Candidate for
US Representative; District 2; Democratic Party

1)REBUILDING MANUFACTURING For policies that allow American workers to compete on a level playing field. This means enforcing fair-trade provisions, creating domestic tax and regulatory policies in line with our peer nations, and a domestic industrial strategy that cultivates key industries.

2)ENERGY SECURITY For comprehensive energy solutions that create American jobs, improve our trade imbalances, preserves the environment, and stops enriching parts of the world hostile to our interests.

3)HEALTH CARE REFORM For reform that reigns in costs, improves access & consumer choice, prevents insurance companies from only covering healthy patients, and fixes our long-term budget deficit.

4)FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY For a bi-partisan deficit commission that is empowered to make across the board recommendations on revenue & cost solutions that result in an up/down vote. Our legacy to future generations must not be crippling debt due to Washington irresponsibility.

5)FINANCIAL REGULATION For dramatic regulatory reform that brings back Glass-Steagall, limits leverage, and turns "too big to fail" into "too big to exist." We must put Main Street ahead of Wall Street to protect American taxpayers.

6)LEGISLATIVE REFORM For full transparency in legislating and bringing reform to campaign financing, lobbying, and the earmark/filibuster process. We need a Washington that works for the people.

7)INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL For improving our failing infrastructure through a national bank that would ensure that spending reflects priorities and not backroom political deals.