2nd District - Shomari Figures (D)

This bill would nullify Trump’s attempt to remove tariffs on foreign beef in the interest of not undercutting American beef farmers.

This bill would terminate Federal student loan limits and restore the availability of Federal Direct PLUS Loans for graduate and professional students.

This bill would authorize Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. to establish a commemorative work in D.C.

This bill would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make economic assistance payments to producers of corn, cotton, peanuts, poultry, or soybeans in order to make up for revenue losses in 2025

This bill would establish a tax deduction for “qualified youth program expenditures”, meaning any academic program, athletic program, artistic enrichment program or any other program determined by the Secretary of Education to be appropriate for youth enrichment.

This bill would make improvements to the veterinary services grand program

This bill would authorize affordable financing assistance (loans and loan guarantees) for rural health centers that are facing financial distress in an effort to protect access to health services in rural communities.

Currently, SNAP benefits are paid for partially by the State and partially by the Federal government. This bill would require the Federal government to cover the entire cost if the State is unable to pay its share.

This bill would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on ways to increase opportunities for HBCUs to conduct educational programs, as well as provide technical assistance with respect to issues relating to the transfer of agricultural land and assets to the next generation of farmers and ranchers.

This bill would require any retail food store or wholesale food store that accepts SNAP benefits to align with standards for secure online use of their mobile apps or website, and if the store has a delivery service for food purchase using those benefits it must also meet standards intended to promote fair and safe working conditions for delivery employees, keep food safe and secure during delivery, and pay the delivery employee fairly. Any store that does not comply with these standards would lose authorization to participate in SNAP until they are able to demonstrate they are in compliance with those standards.

This bill would amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural development Act to reauthorize and expand the Rural Innovation Stronger Economy grant program.

This bill would set requirements for any bus purchased with federal funds to be equipped with a protective barrier for the bus driver that reaches from the bus floor to the bus ceiling, is capable of fully enclosing the workstation and preventing the unwanted entry of persons, fluids, and objects into the workstation, and does not impede the bus driver’s lines of sight from the workstation to the exterior of the bus.

This bill would designate the USPS building at 401 N Elm Street in Tuskegee, Alabama as the “Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office”

This bill would require that no Federal funds may be used to suspend, delay or interrupt all or part of the work of a project under a contract during any lapse in funding

This bill would require colleges to not terminate or alter the enrollment status of a student because their Federal student financial aid lapsed due to a government shutdown or some other failure of the government to appropriate funds.

This bill would provide funding to the salaries and expenses of employees of the U.S. Capitol Police during any lapse in discretionary appropriations (like a government shutdown)

This bill would prohibit the President from imposing tariffs or any other duties on anything designed to help a baby sleep, namely: cribs, toddler beds, mattresses and bedding, bassinets, cradles, and baby monitors.

This bill would establish a refundable tax credit for first-time parents; this would mean each new parent who has birthed or adopted a new child would be credited $1,250 on that year’s tax return.

This bill would alter the grants provided by the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program to be noncompetitive standardized grants that could be allocated to any state that recommends FEMA specific pre-disaster mitigation projects. The grants would be allocated in a way that gives proportional preference to states with higher populations and/or the most vulnerability of critical infrastructure to natural hazards, and states that receive this grant money may only use it for the projects they recommend and they must distribute at least 50% of the grant funds to local governments that are carrying out disaster mitigation projects.

This bill would reauthorize the bridge investment program, which is a competitive federal discretionary grand program that provides funds to repair, rehabilitate, preserve, and replace bridges across the U.S.

This bill would reauthorize grants provided under the National Estuary Program to protect and restore estuaries of national significance.

This bill would prohibit the reduction, elimination, or suspension of funding for public colleges

This bill would authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to assist rural hospitals.

This bill would require the sale, disposal, declaration of excess, transfer, or conveyance of Federal property with historical significance to receive congressional approval before the transfer goes through.