Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to address health, safety, and environmental hazards at private military housing units, to prohibit the payment by members of the Armed Forces of deposits or other fees relating to such housing units, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to enhance prescription drug affordability by expanding access to assistance with out-of-pocket costs under Medicare part D for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Shirley Chisholm for placement in the United States Capitol.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce of asbestos and asbestos-containing mixtures and articles, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to improve highway-rail grade crossing safety, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of cosmetics.

Cosponsored — A bill to restore the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order and its net neutrality protections.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide for the participation of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the child tax credit fully refundable, establish an increased child tax credit for young children, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive coinsurance under Medicare for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening.

Cosponsored — A bill to protect the rights of passengers with disabilities in air transportation, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish State-Federal partnerships to provide students the opportunity to attain higher education at in-State public institutions of higher education without debt, to provide Federal Pell Grant eligibility to DREAMer students, to repeal suspension of eligibility under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for drug-related offenses, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to exempt from the calculation of monthly income certain benefit paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide access to counsel for unaccompanied alien children.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for enhanced protections for vulnerable alien children, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure the humane treatment of pregnant women by reinstating the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment of pregnant detainees, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to address certain issues relating to the extension of consumer credit, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries caused by underride crashes, to improve motor carrier and passenger motor vehicle safety, and for other purposes.