Policy Positions
Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(9)
Supports securing robust federal funding for forest health, fire prevention, and watershed restoration.
"Secure robust federal funding for forest health, fire prevention, and watershed restoration."
Supports streamlining interagency coordination so local fire-safe councils, tribes, and landowners can implement solutions without bureaucratic delays.
"Streamline interagency coordination so local fire-safe councils, tribes, and landowners can implement solutions without bureaucratic delays."
Supports expanding and simplifying Conservation Stewardship Agreements to reward private landowners, tribes, and communities for proactive land management.
"Expand and simplify Conservation Stewardship Agreements (CSAs) to reward private landowners, tribes, and communities for proactive forest and land management."
Supports promoting place-based forest collaboratives modeled after the Quincy Library Group, centered on local expertise, multi-stakeholder engagement, and federal funding without federal interference.
"Champion place-based forest collaboratives, modeled after the Quincy Library Group, that center local expertise and community engagement."
Supports creating jobs in clean energy and sustainable forestry as part of a broader jobs agenda.
"Champion a jobs agenda centered on clean energy, sustainable agriculture, healthcare, education, and technology, all tailored to the North State's assets."
Supports soil-based carbon markets and a soil health and carbon drawdown agenda to reward climate-smart agricultural practices and reduce atmospheric carbon.
"Promote soil-based carbon markets to reward producers for climate-smart practices and open new revenue streams."
Supports conservation-focused regulatory reform that rewards innovation while reducing bureaucratic burden, suggesting a balance between environmental goals and regulatory simplification.
"Support conservation-focused regulatory reform that rewards innovation while reducing paperwork and delays."
Supports regenerative agriculture and climate-smart farming practices as environmental and economic solutions, framing farms as climate assets.
"This approach, known as regenerative agriculture, is not a trend. It's a science-backed solution that improves profitability, strengthens rural economies, and helps heal the land. It turns farms into climate assets and local food systems into engines of health and resilience."
Supports addressing climate disruption as it relates to forest health, megafires, and water infrastructure in Northern California.
"After decades of fire suppression, underinvestment, and climate disruption, our forests are in a state of crisis. Instead of providing clean water, wildlife habitat, timber, and recreation, they now fuel the megafires that threaten our homes, pollute our air, and cost lives."
Economy(14)
Supports workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain, and will fight to protect and expand those rights in Congress.
"Support the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain."
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to a living wage and indexing it to inflation so no full-time worker lives in poverty.
"Raise the federal minimum wage so no full-time worker lives in poverty, and index it to inflation to keep up with the cost of living."
Supports providing small businesses with targeted financial assistance and tax breaks to help them navigate minimum wage increases and workforce transitions.
"Support small businesses during wage increases through assessments, financial assistance, and targeted tax breaks."
Supports raising the payroll tax cap on the wealthiest Americans to ensure Social Security's long-term solvency.
"Champion legislation that raises the payroll tax cap on the wealthiest Americans to ensure Social Security's long-term solvency."
Supports investing in rural infrastructure and incentivizing industries to locate in regions with ready talent pools to create local jobs.
"Invest in infrastructure (roads, broadband, water) to attract new industries and create jobs while prioritizing local businesses in public projects."
Supports a national recruitment effort for home care workers with funding for training, dignified wages, and benefits to address a projected shortage of over one million workers.
"Support a national recruitment effort for home care workers, including funding for training, education, and dignified wages with benefits. We'll need more than 1 million new home care workers in the coming years."
Supports federal legislation like the PRIME Act to reform meat processing rules and expand local and rural processing capacity.
"Back federal legislation like the PRIME Act that brings common-sense meat processing reform to rural areas."
Opposes the GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, arguing they skew benefits toward the wealthiest and cut vital social programs.
"The GOP's Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) already skewed benefits toward the wealthiest. Now, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) doubles down, locking in outdated tax cuts, adding temporary windfalls that expire, and cutting billions from vital social programs."
Supports investing in local value-added infrastructure like processing, cold storage, and distribution to support small producers and keep economic activity local.
"Invest in value-added infrastructure like local processing, cold storage, and distribution to reduce waste, support small producers, and keep more dollars local."
Opposes tax breaks for large corporations, favoring investment in workers and small businesses instead.
