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Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation

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Bill Description
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Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to extend the period during which the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office may set or adjust certain fees.

Sponsored — A bill to address the threat to national security from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and associated illegal activity, to prevent the illegal trade of seafood and seafood products, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to impose sanctions with respect to state-sponsored cyber activities against the United States, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to reduce global fragility and violence by improving the capacity of the United States to reduce and address the causes of violence, instability, and fragility, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to Aretha Franklin in recognition of her contributions of outstanding artistic and historical significance to culture in the United States.

Sponsored — A bill to designate a rest area on the Mount Vernon Trail as the "Peter B. Webster III Memorial Area".

Cosponsored — LIFT for Charities Act

Sponsored — A bill to authorize the use of veterans educational assistance for examinations to receive credit toward degrees awarded by institutions of higher learning, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the publication of 3D printer plans for the printing of firearms, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to provide for Federal coordination of activities supporting sustainable chemistry, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to require that orders subject to review be submitted through a clearinghouse, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Cosponsored — Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act of 2018

Cosponsored — A bill to improve programs and activities relating to women's entrepreneurship and economic empowerment that are carried out by the United States Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to ensure the humane treatment of pregnant women by reinstating the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment of pregnant detainees.

Cosponsored — Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act of 2018

Cosponsored — A bill to defend economic livelihoods and threatened animals in the greater Okavango River Basin, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve access to, and utilization of, bone mass measurement benefits under part B of the Medicare program by establishing a minimum payment amount under such part for bone mass measurement.