Legislation

Cosponsored — Governors Island Preservation and Development Act of 1998

Cosponsored — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional retirement savings opportunities for small employers, including self-employed individuals.

Cosponsored — To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows.

Cosponsored — To grant a Federal charter to the American GI Forum of the United States.

Cosponsored — Safe and Healthy Motherhood Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Advanced Manufacturing Fellowship Act of 1998

Sponsored — Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of the determination of the Department of the Treasury not to allow the importation of certain large capacity military magazine rifles that are functionally identical to banned semiautomatic assault weapons.

Cosponsored — Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel and reaffirming the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States and Israel.

Cosponsored — Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Regarding American victims of terrorism.

Cosponsored — Honoring the international corps of volunteers, known as Machal, who served Israel in its War of Independence.

Cosponsored — Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act of 1998

Sponsored — To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to widely distribute information describing their procedures for receiving and responding to complaints concerning harassment.

Cosponsored — Money Laundering Act of 1998

Cosponsored — Multipoint Wiretap Act of 1998

Cosponsored — To express the Sense of Congress that American universities and colleges should adopt rigorous educational merchandise licensing codes of conduct against sweatshop and child labor for merchandise licensed under their names or insignias.

Cosponsored — Children’s Development Commission Act

Cosponsored — Africa: Seeds of Hope Act of 1998