Legislation

Cosponsored — Wounded Warrior Workforce Enhancement Act

Cosponsored — Wounded Warrior Research Enhancement Act

Cosponsored — LOVE Act of 2017

Cosponsored — Teachers Are Leaders Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — United States Green Bank Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to strengthen the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to review the discharge characterization of former members of the Armed Forces who were discharged by reason of the sexual orientation of the member, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure that all fast-tracked reconciliation bills are subject to a committee hearing, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017

Cosponsored — Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017

Sponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of American innovation and significant innovation and pioneering efforts of individuals or groups from each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories, to promote the importance of innovation in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.

Cosponsored — A bill to allow United States citizens and legal residents to travel between the United States and Cuba.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to certain exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to credit individuals serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service, and to support State medical training programs for caregivers.