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Committees:
Committees:
- FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Subs: Europe, Eurasia & Emerging Threats; Terrorism, Nonproliferation & Trade (Chair));
- JUDICIARY (Subs: Courts, Intellectual Property & the Internet; Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security & Investigations)
Global Action Record:
Global Action Record:
2005 - HR 1409 - Orphans & vulnerable children - Yea
- 2006 - Brown Amendment +$10m for TB - passed by voice vote
- 2007 - HR 1567 - Stop TB Now Act - passed in House - unanimous consent
- 2007 - Payne Amendment +$50m for TB - passed by voice vote
- 2007 - YEA on failed LHHS amendment to reduce funding for Global Fund
- 2008 - HR 1532 - Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act - passed into law - unanimous consent
- 2008 - HR 5501 - Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act - passed - Nay / nay on Senate version
- 2010 - HR 4594 - To combat international violence against women and girls - initial co-author
- 2010 - HRES 1155 - Commending the progress made by anti-tuberculosis programs - cosponsor
- 2013/06/19 - HR 1947 Farm Bill Royce Amdt. - failed - allowed for aid to purchase "local" food aid instead of shipping from U.S. farms - Nay
- 2015/06/12 - Trade Adjustment Assistance - Nay / 2015/06/12 Trade Promotion Authority - Yea
- 2017/09/07 - HR 601 +Harvey Relief + Continuing Resolution + raising debt limit - Yea (signed into law by President Trump)
- 2017/12/07 - HRes 466 - Support for Global Partnership for Education - cosponsor
- 2017/12/07 - HR 4022 - Reach Every Mother and Child Act - cosponsor
U.S. Action Record:
U.S. Action Record:
- 2007 - HR 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act - Yea
- 2007 - HR 1429 - Improving Head Start Act - nay/nay
- 2007 - HR 976 - SCHIP - not voting / nay after veto / nay after rewrite
- 2007 - HR 2419 - Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act - nay
- 2007 - HR 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act - nay
- 2007 - Congressional Budget w/ increased domestic discretionary spending - nay
- 2007 - LHHS approp. 11/6-nay 11/15-nay
- 2008 - HR 976 - SCHIP - failed 1/23 nay
- 2008 - HR 2419 - Farm Bill - passed/veto override/revote - Yea/Yea/Yea
- 2008 - HR 5140 - Economic Stimulus - (passed; signed into law) - Nay
- 2008 - HR 6049 - Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (extends Child Tax Credit) - Nay
- 2008 - HR 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - yea / yea after veto
- 2008 - HR 6867 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Nay
- 2009 - HR 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Nay
- 2009 - HR 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - Nay
- 2009 - HR 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers & Small Businesses Act - Nay
- 2009 - S.Con.Res.13 - Congressional Budget Resolution - Nay
- 2010 - HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act - Nay
- 2010 - S 3307 - Healthy Hungry Free Kids Act of 2010 - Nay
- 2010 - HR 4853 - Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Nay/Nay
- 2013/06/20 - HR 1947 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP- Yea
- 2013/09/19 - HR 3102 Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act (cuts SNAP $39b) - Yea
- 2014//01/29 - HR 2642 - Agriculture Act of 2014 = Farm Bill (cuts SNAP $8.6b) - Yea
- 2014/07/25 - HR 4935 - Child Tax Credit Improvement Act (extends CTC to higher-incomes families but fails to address expiring benefits to low-income families) - Yea
- 2015/12/17 - HR 2029 - Omnibus tax bill including permanent extension or critical EITC/CTC provisions - Yea
- HR 1628 - American Health Care Act of 2017 - Yea
- 2018/05/18, 2018/06/21 - HR 2 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP for people out of work - Yea, Yea
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