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Jeff Van Drew
DWon the Primary, 2024 New Jersey U.S. House District 2, Primary Election
New Jersey U.S. House, District 2 (2019 - Present)
To be claimed
Former Member, Budget and Appropriations Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Chair, Community and Urban Affairs Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Member, Education & Labor Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Housing Affordability Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability, United States House of Representatives
Member, Agriculture Committee, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Natural Resources Committee, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Former Member, Budget and Appropriations Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Chair, Community and Urban Affairs Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Member, Housing Affordability Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Member, Agriculture Committee, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Natural Resources Committee, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, United States House of Representatives, 2019-2020
Member, Committee on Homeland Security
Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
Member, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Member, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
Member, Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism
Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security
— Awards:
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should be legally available when the procedure is completed within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape or when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal only when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and parental notification requirements.
- X
7. Should New Jersey government funding be provided to clinics and medical facilities that provide abortion services?
- No
8. Do you support a state ban on the partial-birth abortion procedure?
- Yes
9. If yes, should a ban include an exception when the health of the woman is endangered?
- No Answer
10. should a ban include an exception when the life of the woman is endangered?
- Yes
11. Other
- No Answer
1. The New Jersey government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public and private sectors.
- X
2. The New Jersey government should consider race and sex in making hiring, contracting and admissions decisions.
- No Answer
3. The New Jersey government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
4. Other
- No Answer
1. Support more aggressive prosecution of insurance fraud through the hiring of additional fraud investigators.
- X
2. Create an elected, as opposed to appointed, Insurance Commissioner.
- X
3. Support a continued freeze on insurance rates.
- X
4. Reduce insurance premiums.
- X
5. Reduce or eliminate insurance company surcharges.
- X
6. Support policies that give consumers a greater choice of insurance companies, plans and rates.
- X
7. Reinstate the Office of Public Advocate.
- X
8. Eliminate the no-fault insurance program.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase state funding for programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
- X
2. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X
3. Deny or suspend state-issued permits and licenses to parents who are delinquent in paying court-ordered child support.
- X
4. Do you believe that the New Jersey government should recognize same-sex marriages?
- No
5. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Expand and promote "community policing" programs.
- X
3. Support "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve their full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X
4. Expand the use of the death penalty for additional circumstances relating to murder.
- No Answer
5. Oppose the death penalty.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer
7. Continue to impose mandatory life sentences for third-time, violent felons.
- X
8. Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
- X
9. Increase state funds for programs which rehabilitate and educate inmates during and after their prison sentences.
- No Answer
10. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs such as marijuana.
- No Answer
11. Strengthen penalties and sentences associated with drug-related crimes.
- X
12. Implement chain gangs in which prison inmates work together in chained work groups.
- X
13. Other
- No Answer
1. Prosecute juveniles who commit murder or other serious violent crimes as adults.
- X
2. Expand the death penalty to apply to 16 and 17-year-olds who commit murder.
- No Answer
3. Provide state funding for military-style "boot-camps" for juvenile first-time felons.
- X
4. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
5. Support state government funding of programs for at-risk youth such as guaranteed college loans and job training and placement.
- X
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for improving the state's transportation system, including major roadways, railways and airports.
- X
2. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for expanding, starting or relocating businesses.
- X
3. Expand legalized gambling (e.g., casino gambling, slot machines, Keno).
- No Answer
4. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X
5. Remove state government controls or caps from wages, prices, rents, profits, production and interest rates.
- No Answer
6. Support limits on cash damages in lawsuits against businesses and professionals for product liability or malpractice.
- X
7. Increase state funding for programs to re-train unemployed workers.
- X
8. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for professional development and salaries of public school faculty.
- X
2. Endorse teacher-led voluntary school prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
3. Encourage private or corporate investment in certain public school programs.
- X
4. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious, technical).
- No Answer
5. Support continuation of charter schools where teachers and other professionals receive state authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- X
6. Require the use of state-wide achievement standards for all state public schools.
- X
7. Emphasize local control of education as long as the school district meets state health and safety standards.
- No Answer
8. Support sex education programs which stress abstinence.
- X
9. Support sex education programs which stress safe sexual practices.
- X
10. Offer financial incentives to encourage school districts to consolidate.
- X
1. Support tougher environmental standards in order to encourage the sale of cleaner-burning fuels throughout New Jersey.
