PRIORITIES
Workers’ Rights & the PRO Act
The deal in this country used to be simple: if the company did well, the people working there did well too. That stopped being true forty years ago. Since 1979, American workers have produced about 90 percent more per hour while pay for the typical worker has grown about 33 percent. The gains did not go home to the people doing the work. The strongest opposition to unions does not come from workers — or from the small businesses of this district, who already treat the people working for them like the neighbors they are. It comes from large corporations and the lobbying groups they pay.
I WILL:
- Co-sponsor and vote for the PRO Act — the most significant update to labor law since Taft-Hartley in 1947 — and be honest that the bill would override Virginia’s right-to-work law, which I support overriding anyway
- Fight for twelve weeks of federal paid family and medical leave
- Defend the National Labor Relations Board
- Defend the federal civil service against the Schedule F order that threatens workers from Yorktown to Dahlgren to Langley
- Crack down on the misclassification of workers as “contractors”
- Ban most non-compete agreements in statute
- Refuse corporate PAC money from union-busting consulting firms and from private equity firms that extract value by cutting wages and benefits
MORE PRIORITIES
America spends more on healthcare than any country on earth and gets worse results — and the gap is not waste, it is profit.
Decisions about pregnancy belong to a woman and her doctor. Not a politician.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP — these are lifelines, not bargaining chips.
This district is home to tens of thousands of veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and military families.
Education is supposed to be the engine of American mobility. Right now the engine is being dismantled.
Power should be reliable, it should be affordable, and the dollars we spend on it should build American jobs.