Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for teacher and first responder stabilization.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2012 through 2015 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce tobacco smuggling, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to require accurate disclosures to consumers of the terms and conditions of 4G service and other advanced wireless mobile broadband service.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for identification of misaligned currency, require action to correct the misalignment, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 9 of the United States Code to prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts for mobile service.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend chapter 1606 of title 10, United States Code, to modify the basis utilized for annual adjustments in amounts of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating September 23, 2011, as "National Falls Prevention Awareness Day" to raise awareness and encourage the prevention of falls among older adults.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the month of October 2011 as "National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month".

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating September 24, 2011, as "National Estuaries Day".

Cosponsored — A bill to provide a processing extension for emergency mortgage relief payments, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to create livable communities through coordinated public investment and streamlined requirements, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to protect consumers by mitigating the vulnerability of personally identifiable information to theft through a security breach, providing notice and remedies to consumers in the wake of such a breach, holding companies accountable for preventable breaches, facilitating the sharing of post-breach technical information between companies, and enhancing criminal and civil penalties and other protections against the unauthorized collection or use of personally identifiable information.

Sponsored — A bill to include shellfish to the list of crops eligible for the noninsured crop disaster assistance program and the emergency assistance for livestock program of the Department of Agriculture.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that funding for the Federal Pell Grant program should not be cut in any deficit reduction program.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prevent excessive speculation in commodity markets and excessive speculative position limits on energy contracts, and for other purposes.