Legislation

Cosponsored — Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation.

Cosponsored — Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education for Alzheimer's Act

Cosponsored — Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013

Cosponsored — High-Capacity Ammunition Magazine Ban of 2013

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that our current tax incentives for retirement savings provide important benefits to Americans to help plan for a financially secure retirement.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the closing of air traffic control towers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Cosponsored — Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing the 192nd anniversary of the independence of Greece and celebrating democracy in Greece and the United States.

Cosponsored — Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Healthy Families Act

Cosponsored — A bill to require the continuation of tuition assistance programs for members of the Armed Forces for the remainder of fiscal year 2013.

Cosponsored — Assault Weapons Ban of 2013

Cosponsored — Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013

Cosponsored — Smarter Borrowing Act