Legislation

Cosponsored — Seniors Deserve SMARTER Care Act of 2025

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit and prevent seclusion, mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and dangerous restraints that restrict breathing, and to prevent and reduce the use of physical restraint in schools, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish in the Department of State a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ People, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to enhance the rights of domestic employees, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to authorize contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit the unauthorized use of United States Armed Forces in hostilities with respect to Venezuela.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prohibit the issuance of licenses for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of advanced integrated circuits to or in foreign adversaries.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title III of the Social Security Act to provide flexibility in grants for reemployment services and eligibility assessments.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a public health plan.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a digital skills at work grant program.

Sponsored — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building".

Sponsored — A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an emergency exit on certain National Park Service land in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and enhance the work opportunity tax credit, to encourage longer-service employment, and to modernize the credit to make it more effective as a hiring incentive for targeted workers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a special enrollment period for pregnant women, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to repeal certain provisions relating to nutrition.

Cosponsored — A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), and marital status in the administration and provision of child welfare services, to improve safety, well-being, and permanency for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning foster youth, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs furnishes certain non-opioid pain medications to veterans, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require a background check for every firearm sale.