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Eleanor Norton's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Eleanor Norton did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2022 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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  • Signed Letter to President Biden: "As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic--the nation's most acute health care crisis in the last century--now more than ever, we must ensure that families and older adults are equipped with the health coverage they need. Medicare is one of the most popular and foundational federal programs in the United States. You have previously expressed commitments to expanding Medicare eligibility, improving its benefits package, and empowering Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies. As part of the American Families Plan, we respectfully request that you fulfill your commitment to expand and improve Medicare" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 1 "For the People Act of 2021" (votesmart.org)
  • "My bill would fix this discrepancy by requiring the IRS to publicly disclose any filed Form 8976 upon request, thus allowing the public to know which organizations operate under 501(c)(4), as they do with organizations that operate under 501(c)(3). In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which allows unlimited expenditures in political campaigns by these ``social welfare'' organizations, greater transparency is needed." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Rated 100% by Common Cause. (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 1280 "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021" (votesmart.org)
  • "Every day since the death of #GeorgeFloyd, his life has inspired change. The #JusticeInPolicing Act would ban chokeholds, no-knock warrants and qualified immunity for local police officers. We can’t bring him back, but our bill named for him can ensure he is never forgotten." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Eleanor knows the importance of a strong infrastructure, both in the District, and nationally. That's why she supports substantive, long-term funding of infrastructure programs in a bipartisan bill." (www.eleanorfordc.com)
  • "The INVEST in America Act is an unprecedented investment in our infrastructure, providing a 54 percent increase over the current level," Norton said. "The bill reauthorizes for another 10 years special federal funding Metro receives for capital improvements and, importantly, increases the authorized funding level each year until it reaches $200 million." Metro, which has been receiving $150 million per year, is particularly important for transportation in D.C. and even more so as climate change compels less reliance on cars." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "The wisdom of the bipartisan, modest, targeted business tax incentives for D.C. has been amply and visibly demonstrated in the economic resurgence of parts of the nation's capital where they were utilized. Among the most visible examples are the formerly rundown area around Capital One Arena, which is now surrounded by offices, restaurants and vibrant nightlife, and the Penn Quarter neighborhood, which had limited residential, commercial and retail spaces, and is now a popular mixed-use neighborhood." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "This progress has been made even while the United States is trying to defeat COVID-19. As chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, I was particularly pleased to hear the President emphasize infrastructure, making goods move faster and cheaper, because this can only add to the historic job creation record he has achieved." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Co-Sponsored HR 7688 "Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "This is because the largest corporations and the highest income Americans will pay their fair share, are not rewarded for shipping jobs and profits overseas, and will have more difficulty avoiding IRS compliance. Moreover, 17 Nobel Prize-winning economists say the bill's investments enhance productive participation in our economy and ease the long-term inflation pressure that is the frontline concern of Americans today." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to President Biden: "Canceling student debt is one of the most powerful ways to address racial and economic equity issues. The student loan system mirrors many of the inequalities that plague American society and widens the racial wealth gap.10 Black students in particular borrow more to attend college, borrow more often while they are in school, and have a harder time paying their debt off than their white peers.11 They are more than three times as likely to go into default within four years on their federal loans as white borrowers12– and face wage garnishment, tax refund withholding, and federal benefit offsets.13 While Latino borrowers often have lower loan balances than their white peers, they are more likely to struggle in repaying their loans, and have some of the lowest post-education earnings among all racial or ethnic groups." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 4 "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021" (votesmart.org)
  • Rated 0% by American Energy Alliance. (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to President Biden: "During your State of the Union address, you called for decisive action on clean energy and climate change. We were encouraged to hear you discuss how families will save an average of $500 per year on their energy costs through investments and tax credits. With your support, urging Congressional leaders to move forward with these climate provisions would mark the largest climate investment in our nation's history, setting the United States on course to meet our 50-52% greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by 2030, while creating millions of good paying union jobs, reducing energy costs for consumers, advancing environmental justice, investing in climate resilient housing and community infrastructure, and strengthening our economy." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Speaker Pelosi: "The clean energy industry, which includes renewable energy, clean vehicles, energy efficiency, and energy storage, is an integral and broad part of the American economy. Before the current crisis, this sector employed 3.4 million people, two thirds of whom worked at companies with less than 20 employees. These were blue-collar and white-collar jobs in every state of the country. Over the past five years, this sector grew at a rate that is 70% higher than the national average, particularly in states such as California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 9 "Climate Action Now Act" (votesmart.org)
