Expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging the people of the United States to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.
2013-11-13: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Expressing concern over persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience, in the People's Republic of China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned for their religious beliefs, and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups.
2014-07-30: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges of children in the foster-care system, and encouraging Congress to implement policy to improve the lives of children in the foster-care system.
2013-05-07: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Condemning the April 15, 2013, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks in Boston, Massachusetts and calling upon the United States Government, the governments of all nations, the United Nations, and other international organizations to renounce the use of IEDs and take actions to stop their proliferation.
2013-05-08: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Urging the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas to clarify a presidential succession plan, expand political freedom in the West Bank, and take preventative measures to limit the possibility of a Hamas takeover in the West Bank.
2013-05-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa.
Condemning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for its continuing acts of aggression, its expressed intent to break the July 10, 1953, Korean War Armistice Agreement, and for its repeated violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
2013-05-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Expressing support for designation of May as National Stroke Awareness Month.
2013-03-22: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
A resolution commemorating the life and service of Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus, and congratulating Pope Francis on his election as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
2013-03-15: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp in 2015 to honor Constantino Brumidi, Artist of the Capitol, and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his completion of "The Apotheosis of Washington" in the eye of the dome of the Capitol, and for other purposes.
2013-03-05: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Supporting the goals and ideals of the Secondary School Student Athletes' Bill of Rights.
2013-02-15: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Supporting the contributions of Catholic schools.
2013-01-23: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Establishing a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
2013-01-23: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H253-256)
Expressing no confidence in the Attorney General of the United States and calling for his immediate resignation.
2013-02-28: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
Expressing the deep disappointment of the House of Representatives in the enactment by the Russia Government of a law ending inter-country adoptions of Russian children by United States citizens and urging the Russia Government to reconsider the law and prioritize the processing of inter-country adoptions involving parentless Russian children who were already matched with United States families before the enactment of the law.
2013-02-25: Referred to the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.
Calling for urgent international intervention on behalf of Iraqi civilians facing a dire humanitarian crisis and severe persecution in the Nineveh Plain region of Iraq.
2014-07-24: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Recognizing the 65th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel.
2013-05-06: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa.
Supporting the formation of a bipartisan Presidential Commission to study the establishment of a National Museum of the American People.
2013-03-19: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, or to any similar agreement on the arms trade.
2013-03-13: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
2013-02-28: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet.
To limit the Secretary of the Air Force from retiring or transferring certain aircraft of the Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve.
2012-12-20: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.