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Former Member, Agriculture Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, United States House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Agriculture Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, United States House of Representatives
Former Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, United States House of Representatives
— Father's Occupation:
Spouse's Occupation:
Registered Nurse
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
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?
- No
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
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?
- Yes
Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- 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?
- Yes
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?
- No
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Status
2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Status
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Slightly Decrease
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate
11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
13. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Eliminate
15. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease
16. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
17. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
18. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No Answer
19. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
20. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
21. Should the New York Legislature list discretionary spending item by item in the budget?
- Yes
22. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
23. Greatly decrease Cap school property taxes; double STAR exemptions
- Overall, next year's budget will not spend a penny more compared to this year.
1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New York state senators and representatives?
- No
3. Individual
- Yes
4. PAC
- Yes
5. Corporate
- Yes
6. Political Parties
- 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?
- No
9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
10. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in New York are closed?
- No
11. Should New York recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
12. I support term limits for legislative leaders - not rank and file legislators.
- There have been recent important developments to ensure that Ground Zero is rebuilt in a timely fashion. As Governor, I will ensure these agreements are completed on time and on budget
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in New York.
- X
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer
6. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
7. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
8. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
10. Eliminate the statute of limitations for criminal sex cases.
- X
11. Eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits seeking damages in sex cases.
- No Answer
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- X
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- No Answer
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- No Answer
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- No Answer
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in New York's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Public employment
- No
9. State college and university admissions
- No
10. State contracting
- No
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- X
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to New York's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- X
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in New York.
- No Answer
7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- X
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Latest Action: House - 12/21/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Tracker:Latest Action: Senate - 12/21/2018 Received in the Senate.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 12/11/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Tracker:By: John Faso Moby's op-ed "Food Stamps Shouldn't Pay for Junk" (April 10) makes an important point that the food stamp program (SNAP) should encourage purchase of nutritious food. I plan to offer an amendment to the legislation to restrict the purchase of soda. Given the increase in obesity and diabetes, particularly among our youth, such a change is consistent with our desire to promote public health and reduce health-care costs. However, Moby is entirely wrong when he contends that our food-stamp debate is "pitting those who want to preserve funding for SNAP against those who want to gut it." The legislation under consideration in the House is intended to promote opportunity and self-sufficiency by moving the 3.5 million SNAP recipients who are able-bodied, aged 18-59, with no children at home, into jobs or job training. Today, there are no meaningful work requirements for this population and our legislation will provide resources to states to get these people into the workforce. Many employers have job openings but cannot find people who are ready to work or have sufficient skills. This bill addresses this workforce shortage by tapping a large pool of people, now dependent on government aid, and gets them into jobs. The bill also allows up to $2,000 in savings and $12,000 in car value before counting those assets in SNAP eligibility determinations. Instead of wanting to gut SNAP, we want to preserve it for those who depend on it to put food on the table. At the same time, we're going to insist that those who can work do so or lose benefits. Taxpayers deserve no less.
