Legislation

Sponsored — Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act of 2007

Sponsored — Medicare Advanced Laboratory Diagnostics Act of 2007

Sponsored — PROMISE Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for medical research related to developing qualified infectious disease products.

Sponsored — Mortgage Disclosure Enhancement Act of 2007

Sponsored — Cooperative Tax Deduction Preservation Act of 2007

Sponsored — International and Domestic Product Safety Act

Sponsored — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Sponsored — PROMISE Act

Sponsored — A bill to require updating of State building energy efficiency codes and standards.

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish an energy efficiency resource standard for retail electricity and natural gas distributors.

Sponsored — Protecting Access to Safe Mortgages Act

Sponsored — A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to modify a provision relating to the siting of interstate electric transmission.

Sponsored — Design Piracy Prohibition Act

Sponsored — A resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of New York.

Sponsored — Passport Backlog Reduction Act of 2007

Sponsored — A bill to amend titles 10 and 37, United States Code, to reduce the minimum age of retirement for years of non-regular service for reserves who serve on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, to increase the amount of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve, and to provide certain other benefits relating to service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Sponsored — Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Act

Sponsored — A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a study on the operation of helicopters over Long Island, New York and for other purposes.