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United States House of Representatives, District 03

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    Sharice Davids
    (Dem)

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    Prasanth Reddy
    (Rep)

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    Steve Roberts
    (Lib)

Biographical Information

What is the most important challenge facing our country? How do you propose to address the challenge?

What, if any, steps should our country take concerning healthcare and healthcare access?

What, if any, steps should our country take concerning immigration policies?

What are your priorities concerning the U.S. economy? How do these priorities affect Kansas?

What measures do you support to secure elections and set voting policies and rights in our country?

What, if any, steps should our country take concerning campaign financing and the influence of money in politics?

What are your plans to deal with and prevent gun violence?

Campaign Web Site http://shariceforcongress.com
Campaign Address 13851 West 63rd Street #303
Personal Biography Sharice Davids is a dedicated community leader who is running to fight for Kansans in Congress. She was raised by her single mother , who is a U.S. Army veteran, in Leavenworth and learned the value of hard work and service from a young age. As a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Sharice could make history as the first Native American woman elected to Congress.
Education I graduated from Leavenworth High School here in Kansas. I attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas before graduating from Johnson County Community College and later the University of Missouri-Kansas City . I then went on to earn a law degree from Cornell Law School
The most important issue that Congress should focus on is building an economy that works for everyone, and that’s why I’m focused on making life more affordable for Kansas families and supporting our diverse and vibrant small business community. That includes supporting many paths to prosperity: whether it’s choosing to attend a four-year university or a trade school, taking over the family farm or starting a business.
Too many Americans are suffering - and dying - because they lack affordable healthcare. Women in particular face too many restrictions and regulations over the care of their own bodies. In Congress, I will Supported reducing premiums for working families Support legislation that prevents price gouging and restricts the ability of companies to slow the introduction of generic brands. Enable Medicare to negotiate more drug prices. Support legislation that ensures women have access to a full range of healthcare services and that they are not excluded from insurance plans or denied care by providers. Support initiatives aimed at reducing the alarming and preventable disparity of maternal mortality rate facing African American mothers
Our current immigration system is unnecessarily complex and outdated. We must protect our borders and national security interests - this should be a part of any immigration debate. Anti-immigrant fear-mongering, however, should not be. In Congress, I will Do the hard work necessary to finally achieve comprehensive immigration reform. Work across the aisle to develop common sense policy that protects our national security while also celebrating and supporting our nation’s role as a beacon of hope for people around the world. Fight to protect DACA recipients and create a pathway to citizenship for those undocumented immigrants -- our friends, teachers, neighbors -- who have known no other home.
I believe small businesses are the lifeblood of America and need to be front of mind when creating economic policy. Modernizing our infrastructure is also vital to the US economy, and the passing bipartisan infrastructure act was a great step to strengthen the economy in Kansas and throughout the entire US. In Congress, I will continue to Fight for a true tax cut for the middle class. Incentivize health care benefits for small businesses and create a small business standard deduction to lower administrative costs. Support efforts to increase broadband access, which is key to economic success in the modern economy.
I am working hard to ensure the power remains with the voters. During my first year in office, Ico-sponsored and fought to pass H.R.1, the For the People Act, which aimed to expand access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics. This Congress, it was the first bill Ico-sponsored, and I was proud to vote for both HR 1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Lastly, I introduced the Native American Voting Rights Act to ensure parity and access for voters on tribal lands --because every eligible voter deserves to cast their ballot freely and securely.
It starts with overturning Citizens United, which gives special interests and big money donors outsized influence in politics at the expense of voters. My campaign does not accept money from corporations representing the coal, tobacco, pharmaceutical, gas, payday lending, and private prisons industries.
Gun violence shouldn’t be a partisan issue and that is why I was proud to support the bipartisan legislation to ensure universal background checks, support red flag laws, and make it easier for law enforcement to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. I also support higher standards for conceal-and-carry permits.I plan to treat gun violence as a public health issue. Here’s my most important point: we need to be able to study the problem. The CDC must be able to keep track of data related to guns. If the CDC cannot collect data related to gun violence, it makes it impossible to have a discussion based on any data. I also support expanded background checks and higher standards for conceal-and-carry permits.
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Ballot City Overland Park
Campaign Phone 9133028185
Personal Biography Professional Engineer and Licensed Teacher
Education Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1982, University of Missouri; Master's in Education, 2007, Grand Canyon University
Community/Public Service Board of Directors, Association of Libertarian Educators
Our two-party political system is treating most of us very badly. We need a simple and straightforward approach to schooling our children. Instead, the battle between the Red Team and the Blue Team in today's American politics is downright awful. The federal government is presently almost entirely about a donkey's team versus an elephant's team. What a mess!

