Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to provide counsel for unaccompanied children, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land.

Cosponsored — Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2021

Cosponsored — A bill to encourage reduction of disposable plastic products in units of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Indian Self-Determination Act and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education of the Department of the Interior and the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to ensure market competition in onshore oil and gas leasing, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to authorize the voluntary donation of grazing permits and leases in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to combat illegal deforestation by prohibiting the importation of products made wholly or in part of certain commodities produced on land undergoing illegal deforestation, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a commission to study the war in Afghanistan.

Sponsored — A bill to designate Indigenous Peoples' Day as a legal public holiday and replace the term "Columbus Day" with the term "Indigenous Peoples' Day", and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, to award grants for arts and creative workforce programs.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to States to empower public institutions of higher education in the States to provide student support services to students from low-income backgrounds, historically underrepresented students, first-generation college enrollees, parenting students, students with disabilities, and student veterans.

Cosponsored — Land Grant-Mercedes Traditional Use Recognition and Consultation Act

Cosponsored — A bill to protect the voting rights of Native American and Alaska Native voters.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to establish a procedure for the siting of certain interstate electric transmission facilities, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to establish a State public option through Medicaid to provide Americans with the choice of a high-quality, low-cost health insurance plan.

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal a certain disqualification to receive benefits under title IV of the Social Security Act and benefits under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008; and to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide that incarcerated individuals who are scheduled to be released from an institution within 30 days shall be considered to be a household for purposes of such Act.