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Feb. 12 sees Congressional Record publish “ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” in the Senate section

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Volume 167, No. 27, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 - 2022), 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 Tim Scott was published in the Senate section on pages S706-S707 on Feb. 12.

Of the 100 senators in 117th Congress, 24 percent were women, and 76 percent were men, according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Senators' salaries are historically higher than the median US income.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 13

At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the name of the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) was added as a cosponsor of S. 13, a bill to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations on improvements to the security, integrity, and administration of Federal elections.

S. 26

At the request of Mr. Portman, the name of the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 26, a bill to provide the Administrator of the Drug-Free Communities Support Program the authority to waive the Federal fund limitation for the Drug-Free Communities Support Program.

S. 32

At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 32, a bill to provide for the establishment of a standing Health Force and a Resilience Force to respond to public health emergencies and meet public health needs.

S. 35

At the request of Mr. Van Hollen, the names of the Senator from Ohio

(Mr. Portman) and the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Hickenlooper) were added as cosponsors of S. 35, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Officer Eugene Goodman.

At the request of Mr. McConnell, his name was added as a cosponsor of S. 35, supra.

S. 40

At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 40, a bill to address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

S. 59

At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from Arkansas

(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 59, a bill to provide a civil remedy for individuals harmed by sanctuary jurisdiction policies, and for other purposes.

S. 60

At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from Arkansas

(Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 60, a bill to provide for the effective use of immigration detainers to enhance public safety.

S. 65

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 65, a bill to ensure that goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes.

S. 74

At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the name of the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 74, a bill to expand opportunity through greater choice in education, and for other purposes.

S. 80

At the request of Ms. Ernst, the name of the Senator from Tennessee

(Mr. Hagerty) was added as a cosponsor of S. 80, a bill to require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take into custody certain aliens who have been charged in the United States with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person, and for other purposes.

S. 98

At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from Michigan

(Ms. Stabenow) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) were added as cosponsors of S. 98, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for neighborhood revitalization, and for other purposes.

S. 120

At the request of Mr. Schatz, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 120, a bill to prevent and respond to the misuse of communications services that facilitates domestic violence and other crimes.

S. 121

At the request of Ms. Rosen, the names of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) were added as cosponsors of S. 121, a bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish demonstration and pilot projects to facilitate education and training programs in the field of advanced manufacturing.

S. 145

At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Alaska

(Ms. Murkowski) was added as a cosponsor of S. 145, a bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that the United States Postal Service prepay future retirement benefits, and for other purposes.

S. 171

At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 171, a bill to authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline.

S. 211

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott) was added as a cosponsor of S. 211, a bill to prohibit the Secretary of Education from providing Federal elementary and secondary education funds for fiscal year 2021 or COVID-19 relief funds to an elementary school or secondary school that does not offer in-person instruction.

S. 212

At the request of Mr. Cardin, the names of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors of S. 212, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable tax credit against income tax for the purchase of qualified access technology for the blind.

S. 225

At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the names of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) were added as cosponsors of S. 225, a bill to reform the antitrust laws to better protect competition in the American economy, to amend the Clayton Act to modify the standard for an unlawful acquisition, to deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers, to enhance the ability of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the antitrust laws, and for other purposes.

S. 248

At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the name of the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) was added as a cosponsor of S. 248, a bill to provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes.

S. 255

At the request of Mr. Wicker, the names of the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) were added as cosponsors of S. 255, a bill to establish a $120,000,000,000 Restaurant Revitalization Fund to provide structured relief to food service or drinking establishments, and for other purposes.

S. 278

At the request of Mr. Warnock, the names of the Senator from Ohio

(Mr. Brown) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) were added as cosponsors of S. 278, a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged groups, and for other purposes.

S.J. RES. 3

At the request of Mr. Cruz, the name of the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 3, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

S.J. RES. 4

At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Nebraska

(Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 4, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of not more than 9 justices.

S. CON. RES. 3

At the request of Mr. Manchin, the names of the Senator from Montana

(Mr. Tester) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 3, a concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying in state of the remains of the last Medal of Honor recipient of World War II, in order to honor the Greatest Generation and the more than 16,000,000 men and women who served in the Armed Forces of the United States from 1941 to 1945.

S. RES. 17

At the request of Ms. Ernst, the name of the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 17, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that clean water is a national priority and that the April 21, 2020, Navigable Waters Protection Rule should not be withdrawn or vacated.

S. RES. 34

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 34, a resolution recognizing the 200th anniversary of the independence of Greece and celebrating democracy in Greece and the United States.

S. RES. 45

At the request of Mr. Booker, the names of the Senator from Tennessee

(Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Young), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Rounds) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 45, a resolution celebrating Black History Month.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 27

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