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Member, Congressional Adoption Caucus
Member, Congressional Coal Caucus
Co-Chair, Congressional Foster Care Caucus
Co-Chair, Congressional Kidney Caucus
Member, Congressional Kidney Caucus
Member, Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus
Member, Congressional Taiwan Caucus
Former Member, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Co-Chair, Cystic Fibrosis Caucus
Former Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, German-American Caucus
Former Member, Homeland Security Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, House Cancer Caucus
Member, House General Aviation Caucus
Member, Immigration Reform Caucus
Former Member, Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Marcellus Shale Caucus
Member, National Heritage Area Caucus
Member, Rare Disease Caucus
Former Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, United States Hosue of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, United States House of Representatives
Member, Congressional Adoption Caucus
Member, Congressional Coal Caucus
Co-Chair, Congressional Foster Care Caucus
Co-Chair, Congressional Kidney Caucus
Member, Congressional Kidney Caucus
Member, Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus
Member, Congressional Taiwan Caucus
Former Member, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Co-Chair, Cystic Fibrosis Caucus
Former Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, German-American Caucus
Former Member, Homeland Security Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, House Cancer Caucus
Member, House General Aviation Caucus
Member, Immigration Reform Caucus
Former Member, Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Marcellus Shale Caucus
Member, National Heritage Area Caucus
Member, Rare Disease Caucus
Former Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, United States Hosue of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, United States House of Representatives
Former Chair, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, United States House of Representatives
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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?
- No
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?
- No
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?
- Yes
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?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life?
- Pro-life
2. Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy?
- No
3. Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape?
- Yes
4. Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered?
- Yes
5. Should federal subsidies be prohibited from being used for abortion procedures?
- No
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Agriculture
- No Answer
2. Arts
- No Answer
3. Defense
- No Answer
4. Intelligence operations
- No Answer
5. Military hardware
- No Answer
6. National missile defense
- No Answer
7. Salary and benefits for active duty personnel
- No Answer
8. Programs to improve troop retention rates
- No Answer
9. Research and development of new weapons
- No Answer
1. Education
- No Answer
2. Environment
- No Answer
3. Homeland security
- No Answer
4. International aid
- No Answer
5. Medical research
- No Answer
6. Scientific research
- No Answer
7. Space exploration
- No Answer
8. United Nations
- No Answer
9. Welfare
- No Answer
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
11. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer
12. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer
13. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer
14. Corporate taxes
- No Answer
15. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer
16. Income taxes (low-income families)
- No Answer
17. Income taxes (middle-income families)
- No Answer
18. Income taxes (high-income families)
- No Answer
19. Do you support requiring the federal budget to be balanced each year?
- No Answer
20. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support privatizing elements of Social Security?
- Yes
2. Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector?
- Yes
3. Do you support increasing the federal minimum wage?
- Yes
4. Do you support the ability of workers to unionize?
- Yes
5. Do you support federal funding for job-training programs that retrain displaced workers?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support increasing the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns?
- No
2. Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- No
3. Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns?
- No
4. Should candidates for federal office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits?
- No
5. Do you support giving the President the power of the line item veto for items concerning appropriations?
- Yes
6. Do you support limiting the President's ability to define how legislation is applied through the use of signing statements?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
- Yes
2. Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related training and job-placement assistance when released?
- Yes
3. Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with substance abuse treatment?
- Yes
4. Do you support reduced prison sentences for non-violent offenders?
- Yes
5. Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students?
- No
2. Do you support federal funding for universal pre-K programs?
- Yes
3. Do you support federal funding for charter schools?
- Yes
4. Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers?
- Yes
5. Do you support the federal government providing college students with financial aid?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?
- No
2. Do you support international emissions targets aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?
- No
3. Do you support allowing energy producers to trade carbon credits under a "cap and trade" system?
- No
4. Do you support strengthening fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles?
- No
5. Do you support domestic oil exploration in federally-protected areas?
- Yes
6. Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy?
- Yes
7. Do you support the development of nuclear reactors?
- Yes
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- No
2. Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to own guns?
- Yes
3. Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
4. Do you support a ban on assault rifles?
- No
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option?
- No
2. Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform?
- Yes
3. Should the federal government expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts?
- Yes
4. Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits?
- Yes
5. Do you support relaxing regulations on the importation of prescription drugs?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants?
