Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide the same level of Federal matching assistance for every State that chooses to expand Medicaid coverage to newly eligible individuals, regardless of when such expansion takes place, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts to include rollovers for charitable life-income plans for charitable purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow for the personal importation of safe and affordable drugs from approved pharmacies in Canada.

Cosponsored — RESTAURANTS Act of 2021

Sponsored — A bill to help small businesses access capital and create jobs by reauthorizing the successful State Small Business Credit Initiative.

Sponsored — A bill to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop guidance for firefighters and other emergency response personnel on best practices to protect them from exposure to PFAS and to limit and prevent the release of PFAS into the environment, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to preserve health benefits for workers.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to address the workforce needs of the telecommunications industry.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for an emergency increase in Federal funding to State Medicaid programs for expenditures on home and community-based services.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish demonstration and pilot projects to facilitate education and training programs in the field of advanced manufacturing.

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 provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.

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

Cosponsored — A bill to specify the Federal share of the costs of certain duty of the National Guard in connection with the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide funding for cities, counties, and other units of general local government to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide more than $435,000,000,000 in immediate and long-term investments in communities to promote economic justice, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — Helping Manufacturers Respond to COVID-19 Act of 2020

Sponsored — A bill to require notification of incidents at agencies involving sensitive personal information, and for other purposes.