Policy Positions
Climate(14)
Supports a just transition to 100% renewable energy with modernized energy grids and a Civil Climate Corps.
"A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Modernized Energy Grids A Civil Climate Corps"
Supports a just transition to 100% renewable energy with modernized energy grids and a Civil Climate Corps.
"A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy"
Supports full decarbonization of the economy and passing the Green New Deal.
"A Decarbonized Society"
Supports full decarbonization of the economy and a just transition to 100% renewable energy.
"A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy"
Introduced legislation to move Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by 2050 and fought to preserve $1 billion in annual RGGI funding.
"Rep. Rabb introduced legislation to move Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by 2050"
Supports fully decarbonizing the economy and transitioning to 100% renewable energy.
"A Decarbonized Society A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy"
Supports a Civil Climate Corps, modernized energy grids, and a full transition to renewable energy for every community.
"A Civil Climate Corps Modernized Energy Grids A Just Transition to 100% Renewable Energy"
Supports the Green New Deal and ensuring access to clean air and water through a strong climate agenda.
"The Green New Deal"
Supports the Green New Deal and ensuring clean air and water access for all communities.
"The Green New Deal Green Spaces and Clean Air and Water"
Introduced bills to advance a decarbonized economy and fought to preserve $1 billion in annual RGGI (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative) funding.
"introducing bills in 2017 to prohibit Pennsylvania's collaboration with ICE, to enact a wealth tax, and to advance a decarbonized economy... He fought to preserve $1 billion in annual RGGI funding"
Supports ensuring access to clean air and water and opposing hyperscale data centers that threaten environmental quality.
"Green Spaces and Clean Air and Water"
Implicitly opposes fossil fuels through support for full decarbonization and a just transition away from fossil energy.
"Passing a strong climate agenda that includes a Civil Climate Corps will help create millions of good-paying jobs and ensure a strong and sustainable transition to renewable energy for every community."
Supports guaranteeing access to clean air and water, implying support for environmental protections.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Supports guaranteeing access to clean air and water, indicating support for environmental protections.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Criminal Justice(16)
Supports ending the War on Drugs and legalizing adult-use cannabis.
"End the War on Drugs"
Explicitly calls for abolishing the death penalty and death by incarceration.
"Abolish the Death Penalty and Death By Incarceration"
Explicitly supports abolishing the death penalty and death by incarceration.
"Abolish the Death Penalty and Death By Incarceration"
Supports ending the War on Drugs and legalizing adult-use cannabis.
"End the War on Drugs Adult-Use Cannabis"
Supports abolishing the death penalty and death by incarceration.
"Abolish the Death Penalty and Death By Incarceration"
Authored a bill to establish a statewide police misconduct database, which became law, to increase police accountability.
"Rep. Rabb authored a bill to establish a statewide police misconduct database, which became law following his collaboration with Rep. Summer Lee and others in a historic 2020 Capitol action demanding accountability in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others."
Supports ending the war on drugs and legalizing adult-use cannabis.
"End the War on Drugs"
Supports reducing over-policing and investing in community support systems instead of militarized police.
"Real safety comes from strong communities, not over-policing or over-prosecuting."
Supports reducing over-policing and investing in community-based safety systems instead of militarized police.
"Real safety comes from strong communities, not over-policing or over-prosecuting."
Supports reducing incarceration and transforming criminal sentencing, citing evidence that lower incarceration leads to lower crime.
"Transform Criminal Sentencing States across the country are proving that decriminalizing poverty and reducing incarceration actually does lead to lower crime."
Supports transforming criminal sentencing and reducing incarceration, citing evidence that it leads to lower crime.
"Transform Criminal Sentencing"
Supports transforming public safety away from over-policing toward community investment, mental health responders, and accountability.
"Real safety comes from strong communities, not over-policing or over-prosecuting. We must reduce violence by investing in housing, education, good jobs, and mental health care – the true foundations of stability."
Introduced a bill to repeal Pennsylvania's death penalty.