- No Answer
2. Support tougher auto emission inspection standards.
- No Answer
3. Support "self-audit" legislation which creates incentives for polluting industries to audit themselves and clean up pollution.
- No Answer
4. Require a cost/benefit analysis be completed to determine the economic impact of proposed environmental regulations before they are implemented.
- No Answer
5. Require the state to reimburse citizens when state-sponsored environmental regulations limit the use of privately-owned land.
- No Answer
6. Provide funding for recycling programs in New Jersey.
- X
7. Request flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding federal environmental regulations.
- X
8. Suspend New Jersey's participation in unfunded, federally mandated environmental protection legislation.
- No Answer
9. Maintain environmental quality standards equal to, but not exceeding, those mandated by current federal regulations.
- No Answer
10. Other
- No Answer
1. Do you support amending the New Jersey Constitution to limit the terms of New Jersey's State Senators and Assemblymembers?
- No Answer
2. If yes, limit
- No Answer
3. Do you support amending the U.S. Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget?
- Yes
4. Do you support stricter limits on individual contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
5. Do you support stricter limits on PAC contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
6. Do you support stricter limits on corporate and union contributions to state legislative candidates?
- Yes
7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes
9. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No Answer
10. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer
2. Maintain all state registration procedures and state restrictions on possession of firearms.
- No Answer
3. Ease state procedures and restrictions on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- No Answer
4. Repeal all state bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from obtaining firearms.
- No Answer
5. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Expand state funding for pre-natal and infant care programs available in the state, including immunizations.
- X
2. Provide tax incentives to assist small businesses in providing health care to their employees.
- X
3. Ensure that New Jersey's citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
4. Guaranteeing medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
5. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Abortion
- No Answer
2. Affirmative Action
- No Answer
3. AIDS Programs
- No Answer
4. Education
- No Answer
5. Environment
- No Answer
6. Health care
- No Answer
7. Law enforcement
- No Answer
8. Welfare
- No Answer
9. Do you support turning over more state functions to the private sector?
- No
10. Other
- No Answer
1. Alcohol Taxes
- No Answer
2. Business Taxes
- No Answer
3. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer
4. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer
5. Income Taxes (incomes less than $75,000)
- No Answer
6. Income Taxes (incomes greater than $75,000)
- No Answer
7. Property taxes
- No Answer
8. Sales taxes
- No Answer
9. State Fees
- No Answer
10. Do you support a flat tax structure for state income taxes?
- No
11. Other
- No Answer
1. Provide childcare services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X
2. Allow welfare recipients to work and still receive state-funded health care and child care (if needed) until they become self-sufficient.
- No Answer
3. Require that able-bodied welfare recipients receive job training, attend school, or work in order to receive welfare benefits.
- X
4. Require that unwed mothers under the age of 18 attend school and live with a parent or guardian (if possible) to receive welfare benefits.
- X
5. Limit welfare benefits given to recipients who have additional children.
- X
6. Provide two-parent families living in poverty the same welfare benefits as one-parent families.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare and advocate privately-funded assistance to people in need.
