Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to increase funding for the State response to the opioid misuse crisis and to provide funding for research on addiction and pain related to the substance misuse crisis.

Sponsored — A bill to require a background check for every firearm sale.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a State public option through Medicaid to provide Americans with the choice of a high-quality, low-cost health insurance plan.

Cosponsored — A bill to repeal the rules issued by the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services entitled "Religious Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act" and "Moral Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act".

Sponsored — A bill to block the implementation of certain presidential actions that restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.

Cosponsored — AGOA and MCA Modernization Act

Cosponsored — A bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Cosponsored — Smarter Sentencing Act of 2017

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.

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.

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 — 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.