Legislation

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.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to end the tax subsidy for employer efforts to influence their workers' exercise of their rights around labor organizations and engaging in collective actions.

Cosponsored — A bill to modernize the business of selling firearms.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide Federal-local community partnership construction funding to local educational agencies eligible to receive payments under the Impact Aid program.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide counsel for unaccompanied children, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 with respect to transitioning producers from the noninsured crop assistance program to the whole farm revenue insurance plan.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for notification to, and review by, Congress with respect to the imposition of duties.