Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit Amtrak from including mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts of carriage, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a program to address sickle cell disease and other heritable hemoglobinopathies.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a process for expedited consideration of legislation relating to decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to producers to carry out climate-smart conversion projects, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to provide additional authorities for the leadership of the United States Agency for International Development in health technology innovation for global health in low-resource settings, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to support college students to meet satisfactory academic progress.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the national program for traumatic brain injury surveillance and registries.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Fair Housing Act to repeal the Thurmond amendment.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt certain owners of livestock from inspection requirements, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide relief for borrowers of Federal Direct PLUS loans made on behalf of students.

Sponsored — A bill to support Tribal co-stewardship, restore and protect bison, grizzly bear, and wolf populations, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit certain activities involving kangaroos and kangaroo products, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Tenants’ Right to Organize Act

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the basic needs of students at institutions of higher education.

Sponsored — A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a demonstration project to improve outpatient clinical care for individuals with sickle cell disease.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to ban foods with contaminants above safe levels in or on final products served in school meals, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize a grant program to support students who have epilepsy or a seizure disorder.

Sponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to publish a final rule relating to nonclinical testing methods.