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ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 129
At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) was added as a cosponsor of S. 129, a bill to permit disabled law enforcement officers, customs and border protection officers, firefighters, air traffic controllers, nuclear material couriers, members of the Capitol Police, members of the Supreme Court Police, employees of the Central Intelligence Agency performing intelligence activities abroad or having specialized security requirements, and diplomatic security special agents of the Department of State to receive retirement benefits in the same manner as if they had not been disabled.
S. 251
At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio) 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. 1079
At the request of Mr. Heinrich, the name of the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1079, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the troops from the United States and the Philippines who defended Bataan and Corregidor, in recognition of their personal sacrifice and service during World War II.
S. 1408
At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1408, a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, J. Christopher Stevens, and Sean Smith, in recognition of their contributions to the Nation.
S. 1507
At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1507, a bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate certain limitations with respect to pre-production plastic pellet pollution, and for other purposes.
S. 1593
At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from Nevada
(Ms. Rosen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1593, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the designation of general surgery shortage areas, and for other purposes.
S. 1625
At the request of Mr. Warner, the names of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Smith) and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) were added as cosponsors of S. 1625, a bill to authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officer's State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.
S. 1795
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1795, a bill to address mental health issues for youth, particularly youth of color, and for other purposes.
S. 1858
At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Leahy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1858, a bill to prohibit and prevent seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing, and to prevent and reduce the use of physical restraint in schools, and for other purposes.
S. 2052
At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2052, a bill to prohibit biometric surveillance by the Federal Government without explicit statutory authorization and to withhold certain Federal public safety grants from State and local governments that engage in biometric surveillance.
S. 2512
At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2512, a bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices and judges of the courts of the United States.
S. 2607
At the request of Mr. Padilla, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Mr. Cassidy) was withdrawn as a cosponsor of S. 2607, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the former hostages of the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981, highlighting their resilience throughout the unprecedented ordeal that they lived through and the national unity it produced, marking 4 decades since their 444 days in captivity, and recognizing their sacrifice to the United States.
S. 2688
At the request of Ms. Hirono, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) were added as cosponsors of S. 2688, a bill to require consultations on reuniting Korean Americans with family members in North Korea.
S. 2706
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2706, a bill to improve diversity in clinical trials and data collection for COVID-19 and future public health threats to address social determinants of health.
S. 2798
At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2798, a bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.
S. 2956
At the request of Mr. Coons, the names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) were added as cosponsors of S. 2956, a bill to advance targeted, high-impact, and evidence-based inventions for the prevention and treatment of global malnutrition, to improve the coordination of such programs, and for other purposes.
S. 3372
At the request of Mr. Braun, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3372, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to strengthen benefits for children of Vietnam veterans born with spina bifida, and for other purposes.
S. 3589
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Virginia
(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3589, a bill to require a United States security strategy for the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.
S. 3628
At the request of Ms. Rosen, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3628, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to promote comprehensive mental health and suicide prevention efforts in schools, and for other purposes.
S. 3860
At the request of Ms. Cortez Masto, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3860, a bill to establish a grant program to provide assistance to local governments with fewer than 200 law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
S. 3909
At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3909, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for the work opportunity credit.
S. 4161
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4161, a bill to establish effluent limitations guidelines and standards and water quality criteria for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.
S. 4230
At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Maryland
(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4230, a bill to establish the Strength in Diversity Program, and for other purposes.
S. 4260
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from Ohio
(Mr. Brown) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) were added as cosponsors of S. 4260, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, social work schools, and other programs, including physician assistant education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.
S. 4296
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4296, a bill to reauthorize the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, and for other purposes.
S. 4354
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4354, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, regarding restrictions on the use of funds and facilities of the Department of Defense for abortion care.
S. 4380
At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4380, a bill to transition the nontactical vehicle fleet of the Department of Defense to electric or other zero emission vehicles, and for other purposes.
S. 4389
At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) were added as cosponsors of S. 4389, a bill to provide for the abolition of certain United Nations groups, and for other purposes.
S. 4408
At the request of Ms. Warren, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4408, a bill to prohibit data brokers from selling and transferring certain sensitive data.
S. 4441
At the request of Ms. Cortez Masto, the name of the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4441, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for peer support specialists for claimants who are survivors of military sexual trauma, and for other purposes.
S. 4444
At the request of Mr. Lankford, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cornyn) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4444, a bill to limit donations made pursuant to settlement agreements to which the United States is a party, and for other purposes.
S. 4451
At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the name of the Senator from Florida
(Mr. Rubio) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4451, a bill to provide that certain policy statements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall have no force or effect unless certain conditions are met, and for other purposes.
S. 4457
At the request of Mr. Cotton, the name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4457, a bill to protect children from medical malpractice in the form of gender transition procedures.
S. 4467
At the request of Ms. Smith, the names of the Senator from New Jersey
(Mr. Booker), the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) were added as cosponsors of S. 4467, a bill to preserve access to abortion medications.
S. 4469
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4469, a bill to direct the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules prohibiting disinformation in the advertising of abortion services, and for other purposes.
S. 4474
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma
(Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) were added as cosponsors of S. 4474, a bill to prohibit the declaration of a Federal emergency relating to abortion.
S. RES. 684
At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 684, a resolution reaffirming the importance of the United States to promote the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons.
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