Legislation

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use and to modify the credit period for certain facilities producing electricity from open-loop biomass.

Cosponsored — Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009

Cosponsored — Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009

Cosponsored — Unclaimed Savings Bond Act of 2009

Cosponsored — Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act

Sponsored — Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act

Cosponsored — Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2009

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to not impose a penalty for failure to disclose reportable transactions when there is reasonable cause for such failure, to modify such penalty, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — A bill to direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on the use of Civil Air Patrol personnel and resources to support homeland security missions, and for other purposes.

Cosponsored — Equity and Access for Podiatric Physicians Under Medicaid Act

Cosponsored — Midwifery Care Access and Reimbursement Equity Act of 2009

Cosponsored — Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coin Act

Cosponsored — Firearms Fairness and Affordability Act

Cosponsored — A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to conform the definition of renewable biomass to the definition given the term in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.

Cosponsored — Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009

Cosponsored — No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009

Sponsored — A bill for the relief of Tim Lowery and Paul Nettleton of Owyhee County, Idaho.

Sponsored — A bill to repeal the sunset on the reduction of capital gains rates for individuals and on the taxation of dividends of individuals at capital gains rates.

Sponsored — A bill for the relief of Sali Bregaj and Mjaftime Bregaj.