Issues
Expanding quality, well-paying, career-focused opportunities by growing manufacturing jobs, rebuilding our infrastructure, and educating our children to succeed in our 21st century global economy.
While our economy continues to rebound, too many people are still looking for work, concerned about paying their mortgage, and uncertain about their ability to retire. Middle-class families in the Tenth District and across the country worry not just about finding any job, but finding a well-paying job that will ensure a rising standard of living for their family.
Ensuring all of our young people have the opportunity for a world-class education, learning the skills and lessons to succeed as adults and lead our future.
All of our young people, regardless of their zip code, deserve the opportunity for a high-quality, affordable education.
Nothing is more fundamental than the air we breathe and the water we drink. And there is nothing more important for us to do than to protect our planet for the next generation.
Climate change is a grave threat to the ecological and environmental health of our nation and planet. While some chose to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus, I recognize that the failure to address this challenge will, with certainty, result in further environmental degradation and incalculable damage to the world we pass on to our children.
Every day, we read stories of more tragic and senseless violence across our nations. We can come together to reduce gun violence with commonsense action, while at the same time respecting and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.
Tragic gun violence is all too common in our country. It is time for Congress to enact reasonable laws to keep the deadliest weapons off our streets and to reduce instances of violence, while still protecting law-abiding citizens' constitutional right to bear arms.
I believe that access to affordable, quality health care is our right, not a privilege reserved for only a few. We need to fix the Affordable Care Act, building on its successes, fixing its flaws, and looking for new and innovative ways to improve health outcomes while lowering individual and national costs.
America has the best doctors, hospitals and medical technology in the world, but our health care system is hamstrung by inefficiency and high costs.
Fixing our broken immigration system will grow our economy, reduce our debt, and strengthen our communities. We need to come together, in a bipartisan effort, to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
We must uphold our committment to older Americans for the secure retirement and quality health care that they have earned.
Our seniors, the people who supported our families and developed our communities, deserve the dignity of a secure retirement and affordable health care. The multi-generational commitment of Social Security and Medicare is a foundation of our social contract, and a defining feature of our national prosperity.
Growing deficits are irresponsible and threaten the prosperity of future generations. Budgets reflect our values and priorities. A more sustainable budget will require difficult decisions, but we must not balance our budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens.