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Affordable Care Act
Support Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare? |
No. Supports lawsuit to end ACA. Calls Medicare for All insidious attack on liberty. | Yes. Would “protect, improve, and build upon the Affordable Care Act.” |
Climate Change
Is human-caused climate change a serious threat? Address as a top priority by taxing or limiting output of greenhouse gases? |
No climate change position found. Her company previously lobbied for cap and trade when they’d likely have gotten contracts to administer it. | Yes. It “is not something that is coming, it is here. It is way past time for all of us to get serious.” “Set goals for carbon reduction and robust climate standards for newly manufactured cars and infrastructure.” |
Courts
Pick Ruth Bader Ginsburg replacement before November election? |
Before. “Our country’s future is at stake and Trump has every right to pick a new justice before the election.” | Wait. “The voices of the people that [Ginsburg] stood up for time and time again ought to be heard before there is a vote.” |
COVID-19
Support administration’s response to coronavirus pandemic? |
Yes. “Trump and his administration have taken the threat of COVID-19 seriously from the beginning.” Senate and Justice Department cleared Loeffler of insider trading following early COVID briefings. | No. Both Trump and Georgia Governor Kemp have stumbled on pandemic response. “We need leadership that believes in science and will act with integrity.” |
Education
Public funding for private or for-profit schools? |
Yes. Let states send federal funds for low-income students to both public and private schools. | No position found |
Elections
Support Texas lawsuit to overturn election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin |
Supports. “We fully support President Trump's legal recourses and Attorney General Paxton's lawsuit.... any illegal vote submitted cannot be counted.” | Opposes. “Donald Trump and @KLoeffler are trying to overturn a free and fair election and undo the will of Georgia voters.” |
Environment
Tighten or loosen environmental regulations? |
Unclear, but general anti-regulatory stance. Wants to “look at what we’re doing with regard to the economy and the environment collectively.” | Tighten. “Environmental justice is on the ballot.” Nothing is “more important than honoring and protecting the only home we’ve been blessed with.” |
Financial Regulation
Tighten or loosen regulation of banks and credit card companies? |
Loosen. Co-sponsored bills to eliminate “unnecessary” regulations, and to delay banking regulations. “Phase out all federal regulations that have been waived during the COVID-19 crisis.” | No position found. |
Guns
Enact more restrictive legislation on guns? |
No. “Strong Second Amendment supporter.” Sponsored bill barring national firearm database. | Yes. “The answer to America’s gun violence isn’t to encourage masses of people to carry guns.” |
Immigration
Expand border walls? Reduce immigration? |
Yes. Co-sponsored Asylum Abuse Reduction Act. Undocumented should not get free health care. | No. Immigration is “desperately broken.” Cites Jesus as an “undocumented immigrant.” |
Impeachment
Support calling witnesses and indicting Trump on impeachment charges? |
No. “This impeachment sham is an attack on what was a free and fair election.” Advertises her “100% Trump voting record [as] the most conservative senator in America.” | No position found. |
Labor
Support “right to work” laws, barring unions from mandating dues? |
Yes. Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act, establishing right to work on a national basis. | No. Supports “pay equity” with “honest wages, protected retirement, and fair overtime compensation.” Endorsed by Georgia AFL-CIO. |
Legal Abortion
Keep legal or ban? |
Ban. “Unapologetically pro-life.” Has co-sponsored “four bills to protect the unborn.” | Legal. Supports “a woman’s right to choose …, a decision between her and her doctor.” |
LGBTQ Rights
Protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation? |
Not if it interferes with religious faith. “People of faith should be protected.” | Yes. Will “protect members of the LGBTQ+ community from housing, financial, and employment discrimination.” |
Marijuana
Legal or ban? |
Ban. Is “concerned about the negative effects that legalizing marijuana would have.” | Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana. |
Minimum Wage
Raise federal minimum from $7.25 per hour? |
No position found. | Yes. $7.25 an hour “is not a living wage.” Will “fight to raise the minimum to a livable wage.” |
Planned Parenthood
Allow receiving public funds for non-abortion-related health care? |
No. Called for investigating Planned Parenthood for receiving taxpayer funds under the Paycheck Protection Program. | Yes. Opposes “all partisan attacks defunding health care providers like Planned Parenthood.” |
Police and Community
Restrict police use of force and increase public oversight? |
No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting “Back the Blue” and opposing calls to defund. Critics failing “to support law enforcement at a time when they need it most.” | Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias training and a uniform standard for the use of force. Does not support defunding. |
Student Financial Aid
Support lower interest or forgiveness on student loans? |
No position found. | Yes. Work to fully fund Pell Grants and strengthen loan forgiveness programs to ensure graduates can pay their loans. |
Voting Rules
Support stricter ID requirements and other rules on voting? |
Yes. Introduced bill to raise penalties for voter fraud and illegal ballot harvesting. | No. Supports restoring oversight provisions of Voting Rights Act, which made voting restrictions harder to enact. |
