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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
