Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a community college and career training grant program.

Cosponsored — A bill to set and meet a national goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by not later than 2050, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to eliminate asset limits employed by certain Federally-funded means-tested public assistance programs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Department of Veterans Affairs Tribal Advisory Committee Act of 2019

Cosponsored — FAIR Act

Cosponsored — President George H.W. Bush and First Spouse Barbara Bush Coin Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the requirements for appointment, qualifications, and pay for therapeutic medical physicists of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure the solvency of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund by extending the excise tax on coal.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the "Biomedical Innovation Fund", and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act

Cosponsored — Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure a fair process for negotiations of collective bargaining agreements under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and to transfer a portion of such cover over to the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund.

Cosponsored — Promoting American National Security and Preventing the Resurgence of ISIS Act of 2019

Cosponsored — Preserving America’s Battlefields Act

Cosponsored — Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for a period of continuing appropriations in the event of a lapse in appropriations under the normal appropriations process, and establish procedures and consequences in the event of a failure to enact appropriations.

Cosponsored — GLOBE Act of 2019

Sponsored — A bill to apply cooperative and small employer charity pension plan rules to certain charitable employers whose primary exempt purpose is providing services with respect to mothers and children.