Legislation

Cosponsored — Holocaust Restitution Tax Fairness Act of 2002

Cosponsored — A resolution recognizing the importance and accomplishments of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.

Cosponsored — A bill to facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alternative measures required in the public interest to meet the needs of wireless telecommunications consumers.

Sponsored — Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Study Act

Cosponsored — A resolution relative to the death of Paul Wellstone, a Senator from the State of Minnesota.

Cosponsored — A concurrent resolution expressing support for the goals and ideas of a day of tribute to all firefighters who have died in the line of duty and recognizing the important mission of the Fallen Firefighters Foundation in assisting family members to overcome the loss of their fallen heroes.

Cosponsored — Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Threat Reduction Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Ballistics, Law Assistance, and Safety Technology Act

Cosponsored — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 380 Main Street in Farmingdale, New York, as the “Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Cosponsored — No Taxation Without Representation Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2002

Cosponsored — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Election Commission under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, relating to prohibited and excessive contributions.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide exceptions to empowerment zone eligibility criteria.

Cosponsored — Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Community Disaster Loan Equity Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Finger Lakes Initiative Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Beneficiary Access to Care and Medicare Equity Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002

Cosponsored — Resolution designating the month of September 2002 as “National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month”.