Legislation

Sponsored — A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the “Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse”.

Cosponsored — Civil Rights History Project Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Hospice Protection Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Serve America Act

Cosponsored — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the terrorist attacks committed against the United States of America on September 11, 2001.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a temporary increase in the new qualified hybrid motor vehicle credit for school buses.

Sponsored — Nursing and Allied Health Education Preservation Act of 2008

Sponsored — A bill to ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by heirs and survivors of such persons.

Cosponsored — Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008

Sponsored — GIVE Act of 2008

Cosponsored — A bill to reauthorize the National Oilheat Reliance Alliance Act of 2000, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Great Lakes Legacy Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act

Cosponsored — Improving Access to Mainstream Financial Institutions Act of 2008

Sponsored — Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act

Cosponsored — Clean Boating Act of 2008

Cosponsored — Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act