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DUTIES: Representatives make laws along with the members of the Senate and may conduct investigations on issues of national importance. Laws that impose taxes always begin in the House of Representatives. Representatives can recommend that the Senate remove from office a public official accused of a crime.TERM: Two years. No term limit.SALARY: $174,000.HOW ELECTED: Elected by voters in each congressional district. Maryland has eight of the 435 Representatives, based on the state s population in the 2020 Census.WEBSITE: www.house.gov

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Eric Felber (Dem)

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Campaign Phone 3016520111
Campaign Email efelber1@gmail.com

QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of United States Representative?

I am a physician who cares for my community for the past 15 years. I have vast experience helping people and caring for their needs.

PROTECTING DEMOCRACY: What actions should the United States government take to protect voting rights and ensure the security of elections?

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ENVIRONMENT: How would you address problems such as climate change and pollution?

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IMMIGRATION: What changes would you propose in immigration policy?

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FIREARMS: Please provide your position on national gun safety legislation.

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Jamie Raskin (Dem)

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Campaign Twitter twitter.com/jamie_raskin
Campaign Website http://jamieraskin.com
Campaign Phone 2408474937
Campaign Email info@jamieraskin.com
Campaign Instagram instagram.com/raskinforcongress
Campaign Twitter Handle @jamie_raskin
Campaign Mailing Address P.O. Box 5418
Takoma Park, MD 20913

QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of United States Representative?

My motto for my House office is that no job is too big or too small for us. Whether it is leading the impeachment of a dangerously corrupt president, finding a lost Social Security check for a retiree in Bethesda, increasing the NIH budget by billions or obtaining VA benefits for a veteran in Rockville, we act nimbly to get results for our people. I also use my constitutional knowledge and coalition-building experience every day to see America through the complex challenges of our time.

PROTECTING DEMOCRACY: What actions should the United States government take to protect voting rights and ensure the security of elections?

Democracy is not just a static collection of practices and institutions, although it is partly that. Democracy is the dynamic and never-ending process of uniting the people with the power in a “more perfect Union.” We must keep American democracy growing to survive. This means we need to add a right-to-vote Amendment to the Constitution and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and we need statehood for millions of disenfranchised citizens living in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

ENVIRONMENT: How would you address problems such as climate change and pollution?

Our overarching challenge is to confront the nightmarish effects of climate change, but we can’t do that when democracy itself is impaired by special interest control over the levers of political power. To counter climate change, break from the carbon barons and unleash renewable energy technologies like solar and wind, we must redeem majority rule by ending gerrymandering, protecting voting rights and dismantling state-based voter suppression tactics that form a matrix of democracy-repression.

IMMIGRATION: What changes would you propose in immigration policy?

America is not a great country in spite of immigrants—we are a great country because of immigrants. Immigrants are as essential to our present and our future as they have been to our history, and I am committed to standing against hatred, mistreatment, and scapegoating of immigrants, while forging a bipartisan path forward to rebuild our broken system and provide meaningful pathways to lawful immigration.

FIREARMS: Please provide your position on national gun safety legislation.

It is far past time to end the terrifying epidemic of gun violence in America. I support a universal background check; a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; and barring violently dangerous people from possessing or purchasing firearms. In Congress, I voted to pass several bills addressing the current lax gun laws and I will not rest until we hold the gun industry properly accountable in tort law for its role in deadly firearm-involved violence.

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Cheryl Riley (Rep)

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Campaign Twitter cheryl4moco
Campaign Website http://cheryl4Maryland.com
Campaign Phone 2024037971
Campaign Email cherylrileypr@comcast.net
Campaign Instagram cheryl4moco
Campaign Twitter Handle @cheryl4moco

QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of United States Representative?

? I was born in DC and raised in Montgomery County Maryland and love this Country. I am a public relations professional who has worked with numerous organizations in various industries and have successfully helped develop and execute viable solutions, growth, market share, prioritize issues, offer strategic plans under budget, know and treat each audience for optimum outreach, created concise crisis communications plans and consistently developed pro-active solutions resulting in ROI excellence.

PROTECTING DEMOCRACY: What actions should the United States government take to protect voting rights and ensure the security of elections?

I believe in voter ID laws, same day voting and same day results. The voting system has lost credibility due to poor chain of command, whereby there needs to be a viable, one vote per person, Citizen voters only process. Mail in voting for those who have no choice must be verifiable via ID as well.

ENVIRONMENT: How would you address problems such as climate change and pollution?

As I am priority focused, our country/state/county is facing numerous urgent crisis situations that should be resolved first and foremost, such as the rise in crime, the economy and the drug crisis. The climate change narrative being pushed as a top priority is not an immediate threat. The USA has some of the strictest laws to combat pollution in the world, such as automobile emissions testing, recycling. I am witnessing “climate change” regulations being imposed on daily necessities including e

IMMIGRATION: What changes would you propose in immigration policy?

We are in the midst of an open border crisis that is totally unacceptable, and threatens the citizens, our economy and the very fabric of what our Country was founded on. Closing the border to regain control of who is walking in unvetted is the top priority that needs to be addressed. Watching American Citizens being considered after illegals from all over the globe must end and is unconstitutional. One American life that has ended due to someone who was allowed to simply walk in is ONE TOO MANY

FIREARMS: Please provide your position on national gun safety legislation.

. I fully support legal, responsible gun ownership. Given the out of control crime and the protecting of criminals over innocent people by politicians, I believe everyone has the right to defend their lives, property and others. The criminals know they are protected via the anti-police electeds who have left Americans defenseless. There are numerous laws surrounding legal gun ownership that work. It is the criminals who don’t follow the laws and the false narrative rhetoric pushing politicians w

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Michael Yadeta (Rep)

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Campaign Twitter facebook.com/Michael _Yadeta
Campaign Phone 2407034226
Campaign Email Vote4Ymichael@gmail.com
Campaign Facebook http://www.vote4ymichael.com
Campaign Twitter Handle @@MichaelYadeta
Campaign Mailing Address P.O. Box 7261
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Silver Spring, MD 20907

QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of United States Representative?

Successful experience in Community leadership in Maryland, Was Judge for historical election of 2016. Volunteered Presidential Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Michael Yadeta also worked for former republican Governor Larry Hogan Campaigning in organizing young Marylanders led the second historic win later joined Great Again.

PROTECTING DEMOCRACY: What actions should the United States government take to protect voting rights and ensure the security of elections?

Vote Michael Yadeta I will make sure I be a voice for my district ...God first, Family first, America fisrst, good jobs, Good education

ENVIRONMENT: How would you address problems such as climate change and pollution?

Climate change is the second issues to me. I care about American primary needs morethan anything then advice finance the EPA's to make enough awareness about the environmental threat to our world.

IMMIGRATION: What changes would you propose in immigration policy?

I will welcome legal immigrants, speed up naturalization process , Green cards, and I will creat good paying jobs, make them good American but close the border to illigal immigrants .

FIREARMS: Please provide your position on national gun safety legislation.

Gun has to be monitered the duty is for the police officers and all American citizens, but I am pro second Amendment