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Tom O'Halleran
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Former Member, Armed Services Committee, United States House of Representatives
Policy Co-Chair, Blue Dog Coalition
Former Member, Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, New Democrat Coalition
Former Member, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Armed Services Committee, United States House of Representatives
Policy Co-Chair, Blue Dog Coalition
Former Member, Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, New Democrat Coalition
Former Member, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Agriculture Committee
Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce
Member, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry
Member, Subcommittee on Energy (Energy and Commerce)
Member, Subcommittee on Environment & Climate Change
Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Energy and Commerce)
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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. 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?
- No
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- 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
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?
- Yes
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?
- 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
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)?
- No
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Yes
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- 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 of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (higher)
- Greatly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Environment
- Slightly Increase
4. Health care
- Greatly Increase
5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
7. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate
11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
15. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
16. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
17. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
18. Sales taxes
- Slightly Decrease
19. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
20. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No
21. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Arizona governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support the current limit of four consecutive two-year terms for Arizona state senators and representatives?
- Undecided
3. Individual
- No
4. PAC
- No
5. Corporate
- Yes
6. Political Parties
- No
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 Arizona's "Clean Elections" initiative, which allocates public funds for use in political campaigns?
- Yes
10. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
11. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Arizona are closed?
- No Answer
12. Should Arizona prohibit smoking in enclosed public places and places of employment?
- Undecided
13. Should Arizona deny state and local social services to illegal immigrants?
- Yes
14. Should Arizona require proof of citizenship before allowing people to vote?
- Yes
15. Should Arizona recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
16. Should Arizona restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
17. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Arizona.
- 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.
- No Answer
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Create a corporate tax credit program for businesses that contribute to private school scholarship funds.
- No Answer
5. Continue to offer individual income tax credits for contributions to private schools.
- X
6. Continue to offer individual income tax credits for contributions to public schools.
- X
7. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
8. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
9. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer
10. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
11. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
12. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
13. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
14. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
15. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
16. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- X
17. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
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.
- X
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.
- X
6. Include sexual orientation in Arizona's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
9. Public employment
- No
10. State college and university admissions
- No
11. State contracting
- No
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. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
6. Offer tax breaks to companies that remove dead trees and undergrowth from forests and convert it to fuel.
- X
7. Allow municipalities to require property owners in forest communities to clear excessive growth from their land.
- X
8. Allow land held in trust by the state to be set aside for conservation purposes.
- X
9. Grant longer grazing leases of public land to ranchers who practice enhanced conservation methods.
- X
10. Permit the Land Department to use 15 percent of annual proceeds from land dispositions for administration and other management functions.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
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.
- X
5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer
6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
7. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- 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 more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Arizona.
- No Answer
8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- 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.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Support current limit on benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer
5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Please explain in a total of 75 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
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?
- No
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?
- 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?
- No
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?
- 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
Latest Action: House - 06/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/13/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/13/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Tracker:By Tom O'Halleran It was a somber day in American history. When I was elected to represent Arizona's First Congressional District in the House of Representatives, I did not expect to be voting on impeachment. As a former homicide detective, I gathered evidence and reviewed it deliberatively in the pursuit of truth and justice. I have employed the same approach during this impeachment inquiry process. I committed to reviewing all evidence before deciding my vote, reaching my decision after the official articles of impeachment were finalized. No one is above the law. We must hold elected officials accountable when they break the public trust, violate our Constitution, and put their own interests before the good of our nation. President Trump abused the power of the presidency and broke his oath of office when he bribed the Ukrainian president. He withheld military aid that had already been promised to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political opponent. The president's own political appointees and phone call transcript confirmed these facts. He obstructed Congress' constitutional obligation to perform checks and balances on the executive branch to investigate potential wrongdoing by the president when he directed individuals, agencies, and offices not to comply with official subpoenas issued by House Committees and withheld the whistleblower complaint from Congress. These actions set a dangerous precedent for the future if left unchecked. I voted to impeach the president because this abuse of power and obstruction of Congress violated the Constitution and put our national security, our international relationships, and the integrity of our elections at risk. The evidence I considered when making my decision included the testimony of witnesses, many of whom were President Trump's own political appointees. We heard from State Department professionals, current and former members of our military, and members of the U.S. intelligence community--the most trusted and respected in the world. I took my constituents' concerns into consideration when I decided my vote. This year, I have held 26 town halls across our district and heard from countless Arizonans. My four offices received thousands of emails and calls from concerned citizens voicing their opinions about the impeachment inquiry process. In coming to my decision today, I have also considered our history. In President George Washington's farewell address, he implored Americans "to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." I have heeded this warning of our first president. As a member of Congress, it is my constitutional responsibility to provide a check on the executive branch by investigating and coming to an informed decision on alleged high crimes by our president. In casting my vote, I acted to uphold our Constitution and the rule of law. During this inquiry, important, bipartisan goals have been accomplished in the House of Representatives. We voted to pass H.R. 3, which addresses the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs. We reached a bipartisan agreement on the USMCA, which will revitalize trade partnerships and open our economy to further growth, while including important enforcement provisions to protect our workers and the environment. Together, the House passed the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act, giving our service members a raise and ensuring our military remains the strongest in the world. We also passed comprehensive appropriations for the next fiscal year. I remain committed to getting things done for Arizonans. I will continue to work across the aisle to create good-paying jobs, grow our rural communities, lower health care costs, protect our national defense, and keep our promises to veterans.
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