- No
2. Do you support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country?
- No
3. Do you support establishing English as the official national language?
- Yes
4. Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?
- Yes
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support United States military action in Afghanistan?
- Yes
2. Do you support increasing military assistance for Afghanistan?
- Yes
3. Do you support increasing economic development assistance for Afghanistan?
- No
4. Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan?
- Yes
5. Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States?
- Yes
6. Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state?
- No Answer
7. Do you support increasing sanctions on Iran if it continues to defy United Nations mandates?
- No Answer
8. Do you support the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq?
- No Answer
9. Do you support the United States' involvement in free trade agreements?
- No Answer
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should marriage only be between one man and one woman?
- Yes
2. Do you support allowing openly-gay men and women to serve in the United States military?
- No Answer
3. Do you support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research?
- No Answer
4. Should the federal government end affirmative action programs?
- Yes
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer
Latest Action: House - 02/08/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 02/08/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Tracker:Latest Action: 01/16/2019 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H665-667)
Tracker:By Thomas Marino United States Supreme Court nominations are one of the most important responsibilities the Constitution entrusts to the President of the United States. The President has put forward Judge Brett Kavanaugh. A jurist with impeccable credentials, President Trump clearly took this responsibility very seriously and I commend his decision. For more than a half-century, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has rewritten the Constitution under the guise of interpreting it. Constitutional "rights" have been discovered in so-called "prenumbras" of the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court, and lower federal courts in areas where the Supreme Court has remained silent, have become policymakers, infringing on the powers of the co-equal branches of government. Unfortunately, liberal Justices have misused the power of judicial review to read into the Constitution their policy preferences, instead of letting the Executive and Legislative branches, as well as state legislatures and Governors, determine policy as the Constitution originally intended. One of the most important duties the court has is to police itself, recognizing the limits of its power and its proper role in our Constitutional framework. But in order for the court to do this, a majority of its members must be Constitutionalists- Justices, like nominee Kavanaugh, who constrain themselves by adhering to the principles and words of the Constitution and its Amendments. As a former prosecutor and House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman, I respect Judge Kavanaugh's straightforward approach to the bench: Apply the law as written and enforce the text, structure, and original understanding of the Constitution. In his remarks accepting the nomination, Kavanaugh said, "a judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent." Judge Kavanaugh is a former clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy, an assistant to President George W. Bush, and has served for over a decade as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals- the "Second Highest Court in the Land." A "judge's judge", the Supreme Court has endorsed his opinions more than a dozen times, including dissents that have become law of the land. Judge Kavanaugh is respected within both liberal and conservative circles alike. A liberal professor from Yale Law School recently wrote, "It is hard to name anyone with judicial credentials as strong as those of Judge Kavanaugh." John Malcolm, a lawyer with the conservative Heritage Foundation, said of Kavanaugh, "he is a thoughtful, strategic judge who has over time moved the direction of the law in a conservative direction, and he has done it with scalpel-like precision." Considering those outstanding qualifications and credentials recognized across party lines, Democrats are still uproariously opposing him. In some cases, Democratic lawmakers promised to vote against the nominee before Judge Kavanaugh was even officially nominated. This type of partisanship is exactly what is frustrating Americans across the country. In 2006, he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit Court. During his confirmation process, he faced unjustified accusations to which he responded, "There is one kind of judge, an independent judge under our Constitution." Judge Kavanaugh is the single most qualified person in the country to serve on the Supreme Court. He is a thought-leader among his peers on the appellate courts and deeply respected by the Supreme Court. He is an independent judge and the judge we need to fill this critical opening on the high court. Marino, a Cogan Station Republican, represents the 10th Congressional District, which covers much of our region.
On September 2, 2017, President Donald Trump (R) announced his intent to nominate Marino as head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). On October 17, 2017, Marino withdrew his name from consideration following a joint report from The Washington Post and 60 Minutes on Marino's efforts to pass a bill limiting the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to stop suspicious narcotic shipments. According to The Washington Post, "The law was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market." Marino said in a statement that he had withdrawn from consideration to “remove the distraction my nomination has created to the utterly vital mission of this premier agency." He also defended the law, calling it a "balanced solution for ensuring those who genuinely needed access to certain medications were able to do so, while also empowering the Drug Enforcement Agency to enforce the law and prevent the sale and abuse of prescription drugs."
