Richard Blumenthal

Designating the week beginning September 8, 2024, as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.

Designating September 25, 2024, as National Lobster Day.

To provide grants to local educational agencies to help public schools reduce class size in the early elementary grades, and for other purposes.

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to publish a final rule relating to nonclinical testing methods.

To provide additional benefits to American workers whose employment has been impacted as a result of the transition to a clean energy economy.

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the eligibility of students to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, establish college student food insecurity demonstration programs, and for other purposes.

To provide for the hiring and training of certain personnel at the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Condemning the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump during a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, honoring the victims who were killed and injured at the rally, and calling for unity and civility in the United States.

To reassert the constitutional authority of Congress to determine the general applicability of the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.

Designating August 16, 2024, as National Airborne Day.

To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend or restrict the entry of a class of aliens.

To protect certain victims of human trafficking by expanding the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to grant such aliens continued presence in the United States.

To create a new Federal grant program that provides grants to State libraries to allow schools with summer lunch programs to keep their libraries open for student use during the summer months.

To prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.

To prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research.

To amend title 49, United States Code, to ensure that revenues collected from passengers as aviation security fees are used to help finance the costs of aviation security screening by repealing a requirement that a portion of such fees be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.

To provide for grants for States that require fair and impartial police training for law enforcement officers of that State and to incentivize States to enact laws requiring the independent investigation and prosecution of the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.

To establish, in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Destination Reception Services Program New Arrival Services Board and to authorize a grant program for providing funding for medium-term services to eligible arrivals in destination States and localities to promote their self-sufficiency, reduce costs of extended emergency service provision, maximize benefit to new arrivals and host communities, provide diversion from homelessness, and promote the effective navigation and compliance of the immigration process.

To prohibit oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of New England.

To make housing more affordable, and for other purposes.