Legislation

Cosponsored — BTU Act of 2017

Cosponsored — Helping State and Local Governments Prevent Cyber Attacks (HACK) Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to improve cost sharing subsidies.

Cosponsored — Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017

Cosponsored — SHIPS Act

Cosponsored — A bill to support educational entities in fully implementing title IX and reducing and preventing sex discrimination in all areas of education.

Cosponsored — LOVE Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Military Consumer Enforcement Act

Cosponsored — Stop the Asian Carp Now Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to review the discharge characterization of former members of the Armed Forces who were discharged by reason of the sexual orientation of the member, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure that all fast-tracked reconciliation bills are subject to a committee hearing, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to strengthen the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit.

Cosponsored — Individual Health Insurance Marketplace Improvement Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide a standard definition of therapeutic family care services in Medicaid.

Cosponsored — Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2017

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for advanced illness care coordination services for Medicare beneficiaries, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the United States Army Dust Off crews of the Vietnam War, collectively, in recognition of their extraordinary heroism and life-saving actions in Vietnam.