- No Answer
8. Support a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- X
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position
Latest Action: House - 06/19/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/13/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/13/2019 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Tracker:Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is holding his next rally in a county with almost no factory jobs to save, a reliance on immigrant workers and an economy built in part by coastal elites who summer there. Cape May County on the southern tip of New Jersey reflects just how much loyalty Trump commands with voters outside the industrial heartland. More than 65% of its economy comes from tourism. The population booms from 90,000 year-round to more than 670,000 in July and August. Yet the county is reliably safe swimming for Republicans — and a Trump event bringing in thousands of guests into a community that is shuttered for winter is an economic bonus for the hotels, motels and restaurants. Trump is holding the Tuesday rally along the beach in Wildwood in support of New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who flipped to the Republican party last month after opposing the House Democratic majority’s impeachment of the president. The event is a chance to reward Van Drew with a presidential seal of approval, but it will also resonate beyond the Jersey Shore, drawing in suburban Philadelphia voters at a moment when Pennsylvania is a must-win for the president in 2020, said Seth Grossman, an attorney who ran against Van Drew in 2018 as a pro-Trump Republican. “He’s sending a message that it’s OK for Democrats to embrace Trump and Republicans, as opposed to feeling obligated to stay in the Democratic Party,” Grossman said. The rally is a studied contrast with Trump’s 2018 campaign stops that tended to be further inland in counties that were generally whiter, poorer and less educated than the United States as a whole. That strategy helped Republicans to expand their Senate majority by two seats even as they lost their House majority to Democrats. Beach lovers have brought a county of barrier islands and pristine wetlands tremendous wealth. They come for the charming Victorian eaves of Cape May, the beach view mansions of Avalon, the boardwalk of alcohol-free Ocean City and the Space Age architecture of Wildwood’s motels. Of the county’s shore towns, Wildwood has more of a working class vibe and the largest gathering space with an indoor arena that seats about 7,000 people. About 60% of the revenues for the Bolero Resort in Wildwood come in July and August — and there is usually just one of two guests staying there during a typical January weekday. But the 120 rooms are fully booked on Monday and Tuesday for the Trump rally. Thirty of those rooms had been closed for the winter and needed to be re-opened, while the restaurant hired staff to serve cocktails such as the “Subpoena Colada” and the “Moscow Mueller” as the band Shorty Long and the Jersey Horns plays both nights. “I actually have a waiting list of people we know — friends of friends, regular customers — but we just don’t have enough space,”″ said Perry Nickleach, the Bolero’s manager. Not everyone has benefited from the wealth being generated on the Jersey Shore. For the past 19 years, home prices have increased in value by an annual average of 6.5%, while incomes have grown an average of just 2.5%, according to figures from the real estate company CoreLogic and analysis by The Associated Press. Cape May County’s year-round population has fallen by nearly 10,000 residents during that same period as it has become less affordable, according to Census Bureau figures. While Trump often talks about the stock market, a half-century low unemployment rate and trade talks at his rallies, the most important economic resource in Cape May County might be its grayish khaki sand. The sand forms the beaches and the beaches reel in the money and real estate development. But the Atlantic Ocean is constantly sucking the sand back into the deep, putting all of that wealth at risk. “Every day around 7:30 a.m. you will see landscaper, builders, electricians, plumbers, etc. all crossing the bridge into Avalon to work on shore homes. Why? Sand on the beach,” said Scott Wahl, the business administrator in the nearby borough of Avalon. “Without it, we have no economy.” The borough just finished a nearly $8 million project this fall to replenish its beaches with lost sand and 65% of that sum came from federal funding. New Jersey’s state government provides $25 million annually to protect the beaches, but that amount has not been increased since the program was created in 1998. “Cape May County has no industry and is totally dependent on its oceanfront,” said Margot Walsh, head of the Jersey Shore Partnership that is lobbying the state to increase funding for beach preservation. “The coastline is a fragile asset that requires ongoing maintenance to protect and preserve it from devastating erosion caused by nor’easters and hurricanes.” But the nature of the tourism sector also means that companies depend heavily on immigrant workers who arrive with a J-1 student visa. The county had 2,545 workers from overseas in 2018, according to State Department figures. “Areas that have a low year-round population and high seasonal industries find that the J-1 program is very necessary to them,” said Vicki Clark, president of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce. Yet those workers are largely gone in the winter, leaving the year-round residents who are perpetually getting ready for May when the crowds return. Brendan Sciarra, the chairman of the Cape May County Democrats, said his focus is on the mission of getting Democrats elected in a county by nearly 20 points. But Sciarra is also a restaurateur who wants the best for his community and the rally is putting money in people’s pockets at a time that historically has been a period of financial hibernation. “It puts Wildwood on the map and I fight for Wildwood any way I can,” he said.Source: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Van Drew voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The House rejected both objections by a vote of 121-303 for Arizona and 138-282 for Pennsylvania.
Wed 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST
Clayton Municipal Building Clayton, NJ
