Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to encourage and ensure the use of safe football helmets and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a point of order against any efforts to reduce benefits paid to Social Security recipients, raise the retirement age, or create private retirement accounts under title II of the Social Security Act.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate relating to the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent harassment at institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Services Act and the Social Security Act to extend health information technology assistance eligibility to behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse professionals and facilities, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to end discrimination based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in public schools, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide driver safety grants to States with graduated driver licensing laws that meet certain minimum requirements.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that utilization of survivors' and dependents' educational assistance shall not be subject to the 48-month limitation on the aggregate amount of assistance utilizable under multiple veterans and related educational assistance programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for increased Federal oversight of prescription opioid treatment and assistance to States in reducing opioid abuse, diversion, and deaths.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for patent reform.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance protections for members of the uniformed services relating to mortgages, mortgage foreclosure, and eviction, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require certain mortgagees to evaluate loans for modifications, to establish a grant program for State and local government mediation programs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a grant program to enhance training and services to prevent abuse in later life.

Cosponsored — A bill to better protect, serve, and advance the rights of victims of elder abuse and exploitation by establishing a program to encourage States and other qualified entities to create jobs designed to hold offenders accountable, enhance the capacity of the justice system to investigate, pursue, and prosecute elder abuse cases, identify existing resources to leverage to the extent possible, and assure data collection, research, and evaluation to promote the efficacy and efficiency of the activities described in this Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.

Cosponsored — A bill to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care.

Cosponsored — A resolution relative to the death of James Albertus McClure, former United States Senator for the State of Idaho.