Legislation

Sponsored — Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2014

Cosponsored — Community College to Career Fund Act

Cosponsored — Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A bill to rename the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and to provide for an Assistant Secretary to head such Bureau, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Respect for Marriage Act

Cosponsored — A resolution relative to the death of the Honorable William Dodd Hathaway, former United States Senator for the State of Maine.

Cosponsored — Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2013

Sponsored — On-the-Job Training Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing refugee women and girls on World Refugee Day.

Cosponsored — A resolution honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business concerns in the United States during National Small Business Week, which begins on June 17, 2013.

Cosponsored — Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act

Sponsored — Small Business Export Growth Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Cosponsored — Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2013

Cosponsored — National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

Cosponsored — Understanding the True Cost of College Act of 2013

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Attorney General to disclose each decision, order, or opinion of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that includes significant legal interpretation of section 501 or 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 unless such disclosure is not in the national security interest of the United States and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution calling for the release from prison of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko in light of the recent European Court of Human Rights ruling.

Cosponsored — Preventing and Reducing Improper Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures Act of 2013