Legislation

Cosponsored — 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.

Sponsored — A bill to direct the President to designate a month as African Diaspora Heritage Month.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Sponsored — A bill to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Lumbee Act of 1956.

Cosponsored — A bill to increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to place limitations on excepting positions from the competitive service, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand eligibility for the refundable credit for coverage under a qualified health plan.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.

Cosponsored — A bill to address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to provide for an international disability rights strategy, and for other purposes.

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

Sponsored — A bill to support foreign assistance programs and diplomatic initiatives to counter violence in the Western Hemisphere.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to expand the Magnet Schools Assistance Program.

Sponsored — Contaminated Wells Relocation Act

Sponsored — A bill to modify a provision supporting the execution of bilateral agreements concerning illicit transnational maritime activity and to authorize the President to impose sanctions with respect to illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing and the sale, supply, purchase, or transfer of endangered species, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide clarification of assistance related to safeguarding and the elimination of landmines, other explosive remnants of war, and conventional arms.