Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an exclusion for assistance provided to participants in certain veterinary student loan repayment or forgiveness programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow for the importation of affordable and safe drugs by wholesale distributors, pharmacies, and individuals.

Sponsored — A bill to require reporting on acts of certain foreign countries on Holocaust era assets and related issues.

Cosponsored — A bill to allow Homeland Security Grant Program funds to be used to safeguard faith-based community centers across the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to repeal certain amendments made to rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Cosponsored — A bill to eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to increase educational assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs for education and training of physician assistants of the Department, to establish pay grades and require competitive pay for physician assistants of the Department, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in awarding a contract for the procurement of goods or services, to give a preference to offerors that employ veterans, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to protect scientific integrity in Federal research and policymaking, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National Cemetery a monument honoring the helicopter pilots and crewmembers who were killed while serving on active duty in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs a center of excellence in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of health conditions relating to exposure to burn pits.

Cosponsored — A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.

Cosponsored — A bill to allow the financing by United States persons of sales of agricultural commodities to Cuba.