"investing in rural infrastructure, and supporting small businesses instead of handing out tax breaks to big corporations."
Supports investment in safe and dignified housing for migrant farmworkers to improve health, workforce retention, and equity.
"Invest in safe, dignified migrant farmworker housing to improve health, retention, and equity in the workforce."
Supports investing in small businesses instead of providing tax breaks to large corporations.
"In Congress, I'll fight to make sure work pays by expanding job readiness programs, strengthening workers' rights, investing in rural infrastructure, and supporting small businesses instead of handing out tax breaks to big corporations."
Opposes tax breaks for large corporations and corporate mega-profits, advocating for redirecting resources to working families and small businesses.
"Instead of rewarding corporate mega-profits, enriching CEOs, and saddling future generations with debt, we should be investing in working families, small businesses, and local farmers."
Supports ensuring farmers and ranchers have access to fair markets, opposing federal policies that favor large corporate operations over family farms.
"Our current federal approach often favors large corporate operations while leaving family farms behind. We need to flip that script and put our family farmers and rural communities at the center of agricultural policy."
Education(13)
Supports integrating computer science, digital literacy, and responsible AI education into K–12 curricula.
"Promote the integration of computer science, digital literacy, and responsible AI education into K–12 curricula."
Supports expanding access to early childhood education, including universal preschool, transitional kindergarten, and Head Start.
"Expand access to early childhood education, including universal preschool, transitional kindergarten, and Head Start."
Supports student debt forgiveness for graduates who enter public service and teaching careers, with a focus on underserved and rural areas.
"Offer student debt forgiveness for graduates entering public service and teaching careers, especially in underserved and rural areas."
Supports 'earn and learn' models using federal grants to help students gain employable credentials while pursuing their degrees.
"Expand "earn and learn" models using federal grants to help students gain employable credentials while pursuing their degrees."
Supports increased federal investment in public education at all levels, with a focus on rural-focused funding for early childhood, K–12, and higher education.
"Author and co-sponsor legislation that increases federal investment in public education at all levels. Advocate for rural-focused education funding that expands access to early childhood, K–12, and higher education."
Supports continued funding and flexibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act, including flexible funding for states, school accountability, and supports for English learners.
"Ensure continued support for key provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), including flexible funding for states, school accountability, and supports for English learners."
Supports championing elementary and middle school STEM programs to introduce students to science, math, and technology at an early age.
"Champion elementary and middle school STEM programs that introduce students to science, math, and technology at an early age."
Supports reauthorizing and modernizing the Higher Education Act.
"Reauthorize and modernize the Higher Education Act."
Supports increasing access to dual and concurrent enrollment so high school students can earn college credit or industry-recognized credentials before graduation.
"Increase access to dual and concurrent enrollment so high school students can earn college credit or industry-recognized credentials before graduation."
Supports expanding access to online courses, satellite campuses, and partnerships to support workforce and economic development in rural North State communities.
"Expand access to online courses, satellite campuses, and partnerships that support workforce and economic development across North State communities."
Supports offering student loan forgiveness to incentivize healthcare professionals to work in rural and underserved areas.
"Incentivize healthcare professionals to work in rural and underserved areas by offering student loan forgiveness and relocation incentives."
Supports investing in teachers as part of a broader education agenda.
"I will support legislation that invests in teachers, strengthens public schools, and builds partnerships with the private sector to expand career and technical education, apprenticeships, and workforce development."
Supports providing career and technical education and job counseling as part of transition assistance for veterans.
"Provide transition assistance through career and technical education, job counseling, and VA benefit navigation support."
Guns(3)
Supports Second Amendment rights, particularly for farmers, ranchers, hunters, and sportspeople, while also advocating for gun safety measures.
"I deeply respect the rights of farmers, ranchers, hunters, and sportspeople to own and use firearms safely. That right is part of our rural heritage."
Supports gun safety measures to keep guns out of dangerous hands while respecting lawful firearm ownership.
"But like most Americans, I also believe in our shared responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of those who would do harm. No child should fear going to school. No parent should worry that their kid won't come home because of gun violence."
Supports gun safety measures to keep guns out of dangerous hands, framing safety and Second Amendment rights as compatible.
