ECONOMY
HOUSE RACES
House District 1
Leslie C. Mehta (Democrat)
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Good-Paying Jobs: Focus on creating well-paying employment opportunities for families to enhance their financial stability.
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Reduced Inflation Rate: Aim to lower inflation to improve the overall economic climate and increase purchasing power for households.
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Safe Housing: Prioritize access to safe and affordable housing options for families, ensuring a stable living environment.
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Support for Thriving Families: Foster conditions that enable every family to thrive and achieve a better quality of life through economic stability and security.
Robert J. Wittman (Republican)
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Emphasizes the need to assist small businesses and prepare potential employees as the economy recovers, advocating for limited federal government involvement.
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Calls for reducing government spending, prioritizing future needs, and preventing tax hikes to sustain economic recovery while protecting individual and economic freedoms.
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Talks about the importance of creating jobs and fostering growth through pro-worker and pro-family policies, including support for local businesses.
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Advocates for the DRIVE-Safe Act to address the truck driver shortage and promotes Career and Technical Education (CTE) and STEM programs to equip students with skills for high-demand jobs
House District 2
Missy Cotter Smasal (Democrat)
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Coastal Virginia faces rising prices on everything from groceries to rent.
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We need to curb rising inflation while preventing giant corporations from exploiting the situation to rake in record profits.
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We need to stop the price gouging on groceries, and stop massive corporations from buying up houses and raising rent. Instead of constant Washington infighting and favors for donors, Coastal Virginians deserve lower prescription drug prices, affordable housing, and child care.
Jen Kiggans (Republican)
Cutting inflation, cost of living, growing jobs and economy
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Supported Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act of 2023
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Supported Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which cut government spending in Washington
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Supported Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, which expands protections for Child Tax Credit
Robert E. Reid Jr. (Independent)
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House District 3
Robert “Bobby” C. Scott (Democrat)
Believes the best long-term way to create jobs is investing in education and training
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Wants to invest in workforce development and job creation, and supported the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act.
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He is the lead sponsor in the House of Representatives of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $15.
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Wants to create high-quality apprenticeship programs, and led the introduction of the National Apprenticeship Act, adding close to one million apprenticeship opportunities over five years.
John Sitka III (Republican)
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Advocate for access to safe and affordable housing for service members and their families, addressing the challenges posed by the Department of Defense’s initiative to reduce on-base accommodations.
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Push for targeted tax incentives and cuts for builders and buyers to increase the supply of affordable housing and ensure federal policies support the needs of ordinary Americans.
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Prioritize reducing unnecessary regulations that drive up construction costs, aiming to expedite housing development and ensure that living in communities, including Virginia, remains cost-effective and accessible for all.
House District 4
Jennifer McClellan (Democrat)
Supports career and technical education for economic development; Wants to increase access to affordable housing
House District 5
Gloria Tinsley Witt (D)
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Hopes to find solutions to address the housing crisis
House District 6
Ken Mitchell (Democrat)
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Prioritizes raising up small-town businesses and focusing on local economies
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Believes that trickle down economics have “failed” and wants to prioritize revitalizing local communities by creating new jobs, policies for new job growth, fair wages, and worker protection.
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Plans to have Virginia invest in infrastructure, renewable energy projects, and small businesses as well as address income inequality, provide training and educational based work efforts.
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Wants to invest in infrastructure and champion measures addressing income inequality.
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Believes that a thriving economy should benefit everyone, not just the privileged few.
Ben Cline (Republican)
Prioritizes lowering taxes for everyone
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Focused on growing the economy and wants to lower taxes.
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Believes in promoting free trade agreements and policies that benefit farmers.
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Says he “will hold Washington accountable by putting an end to wasteful spending and returning as many tax dollars as possible back to the citizens”.
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Wants to cut taxes to allow wealth for all levels of society.
Robert “Robby” Wells Jr. (Independent)
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He wants to keep American tax dollars in our country and lower gas, food, and drug prices by reducing inflation.