There are huge potential problems in the world, from the threat of nuclear war to the obesity epidemic in our citizenry. Plastic in the ocean is out of control. Health care policies are entirely too complicated. It seems pruident to address the need for additional political parties, or take a bite out of the two major parties and their influence on our daily lives.
The government marketplace is assuredly not the answer to all of our health care woes. Markets control prices much better than government edicts. Our social safety nets need to be much simpler and more principled. Too many people are getting rich on the sheer complexity of government mandates.

Insurance companies are not the enemy of the people. The complexity of our rule making in the governance of these entities leads to most of the excesses that keep poor people wanting and keep the well-connected living large with mandated benefits related to their health.

Non-partisan negotiations should find uniquely American recipes or algorithms that will help us to find the sweet spot between government largesse and personal responsibility.

Congresswoman Davids says our immigration system is unnecessarily complex and outdated. Yes. The same is true of our health care systems and our education systems. Nothing really changes because of our awful, expensive congressional races that keep rational solutions from being negotiated in good faith.

Immigrants should be welcomed. In general, most immigrants improve our country. Some, of course, do not.

Simple mechanisms to thwart the entry of people with bad intentions must be negotiated in good faith and then simply implemented by people of goodwill.

We all know our federal congress is ineffective and hopelessly mired in the politics of partisan primaries. Let's change it. Go to www.thirdpartywinner.com.
Our national debt grows by $8.5 Billion every day. Inflation is caused by printing money, whether paper currency or fiat funds created electronically.

People working to add value into our society is the only way to grow the pie. Politicians in congress too often promise giveaways with nothing to back it up other than their talking points for re-election ads.

Taxation is theft, but modern society requires some taxation to function. Income tax should be eliminated, replaced with sales taxes on non-essential goods and services.

Public school teachers in primary schools should have higher salaries with smaller classes. These higher salaries will be offset with larger classes in secondary school; think lecture halls and distance learning.
We have made the efficiency of elections a technical tangle. Just count the votes. It's easy. You have election judges who, admittedly, work long days. Make it two shifts; hire more election judges, in two shifts. The first shift begins early, typically around 5:00 in the a.m.. The second shift can show up at the polling place mid-afternoon, and that second shift can be responsible for counting votes. Count the votes before they go home. It is a simple and straightforward notion. Just have people count with counting numbers. We call those numbers natural numbers, or integers.

Write down the totals. Keep the paper for public record. Phone the results to a central office. It ain't rocket science.
Let me ask the reader here at Vote411, "Do you know the name Chase Oliver?"

If you do, you are certainly more informed than the average voter.

Mr. Oliver is the Libertarian nominee for President of the United States in this election cycle.

Media needs to pay attention to all who take the time and effort to get their names placed on ballots. The two-party system is broken.

Personally, I don't mind Ms. Davids raising millions of dollars -- millions -- for her re-election campaign. What bothers me is the fact that many who donate to Ms. Davids do not know who she is. Big donors today write checks to the blue team or to the red team; the parties parcel the funds to suit their political needs.

Elections should be about people with ideas.
The Second Amendment has two parts. Those who staunchly advocate for gun ownership often quote the second part about the right to bear arms. The first part says, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state..."

Who does the regulating?

Our politics is broken. We're told that the red team wants no regulation whatsoever, and the blue team wants to take our guns.

People of goodwill can negotiate the regulation of firearms, as written directly into the Second Amendment. Libertarians value liberty, and the right to bear arms is one of those liberties. Simple, declarative regulations to keep guns out of the hands of bad actors seems prudent.

Possessing a gun while committing a crime should merit severe penalty.