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Cosponsored — To designate the Federal building located at 290 Broadway in New York, New York, as the “Ronald H. Brown Federal Building”.
Cosponsored — Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the threat to the security of American citizens and the United States Government posed by armed militia and other paramilitary groups and organizations.
Cosponsored — National Financial Crimes Strategy Act of 1996
Cosponsored — To require full cost pricing for irrigation water delivered by the Bureau of Reclamation from new projects under new long-term contracts, and for other purposes.
Sponsored — To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to provide for the regulation of contracts for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery, which are made on or subject to the rules of a board of trade, exchange, or market located outside the United States, when the commodity is deliverable in the United States.
Cosponsored — Sweatshop Product Ban Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Anti-Car Theft Improvements Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Congratulating the people of the Republic of Sierra Leone on the success of their recent democratic multiparty elections.
Cosponsored — ATM Fee Reform Act of 1996
Cosponsored — To improve the integrity of the Social Security card and to provide for criminal penalties for fraud and related activity involving work authorization documents for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Sponsored — To reduce violent crime by juvenile offenders.
Cosponsored — Urging the Government of Syria to withdraw its armed forces from Lebanon.
Cosponsored — Junk Gun Violence Protection Act
Cosponsored — MacBride Principles of Economic Justice Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Condemning the recent rash of arson against African-American churches across the United States, pledging to assist law enforcement authorities in apprehending the persons responsible for such acts of arson, supporting bipartisan legislation which would facilitate the prosecution of arsonists and create more severe penalties for arson against houses of worship, and encouraging the people of the United States to work in their communities to prevent future acts of arson against African-American churches.
Cosponsored — Religious Communication Sanctity Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1996
Cosponsored — Consumer Automobile Leasing Act of 1996