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Founder, Afterschool Caucus
Former Chair, Appropriations Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Congressional Advisory Panel, National Campaign to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
Former Co-Chair, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Financing Task Force
Former Member, Congressional Armenian Caucus
Former Member, Congressional Arts Caucus
Former Member, Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus
Former Member, Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
Member, Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus, Former Member
Former Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus
Former Member, Congressional India Caucus
Former Member, Congressional Task Force on Terror Financing
Former Member, Congressional Ukranian Caucus
Former Member, Congressional Women's Caucus
Former Chair, Congressional Women's Caucus
Former Member, Democratic Steering Group
Former Member, Executive Committee, Albanian Issues Caucus
Former Member, House Pro-Choice Caucus
Former Chair, House Pro-Choice Caucus
Former Co-Founder, Hudson River Caucus
Former Co-Chair, Long Island Sound Caucus
Former Co-Chair, Public Broadcasting Caucus
Former Chair, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, United States House of Representatives
Former Co-Chair, United Nations Working Group
Former Chair, United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
Former Member, United States House Select Committee on Homeland Security
Founder, Afterschool Caucus
Member, Congressional Advisory Panel, National Campaign to Reduce Teen Pregnancy
Co-Chair, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Financing Task Force
Member, Congressional Armenian Caucus
Member, Congressional Arts Caucus
Member, Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus
Member, Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
Member, Congressional Friends of Animals Caucus
Member, Congressional Human Rights Caucus
Member, Congressional India Caucus
Member, Congressional Task Force on Terror Financing
Member, Congressional Ukranian Caucus
Member, Congressional Women's Caucus
Former Chair, Congressional Women's Caucus
Member, Democratic Steering Group
Member, Executive Committee, Albanian Issues Caucus
Member, House Pro-Choice Caucus
Former Chair, House Pro-Choice Caucus
Co-Founder, Hudson River Caucus
Co-Chair, Long Island Sound Caucus
Co-Chair, Public Broadcasting Caucus
Co-Chair, United Nations Working Group
Former Chair, United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
Former Member, United States House Select Committee on Homeland Security
Chair, Appropriations
Chair, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
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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. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Yes
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
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
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
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
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should be illegal when the fetus is viable, with or without life support.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should always be legally available.
- X
4. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
7. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification requirements as decided by each state government.
- No Answer
8. Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial birth" abortion.
- No Answer
9. Prohibit public funding of abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
10. Support "buffer-zones" by requiring demonstrators to stay at least five feet from abortion clinic doorways and driveways.
