Occupation / Current Position
U.S. Representative - Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District
Education
J.D. University of Maryland
Qualifications and Experience
Two Terms serving in Congress
I have joined colleagues in calling on Speaker Johnson to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits, because these subsidies are essential to keeping coverage affordable for millions of Americans. I have also introduced legislation to expand care in rural communities and improve access to providers in areas that face shortages. In addition, I have fought to eliminate income caps on ACA premium subsidies to ensure that working-class families and small business owners are not priced out of affordable health insurance as costs continue to rise.
Whether burdened by the cost of housing, child care, groceries, health care, or prescription drugs, too many hardworking people are doing everything right and still struggling to get ahead. Addressing affordability requires a comprehensive approach. I support policies that strengthen wages and economic security while also lowering the everyday costs that strain family budgets, including raising incomes through support for workers and small businesses, as well as reducing barriers like childcare and housing costs that prevent people from getting ahead financially. We must also continue working to lower health care and prescription drug costs.
I support investments that help lower energy costs over the long term, including energy efficiency programs that allow homeowners and small businesses to reduce their monthly utility bills through upgrades and weatherization. I also support efforts to strengthen competition and transparency in energy markets so consumers have access to fair and predictable prices. Reliability must remain a core priority by investing in modernizing our electric grid, strengthening critical infrastructure, and expanding a diverse mix of energy sources so families and businesses have dependable access to power. We must also protect our environment.
The Constitution guarantees fundamental rights to due process, free speech, and protection against unlawful search and seizure, and those rights are the foundation of our democracy. No person should be deprived of liberty or property without fair procedures, access to counsel where appropriate, and a meaningful opportunity to be heard.
Occupation / Current Position
Retired Meteorologist
Education
Bachelor of Science
Qualifications and Experience
Meteorologist for 30+ years. Community board member and volunteer. Wife, mother, and grandmother. Raised in a military family.
Free-Market Reform: Support genuine healthcare market competition over "window-dressing" policies that protect special interests rather than patients.
Indemnity Insurance: Prioritize indemnity-style plans over restrictive health plans to give consumers choice and naturally force providers to be transparent with pricing.
Protect the Disabled: Secure robust coverage options for disabled patients who are frequently squeezed out by limited networks.
Direct Primary Care: Back personal healthcare spending accounts to fund innovative models like Direct Primary Care (DPC); which delivers excellent, high-quality care outside traditional insurance.
Pro-Growth Policies: Boost wages and affordability by encouraging competition, private innovation, and lowering taxes.
Support Small Business: Slash onerous regulations (like healthcare rules) so small companies can hire more and pay competitive wages.
Fight Inflation: Stop government overspending and money "printing" that hurts low-wage and fixed-income earners most.
School Choice: Give parents freedom to choose the best option for their child, including private or home school.
AI & Critical Thinking: Prepare kids for a technological future by focusing heavily on critical thinking skills to meet the challenges of AI.
Abundant Energy: Secure affordable, plentiful energy to drive economic growth, create jobs, and maintain our standard of living.
Realistic Trade-offs: Avoid green mandates that drive up prices; all energy sources impact the environment, so policies must serve the common good, not special interests.
Nuclear Portfolio: Invest in a diverse energy mix featuring clean, highly reliable nuclear power and develop improved methods to recycle spent nuclear material.
Grid Security: Stop delays and immediately use approved congressional billions to protect the power grid from extreme weather events and terrorist attacks.
Enforce Constitutional Protections: Prioritize the rights of American citizens, which have been compromised by loose, open-border immigration policies.
Restore Order: Reverse the suspension of immigration laws that allowed dangerous individuals to enter, and remove them immediately to protect citizens and bring order.
Prevent Exploitation: Stop illegal immigration, which exploits vulnerable people, making them easy targets for crime and workplace abuse due to fear of deportation.
Reform Asylum: Automatically deport asylum seekers who failed to apply in the first safe country they entered, ending taxpayer-funded strain on our legal system.
Occupation / Current Position
Labor
Education
GED some college
Qualifications and Experience
Lived life as labor, always question authority, and I have lived underneath the government and political parties that have not lived up to the ideals of liberty, freedom and justice for all
I believe that healthcare distribution should not be for profit that the people should own the distribution networks insurance companies create no value in the system, neither does private ownership of hospitals,only extract value from the healthcare system I would fight for tax funder healthcare distribution as far as prescription medication research and development largely relies on taxpayer funding yet taxpayers receive no benefit from this only the pharmaceutical industry benefits from this arrangement. The people should own a stake in any research and development that is funded,
The world is far too small and the weapons far too destructive on all sides. The way that we make life affordable is through cooperation over domination an economy that eats the life of humanity only serve a few humans is an outdated economy I believe, subsidies for large corporations that are heavily profitable like oil companies should be redistributed to boost up small businesses through co-op loans, ownership to those who work to make the business work the tax breaks that are going to the billionaires in corporations should be given to the working class. We do not have more than one problem in this country mismanagement.
I believe we should have a renewable energy phase program, where the first phase of the program is all federal buildings must be equipped with renewable power sources. Then the next phase would be all state buildings than the next would be all large corporate buildings. Then all residential by time it gets down to the average person. It should be cost-efficient through mass production and for corporations/businesses tax breaks should be applied any data center water usage should not come from Michigan, but should come from the oceans, they should have to desalinate and excess water and power should be fed into the overall infrastructure
I am a constitutional absolution list that is not withstanding the fact that amendments do need to be made to the constitution primarily involving how we get our representatives believing we should move away from a corrupt election process. Amend it to a citizens lottery. Because the constitution is only as good as those who interpret it. I have personal experience in how the government can deny your first amendment rights and your fourth amendment rights as well as several others through legal schemes and poor interpretation
