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Sept. 6 sees Congressional Record publish “ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS” in the Senate section

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Tim Scott was mentioned in ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS on pages S4440-S4442 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Sept. 6 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS

S. 190

At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the names of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) were added as cosponsors of S. 190, a bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.

S. 344

At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) was added as a cosponsor of S. 344, a bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for concurrent receipt of veterans' disability compensation and retirement pay for disability retirees with fewer than 20 years of service and a combat-related disability, and for other purposes.

S. 424

At the request of Mr. Markey, the names of the Senator from Delaware

(Mr. Carper), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez) were added as cosponsors of S. 424, a bill to establish in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the Department of State a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI Peoples, and for other purposes.

S. 586

At the request of Mrs. Capito, the name of the Senator from Minnesota

(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 586, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to combat the opioid crisis by promoting access to non-opioid treatments in the hospital outpatient setting.

S. 596

At the request of Mr. Carper, the name of the Senator from Minnesota

(Ms. Smith) was added as a cosponsor of S. 596, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coordination of programs to prevent and treat obesity, and for other purposes.

S. 662

At the request of Mrs. Fischer, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 662, a bill to establish an interactive online dashboard to allow the public to review information for Federal grant funding related to mental health programs.

S. 781

At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 781, a bill to provide for the continuation of paid parental leave for members of the Armed Services in the event of the death of the child.

S. 888

At the request of Mr. Booker, the name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) was added as a cosponsor of S. 888, a bill to prohibit discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair.

S. 1035

At the request of Mr. Peters, the name of the Senator from California

(Mrs. Feinstein) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1035, a bill to require the Secretary of Labor to take initiatives to measure the impact of automation on the workforce in order to inform workforce development strategies, and for other purposes.

S. 1125

At the request of Ms. Stabenow, the names of the Senator from Indiana

(Mr. Young) and the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) were added as cosponsors 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. 1137

At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1137, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit gay and trans panic defenses.

S. 1157

At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed) were added as cosponsors of S. 1157, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow workers an above-the-

line deduction for union dues and expenses and to allow a miscellaneous itemized deduction for workers for all unreimbursed expenses incurred in the trade or business of being an employee.

S. 1302

At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Georgia

(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor 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. 1338

At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Coons) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1338, a bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace information in civil proceedings.

S. 1374

At the request of Mr. Wicker, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1374, a bill to direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support STEM education and workforce development research focused on rural areas, and for other purposes.

S. 1408

At the request of Mr. Markey, the names of the Senator from Oregon

(Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) were added as cosponsors 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. 1489

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1489, a bill to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to establish an Inspector General of the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and for other purposes.

S. 1521

At the request of Mr. Kaine, the names of the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Smith) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines) were added as cosponsors of S. 1521, a bill to require certain civil penalties to be transferred to a fund through which amounts are made available for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program at the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.

S. 1838

At the request of Mr. Blumenthal, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1838, a bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program on using alternative credit scoring information for veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

S. 1873

At the request of Mr. Crapo, the names of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman) and the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy) were added as cosponsors of S. 1873, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of multi-cancer early detection screening tests.

S. 1896

At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from New Jersey

(Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1896, a bill to prohibit the discriminatory use of personal information by online platforms in any algorithmic process, to require transparency in the use of algorithmic processes and content moderation, and for other purposes.

S. 2130

At the request of Mr. Whitehouse, the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2130, a bill to modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten opportunities for renewable energy, and for other purposes.

S. 2164

At the request of Mr. Crapo, the name of the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Hoeven) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2164, a bill to provide for certain reforms with respect to the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

S. 2340

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2340, a bill to improve the safety and security of the Federal judiciary.

S. 2410

At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan) were added as cosponsors of S. 2410, a bill to address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

S. 2512

At the request of Mr. Murphy, the name of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet) 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 Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added 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. 2702

At the request of Mr. Lujan, the name of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2702, a bill to protect the voting rights of Native American and Alaska Native voters.

S. 2706

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from Indiana

(Mr. Young), the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) and the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) were added as cosponsors 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. 2834

At the request of Mr. Durbin, the name of the Senator from Kentucky

(Mr. McConnell) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2834, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to rehabilitation innovation centers under the Medicare program.

S. 2889

At the request of Mr. Cornyn, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2889, a bill to amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 to address the timing for the use of funds with respect to grants made to shuttered venue operators.

S. 2958

At the request of Mr. Cardin, the name of the Senator from Georgia

(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 2958, a bill to require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to State, tribal, and local governments to establish and maintain witness protection and assistance programs.