"Rep. Rabb has introduced more than 100 bills and resolutions focused on equity, sustainability, and justice for working people – among them a bill to repeal Pennsylvania's death penalty"
Supports transforming criminal sentencing and reducing incarceration, citing evidence that decriminalizing poverty lowers crime.
"Transform Criminal Sentencing"
Introduced legislation to end the practice of charging children as adults in the criminal legal system.
"introducing bold, necessary legislation — from ending the practice of charging children as adults"
Introduced legislation establishing a First Chance Trust Fund to provide educational scholarships and youth support services in communities with the highest incarceration rates.
"Rep. Rabb authored a bill to establish a first-of-its-kind First Chance Trust Fund, providing educational scholarships and grants for youth support services in communities with the highest incarceration rates, funded by a 1% tax on Department of Corrections contracts over $5 million and private donations."
Economy(16)
Introduced legislation to establish a living minimum wage and end the inequitable tipped minimum wage loophole.
"introduced legislation to establish a living minimum wage and end the inequitable tipped minimum wage loophole"
Supports a living wage for all workers to address the affordability crisis.
"Universal Basic Income and a Living Wage for All"
Supports a living wage for all workers as part of addressing the affordability crisis.
"Universal basic income and a living wage for all will help tackle the affordability crisis"
Supports a Workers' Bill of Rights, union board representation, and green union jobs to protect and empower workers.
"A Workers' Bill of Rights"
Supports a living wage for all workers as part of addressing the affordability crisis.
"Universal basic income and a living wage for all will help tackle the affordability crisis"
Supports a Workers' Bill of Rights and union board representation as part of a broader labor agenda.
"A Workers' Bill of Rights"
Supports a Workers' Bill of Rights and union board representation as part of expanding worker protections.
"A Workers' Bill of Rights"
Supports national public works projects and jobs programs to create economic opportunity and revitalize domestic employment.
"National Projects and Jobs"
Supports national public works programs and green union jobs to create domestic employment and economic mobility.
"Green Union Jobs"
Supports a fairer state tax system through the Fair Share Tax Plan aimed at reducing tax inequity.
"the Fair Share Tax Plan to create a fairer state tax system"
Introduced legislation establishing microenterprise loans to support small and local businesses.
"He has also introduced legislation establishing microenterprise loans and specialty crop block grants."
Introduced a wealth tax bill and supported tax modernization and reform efforts.
"introducing bills in 2017 to prohibit Pennsylvania's collaboration with ICE, to enact a wealth tax, and to advance a decarbonized economy"
Supports national public works and jobs programs, including green union jobs and a Civil Climate Corps to create millions of good-paying jobs.
"Green Union Jobs A Civil Climate Corps Modernized Energy Grids National Projects and Jobs"
Supports strengthening workers' rights as a core campaign priority.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Supports strengthening workers' rights as a core campaign priority.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Opposes concentrated corporate wealth and power, suggesting support for policies that challenge corporate dominance.
"He has spent his career challenging corporate power, advancing social justice, and standing up for communities too often ignored by political insiders."
Education(13)
Supports fully funded public K-12 schools with equitable funding, opposing billionaire-backed competition for school funding.
"Fully Funded Public Schools"
Supports free public colleges and vocational training programs to ensure education access for all.
"Free Public Colleges and Vocational Training"
Supports better pay for teachers as part of a fully funded education agenda.
"Better Pay for Teachers"
Supports fully funded, equitably funded K-12 public schools to address underfunding and deteriorating school infrastructure.
"Fully Funded Public Schools"
Supports better pay for teachers as part of a fully funded education agenda.
"Better Pay for Teachers"
Supports better pay for teachers as part of a fully funded education agenda.
"Better Pay for Teachers"
Supports free public colleges and vocational training programs for all.
"Free Public Colleges and Vocational Training"
Supports free public colleges and vocational training programs to ensure education access for all.
"Free Public Colleges and Vocational Training"
Supports fully and equitably funded public K-12 schools to address underfunding and crumbling school infrastructure.
