Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize funding for a bilateral cooperative program with Israel for the development of health technologies with a focus on combating COVID-19.

Cosponsored — COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force Act of 2020

Cosponsored — A bill to provide emergency rental assistance under the Emergency Solutions Grants program of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in response to the public health emergency resulting from the coronavirus, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for E-Rate support for Wi-Fi hotspots, modems, routers, and connected devices during emergency periods relating to COVID-19, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to promulgate an emergency temporary standard to protect employees from occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain taxpayers a 2-year carryback of net operating losses and to restore and make permanent the limitation on excess business losses of non-corporate taxpayers.

Cosponsored — A bill to respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide State and local workforce and career and technical education systems the support to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for the expedited and transparent procurement and distribution of equipment and supplies needed to combat COVID-19.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the national service laws to prioritize national service programs and projects that are directly related to the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to enhance our Nation's nurse and physician workforce during the COVID-19 crisis by recapturing unused immigrant visas.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and modify the credit for increasing research activities, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide assistance to small businesses impacted by COVID-19, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to help small businesses access capital and create jobs by reauthorizing the successful State Small Business Credit Initiative.

Cosponsored — Coronavirus Relief for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act of 2020

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Innovation and Startups Equity Investment Program in the Department of the Treasury, through which the Secretary of the Treasury shall allocate money to certain States to assist high-potential scalable startups access venture capital to commercialize innovations, create jobs, and accelerate economic growth, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require States to establish contingency plans for the conduct of elections for Federal office in response to national disasters and emergencies, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to waive, for 1 year, the cost sharing requirements of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to subsidize payments on loans guaranteed under the 7(a) and 504 loan programs or made using funds under the microloan program, and for other purposes.