Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize Federal agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the child and adult care food program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to award grants to nonprofit entities to assist such entities in carrying out programs to provide service dogs to eligible veterans, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and make the credit fully refundable for certain taxpayers.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employee, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to increase the amount of reimbursements under the child and adult care food program, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to clarify the exemption relating to commercial activities, to grant the Attorney General authority to issue civil investigative demands under that Act, and to create civil penalties for failure to meet the registration requirements under that Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide authorization for nonpecuniary damages in an action resulting from a cruise ship voyage occurring on the high seas.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable child tax credit with monthly advance payment.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide enhanced funding for family planning services.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand, and make permanent certain modifications of, the earned income credit.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009 to require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to collaborate with State and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification, research planning, and similar activities, and for purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit machinegun conversion devices and illegal modifications of semiautomatic firearms, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to secure the rights of public employees to organize, act concertedly, and bargain collectively, which safeguard the public interest and promote the free and unobstructed flow of commerce, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to advance research to achieve medical breakthroughs in brain tumor treatment and improve awareness and adequacy of specialized cancer and brain tumor care.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters within the Department of Agriculture.