"But like most Americans, I also believe in our shared responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of those who would do harm. No child should fear going to school. No parent should worry that their kid won't come home because of gun violence. We can protect both our Second Amendment rights and our children, because safety and freedom are not mutually exclusive."
Healthcare(11)
Supports protecting reproductive rights including access to safe and legal abortion and comprehensive family planning services.
"Protect reproductive rights, including access to safe and legal abortion and comprehensive family planning services."
Strongly supports a single-payer, nonprofit Medicare for All system and pledges to cosponsor Medicare for All legislation.
"My north star is clear: to fix our broken healthcare system we must build a single-payer, nonprofit system that guarantees care for everyone. That means strengthening and expanding Medicare until it truly covers us all. I'll be a proud cosponsor of Medicare for All legislation and advocate for its passage because it's time to make healthcare a guarantee, not a gamble."
Supports allowing Medicare to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to lower prescription drug prices.
"Lower prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for more drugs."
Supports increased investment in mental health and addiction recovery services to meet growing needs across the district.
"Invest in mental health and addiction recovery services to meet growing needs across the district."
Opposes cuts to Medicaid and Medicare and supports protecting and expanding these programs, particularly for rural communities.
"Trump and Republicans in Congress are rolling back protections, cutting Medicaid and Medicare, and defunding programs that help working families afford basic care. These rollbacks threaten the health and stability of our seniors, our children, and our rural communities, where access is already stretched thin."
Opposes cuts and privatization of the VA healthcare system, advocating for increased funding especially in rural areas.
"I will fight back against any attempt to dismantle the VA and ensure that all veterans, regardless of where they live, receive the high quality healthcare, housing support, mental health services, and career resources they've earned."
Supports protecting and expanding Medicare, and opposes cuts or privatization of Medicare and Social Security.
"I will stand against any attempt to weaken these programs. Seniors have paid into the system their entire lives. They are earned benefits that should be reliable and stable. I'll fight to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare so they remain rock-solid guarantees for this generation and the next."
Supports strengthening and expanding the Affordable Care Act in the near term while pursuing longer-term Medicare for All.
"In the near term, strengthen and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to help families facing high healthcare costs."
Supports Medicare for All as a vehicle for job creation in the healthcare sector.
"Create jobs in key sectors, including: Healthcare (via VA and Medicare for All)"
Supports expanding mental health resources and addiction recovery services in rural communities.
"I'll fight to lower prescription drug costs, protect and expand Medicare, and keep healthcare dollars in our district by empowering preventive care, primary care access, mental health resources, and addiction recovery services."
Believes every American deserves access to high-quality, affordable healthcare and that no one should be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
"Every American deserves access to high‑quality, affordable healthcare, and no one should go bankrupt or be denied coverage because of a pre‑existing condition."
Immigration(5)
Supports simplified and flexible agricultural visa programs to meet the labor needs of agricultural producers and workers.
"Support simplified, flexible agricultural visa programs to meet the real-world needs of producers and workers."
Opposes recent immigration enforcement tactics that cause fear and disruption in communities and families.
"And recent enforcement tactics have proven just how much fear and disruption can rip through communities, families, and economies."
Opposes current harsh immigration enforcement tactics that cause fear and disruption to communities and families.
"An effective immigration policy doesn't create cruelty. It prevents it. And recent enforcement tactics have proven just how much fear and disruption can rip through communities, families, and economies."
Supports an immigration system that reflects the value immigrants bring to the nation rather than one that creates cruelty.
"It's time for our immigration system to reflect the enormous value immigrants have always brought to our nation. An effective immigration policy doesn't create cruelty. It prevents it."
Supports an immigration system that reflects the value immigrants bring to the nation.
"It's time for our immigration system to reflect the enormous value immigrants have always brought to our nation."
Social Issues(2)
Supports racial justice and equal rights for all, opposing rollbacks of civil rights protections.
"In Congress, I will defend equal rights for all and fight to make sure every person, no matter their race, gender, income, ability, or ZIP code, can live with dignity and freedom."
Supports LGBTQ+ civil rights and opposes rollbacks of hard-won protections by extremists.
"From LGBTQ+ rights to racial justice, disability access to equal pay and voting rights, hard-won protections are being rolled back by extremists in Washington and across the states."