Legislation

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 — Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2018

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 — LABEL Opioids Act

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 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 ensure medications are affordable.

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.

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.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to remove the manifestation period required for the presumptions of service connection for chloracne, porphyria cutanea tarda, and acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Aretha Franklin Congressional Gold Medal Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary to provide for the use of data from the second preceding tax year to carry out the simplification of applications for the estimation and determination of financial aid eligibility, to increase the income threshold to qualify for zero expected family contribution, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to institute a 180-day waiting period before medical debt will be reported on a consumer's credit report and to remove paid-off and settled medical debts from credit reports that have been fully paid or settled, to amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to provide a timetable for verification of medical debt and to increase the efficiency of credit markets with more perfect information, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to enhance the early warning reporting requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine Darden and to posthumously award Congressional Gold Medals to Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson in recognition of their contributions to the success of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the Space Race.

Cosponsored — A bill to protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs with respect to certain changes in reconciliation legislation.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the publication of 3D printer plans for the printing of firearms, and for other purposes.