Sponsored and Co-sponsored Legislation

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Bill Description
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Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance the national defense through empowerment of the National Guard, enhancement of the functions of the National Guard Bureau, and improvement of Federal-State military coordination in domestic emergency response, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require restitution for victims of criminal violations of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include automated fire sprinkler systems as section 179 property and classify certain automated fire sprinkler systems as 15-year property for purposes of depreciation.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the supplemental fraud fighting account, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the new markets tax credit through 2016, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to reduce energy costs, improve energy efficiency, and expand the use of renewable energy by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing support for peaceful demonstrations and universal freedoms in Syria and condemning the human rights violations by the Assad regime.

Cosponsored — A bill to promote the deployment of plug-in electric drive vehicles, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to reduce the Federal budget deficit by closing big oil tax loopholes, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the National Oilheat Research Alliance Act of 2000 to reauthorize and improve that Act, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to strengthen families' engagement in the education of their children.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to invest in innovation for education.

Sponsored — A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day, and reaffirming United States leadership and support for efforts to combat malaria as a critical component of the President’s Global Health Initiative.

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing and supporting National Train Day on May 7, 2011.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients.

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing the teachers of the United States for their contributions to the development and progress of our Nation.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating May 2011, as "National Inventors Month".