Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the position of Director of Foreign Assistance in the Department of State, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and services for surviving spouses, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to protect an individual's ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for current year inclusion of net CFC tested income, and for other purposes.

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

Cosponsored — A bill to transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend or restrict the entry of a class of aliens.

Sponsored — A bill to require full funding of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Cosponsored — A bill to restore the integrity of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to carry out research and development on a single index insurance policy, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to modify the authority of the Office of National Drug Control Policy with respect to the World Anti-Doping Agency, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to restrict the first-use strike of nuclear weapons.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules for postponing certain deadlines by reason of disaster.

Cosponsored — A bill to require additional disclosures relating to donations to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require each enterprise to include on the Uniform Residential Loan Application a disclaimer to increase awareness of the direct and guaranteed home loan programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to authorize for a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to place limitations on excepting positions from the competitive service, and for other purposes.