Legislation

Cosponsored — American Innovation Act

Cosponsored — Level Playing Field in Trade Agreements Act of 2015

Cosponsored — BTU Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2015

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

Cosponsored — International Violence Against Women Act of 2015

Cosponsored — SOS Campus Act

Cosponsored — Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Marketplace Fairness Act of 2015

Sponsored — Next Generation High Schools Act

Cosponsored — Global Democracy Promotion Act

Sponsored — Quality Data, Quality Healthcare Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Career and Technical Education Month.

Cosponsored — A bill to enable hospital-based nursing programs that are affiliated with a hospital to maintain payments under the Medicare program to hospitals for the costs of such programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the designation of maternity care health professional shortage areas.

Cosponsored — Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015

Cosponsored — Family Engagement in Education Act of 2015

Cosponsored — A bill to provide an immediate measure to control the spread of aquatic nuisance species from the Mississippi River basin to the Great Lakes basin and to inform long-term measures to prevent the Interbasin transfer of aquatic nuisance species.