Legislation

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing National Native American Heritage Month and celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States.

Sponsored — A bill to improve the understanding and coordination of critical care health services.

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing that access to hospitals and other health care providers for patients in rural areas of the United States is essential to the survival and success of communities in the United States.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating December 3, 2014, as “National Phenylketonuria Awareness Day”.

Cosponsored — A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of American Education Week.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging the people of the United States to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.

Cosponsored — A bill to expand the program of priority review to encourage treatments for tropical diseases.

Cosponsored — Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the week of September 20 through September 27, 2014, as “National Estuaries Week”.

Cosponsored — Emergency Contraception Access and Education Act of 2014

Cosponsored — A resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the preparation of career and technical education teachers.

Sponsored — A bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a constituent-driven program that develops an information platform capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices, and coordinates the collection of priority coastal geospatial data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President and the Secretary of State should ensure that the Canadian Government does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin.

Cosponsored — Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2014

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the year of 2014 as the “International Year of Family Farming”.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 to strengthen research in adult education.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand the definition of eligible program.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating November 1, 2014, as National Bison Day.