Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate origination fees on Federal Direct loans.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 54, United States Code, to modify certain cost-sharing requirements for grant programs under the American Battlefield Protection Program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to ensure that pharmacy benefit managers are considered fiduciaries, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to ensure that claims for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act are processed in a fair and timely manner, to better protect miners from pneumoconiosis (commonly known as "black lung disease"), and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to ease the benefits process for survivors of miners whose deaths were due to pneumoconiosis.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish and implement a multi-year Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Strategy to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.

Cosponsored — 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.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish in the Department of State a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ People, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to enhance the rights of domestic employees, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the unauthorized use of United States Armed Forces in hostilities with respect to Venezuela.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prohibit the issuance of licenses for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of advanced integrated circuits to or in foreign adversaries.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title III of the Social Security Act to provide flexibility in grants for reemployment services and eligibility assessments.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a public health plan.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a digital skills at work grant program.

Sponsored — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building".