Legislation

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

Sponsored — Hide No Harm Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Military Family Stability 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.

Cosponsored — Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating September 2015 as “National Kinship Care Month”.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the sale or distribution of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21.

Cosponsored — American Energy Innovation Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the determination of cohort default rates and provide for enhanced civil penalties, to ensure personal liability of owners, officers, and executives of institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Social Security Earned Benefits Payment Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend authorities for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expand presumption of service connection for compensation for diseases the Secretary determines are associated with exposure to herbicide agents, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the week of September 19 through September 26, 2015, as “National Estuaries Week”.

Cosponsored — Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Syrian refugee crisis.