  • Rated 100% by League of Conservation Voters. (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Administrator Regan: "we urge you to update emissions standards for freight-related mobile sources, specifically locomotives, ocean-going vessels, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, non-road diesel engines, and aircraft. We wish to partner with you to identify and reduce barriers to quickly advance this effort with the goal of completing the relevant rulemaking procedures by 2025." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to President Biden: "During your State of the Union address, you called for decisive action on clean energy and climate change. We were encouraged to hear you discuss how families will save an average of $500 per year on their energy costs through investments and tax credits. With your support, urging Congressional leaders to move forward with these climate provisions would mark the largest climate investment in our nation's history, setting the United States on course to meet our 50-52% greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by 2030, while creating millions of good paying union jobs, reducing energy costs for consumers, advancing environmental justice, investing in climate resilient housing and community infrastructure, and strengthening our economy." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 1808 "Assault Weapons Ban of 2022" (votesmart.org)
  • "I have spent the past eight years defeating annual attempts by House and Senate Republicans to eliminate the District's local gun violence prevention laws," Norton said. "Yesterday, the House passed historic legislation that will help combat gun violence in the District and across the country. The background check bill keeps people who should not have guns from purchasing them. While the District mandates universal background checks under local law, surrounding states do not, allowing illegal guns to flood some of the District's neighborhoods." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Republicans in the House and Senate have repeatedly tried to overturn D.C.'s common-sense gun violence prevention laws, including in this Congress," Norton said. "It is clear that there is a common denominator in the mass shootings that occur over and over in America: assault weapons. Until D.C. has statehood, D.C.'s laws, including its ban on assault weapons, are subject to the whims of Congress, and they are at serious risk if Republicans take over Congress next year." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "It's time the federal government caught up with many private employers that stay competitive by providing paid family and medical leave." (twitter.com)
  • Signed Letter to President Biden: “Furthermore, we cannot ignore the economic benefits of paid leave. Enacting paid leave also means that families will continue to earn some income at the very time when they need it most – when a family is growing or a member is sick and needs medical care. Workers will be able to continue to earn a portion of their wages, allowing them to continue to meet their basic needs and pay bills before returning to work. Moreover, lack of paid leave has meant that workers lose an estimated $22.5 billion in wages each year when that could have been used to keep a family afloat and spent in local economies." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to President Biden: "We cannot emerge from this pandemic and remain one of only two countries in the world with no form of national paid leave. We need a policy that is inclusive and that protects all workers regardless of where they work, where they live, or whom they love. This moment, and the working families of America, demand and deserve real and lasting policy change and protection. Paid leave is an issue of public health, economic recovery, and racial, gender, and economic justice. Black and Latinx women in particular are disproportionately those who make up both frontline workers and breadwinning mothers in their households4, and they are the least able to afford losing their income to care for themselves or a sick family member." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 3 "Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019" (votesmart.org)
  • Co-Sponsored HR 6833 "The Affordable Insulin Now Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "Only a few months ago, the House passed legislation that puts us on a road towards making real, tangible savings a reality for millions of Americans. Senate Democrats have also proposed legislation to ensure that, for the first time ever, Medicare will be able to negotiate the prices for certain drugs; to stop drug corporations from increasing prices beyond the rate of inflation without penalty; to cap out-of-pocket costs for seniors in Medicare Part D; and to guarantee that no one with insurance pays more than $35 per month for insulin. These are historic and life-saving reforms." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Leader Schumer: “We strongly urge you to retain the insulin affordability provisions in the House-passed Build Back Better Act, implement these provisions sooner, and expand these provisions to apply to the uninsured population. These provisions have the potential to immediately save lives and prevent complications of untreated diabetes for millions of Americans,” the Members continued. “By retaining and expanding the insulin cost caps, we can pass a bill that truly makes insulin affordable for everyone in the U.S.” (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Co-Sponsored HR 6 "American Dream and Promise Act of 2021" (votesmart.org)
