 3959
At the request of Mr. Hagerty, the name of the Senator from Kansas
(Mr. Marshall) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3959, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the authority to suspend the right to introduce certain persons or property into the United States in the interest of the public health.
S. 4009
At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Wyoming
(Mr. Barrasso) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy) were added as cosponsors of S. 4009, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to rebase the calculation of payments for sole community hospitals and Medicare-dependent hospitals, and for other purposes.
S. 4030
At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4030, a bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to establish a cattle contract library, and for other purposes.
S. 4105
At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson) were added as cosponsors of S. 4105, a bill to treat certain liquidations of new motor vehicle inventory as qualified liquidations of LIFO inventory for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
S. 4202
At the request of Ms. Collins, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. 4202, a bill to require an annual budget estimate for the initiatives of the National Institutes of Health pursuant to reports and recommendations made under the National Alzheimer's Project Act.
S. 4203
At the request of Ms. Collins, the name of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Lankford) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4203, a bill to extend the National Alzheimer's Project.
S. 4303
At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4303, a bill to provide for a period of exclusivity for first interchangeable biological products.
S. 4325
At the request of Ms. Sinema, the names of the Senator from Wyoming
(Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 4325, a bill to amend the Federal Credit Union Act to modify the frequency of board of directors meetings, and for other purposes.
S. 4352
At the request of Mr. Cramer, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4352, a bill to require a study on the effects of travel nurse agencies on the health industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
S. 4366
At the request of Ms. Ernst, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Grassley) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4366, a bill to require the Secretary of Defense to seek to cooperate with allies and partners in the Middle East to identify an architecture and develop an acquisition approach for certain countries in the Middle East to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect the people, infrastructure, and territory of such countries from cruise and ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial system, and rocket attacks from Iran, and for other purposes.
S. 4369
At the request of Mr. Marshall, the name of the Senator from Wyoming
(Ms. Lummis) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4369, a bill to allow States and local educational agencies to use any remaining COVID-19 elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds for school security measures.
S. 4409
At the request of Mr. Thune, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4409, a bill to prohibit providers of email services from using filtering algorithms to flag emails from political campaigns that consumers have elected to receive as spam.
S.J. RES. 10
At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 10, a joint resolution to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq, and for other purposes.
S. RES. 629
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from California
(Mr. Padilla) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 629, a resolution celebrating the 200th anniversary of United States diplomatic relations with Colombia.
AMENDMENT NO. 5086
At the request of Mr. Lankford, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 5086 intended to be proposed to H.R. 3967, a bill to improve health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes.
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