Legislation

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reform the rights and processes relating to appeals of decisions regarding claims for benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — Making Education Affordable Act

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to decrease the distance away from home required for a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces to be eligible for the above-the-line deduction for travel expenses.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to nullify the effect of the recent executive order regarding border security and immigration enforcement.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 to make 2,500 visas available for the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to raise the quality of career and technical education programs and to allow local eligible recipients to use funding to establish high-quality career academies.</p>

Cosponsored — Community College to Career Fund Act

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to nullify the effect of the March 6, 2017 executive order that temporarily restricts most nationals from six countries from entering the United States.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to support meeting the increasing needs of the United States for a cybersecurity and information assurance workforce by reinvigorating and modifying the Information Assurance Scholarship Program of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2017

Cosponsored — United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act of 2017

Cosponsored — Lymphedema Treatment Act

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to protect a woman's right and ability to determine whether and when to bear a child or end a pregnancy by limiting restrictions on the provision of abortion services.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a scholarship program for educators of rural students and provide for loan forgiveness for rural educators, to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide professional development grants for rural elementary schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.</p>

Cosponsored — <p>A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide an exclusion from income for student loan forgiveness for students who have died or become disabled.</p>

Cosponsored — ACE Kids Act of 2017