Chris Van Hollen

To establish a comprehensive United States Government initiative to build the capacity of young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa, and for other purposes.

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.

To provide for an emergency increase in Federal funding to State Medicaid programs for expenditures on home and community-based services.

To provide Medicaid assistance to individuals and families affected by a disaster or emergency, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Reducing Youth Use of E–Cigarettes Initiative.

To address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

Standing with Israel against terrorism.

To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase reimbursement rates of school meals, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants, and grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions, and for other purposes.

To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to expand the replacement of stolen EBT benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Designating October 23, 2023, as National Marine Sanctuary Day.

Designating Betty K. Koed as Historian Emerita of the United States Senate.

To require each enterprise to include on the Uniform Residential Loan Application a disclaimer to increase awareness of the direct and guaranteed home loan programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

To modify the public transportation emergency relief program, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include individuals receiving Social Security disability benefits under the work opportunity credit, increase the work opportunity credit for vocational rehabilitation referrals, qualified SSI recipients, and qualified SSDI recipients, expand the disabled access credit, and enhance the deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly.

Condemning Hamas for its premeditated, coordinated, and brutal terrorist attacks on Israel and demanding that Hamas immediately release all hostages and return them to safety, and for other purposes.

To prohibit the use of Federal funds to install new permanent fencing around the United States Capitol, any of the Capitol Buildings, or any portion of the Capitol Grounds.

To establish the principle of reciprocity in the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and for other purposes.

To honor the life and death of Richard Clarence Clark, former Senator for the State of Iowa.

To permanently authorize the exemption of aliens working as fish processors from the numerical limitation on H–2B nonimmigrant visas.