By: Dan Lipinsk and John Faso Climate change is affecting all Americans and urgent action is needed to address the problem and adapt to its effects. For years, Congress has been gridlocked on the issue and unable to provide meaningful solutions. That's why we joined the Climate Solutions Caucus, which is taking a new bipartisan approach to address climate change. With its "Noah's Ark" membership rules, meaning that each new member who wants to join has to bring in a colleague from the other party, the Caucus makes sure that each party has equal say. The group has grown rapidly in popularity and now boasts 72 members. Now that it has achieved a critical mass of legislators committed to working together on climate change, the next task for the Caucus is to influence and pass legislation. So far, we have had some significant successes. Caucus members were instrumental in defeating an amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that would have prevented the Department of Defense from studying the vulnerability of its installations to climate change. The Caucus also successfully included several renewable energy tax credits in the major tax bill that was signed into law earlier this year. We are encouraged by these achievements but think that the Climate Solutions Caucus can do much more. Our Challenges and Prizes for Climate Act of 2018 will leverage the federal government's prize authority (originating in the America COMPETES Act) to create competitions for next-generation climate technologies and solutions. Federal and private sector prize competitions have led to incredible breakthroughs. For example, in 2004 the Ansari XPrize led to a commercial spacecraft making two space flights in a week and helped launch the commercial spaceflight industry. And in 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) L-Prize led to the development of a highly-efficient, low-cost, American-made LED bulb to replace the 60W halogen bulb, and in the process revolutionized the residential lighting industry. Our bill will create new prize competitions, run by the DOE, around five themes: carbon capture, energy efficiency, energy storage, climate adaptation and resiliency, and data analytics to better understand or communicate about climate. These are all areas that are ripe for technological breakthroughs, advances in deployment and dissemination, or innovative new ideas. Our bill does not address every climate-related topic we may think is important, nor do we think it should. There are many topics that are better addressed by federal research grants or research and development activity in the private sector, and we aim to complement, not replace those. Prize competitions offer several advantages that we think contribute to their bipartisan appeal. They allow federal agencies to work collaboratively with one another, with state, local, and tribal governments, and with the private sector. They also encourage a shared funding model in which multiple governmental agencies and private entities can make cash and in-kind contributions (such as access to facilities or expertise) to the prize purse. Prizes are paid out only for success, not for failure, limiting the government's financial outlay. Ultimately, prize competitions raise the profile of the competitors and the competition topic, often resulting in market activity that dwarfs the cost of the competition. With this bill, we aim to demonstrate that the Climate Solutions Caucus is working exactly as it is supposed to: as a forum for members of both parties to discuss difficult issues and come up with shared solutions. For too long, conversations like these and bipartisan efforts like ours were not happening on Capitol Hill. But in what we hope is simply one of many Caucus success stories, we aim to make climate change action bipartisan.
By John Faso As I travel around our district, citizens relate friends or family members who are addicted to or have overdosed on heroin or synthetic opioids. It is a crisis that is crippling our communities, wrecking families and destroying hope for many. As opioid and heroin addiction has spread, so have the variety of alternative and synthetic drugs available. Fentanyl and carfentanil are two synthetic drugs that are hundreds of times more potent than heroin. A deadly dose of fentanyl is estimated to be about 3 milligrams -- or just a few dozen granules of the drug. And since fentanyl looks identical to heroin, many users have no idea what they're using when bought on the street. Most of the fentanyl and carfentanil found in our communities is produced overseas and shipped across our borders through the U.S. mail. Producers in China and India easily bypass inadequate screening from postal authorities and ship their poison to our communities. After 9/11, the Congress required shippers such as UPS, DHL, and FedEx to have detailed documentation on each package allowing them to screen potentially suspect shippers. However, the U.S. Postal Service -- which handles more than four times the packages as these commercial shippers -- was not told to require similar documentation. That's why I have partnered with my colleague, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Massachusetts, by sponsoring a bill to crack down on illegal shippers sending drugs through the mail from abroad. Our proposal, H.R. 1057, the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act, will require foreign postal services to send basic tracking data through the United States Postal Service (USPS) to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in advance to flag packages from suspicious addresses and shippers. We have strong, bipartisan support in Congress. In the House, over 250 members are cosponsors, while in the Senate, 31 senators are backing the bill. While the STOP Act is a significant part of the strategy to fight the opioid epidemic, it cannot be considered a cure-all. We need education and treatment to help people overcome addiction and to rid our communities of heroin and synthetic drugs. This includes robust funding for programs administered at the local and state levels. We've made progress on this front as programs contained in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery (CARA) Act have started to be implemented. Just recently, I supported a bipartisan budget agreement that includes an additional $6 billion to fund local prevention programs, and law enforcement efforts intended to fight the opioid and heroin epidemic. This fight is not limited to a certain region of the country or a subset of the population. The opioid and heroin epidemic is a scourge on American society and one that is devastating communities here in Upstate New York. I pledge to continue working with local leaders and do all I can to equip local and state officials with the tools they need. I will continue to push our bipartisan bill to stop shipments of illegal drugs through the U.S. Mail while supporting local education and prevention programs.
