Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to restore the exemption from fees for certain customs services for passengers arriving from Canada, Mexico, and islands adjacent to the United States.

Sponsored — Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011

Cosponsored — National Alzheimer’s Project Act

Cosponsored — Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010

Sponsored — Criminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 2010

Sponsored — A resolution providing for a technical correction to S. Res. 700.

Sponsored — A resolution to authorize the printing of a revised edition of the Senate Election Law Guidebook.

Sponsored — Security Screening Confidential Data Privacy Act

Sponsored — Erin’s Law

Sponsored — A concurrent resolution to provide for the approval of final regulations issued by the Office of Compliance to implement the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 that apply to certain legislative branch employing offices and their covered employees.

Sponsored — Preventing Sex Offenders Access to Children in Our Communities Act of 2010

Cosponsored — Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010

Sponsored — A resolution to provide for the approval of final regulations issued by the Office of Compliance to implement the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 that apply to the Senate and employees of the Senate.

Cosponsored — Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act of 2010

Cosponsored — A resolution condemning the attack by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea against the Republic of Korea, and affirming support for the United States-Republic of Korea alliance.

Sponsored — Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act

Cosponsored — Flood Insurance Affordability and Risk Notification Act

Sponsored — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the “Navy Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building”.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish in the Department of Agriculture a Healthy Food Financing Initiative.