Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to carry out a study to evaluate the issues affecting the provision of, and reliance upon, investment research into small issuers.

Sponsored — A bill to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the definitions of a qualifying portfolio company and a qualifying investment to include an emerging growth company and the equity securities of an emerging growth company, respectively, for purposes of the exemption from registration for venture capital fund advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide relief to nonbanks from certain stress test requirements under that Act.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to impose additional sanctions with respect to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2018

Sponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide information about whether educational institutions allow individuals to stay enrolled in courses of education pending receipt of educational assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide minimum standards for transactions secured by a dwelling, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require the Director of the United States Geological Survey to perform a nationwide survey of perfluorinated compounds, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to encourage the research and use of innovative materials and associated techniques in the construction and preservation of the domestic transportation and water infrastructure system, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to increase the risk-sensitivity of the capital treatment of certain centrally cleared exchange-listed options and derivatives, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2018

Cosponsored — Music Modernization Act

Cosponsored — United States Army Rangers Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act

Sponsored — A bill to modify the H-2B nonimmigrant returning worker exemption.

Cosponsored — Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act

Cosponsored — Stephen Michael Gleason Congressional Gold Medal Act

Cosponsored — A bill to provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2018, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to limit the separation of families seeking asylum in the United States and expedite the asylum process for individuals arriving in the United States with children.