Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to provide access to counsel for children and other vulnerable populations.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System.

Cosponsored — A bill to restore, reaffirm, and reconcile environmental justice and civil rights, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to address social determinants of maternal health.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate fair prescription drug prices under part D of the Medicare program.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for media coverage of Federal court proceedings.

Cosponsored — A bill to extend Federal Pell Grant eligibility of certain short-term programs.

Sponsored — A bill to provide for further comprehensive research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on unruptured intracranial aneurysms.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the confidentiality of information submitted in requests for deferred action under the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a green transportation infrastructure grant program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the list of diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents for which there is a presumption of service connection for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam to include hypertension, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to provide grants to carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally-appropriate grasses and wildflowers, including milkweed, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize additional monies to the Public Housing Capital Fund of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to modify the exemptions from certain disclosure requirements.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide that certain rules and guidance related to waivers for State innovation under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shall have no force or effect.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize funds to prevent housing discrimination through the use of nationwide testing, to increase funds for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, and for other purposes.