- X
11. Provide funding for family planning programs as a means to decrease the number of abortions.
- X
12. Other
- No Answer
1. Agricultural
- Slightly Decrease Funding
2. Arts
- Slightly Increase Funding
3. Defense
- Maintain Funding Status
4. Education
- Greatly Increase Funding
5. Environmental
- Slightly Increase Funding
6. International aid
- Slightly Increase Funding
7. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status
8. Medical Research
- Greatly Increase Funding
9. National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA)
- Slightly Decrease Funding
10. National Parks
- Maintain Funding Status
11. Scientific Research
- Slightly Increase Funding
12. Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status
13. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status
14. Other
- No Answer
15. Would you support enforcing the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget?
- No Answer
1. Armed Forces personnel training
- Maintain Funding Status
2. Covert intelligence operations
- Slightly Decrease Funding
3. Defense plant conversion
- Maintain Funding Status
4. Military hardware
- Slightly Decrease Funding
5. Military space shuttle missions
- Slightly Decrease Funding
6. Pay for active duty personnel
- Slightly Increase Funding
7. National Missile Defense Program
- Greatly Decrease Funding
8. Modernization of weaponry and equipment
- Maintain Funding Status
9. Programs to improve military retention rates
- Maintain Funding Status
10. Research and development of new weapons
- Maintain Funding Status
11. Troop and equipment readiness
- Maintain Funding Status
12. Other
- No Answer
1. Defense
- Not a Priority
2. Education
- Medium Priority
3. Federal debt reduction
- Low Priority
4. Medicare
- High Priority
5. Social Security
- Highest Priority
6. Tax cuts
- Lowest Priority
7. Other
- No Answer
1. Less than $25,000
- Eliminate
2. $25,000 - $75,000
- Slightly Decrease
3. $75,000 - $150,000
- Slightly Decrease
4. Over $150,000
- Maintain Status
5. Other
- Greatly Increase
6. Over $40, 000
- Slightly Decrease
7. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease
9. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase
10. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Inheritance taxes
- Greatly Decrease
13. Charitable deductions
- Maintain Status
14. Medical expense deductions
- Slightly Increase
15. Mortgage deductions
- Maintain Status
16. Child tax credit
- Slightly Increase
17. Earned income tax credit
- Slightly Increase
18. Student loan tax credit
- Slightly Increase
19. College tuition
- Marriage Penalty
1. Do you support replacing the current U.S. income tax structure with a flat income tax?
- No
2. Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
- Yes
3. Would you cut taxes if there were an operating surplus?
- Yes
4. Would you cut taxes and use Social Security surpluses to supplement the difference?
- No
5. Other
- No Answer
1. Support public taxpayer funding for congressional candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
- X
2. Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
- No Answer
3. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
- No Answer
4. Provide free or low-cost television advertising to candidates who agree to voluntary campaign spending limits.
- X
5. Ban unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
- X
6. Prohibit non-U.S. citizens from making soft money contributions to national parties or party committees.
- No Answer
7. Require full disclosure of funding sources of issue advocacy commercials which appear within 60 days of an election.
- X
8. Make campaign spending limits mandatory for all federal candidates.
- X
9. Remove all contribution limits on federal candidates and parties, but require complete and immediate disclosure via the Internet.
- No Answer
10. Require congressional candidates to raise over half of their campaign money from their home state.
- No Answer
11. Other
- No Answer
1. Broaden the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
2. Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
- No Answer
3. Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
- X
6. Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
- X
7. Increase funding for community policing programs.
- X
8. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
9. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
- X
10. Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
11. Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
- No Answer
12. Provide block grants to states for implementation of programs to combat juvenile crime.
- No Answer
13. Impose harsher penalties for youths convicted of violent offenses.
- No Answer
14. Support the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for juvenile offenders.
- X
15. Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
- X
16. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
- No Answer
2. Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- No Answer
3. Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
- No Answer
4. Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- X
5. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
6. Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.
- X
7. Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
- No Answer
8. Other
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
- X
3. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
- No Answer
4. Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
- X
5. Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
- No Answer
6. Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- X
7. Promote education flexibility by giving federal funds, in the form of block grants, to the states to spend it as they see fit.
- No Answer
8. Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
- X
9. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- X
10. Increase funding for computers and computer training in public schools.
- X
11. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
12. Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and implement their programs.
- No Answer
13. Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
- X
14. Eliminate federal financial aid for individuals convicted of drug offenses.
- No Answer
15. Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
- X
16. Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
- X
17. Other
- No Answer
1. Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries into areas with high unemployment.
