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12.Who are your opponents?

13.What is your strategy to win office?

14.Please explain why you seek Labor's endorsement.

15.Please list union leaders you seek input from when developing your agenda.

16.Have you sought endorsement from any other AFSCME Affiliates?

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17.Beyond our public endorsement, what specific support are you seeking from AFSCME DC 47?

18.What significant endorsements have you received from organizations and individuals?

19.Briefly describe what will be your top priorities and issue areas of focus if elected.

20.Thirty states and the District of Columbia have set their minimum wage higher than the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour, ranging from $8.75 to $17.00. Where do you think the federal minimum should be set? Should the target level be a living wage?

21.Do you oppose National Right-to-work laws which give workers the option to stop financially supporting unions while still enjoying the benefits of representation? If so, how would you use the power of your office to strengthen and support legislation like the PRO Act?

22.Would you support and/or introduce legislation to strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Act and extend OSHA coverage to all workers, strengthen whistleblower protections and enhance OSHA’S enforcement programs?

23.Given the city’s aging infrastructure, what measures would you propose to support the city’s ability to meet the implementation of OSHA standards?

24.PA’s 3rd Congressional District includes bridges, rail viaducts, and other transportation infrastructure receiving a failing grade that poses a danger to users and nearby residents and businesses. How would you prioritize upgrading or replacing declining infrastructure in your district?

25.What efforts would you take to protect public and private sector unions and their workers, and the right to organize and collectively bargain?

26.What measures would you support to protect the financial soundness of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds?

27.Would you oppose Medicare changes that shift cost to seniors, including premium increases, co-payment increases, benefit reductions or conversion to voucher systems? Why or why not?

28.How would you address the nation’s $1.8 trillion in student debt and over $200 billion in medical debt?

29.What legislation and other measures would you support to address inflation and the affordability crisis?

30.Do you believe that housing is a human right? What would you do to protect existing housing programs and increase the amount of permanently stable, quality, affordable and accessible housing?

31.Do you believe the growing trend of monopolization is problematic for consumers and for our democracy? What measures would you take to enforce existing antitrust laws? Are additional laws necessary, and if so, what legislation would you support?

32.Do you believe that Healthcare is a Human right? Would you support the single payer model of Universal Healthcare for all? What changes would you support to the Affordable Care Act?

33.What policies do you believe are necessary to address substance abuse, particularly the opioid crisis?

34.Do you support the decriminalization or legalization and regulation of marijuana or other controlled substances? Why/why not?

35.In this era of a rise in mass shootings using semi-automatic weapons, how would you support the reform of federal gun laws?

36.What legislative or other measures would you take to strengthen regulations to protect clean air and water, address climate change, and seek environmental justice?

37.Our immigration laws have not had a meaningful legislative revision in thirty years, and as currently operated the system relies much more heavily on arbitrary, punitive and violent enforcement than on adjudication. How would you make our immigration system more humane, more efficient, and more consistent with constitutional and international human rights law?

38.Would you support reform/restructuring options to limit ICE to follow due process and the rule of law, or does it need to be abolished?

39.What have you done in your previous positions to support voting rights for all Americans? If elected, how would you use the power of your office to protect voting rights for all Americans?

40.How would you support ensuring that nationwide civil rights protections cover LGBTQIA+ Americans?

41.How would you protect Americans’ data privacy from both private and public sector intrusions?

42.What do you see as barriers to providing equal rights and access for persons with disabilities? Would you support increased federal funding to municipalities so they can make public spaces safe and accessible to people of all abilities?

43.What do you see as the major threat to the first amendment’s freedom of speech and assembly? What measures would you take to protect free speech?

44.What legislative changes would you make to the federal tax structure?

45.What are the three top issues in Project 2025 that you would build legislation to block?

46.How would you change the composition and/or jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?

47.What would you do to reassert Congress's Article l powers over spending, appropriations, tariffs, government oversight, and warmaking?

48.The Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution gives the president the power, with only narrow exceptions, to fire at will the heads of independent agencies created by Congress such as the NLRB and MSPB. Do you agree with this reading of the Constitution? Why/why not?

49.Do you support legislation barring all federal officials of the legislative and executive branches of government from trading stocks and other securities? If so, why? If not, why not?

50.What role should the federal government play in addressing the labor, environmental, and other issues surrounding the increased use of AI?

51.Do you support continued military aid to Israel? If so, what conditions if any would you put on that aid?

52.How would you protect and improve public education as a Congressperson?