Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit to certain recently discharged veterans, to improve the coordination of veteran job training services between the Department of Labor, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense, to require transparency for Executive departments in meeting the Government-wide goals for contracting with small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — FAST Voting Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A bill to amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.

Cosponsored — A bill to revise and extend provisions under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.

Cosponsored — End Wasteful Tax Loopholes Act

Cosponsored — Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Extreme Weather Prevention and Resilience Act

Cosponsored — Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Made In America Manufacturing Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Sandy Hook Elementary School Violence Reduction Act

Cosponsored — Gun Show Background Check Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Immigration Reform that Works for America’s Future Act

Cosponsored — A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

Cosponsored — Putting Our Veterans Back to Work Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A resolution to limit certain uses of the filibuster in the Senate to improve the legislative process.

Sponsored — Student Internship Opportunity Act