Legislation

Cosponsored — Protecting Children’s Health in Schools Act of 2006

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the marketing of authorized generic drugs.

Cosponsored — Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Cesar E. Chavez Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006

Cosponsored — Fuel Economy Reform Act

Cosponsored — A resolution condemning Hezbollah and Hamas and their state sponsors and supporting Israel’s exercise of its right to self-defense.

Cosponsored — A resolution designating the week beginning on September 10, 2006, as “National Historically Black College and Universities Week”.

Sponsored — A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on knitted or crocheted fabrics of cotton, printed.

Sponsored — A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85 percent by weight of cotton, mixed mainly or solely with man-made fibers, weighing not more than 200 g/m2.

Sponsored — A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain artificial filament single yarn (other than sewing thread).

Sponsored — A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on weft pile fabrics of cotton, other than uncut weft pile fabrics or cut corduroy.

Sponsored — A bill to require the United States Court of International Trade to consider certain civil actions that were delayed because of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Sponsored — A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85 percent by weight of cotton.

Sponsored — Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2006

Cosponsored — Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commemoration Act of 2006

Cosponsored — Louis Braille Bicentennial--Braille Literacy Commemorative Coin Act

Sponsored — A bill to increase public access to the Statue of Liberty.

Sponsored — Affordable Housing Preservation Act of 2006

Cosponsored — Student Debt Relief Act of 2006

Sponsored — A resolution commending the people of Albania on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Jews from the Nazi death camps, for protecting and saving the lives of all Jews who lived in Albania, or sought asylum there during the Holocaust.