Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the bicentennial of the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to cover physician services delivered by podiatric physicians to ensure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to appropriate quality foot and ankle care.

Cosponsored — A bill to strengthen American manufacturing through improved industrial energy efficiency, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that the payment of the manufacturers' excise tax on recreational equipment be paid quarterly.

Cosponsored — A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots ("WASP").

Cosponsored — A bill to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses of National Forest System land that are subject to ski area permits, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to ban the use of bisphenol A in food containers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent the undermining of the judgments of courts of the United States by foreign courts, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of newspaper printing presses and components thereof.

Sponsored — A resolution commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, and the Republic of Poland as members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during the organizing efforts, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require a pilot program on training, certification, and support for family caregivers of seriously disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces to provide caregiver services to such veterans and members, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to restrict the use of offshore tax havens and abusive tax shelters to inappropriately avoid Federal taxation, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the marketing of authorized generic drugs.

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