Legislation

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.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the income protection allowances.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent earnings stripping of domestic corporations which are members of a worldwide group of corporations which includes an inverted corporation and to require agreements with respect to certain related party transactions with those members.

Cosponsored — IDEA Full Funding Act

Cosponsored — A resolution relative to the death of James M. Jeffords, former United States Senator for the State of Vermont.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to improve the Federal charter for the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating September 2014 as “National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month”.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure that transportation and infrastructure projects carried out using Federal financial assistance are constructed with steel, iron, and manufactured goods that are produced in the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — World War I American Veterans Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent future propane shortages, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that women members of the Armed Forces and their families have access to the contraception they need in order to promote the health and readiness of all members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the current situation in Iraq and the urgent need to protect religious minorities from persecution from the Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as it expands its control over areas in northwestern Iraq.

Cosponsored — Women’s Small Business Ownership Act of 2014

Cosponsored — Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act