Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
2011-01-24: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
2011-11-30: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-512.
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
2011-06-23: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 49.
Urging the governments of Europe and the European Union to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization and impose sanctions, and urging the President to provide information about Hizballah to the European allies of the United States and to support the Government of Bulgaria in investigating the July 18, 2012, terrorist attack in Burgas.
2013-01-01: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should retain its authority to borrow money on the credit of the United States and not cede this power to the President.
2012-12-05: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Establishing a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
2012-12-04: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Condemning the Government of the Russian Federation for providing weapons to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
2012-08-01: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1384-1385)
Recognizing the goals and ideals of National Foster Care Month.
2012-05-16: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Recognizing the need to pursue research into the causes, a treatment, and an eventual cure for rhabdomyosarcoma, supporting the goals and ideals of the Claire Frick Rhabdomyosarcoma Awareness Month, and for other purposes.
2012-05-11: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding United States relations with the People's Republic of China.
2012-05-07: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of State should raise the travel advisory for Egypt from the current level of "Travel Alert", in place since November 7, 2011, to "Travel Warning", the highest level of travel security advisory, until all 43 detained nongovernmental organization workers are given the freedom to leave Egypt.
2012-05-07: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia .
Disapproving of the President's appointment of four officers or employees of the United States during a period when no recess of the Congress for a period of more than three days was authorized by concurrent resolution and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that those appointments were made in violation of the Constitution.
2012-01-25: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and its actions relating to the Stanford Financial Group fraud.
2012-02-13: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and raising awareness and enhancing the state of cyber security in the United States.
2011-10-24: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that further reductions to core national security funding will cause significant harm to United States interests.
2011-10-14: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Western Hemisphere should be included in the Administration's 2012 National Strategy for Counterterrorism's "Area of Focus", with specific attention on the counterterrorism threat to the homeland emanating from Iran's growing presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.
2011-10-25: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Condemning Communist China's discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execution of its prisoners of conscience, and supporting the Tuidang movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
2011-10-25: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Condemning the terror attacks on government buildings in Oslo, Norway, and a youth camp on Utoya Island, Norway, on July 22, 2011, and for other purposes.
2011-10-25: Referred to the Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia.
Designating room HVC 215 of the Capitol Visitor Center as the "Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room".
2011-12-01: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Urging the European Union and its member states to maintain the arms embargo against the People's Republic of China.
2011-07-18: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.