Priorities
Responding to COVID-19 and Community Health Needs
- 5Increasing healthcare access and affordability
- 5Sponsored legislation to ensure sufficient PPE for healthcare workers and first-responders
- 5Sponsored legislation to “Cap-the-Copay” on insulin at $50 per month
- 5Sponsored legislation to provide sufficient testing availability for COVID-19
- 5Obtained additional COVID-19 testing sites throughout Middlesex County and more vaccine sites in Edison and East Brunswick, including the “Mega Site” at the NJ Exposition Center
Strengthening Education
- 5Fighting for our fair share of school funding
- 5Making college affordable for all students
- 5Educating students with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century economy
- 5Sponsored legislation requiring higher education institutions to provide tuition and fee transparency
- 5Sponsored legislation to provide in-state tuition for students of parents with H-1B visas ▪ Sponsored legislation to create an Anti-Bullying Task Force
- 5Voted for additional state funds for school security and school nurses
- 5Voted for Chapter 78 relief for teachers
- 5Voted to codify the Community College Opportunity Grant Program
Protecting the Environment and Addressing Climate Change
- 5Saving the environment and investing in the Green Economy
- 5Sponsored the original Water Quality Accountability Act and subsequent improvement legislation
- 5Sponsored legislation to combat non-point source pollution
- 5Sponsored multiple pieces of legislation supporting electric vehicles
- 5Obtained $300,000 for the berm design for Edison’s Landfill closure, which will include passive recreation, cricket & soccer fields, and a solar energy farm
- 5Obtained $200,000 for Dismal Swamp Preserve conservation purposes
- 5Board Member of the State Legislative Climate Alliance
Protecting Women and Civil Rights
- 5Promoting diversity and defending civil rights
- 5Protecting women’s equality and rights
Improving Infrastructure
- 5Priorities Attracting new businesses to New Jersey
- 5Fixing NJ Transit and our state’s roads, bridges, and tunnels
- 5Cutting red tape for small businesses
- 5Promoting fiscal responsibility
- 5Secured $60 million for clean water infrastructure and lead service line replacement projects statewide
- 5Obtained more than $25 million in roadway improvement projects throughout East Brunswick
- 5Obtained $450,000 for a new Route 287 ramp design to divert truck traffic from our residential neighborhoods
- 5Sponsored legislation expanding New Jersey’s Infrastructure Bank to tackle climate change mitigation projects
- 5Sponsored legislation directing the Board of Public Utilities to establish a utility scale solar program
- 5Sponsored legislation establishing a Community Broadband Study Commission
- 5Supported the statewide effort to establish New Jersey as the offshore wind capital of the Northeast
- 5National Infrastructure Bank Coalition Member