S. 3021

At the request of Ms. Sinema, the names of the Senator from New York

(Mrs. Gillibrand), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) were added as cosponsors of S. 3021, a bill to provide non-medical counseling services for military families.

S. 3089

At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Michigan

(Mr. Peters) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3089, a bill to amend section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services as members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and to require the Committee to consider the security of the food and agriculture systems of the United States as a factor to be considered when determining to take action with respect to foreign investment, and for other purposes.

S. 3295

At the request of Ms. Smith, the names of the Senator from Nevada

(Ms. Rosen), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal) and the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) were added as cosponsors of S. 3295, a bill to increase access to pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce the transmission of HIV.

S. 3304

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

(Mr. Peters) and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) were added as cosponsors of S. 3304, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the ability of veterans to electronically submit complaints about the delivery of health care services by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

S. 3316

At the request of Mr. Grassley, the name of the Senator from Nevada

(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3316, a bill to provide for certain whistleblower incentives and protections.

S. 3361

At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3361, a bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the definition of franchise fee, and for other purposes.

S. 3483

At the request of Mr. Coons, the name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3483, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving spouses of veterans who die from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, regardless of how long the veterans had such disease prior to death, and for other purposes.

S. 3794

At the request of Ms. Smith, the name of the Senator from Virginia

(Mr. Kaine) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3794, a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish an emergency grant aid program, and for other purposes.

S. 3854

At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3854, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve certain programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for home and community based services for veterans, and for other purposes.

S. 3855

At the request of Mr. Lujan, the name of the Senator from Illinois

(Mr. Durbin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3855, a bill to amend section 7014 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to advance toward full Federal funding for impact aid, and for other purposes.

S. 3899

At the request of Mr. Scott of South Carolina, the name of the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3899, a bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to reauthorize and update the Act, and for other purposes.

S. 3909

At the request of Mr. Boozman, the name of the Senator from Kansas

(Mr. Moran) 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.

At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) was added as a cosponsor of S. 3909, supra.

S. 3938

At the request of Mr. Durbin, the names of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) were added as cosponsors of S. 3938, a bill to reauthorize the READ Act.

S. 4009

At the request of Mr. Casey, the names of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema) 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. 4105

At the request of Mr. Brown, the name of the Senator from Indiana

(Mr. Young) was added as a cosponsor 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. 4111

At the request of Mr. Hoeven, the names of the Senator from Colorado

(Mr. Bennet) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) were added as cosponsors of S. 4111, a bill to support research and State management efforts relating to chronic wasting disease, and for other purposes.

S. 4223

At the request of Mr. Tester, the name of the Senator from Nevada

(Ms. Cortez Masto) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4223, a bill to increase, effective as of December 1, 2022, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

S. 4382

At the request of Mr. Padilla, the names of the Senator from Kansas

(Mr. Moran) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kelly) were added as cosponsors of S. 4382, a bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, California.

S. 4419

At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Georgia

(Mr. Warnock) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4419, a bill to require small, medium, and large hub airports to certify that airport service workers are paid the prevailing wage and provided fringe benefits, and for other purposes.

S. 4466

At the request of Mr. Menendez, the names of the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan) and the Senator from Maine (Ms. Collins) were added as cosponsors of S. 4466, a bill to amend the Peace Corps Act by reauthorizing the Peace Corps, providing better support for current, returning, and former volunteers, and for other purposes.

S. 4485

At the request of Mr. Kaine, the name of the Senator from Georgia

(Mr. Ossoff) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4485, a bill to amend the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination based on source of income, veteran status, or military status.

S. 4612

At the request of Mr. Markey, the name of the Senator from Maryland

(Mr. Cardin) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4612, a bill to protect a person's ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

S. 4666

At the request of Mrs. Feinstein, the name of the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4666, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a deduction for attorney fees awarded with respect to certain wildfire damages and to exclude from gross income settlement funds received with respect to such damages.

S. 4741

At the request of Mrs. Shaheen, the name of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) was added as a cosponsor of S. 4741, a bill to encourage increased trade and investment between the United States and the countries in the Western Balkans, and for other purposes.

S. RES. 709

At the request of Mr. Moran, the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 709, a resolution expressing the commitment of the Senate to building on the 20 years of success of the George McGovern-Robert Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.

S. RES. 735

At the request of Mrs. Blackburn, the name of the Senator from Ohio

(Mr. Portman) was added as a cosponsor of S. Res. 735, a resolution acknowledging and commemorating the women in the Army who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corp during World War II.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 142

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