Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to provide State programs to encourage employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking throughout the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to increase loan limits for small business concerns, to provide for low interest refinancing for small business concerns, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Small Business Act to improve the Office of International Trade, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to reduce the emissions of formaldehyde from composite wood products, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action, to assure the long-term fiscal stability and economic security of the Federal Government of the United States, and to expand future prosperity growth for all Americans.

Cosponsored — A resolution relative to the death of Paula F. Hawkins, former United States Senator for the State of Florida.

Cosponsored — A bill to reduce global warming pollution through international climate finance, investment, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for additional emergency unemployment compensation and to keep Americans working, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A resolution supporting the observance of National Diabetes Month.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Treasury should direct the United States Executive Directors to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose making any loans to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda until that Government cooperates with the United States and compensates the victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud.

Cosponsored — A resolution honoring the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, for his service to the people of India and to the world, and welcoming the Prime Minister to the United States.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.

Sponsored — A bill to improve the Express Loan Program of the Small Business Act.

Cosponsored — A resolution calling upon the Government of Turkey to facilitate the reopening of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki without condition or further delay.

Cosponsored — A bill to implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.

Cosponsored — A bill to prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution commending Robert C. Byrd, Senator from West Virginia.

Cosponsored — A bill to change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and to change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual disability.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing support for designation of a National Veterans History Project Week to encourage public participation in a nationwide project that collects and preserves the stories of the men and women who served our Nation in times of war and conflict.