Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.

Cosponsored — A resolution honoring Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman selected by a major political party as its candidate for Vice President of the United States, and extending the condolences of the Senate on her death.

Cosponsored — A bill to promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the preservation by the Department of Defense of documentary evidence of the Department of Defense on incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the military, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses.

Cosponsored — A bill to facilitate efficient investments and financing of infrastructure projects and new job creation through the establishment of an American Infrastructure Financing Authority, to provide for an extension of the exemption from the alternative minimum tax treatment for certain tax-exempt bonds, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the priority review voucher incentive program relating to tropical and rare pediatric diseases.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a grant program to benefit victims of sex trafficking, and for other purposes.

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.