Legislation

Cosponsored — Keep Americans Safe Act

Cosponsored — Bob Dole Congressional Gold Medal Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 and the Head Start Act to promote child care and early learning, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to recognize farms that have been in continuous operation for 100 years.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purposes of making adverse employment decisions.

Cosponsored — Federal Perkins Loan Program Extension Act of 2017

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the determination of cohort default rates and provide for enhanced civil penalties, to ensure personal liability of owners, officers, and executives of institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Farm to School Act of 2017

Cosponsored — SOS Act of 2017

Sponsored — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual's entitlement to any benefit thereunder shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month) and that such individual's benefit shall be payable for such month only to the extent proportionate to the number of days in such month preceding the date of such individual's death.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend certain appropriations Acts to repeal the requirement directing the Administrator of General Services to sell Federal property and assets that support the operations of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Plum Island, New York.

Cosponsored — A bill to implement policies to end preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths globally.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that all provisions shall apply to legally married same-sex couples in the same manner as other married couples, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent human health threats posed by the consumption of equines raised in the United States.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 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 — Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 to prevent wage theft and assist in the recovery of stolen wages, to authorize the Secretary of Labor to administer grants to prevent wage and hour violations, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Youth Access to Sexual Health Services Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to reform the financing of Senate elections, and for other purposes.