Legislation

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

Sponsored — A bill to provide disaster relief assistance to individuals for the purpose of clearing fallen debris, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to adopt a certain California flammability standard as a Federal flammability standard to protect against the risk of upholstered furniture flammability, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide a coordinated regional response to manage effectively the endemic violence and humanitarian crisis in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations providing that a presumption of service connection is warranted for a disease with a positive association with exposure to a herbicide agent, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program for low-income mothers.

Cosponsored — A bill to clarify responsibilities related to unaccompanied alien children, to provide additional protections and tracking mechanisms for such children, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Disabled Access Credit Expansion Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require States and their designees receiving grants for development and implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention strategies to collaborate with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, tribal organization, urban Indian organization, and Native Hawaiian health care system in the State.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to provide estimates relating to the distribution of aggregate economic growth across specific percentile groups of income.

Cosponsored — LABEL Opioids Act

Cosponsored — A bill to effectively staff the public elementary schools and secondary schools of the United States with school-based mental health services providers.

Cosponsored — Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2018

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish the Strength in Diversity Program.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award grants for teaching English learners to institutions of higher education.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure medications are affordable.

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 support States in their work to end preventable morbidity and mortality in maternity care by using evidence-based quality improvement to protect the health of mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the postpartum period and to reduce neonatal and infant mortality, to eliminate racial disparities in maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.