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“ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” mentioning Tim Scott was published in the Senate section on pages S2487-S2488 on May 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.
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The publication is reproduced in full below:
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS
S. 51
At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 51, a bill to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.
S. 221
At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 221, a bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a grant program to increase cooperation on post-traumatic stress disorder research between the United States and Israel.
S. 228
At the request of Ms. Klobuchar, the name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 228, a bill to promote antitrust enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees, and increasing antitrust enforcement resources.
S. 241
At the request of Mr. Lee, the name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun) was added as a cosponsor of S. 241, a bill to provide for congressional approval of national emergency declarations, and for other purposes.
S. 246
At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 246, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing in program enhancement and infrastructure modernization, increasing the number of nursing faculty and students, and for other purposes.
S. 273
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) was added as a cosponsor of S. 273, a bill to improve the management of driftnet fishing.
S. 368
At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the names of the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock) were added as cosponsors of S. 368, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make permanent certain telehealth flexibilities under the Medicare program related to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
S. 388
At the request of Mr. Merkley, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 388, a bill to suspend certain United States assistance for the Government of Honduras until corruption, impunity, and human rights violations are no longer systemic, and the perpetrators of these crimes are being brought to justice.
S. 464
At the request of Ms. Murkowski, the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 464, a bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol, and for other purposes.
S. 479
At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Klobuchar) was added as a cosponsor of S. 479, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate advance refunding bonds.
S. 660
At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Tester) was added as a cosponsor of S. 660, a bill to require parity in the coverage of mental health and substance use disorder services provided to enrollees in private insurance plans, whether such services are provided in-person or through telehealth.
S. 699
At the request of Mr. Rubio, the name of the Senator from Minnesota
(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 699, a bill to require a review of women and lung cancer, and for other purposes.
S. 747
At the request of Mr. Padilla, the name of the Senator from Delaware
(Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 747, a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the adjustment of status of essential workers, and for other purposes.
S. 754
At the request of Ms. Baldwin, the names of the Senator from Oregon
(Mr. Merkley) and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley) were added as cosponsors of S. 754, a bill to provide health insurance benefits for outpatient and inpatient items and services related to the diagnosis and treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth defect.
S. 771
At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from California
(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 771, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.
S. 774
At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst) was added as a cosponsor of S. 774, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to punish criminal offenses targeting law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
S. 910
At the request of Mr. Daines, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 910, a bill to create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and service providers for such businesses, and for other purposes.
S. 926
At the request of Mrs. Murray, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of S. 926, a bill to plan, develop, and make recommendations to increase access to sexual assault examinations for survivors by holding hospitals accountable and supporting the providers that serve them.
S. 951
At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Montana
(Mr. Daines) was added as a cosponsor of S. 951, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible organizations to provide service dogs to veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, and for other purposes.
S. 986
At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 986, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a 5-year extension of the carbon oxide sequestration credit, and for other purposes.
S. 1210
At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1210, a bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to clarify provisions enacted by the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, to further the conservation of certain wildlife species, and for other purposes.
S. 1302
At the request of Mr. Brown, the names of the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) were added as cosponsors of S. 1302, a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
S. 1308
At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Mr. Kelly) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1308, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to issuers of American infrastructure bonds.
S. 1353
At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1353, a bill to promote United States values and fulfill agency missions through the use of innovative applied artificial intelligence technologies, and for other purposes.
S. 1441
At the request of Mr. Wicker, the names of the Senator from Hawaii
(Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith) were added as cosponsors of S. 1441, a bill to appropriate an additional amount to improve the Navy shipyard infrastructure of the United States.
S. 1469
At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1469, a bill to amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to meet the needs of homeless children, youth, and families, and honor the assessments and priorities of local communities.
S. 1475
At the request of Mr. Thune, the names of the Senator from Arkansas
(Mr. Boozman) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) were added as cosponsors of S. 1475, a bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under title V of that Act for certain emissions from agricultural production.
S. 1491
At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1491, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve obstetric care in rural areas.
S. 1511
At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1511, a bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 with respect to payments to certain public safety officers who have become permanently and totally disabled as a result of personal injuries sustain in the line of duty, and for other purposes.
S. 1520
At the request of Mrs. Gillibrand, the names of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) were added as cosponsors of S. 1520, a bill to reform the disposition of charges and convening of courts-
martial for certain offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and increase the prevention of sexual assaults and other crimes in the military.
S. 1522
At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Louisiana
(Mr. Kennedy) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1522, a bill to allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.
S. 1535
At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from New Mexico
(Mr. Heinrich) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1535, a bill to designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in the State of Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of people in the United States.
S. 1555
At the request of Mr. Marshall, the name of the Senator from Texas
(Mr. Cruz) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1555, a bill to shorten the extension, and the amount, of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation in order to get Americans back to work.
S. 1559
At the request of Mr. Tillis, the name of the Senator from Arizona
(Ms. Sinema) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1559, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain qualified over-the-
counter securities to be treated as readily traded on an established securities market for the purpose of diversification requirements for employee stock ownership plans.
S. CON. RES. 9
At the request of Mr. Barrasso, the names of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 9, a concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act
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