  • "Ever since President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September the end of DACA--the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program started by President Obama in 2012--the clock has been ticking. DACA grants temporary, revocable protection from deportation to DREAMers, young immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as children. Unless Congress takes action soon, DREAMers protected by DACA will become deportable, and this administration has shown that they want to deport everyone they can. It doesn't matter to Trump and his administration that these young DREAMers have each lived in the U.S. for 10 years or more and that they've passed multiple and thorough background checks. It doesn't matter to them that these are productive and contributing members of our society, raising families and bettering our communities. It doesn't matter to them that for DREAMers -- many of whom have never even been back to the places where they were born -- the U.S. is their home." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Secretary Wolf: "We are gravely concerned that the Trump Administration is preparing mass deportations of Dreamers, young immigrants who grew up in the United States and know no other home. We write to urgently seek more information about the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) plans for removing DACA recipients. As you know, the Supreme Court is currently considering the legality of President Trump's cruel repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), with a decision expected by June. During oral argument on November 12, 2019, Chief Justice Roberts seemingly minimized the significance of the outcome, saying: "Both [the Obama and Trump] administrations have said they're not going to deport the people." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Russia's unprovoked and barbaric invasion of Ukraine has caused needless death and destruction and a humanitarian crisis," Norton said. "I applaud the courage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people in defending their country against a much larger military. I also applaud the cooperation and unity the United States and Europe have shown in supporting Ukraine and holding Russia accountable. This war must end now." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Voted in favor of HR 3364 "Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Co-Sponsored HR 5377 "Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "Madam Speaker, Americans famously complain about taxes. Who can then blame residents of the District of Columbia, where 40 percent claim the SALT deduction, among the largest number of taxpayers in the country? By allowing at least a $10,000 deduction, the 2017 Republican tax law concedes that it imposes double taxation. The Republican tax law was particularly nefarious because it virtually targeted blue states, whose top taxes support values like funding for local public education. We cannot, of course, protect Americans from taxes, but ever since the passage of the Federal income tax law in 1913, we have protected them from being taxed on dollars already taxed by State and local governments. The Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act ensures that wisdom." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Speaker Pelosi: "The SALT cap is terrible tax policy: it upends a long tradition of fiscal federalism; it erodes incentives for home ownership and charitable contributions; it seeks to punish and defund state and local governments that pursue progressive policies, and it imposes a significant marriage penalty. Furthermore, the impact of this tax hike has not been random. It was deliberately aimed at districts like ours, where voters have chosen to fund with their taxes better schools, health care, transit, parks, and social services. Many of us earned the trust of voters last year because we promised to do everything in our power to restore the SALT deduction. The Democratic House majority would be far smaller and possibly non-existent if not for the promise we made. It is time to keep that promise. H.R. 5377 offers a balanced, fiscally responsible way to do so." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "The wisdom of the bipartisan, modest, targeted business tax incentives for D.C. has been amply and visibly demonstrated in the economic resurgence of parts of the nation's capital where they were utilized. Among the most visible examples are the formerly rundown area around Capital One Arena, which is now surrounded by offices, restaurants and vibrant nightlife, and the Penn Quarter neighborhood, which had limited residential, commercial and retail spaces, and is now a popular mixed-use neighborhood." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Ambassador Lighthizer: "As members of the Congressional Wine Caucus, we write to express our strong concern about U.S. retaliatory tariffs on European wine. These retaliatory tariffs cause economic harm to the thousands of U.S. wineries, exporters, importers, retailers, and restaurants who depend on a vibrant, healthy wine market for their livelihood. Any expansion of these tariffs would further exacerbate the harm already caused. As you know, our local wine communities are a driving force in the national economy with a total economic impact of $220 billion annually. The European Union (EU) and the U.S. are the largest wine producing regions in the world and they serve as each other's largest export markets. In fact, the combined wine trade between the U.S. and EU totaled $4.7 billion in 2018." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Signed Letter to Secretary Ross: "We are encouraged to see the Trump Administration's reexamining and possible renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) so that it better promotes American jobs and businesses. We believe that the success of any renegotiation will be defined by putting working families, American jobs, and healthy communities at the forefront of U.S. trade policy. In order to achieve this end, we respectfully urge you to have an open and transparent process for the American public during the renegotiation process. We have all learned through experience that creating an open, participatory process is the only way that the Americ" (justfacts.votesmart.org)

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