Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to specify the Federal share of the costs of certain duty of the National Guard in connection with the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Cosponsored — A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Officer Eugene Goodman.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide more than $435,000,000,000 in immediate and long-term investments in communities to promote economic justice, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Helping Manufacturers Respond to COVID-19 Act of 2020

Sponsored — A bill to establish the Servicemembers and Veterans Initiative within the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Heroes Small Business Lifeline Act

Sponsored — A bill to prevent an unintended drop in Social Security benefits due to COVID-19 and the application of the National Average Wage Index, and improve Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits on an emergency basis.

Cosponsored — A bill to facilitate nationwide accessibility and coordination of 211 services for information and referral for mental health emergencies, homelessness needs, other human services needs, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to report data on COVID-19 immigration detention facilities and local correctional facilities that contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide increased oversight of certain pardons, to clarify the applicability of bribery prohibitions to pardons and commutations, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to provide continued assistance to unemployed workers.

Cosponsored — A bill to nullify Executive Order 13957, entitled "Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service".

Sponsored — A bill to establish the Servicemembers and Veterans Initiative within the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to provide resources for States, State educational agencies, local educational agencies, educators, school leaders, and others to measure and address instructional loss in students in kindergarten through grade 12.

Sponsored — A bill to improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to require employee consent for any deferral of payroll taxes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a new Tribal priority window for the 2.5 gigahertz band, and for other purposes.