The Senate recently passed, and the House introduced, resolutions officially designating February 2018 as national CTE Month®. In the Senate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the resolution and, with the help of his co-chair colleagues on the Senate CTE Caucus, Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Todd Young (R-IN), recruited a record-breaking number of co-sponsors. Senators from 31 states signed on as co-sponsors, and 13 states had both of their Senators sign on (CA, GA, IL, IN, MI, NH, ND, OH, SD, VA, WA, WV, WY). In total, 45 Senators, including 16 Republicans, 28 Democrats and one Independent were listed on the resolution. This is the fifth consecutive year that the Senate has passed a CTE Month resolution — every year since the caucus was founded in 2014!
On the House side, this was the first time since 2008 that a CTE Month resolution was introduced. The House does not bring commemorative resolutions to the floor. This year, Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) led the effort to introduce the resolution alongside Rep. Glenn Thompson, his fellow co-chair of the House CTE Caucus. The resolution included 47 cosponsors. Collectively, the cosponsors represent 25 states; the best-represented state was Pennsylvania (6), followed by Washington (4) and California (4). In total, 32 Democrats and 16 Republicans signed on to the resolution.
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