Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the minimum size of crews of freight trains, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing foodborne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to foodborne illness and the chronic health outcomes associated with foodborne illnesses, improving the surveillance of foodborne pathogens (including foodborne pathogens identified as antibiotic resistant), and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to support educational entities in fully implementing title IX and reducing and preventing sex discrimination in all areas of education, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to require auto dealers to fix outstanding safety recalls before selling, leasing, or loaning a used motor vehicle.

Cosponsored — Fallen Journalists Memorial Act of 2019

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure that certain materials used in carrying out Federal infrastructure aid programs are made in the United States, 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 fully fund the Prevention and Public Health Fund and reaffirm the importance of prevention in the United States healthcare system.

Cosponsored — A bill to regulate firearm silencers and firearm mufflers.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the recording and reporting of communications between the Department of Justice and the White House relating to civil and criminal investigations, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 14, United States Code, to direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to report to Congress on efforts to increase gender diversity in the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to prevent the purchase of ammunition by prohibited purchasers.

Cosponsored — A bill to permit legally married same-sex couples to amend their filing status for tax returns outside the statute of limitations.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the Department of Housing and Urban Development from limiting the eligibility of DACA recipients for certain assistance, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that working families have access to affordable health insurance coverage.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a presumption of service connected disability for certain veterans who served in Palomares, Spain, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for additional requirements with respect to the navigator program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety rule for free-standing clothing storage units to protect children from tip-over related death or injury, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to provide and coordinate the provision of suicide prevention services for veterans at risk of suicide and veteran families through the award of grants to such entities, and for other purposes.