Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to improve child care protections provided through interstate background checks.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide bankruptcy relief for student borrowers.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide emergency assistance to States, territories, Tribal nations, and local areas affected by the opioid epidemic and to make financial assistance available to States, territories, Tribal nations, local areas, and public or private nonprofit entities to provide for the development, organization, coordination, and operation of more effective and cost efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with substance use disorder and their families.

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

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to issue guidance and recommendations for institutions of higher education on removing criminal and juvenile justice questions from their application for admissions process.

Sponsored — A bill to expand employment opportunities for spouses of Foreign Service officers.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for increased investment in clean energy.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint a coin in commemoration of the opening of the National Law Enforcement Museum in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf in the Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Atlantic, and Straits of Florida planning areas.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network.

Cosponsored — A bill to apply requirements relating to delivery sales of cigarettes to delivery sales of electronic nicotine delivery systems, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of State to review the termination characterization of former members of the Department of State who were fired by reason of the sexual orientation of the official, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.

Cosponsored — A bill to prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in basic science research.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide that 12 weeks of leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to improve the public service loan forgiveness program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish a State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2019