- X
2. Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
3. Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
4. Establish empowerment zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed people.
- X
5. Eliminate any federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
- No Answer
6. Increase the federal minimum wage.
- X
7. Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
- X
8. Provide tax credits for businesses that offer on-site child care.
- X
9. The federal government should consider race and sex in making government contracting decisions.
- No Answer
10. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- X
11. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
12. The federal government should utilize merit and qualifications in making government contracting decisions.
- No Answer
13. Other
- No Answer
1. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
- X
2. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
- X
3. Waive environmental review requirements for grazing permits.
- No Answer
4. Revise the 1872 mining law to increase the fees charged to mining companies using federal lands.
- X
5. Require states to fully compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately owned land.
- No Answer
6. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X
7. Strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
- X
8. Promote the selling of pollution credits between nations to encourage industries to decrease pollution levels.
- X
9. Strengthen logging restrictions on federal lands.
- X
10. Reduce current federal regulations on the environment.
- No Answer
11. Give states added flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding federal environment regulations.
- No Answer
12. Other
- No Answer
1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- X
2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X
7. Increase penalties for the possession of any illegal guns.
- X
8. Hold gun owners responsible for crimes committed with their guns by children age 16 and under.
- X
9. Raise the minimum age for ownership of handguns from 18 to 21.
- X
10. Require background checks of gun buyers at gun shows.
- X
11. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
12. Other
- No Answer
1. Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
2. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- No Answer
3. Support health care strategies focused on prevention, including health education, and natural medicines and remedies.
- X
4. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights to define and enforce the rights of insured patients, including greater access to specialists and emergency rooms, wider choice of health care providers, and appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
- X
5. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
- X
6. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- No Answer
7. Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
- X
8. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for purposes other than medical costs.
- No Answer
9. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
10. Allow states and local communities to use federal funds for needle-exchange programs to combat the spread of HIV.
- X
11. Provide citizens age 55-65 the option of purchasing Medicare health coverage.
- X
12. Support legislation to provide prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- X
13. Increase funding for AIDS programs.
- X
14. Other
- No Answer
1. Decrease the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
- No Answer
2. Increase the eligibility of legal immigrants for certain social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
- No Answer
3. Require the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to reduce the time between applying for citizenship and taking the oath of allegiance to six months.
- X
4. Provide extra federal aid to states with higher numbers of immigrants for necessary medical and social services.
- X
5. Prohibit states from passing laws that deny human services (medical care, education) to illegal immigrants or their children.
- No Answer
6. Grant U.S. citizenship to children born in the US only if their parents immigrated legally.
- No Answer
7. Increase the immigration quota for computer scientists and other information technology workers.
- X
8. Establish English as the official national language.
- No Answer
9. Support the separation of the INS into two bureaus: one administering naturalization and one administering border patrol.
- No Answer
10. Increase state autonomy in handling immigration issues.
- No Answer
11. Reimburse states for providing services to illegal aliens.
- No Answer
12. Other
- No Answer
1. Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
- X
2. Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the U. S.
- X
3. Aid should be granted to countries that are close allies of the U. S. and in need of financial/military assistance.
- X
4. Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- No Answer
5. Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated except for extraordinary circumstances.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. The U.S. should resolve future disputes with Iraq only through diplomatic means.
- No Answer
2. The U.S. should take unilateral military action if Iraq does not comply with all accepted United Nations resolutions.
- X
3. The U.S. should take military action against Iraq only as part of an international effort.
- No Answer
4. The U.S. should end the economic embargo against Iraq.
- No Answer
5. The U.S. should not continue to play a prominent leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Authority.
- No Answer
6. The U.S. should continue to play a prominent leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Authority.
- X
7. Other
- No Answer
8. The U.S. should participate in United Nations peacekeeping missions only when vital U.S. interests are involved.
- X
9. The U.S. should not commit military troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions.
- No Answer
10. The U.S. should withdraw completely from the United Nations.
- No Answer
11. The U.S. should pay its debt to the United Nations.
- X
12. Should the U.S. have full diplomatic relations with Cuba?
- No
13. Should the U.S. have full diplomatic relations with China?
- Yes
14. Should the U.S. recognize and extend full diplomatic relations to Taiwan?
- Yes
15. Should the US maintain ground troops in Kosovo?
- Yes
16. Do you support the cooperative threat reduction programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to unfriendly nations?
- Yes
17. Do you support modifying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to deploy the National Missile Defense System?
- No
1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- Yes
3. Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- Yes
4. Do you support China becoming a member of the World Trade Organization?
- Yes
5. Do you support imposing tariffs on products imported from nations that maintain restrictive trade barriers on American products?
- Yes
6. Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation status) with the United States?
- Undecided
7. Do you support normal trade relations (most favored nation status) with Vietnam?
- Yes
8. Do you support granting the President "fast-track" authority in trade negotiations?
- No Answer
9. Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
- No
Do you believe there has been a decline in moral and ethical standards in America over the last four decades?
