Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the planning and construction of any structure or monument at Memorial Circle at Columbia Island/ Lady Bird Johnson Park in the District of Columbia.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the National Institutes of Clean Energy.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Small Business Act to create a program to provide funding for organizations that support startup businesses in formation and early growth stages by providing entrepreneurs with resources and services to produce viable businesses, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to change certain grant requirements for certain students with disabilities, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants, and grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the demolition of Presidential memorials.

Sponsored — A bill to establish jobs programs for long-term unemployed workers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Civilian Climate Corps to help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide women with increased access to preventive and life-saving cancer screening.

Cosponsored — A bill to restore protections for Social Security, Railroad retirement, and Black Lung benefits from administrative offset.

Cosponsored — A bill to support educators.

Cosponsored — A bill to eliminate toxic substances in beverage containers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the basic needs of students at institutions of higher education.

Sponsored — A bill to establish a program to address sickle cell disease and other heritable hemoglobinopathies.

Cosponsored — A bill to impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons that have facilitated Israeli settlement construction in the E1 area of the West Bank.

Cosponsored — A bill to divert Federal funding away from supporting the presence of police in schools and toward evidence-based and trauma informed services that address the needs of marginalized students and improve academic outcomes, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish an Office of Prison Education, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to expand the Magnet Schools Assistance Program.