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.

Sponsored — A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for the intellectually disabled, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities to permit essential caregivers access during any period in which regular visitation is restricted.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing the WISeR model under the Medicare program.

Sponsored — A bill to exempt humanitarian care packages sent to members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas from certain postal reporting requirements, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to hold certain public employers liable in civil actions for deprivation of rights, and for other purposes.

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

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for limitations on domestic deployments of National Guard members.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a new nonimmigrant category for alien relatives of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents seeking to enter the United States temporarily for family purposes, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize urbanized area formula grants for service improvement and safety and security enhancement, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing in increasing the number of nursing students and faculty and in program enhancement and infrastructure modernization, and for other purposes.

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.

Sponsored — A bill to improve health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, 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 establish the Federal Food Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services.

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

Sponsored — A bill to expand the telescreening mammography pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit a United States currency featuring the likeness of a living or sitting President.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to designate an Agritourism Advisor, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to require a report on the purchases of Iranian oil by the People's Republic of China, support from entities and individuals in the People's Republic of China for Iran's ballistic missile program, and for other purposes.