Legislation

Sponsored — Veteran Partners’ Efforts to Enhance Reintegration Act

Cosponsored — Security and Financial Empowerment Act of 2015

Sponsored — A resolution recognizing Connecticut’s Submarine Century, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Naval Submarine Base New London, and Connecticut’s historic role in supporting the undersea capabilities of the United States.

Cosponsored — A resolution condemning the senseless murder and wounding of 18 individuals (sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, students, and teachers) in Roseburg, Oregon, on October 1, 2015.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the week of November 2 through November 6, 2015 as “National Veterans Small Business Week”.

Sponsored — Domestic Violence Gun Homicide Prevention Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Equity for Puerto Rico Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the availability of high-quality childcare for working parents should be increased.

Cosponsored — Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into certain agreements with non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers if the Secretary is not feasibly able to provide health care in facilities of the Department or through contracts or sharing agreements, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Improving Access to Mental Health Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A resolution designating October 2015 as “Filipino American History Month”.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require applicable manufacturers to include information regarding payments made to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other advance practice nurses in transparency reports submitted under section 1128G of such Act.

Cosponsored — Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Military Family Stability Act of 2015

Sponsored — Hide No Harm Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to support veterans in contact with the criminal justice system by discouraging unnecessary criminalization of mental illness and other nonviolent crimes, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for greater congressional oversight of Iran’s nuclear program, and for other purposes.