Vanessa Adia's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Vanessa Adia has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "The ability to control one's own body is essential to one's personal welfare. Reproductive autonomy for women means that women get to decide when or if to start a family." (votesmart.org)
- "Last week, Kay Granger wrote an op-ed in the Star-Telegram, where she claimed the new GOP tax law benefited Texas. I disagree. A tax reform bill written by lobbyists for corporations is not the way to help American families." (twitter.com)
- "The GOP tax plan increases taxes for the avg family in CD12, eliminates tax breaks for teachers and students, & adds $1.5 trillion to the national debt â all to cut taxes for corporations & the 1%." (twitter.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "I believe strongly in separation of corporation and state. I will not take money from corporate PACs because far too many elected officials consider how their vote will impact the corporations that fund their campaigns before they think about the people who they were elected to represent. A personal commitment from me doesnât go far enough. We all assume that politics and dirty money go hand in hand because itâs the way it has been for decades. I will fight for publically funded elections and an end to corporations buying our elections." (www.vanessaadia.com)
- "Early childhood education matters, and funding it is not wasteful spending. Itâs an investment in our nationâs future." (twitter.com)
- "I believe in boosting the U.S. economy by supporting workers, small business, and entrepreneurs, strengthening public education, and by making sure that corporations and Wall Street pay their fair share." (www.vanessaadia.com)
- "Public education is underfunded, understaffed, and generally misunderstood by the people who make the policies regarding education. Years ago I saw a button that perfectly sums it up: 'Those who can, teach. Those who cannot, pass laws about teaching.' I want to do my part to change all of that. Students and teachers need policies that will encourage better educational experiences through smaller class sizes, more time for teacher planning and collaboration, elimination of high-stakes testing that makes testing companies rich and disheartens struggling students, and attractive teacher salaries that will entice our best and brightest to leave the private sector to educate and inspire the next generation. I am a firm believer that quality public education improves the lives of all students who have access to it." (www.vanessaadia.com)
- "As a member of Congress, I will support bills that slow the progress of climate change and that allow us to be good stewards of the earth and to protect our current way of life. North Texas has a large energy economy, and we must commit to policies that are good for business as well as the earth and its inhabitants." (www.vanessaadia.com)
- "As a member of Congress, I will support bills that slow the progress of climate change and that allow us to be good stewards of the earth and to protect our current way of life." (votesmart.org)
- "As a parent, teacher, & candidate for Congress, I'm committed to fighting for legislation that prioritizes our children's lives over the greed of the gun lobby." (twitter.com)
- "You know what would be great to spend money on? Books. Computers. More resources for my students. And you know how we help prevent school shootings? We actually do something to address #gunviolence & implement common-sense gun reform." (twitter.com)
- "The reality is that we all know someone who will be negatively affected if the Affordable Care Act is replaced with a health care act that panders to insurance companies rather than protecting the citizens of our great nation. It's time to make sure that every American has good healthcare and that no one will have to choose between their bills and their health." (votesmart.org)
- "These are people's lives. Wasting billions of dollars on a wall designed only to divide, while threatening #DACA & failing to fund #CHIP means our govt. is opting to jeopardize the health and well-being of its own people. Children & families are suffering." (twitter.com)
- "There is a compassionate way to move forward with immigration policy that recognizes how much the immigrants who come here to seek a better life for their families contribute to our economy, to our way of life, and to all the things that make our country a shining city upon a hill that Reagan so often spoke of." (votesmart.org)
- "There is common ground between us, and I will work to build policy on that common value that every human is endowed with inherent dignity and worth and that our country is best when it is a welcoming light to those in the darkest places." (www.vanessaadia.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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