- No Answer
1. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves.
- No Answer
2. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
- No Answer
3. Invest a portion of Social Security's assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of U.S. Treasury securities.
- No Answer
4. Increase the payroll tax to better finance Social Security in its current form.
- No Answer
5. Lower Social Security's annual cost-of-living increases.
- No Answer
6. Limit Social Security benefits based on recipients' other income and assets.
- No Answer
7. Require individuals to pay the Social Security tax on incomes above $68,400 (which is currently exempt).
- No Answer
8. Support a lock box measure, limiting Congress's ability to spend Social Security and Medicare surpluses on any other federal programs except Social Security and Medicare, until each program's long-term solvency is guaranteed.
- X
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Continuing the moratorium on Internet sales taxes.
- X
2. Implement regulation of Internet content by the federal government.
- No Answer
3. Support on-line voter registration.
- X
4. Support voting on-line.
- No Answer
5. Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
- No Answer
6. Support strict penalties for Internet crimes such as hacking and Internet violence.
- X
7. Support strong Internet privacy laws.
- X
8. Regulating the Internet should not in any way be controlled by the federal government.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
Do you support amending the Constitution to limit the number of terms which members of Congress can serve?
- No
1. Support housing assistance for welfare recipients.
- X
2. Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
- X
3. Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for welfare programs through TANF block grants.
- X
4. Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants.
- X
5. Restore food stamp programs to legal immigrants.
- X
6. Transfer homeless housing programs to states through block grants.
- No Answer
7. Provide continued Medicaid benefits for those welfare recipients who have moved from welfare to work.
- X
8. Require states to return any unused welfare block grant funding to the federal government.
- No Answer
9. Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based or other non-profit organizations.
- No Answer
10. Other
- No Answer
Latest Action: House - 06/21/2019 Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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:Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Nita Lowey, the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee and a 31-year veteran of Congress, announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of next year. The 82-year-old New York Democrat tweeted that it’s been a “deep honor and privilege to serve my community and my country.” Lowey is a longtime ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and is one of Capitol Hill’s old-school dealmakers. She combines a grandmotherly demeanor with decades of hands-on experience, especially in the annual foreign aid bill, for which Lowey has fought for money to combat AIDS, fund women’s health and education, and deliver economic aid to developing nations. She has also been a reliable ally of Israel. “Frankly to have a job that I love so very much made this a very difficult choice,” Lowey said in an interview. “But I just felt it was time.” She rose to the top of the committee earlier this year and was thrown into negotiations over ending the government shutdown and the battle with President Donald Trump over money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. In August, Lowey attracted a primary challenger from the left in Mondaire Jones, who worked at the Justice Department in the Obama administration. Lowey, a mother of three who didn’t enter public life until her 50s, has not had a difficult election in years. Her 17th Congressional District is north of the city and includes Rockland County and parts of Westchester County. Lowey often stops in Capitol hallways to catch up on news about the families of Capitol Hill maintenance workers and others. Pelosi, in a statement, described Lowey as “a leader who is both gracious and tenacious; who seeks always to find common ground where she can and stands her ground where she can’t.” Rep. Kay Granger, a conservative Republican from Texas and longtime friend of Lowey’s, said that from their first interaction, Lowey “promised that she would always be an honest broker, that she would respect my position and opinions, and that we could disagree without being disagreeable.” Lowey has slowed down physically of late but has remained very much in charge of the wide-ranging business of the committee. Her slow amble through the hallways of the Capitol makes her easy to approach. She has used her perch to advocate for public works spending for new rail tunnels into Manhattan and recovery assistance from Superstorm Sandy. More than 20 years ago, she led a successful fight to deliver contraception coverage to federal workers via their federal health insurance plans, winning an uphill victory over then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-N.Y. Lowey’s retirement immediately prompted speculation that her seat could be an attractive target for Chelsea Clinton to launch a political career, though she lives in New York City. Bill and Hillary Clinton maintain a home in Chappaqua, New York, in Westchester County. Source: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
