Richard Kennedy's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Richard Kennedy has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
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 2020.
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- "I support the Medicare for America (M4Am) Act of 2019." (www.rickkennedyforcongress.com)
- "How do we get to universal #healthcare? Step 2 - progressively lower the age of Medicare eligibility. Medicare becomes the public option. We are xforming a huge part of our economy - must be incremental! Change, monitor, adjust, change some more." (twitter.com)
- "Progressively lower the age of eligibility for Medicare coverage" (votesmart.org)
- "Citizens United overturn" (twitter.com)
- "*Implement state of the art training for law enforcement in areas like de-escalation, crisis intervention, use of force and officer wellness." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "I support a real federal infrastructure program to rebuild these roads, replace hundred-year-old water mains etc." (twitter.com)
- "Creating a real infrastructure program. One that is funded and directed by the federal government with the objective of putting people to work rebuilding our decaying roads, bridges, schools, airports, water systems across the country with an emphasis on rural areas most in need. A rural high-speed "internetification' program, similar to the rural electrification program of the New Deal to bring this now crucial infrastructure to rural America to help small towns attract and retain the businesses of the 21st century." (votesmart.org)
- "Similarly, companies do not invest and create new jobs simply because they have more money. They invest because they experience, or at least forecast, increased demand for their products and/or services. A computer manufacturer does not build a new factory because they have spare cash lying around. It builds a new factory when consumer demand outstrips current capacity. And so the basic premise of the tax proposals, a "corporate tickle-down" theory if you will, is absurd hogwash." (votesmart.org)
- 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.
- "Investments in clean energy can create jobs, lower energy costs, and put us on a path to sustainability. In 2016, solar power investment alone was responsible for one in 50 new jobs across the United States and the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts strong growth in both the solar and wind power employment for the next 10 years." (votesmart.org)
- "As your Congressman I would support a carbon dividend and fee policy similar to the one proposed by the Climate Leadership Council. Such a plan would provide market incentives to businesses and individuals to reduce carbon emissions and provide funding for research into clean energy alternatives -- research that will lead to technology improvements that would make utility scale clean energy production more economically feasible right here in Central Texas." (votesmart.org)
- "Federal government can't eliminate gun violence, or partisan/religious/racial hatred, nor can we create a perfect society in which all are safe and protected. But shouldn't we at least be trying?" (twitter.com)
- "Step one to reducing horrific rate of gun violence in this country is to repeal the Dickey amendment. In the wake of Las Vegas and every other mass shooting we can propose actions ranging from banning assault rifles to universal background checks to limiting magazine capacities to banning bump stocks - but we have no idea whether these measures will be effective because we have no data." (www.facebook.com)
- "The ACA has brought health care to millions of Americans and protects those with pre-existing conditions. We must transition to a single payer universal health care system to bring quality affordable healthcare to all Americans." (twitter.com)
- "Immediately stabilize the current ACA environment by restoring funding for cost-sharing subsidies, enrollment outreach and support services, and by restoring the full length open enrollment period" (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "No, we don't need a wall on the southern border." (votesmart.org)
- "A path to citizenship for many of our 10.5 million undocumented residents who have lived among us for more than a decade, that focuses on security and brings them fully into the fold of our communities" (www.rickkennedyforcongress.com)
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