Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to support the development of pre-apprenticeship programs in the building and construction trades that serve underrepresented populations, including individuals from low income and rural census tracts.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide additional funding under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing in increasing the number of nursing students and faculty and in program enhancement and infrastructure modernization, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to modify eligibility for the State response to contaminants program, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a study on the environmental impacts of artifical intelligence, to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene a consortium on such environmental impacts, and to require the Director to develop a voluntary reporting system for the reporting of the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Preventing the Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act of 2024

Cosponsored — A bill to increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 7.4 percent, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require States to establish complete streets programs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and make the credit fully refundable for certain taxpayers.

Cosponsored — Access to Family Building Act

Cosponsored — A bill to award grants to States to establish or improve, and carry out, Seal of Biliteracy programs to recognize high-level student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language, and early language programs.

Cosponsored — Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act

Cosponsored — Creative Workforce Investment Act

Cosponsored — Military Personnel Confirmation Restoration Act of 2023

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification system, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Historic Greenwood District—Black Wall Street National Monument Establishment Act

Sponsored — Pecos Watershed Protection Act

Cosponsored — Predatory Lending Elimination Act

Sponsored — A bill to require the priority and consideration of using native plants in Federal projects, and for other purposes.