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Phyllis Hatcher's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2022.

  • "In addition, Women’s Right To Choose should be an individual choice. We must pass legislation that ensures real access to birth control and that ensures women — and women alone — have rights over their own bodies." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Phyllis Hatcher supports legal abortion. and funding programs that give women the autonomy over their reproductive decisions." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Medicare For All should be passed into law. This legislation will provide healthcare — including vision, dental, and mental health benefits — to all Americans while eliminating out-of-pocket expenses like copays and deductibles. Working families will no longer have to fight on the phone with their insurer or ration medicine to get by." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "We must extend the child tax credit, expanded in the "American Rescue Plan," which is set to reduce child poverty by 45% in the United States. Changes to the CTC will make 17-year-olds eligible, provide monthly advanced payments, and extend the CTC to Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We must pass the "George Floyd Act." We must retrain how police and prosecutors engage with our communities. We should also reform the cash bail system, close for-profit prisons, and decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. We also must also devote more resources to in-prison rehabilitation so that people have more opportunities to become productive members of society upon release." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Finally, we must expand rural broadband, so all Georgians can have a chance to compete in today’s economy. Rural broadband will ensure small businesses, entrepreneurs, and people in the freelance economy all have the same chance to thrive." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Support President Biden’s Made in America Tax Plan to make sure corporations pay their fair share in taxes and encourage job creation at home. And his American Jobs Plan that will upgrade our nation’s infrastructure, revitalize manufacturing, invest in basic research and science, shore up supply chains, and solidify the safekeeping of our infrastructure." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Support President Biden’s "Build Back Better" plan. The President’s plan will ensure that these investments produce good-quality jobs with strong labor standards, prevailing wages, and a free and fair choice to join a union and bargain collectively. These investments will advance racial equity by providing better jobs and better transportation options to underserved communities. These investments also will extend opportunities to small businesses to participate in the design, construction, and manufacturing of new infrastructure and component parts." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Support President Biden’s Made in America Tax Plan to make sure corporations pay their fair share in taxes and encourage job creation at home." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "The corporate income tax rate should be raised so working families don’t pay more in taxes than Amazon, Exxon, and the 60 other corporations that paid ZERO Federal Income Taxes in 2018. " (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "President Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Accord will be beneficial to the United States. We have to revamp the EPA, it’s only goal should be to protect our environment. Which means no more drilling in National Parks, no more polluting our lakes, streams, oceans and wetlands, and end fracking. By taking these pivotal steps we stop the damage we’re doing to the planet. We can then focus on protecting the planet for the next generations." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "President Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Accord will be beneficial to the United States. We have to revamp the EPA, it’s only goal should be to protect our environment. Which means no more drilling in National Parks, no more polluting our lakes, streams, oceans and wetlands, and end fracking. By taking these pivotal steps we stop the damage we’re doing to the planet. We can then focus on protecting the planet for the next generations." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "We must support the "Build Back Better" plan proposed by President Biden. The series of legislation with the plan would spur massive growth in clean manufacturing, build smart power grids, and rein in corporate polluters." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Pass gun violence legislation that expands background checks and eliminates the gun show loophole. Pass gun violence legislation that prevents the mentally ill or those convicted of domestic violence from being able to purchase guns. Pass gun violence legislation that raises the minimum age for buying an assault weapon from 18 to 21. Pass gun violence legislation that states unequivocally protects our communities." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Congress and the U.S. Senate should indicate broad bipartisan support in both chambers for documenting Dreamers following a year-long push for them to be included in an immigration overhaul." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • "Phyllis Hatcher supports a pathway to citizenship for all children and young adults who were raised in the United States, but face deportation at age 21." (www.hatcherforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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