House District 7
Eugene Vindman (Democrat)
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Chooses to support local businesses and economic expansion
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Wants to strengthen the Union’s ability to grow membership, bargain for higher wages and increase access to apprenticeships and workplace training.
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Wants to work with local governments and stakeholders to increase housing supply in Northern Virginia, so it is easier to buy and rent homes.
Derrick Anderson (Republican)
Thinks that the economy now could be improved.
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Believes that the current administration can fix the economy and common wealth now but chooses not to.
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Wants to find real solutions to decrease inflation and the percentage of the district living paycheck to paycheck.
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Plans on focusing on the future, not the past.
House District 8
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Donald Beyer Jr. (Democrat)
Wants to make the economy more realistic for everyone
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Says that currently, the U.S. is experiencing a period of growth and recovery.
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Believes that we need to continue to build on past acts and create a plan that works for all American families by raising the minimum wage, ending government shutdowns and promoting tax policies that help grow the middle class.
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His near-term priorities include lowering house prices by incentivizing construction of affordable housing, guaranteeing universal paid leave, reinstating the expansion of Child Tax Credit and asking large corporations to pay their taxes.
Jerry Torres (Republican)
Believes in price deflation
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States that the U.S. is experiencing the “highest sustained inflation and prices” in our nation’s history, making it nearly impossible for people to live out their dreams.
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Prioritizes decreasing the prices and interest rates and increase the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar.
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Wants to increase the U.S.’ oil and gas production, but do so in a way that is safe to our environment.
Bentley Hensel (Independent)
Does not think the tax system works
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Says that income inequality has gotten out of hand, and believes that trickle-down economics has failed.
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Wants to overhaul the tax system, focusing on fairness and impact, with a graduated income tax system, worker tax incentives and corporate tax accountability
House District 9
Karen Baker (Democrat)
Support for small businesses and workers
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Says inflation and price gouging have harmed southwest Virginia.
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Supports the PRO Act which levels the field between workers and management.
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Emphasizes the importance of supporting small businesses through tax incentives and reduced regulatory burdens.
H. Morgan Griffith (Republican)
Believes that the best way to create jobs is to get the government out of the way
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Supports Workforce Development coordinators in their plan to strengthen Advanced Manufacturing Skills for those already in the workforce.
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Cosponsored the Regulations from the Executive Need in Scrutiny Act
House District 10
Suhas Subramanyam (Democrat)
Supports helping the workforce
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Believes that workforce housing needs to be utilized and leveraged and supports the Housing Trust Fund, down payment assistance, development incentives and land development coordination.
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Owns a small business
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As a senator passed legislation that required drug-pricing transparency, prevented a 40% toll hike on Dulles Greenway Toll Road and refunded over $300 million to Virginia ratepayers in overcharges by electric utility corporations.
Mike Clancy (Republican)
Concerned about inflation levels
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Believes that the economy is broken and that inflation has become debilitating to Americans.
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Wants to revitalize the economy by “unleashing American innovation, American energy production, and small businesses from burdensome, stifling regulatory burdens; and rein in Biden’s reckless spending.”
House District 11
Gerald Edward Connolly (Democrat)
Supports the Biden-Harris administration’s economic efforts
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Helped pass the Rescue Act, the Biden Infrastructure Bill and the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Wants to repeal Trump tax cuts, wants to invest into local communities for job training in “distressed areas” and build more houses.
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Made affordable housing his main priority as Fairfac Chairman and “dedicated a penny of the tax rate to affordable housing”.
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Has a history of working with advocates at every level to fight for affordable housing.
Michael Van Meter (Republican)
Advocate for the free market system
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Wants to lower taxes, ease restrictions and put the U.S. economy in a free market system.
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Believes in minimizing government interference in day-to-day life and investing in becoming energy independent.
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Supports lowering the price of fuel, thus lowering the cost of living