"Fully Funded Public Schools An equitably funded K-12 public school system"
Supports a fair funding formula for public schools to ensure equitable distribution of educational resources.
"a fair funding formula for public schools"
Opposes billionaire-backed competition for school funding that undermines public education.
"billionaire-backed competition for tight school funding have all undermined public school education."
Opposes billionaire-backed competition for school funding that undermines public school education.
"billionaire-backed competition for tight school funding have all undermined public school education."
Opposes billionaire-backed competition for school funding, implying opposition to charter/voucher diversion of public school resources.
"billionaire-backed competition for tight school funding have all undermined public school education."
Healthcare(11)
Explicitly supports Medicare for All as a universal basic guarantee for all Americans.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as a core healthcare policy.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports Medicare for All as part of a universal basic guarantees framework.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports Medicare for All as a universal basic guarantee for all Americans.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports investing in mental health responders as an alternative to policing for community safety.
"Invest in Mental Health Responders"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as part of a broader healthcare agenda.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as part of a broader healthcare agenda.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports investing in mental health responders as an alternative to policing for community safety.
"Invest in Mental Health Responders"
Supports investing in mental health responders as an alternative to policing for community safety.
"Invest in Mental Health Responders"
Supports guaranteeing access to healthcare for all.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Supports guaranteeing access to healthcare as a fundamental right.
"strengthen workers' rights, guarantee access to healthcare, housing, clean air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to real self-government."
Immigration(9)
Supports abolishing ICE and dismantling immigrant detention facilities, opposing current deportation enforcement.
"Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps"
Opposes ICE enforcement and deportation, calling for the abolition of ICE and dismantling of immigrant detention facilities.
"Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps"
Opposes ICE enforcement and calls for abolishing ICE and dismantling immigrant detention facilities.
"Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps"
Opposes ICE enforcement operations, calling them terrorizing to communities and an attack on democratic values.
"When ICE terrorizes our neighbors, when families are separated and innocent people are targeted in the name of citizenship, it is an attack on our communities."
Introduced legislation in 2017 to prohibit Pennsylvania's collaboration with ICE, opposing state cooperation with federal deportation enforcement.
"authored the bill to end ICE collaboration in Pennsylvania in 2017"
Opposes immigrant detention centers, framing them as concentration camps that must be dismantled.
"Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps"
Opposes aggressive immigration enforcement, characterizing ICE crackdowns as attacks on democratic values and communities.
"When ICE terrorizes our neighbors, when families are separated and innocent people are targeted in the name of citizenship, it is an attack on our communities."
Opposes aggressive immigration enforcement, characterizing ICE activity as terrorizing communities and attacking democratic values.
"When ICE terrorizes our neighbors, when families are separated and innocent people are targeted in the name of citizenship, it is an attack on our communities."
Opposes detention of asylum seekers and immigrants, calling for dismantling what the candidate terms 'immigrant concentration camps.'
"Abolish ICE & Dismantle Immigrant Concentration Camps"
Social Issues(9)
Supports reparations and equal opportunity audits as tools to address systemic racial inequity.
"Reparations Equal Opportunity Audits Program"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as an explicit healthcare and social policy priority.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports reparations and an Equal Opportunity Audits Program to advance racial equity.
"Reparations"
Championed legislation to address deed fraud and forced sale of inherited property, practices that disproportionately strip wealth from Black and brown families.
"legislation to address deed fraud and the forced sale of inherited property – practices that siphon hundreds of millions in wealth from disproportionately Black and brown families"
Supports reparations and equal opportunity audits as measures to advance racial equity.
"Reparations"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as an explicit policy position.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Supports protecting reproductive freedom as an explicit policy position.
"Medicare For All, Protecting Reproductive Freedom"
Member of the LGBTQ Equality Caucus, signaling support for LGBTQ+ civil rights.
"a member of the LGBTQ Equality Caucus"
Supports racial justice and dismantling systems of oppression as central commitments.
"He is a committed to dismantling systems of oppression, ending pay-to-play politics, and building a government that answers to voters, not billionaires and corporate lobbyists."