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Wisconsin U.S. House, District 6/Representantes de Wisconsin por el Distrito 6

Legislative Branch: U.S. CongressThe United States Congress consists of two bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Congress is the law-making body. Congress also allocates federal spending through the budget and appropriation bills. Proposed laws (bills) can start in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Both houses must pass a bill before sending it to the president for signature or veto. Congress can vote to override a veto.House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives currently consists of 435 members. The elected members are called either representatives or congresspersons. Members of the House represent the people in a state’s congressional district. Each congressional district has roughly the same number of residents. U.S. Census information is used to create the districts. The number of districts in each state depends on the state s population. Wisconsin has 8 representatives. Voters elect representatives to serve for a two-year term. There is no term limit.___PODER LEGISLATIVO: CONGRESO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS:El Congreso de los Estados Unidos consiste de dos cuerpos: la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado. El Congreso es el órgano legislativo. El Congreso también asigna el gasto federal a través del presupuesto y los proyectos de ley de asignación. Las leyes propuestas (proyectos de ley) pueden comenzar en el Senado o en la Cámara de Representantes. Ambas cámaras deben aprobar los proyectos de ley antes de enviarlos al presidente para su firma o veto. El Congreso puede votar para anular un veto.Cámara de RepresentantesLa Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos está formada actualmente por 435 miembros. Los miembros elegidos se llaman representantes o congresistas. Los miembros de la Cámara de Representantes representan a las personas en el distrito congresal de un estado. Cada distrito del Congreso tiene aproximadamente el mismo número de residentes. Para crear los distritos se utiliza la información obtenida del Censo de los Estados Unidos. La cantidad de distritos en cada estado depende de la población del estado. Wisconsin tiene 8 representantes. Los votantes eligen representantes para servir por un período de dos años. No hay límite de términos.Nota: Las respuestas de los candidatos que aparecen en español se tradujeron de las respuestas originales de los candidatos en inglés.

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    Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon
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    Mike Thurow
    (Ind)

Biographical Information

Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.

What policies, if any, would you support to promote a healthy economy and lower the cost of living for Wisconsinites?

What laws, if any, would you change or be in support of to ensure all voters have an equal opportunity to cast their ballot?

What, if anything, will you do to ensure equitable, accessible, and affordable health care services, including reproductive health care (i.e. contraception, IVF, and abortion) for Wisconsinites?

What measures, if any, would you propose to ensure the fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees while maintaining national security?

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My priorities are simple: lower costs, restore accountability, protect individual rights, and force Washington to work for the people instead of the parties and insiders.

I am not a career politician, and that is part of my qualification. As a mother, advocate, and citizen who has fought a broken legal system all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, I know what it means to stand up when institutions stop listening. I would bring that same persistence, independence, and scrutiny to Congress: audit the system, challenge waste, and put Wisconsin families first.
To lower costs, Congress must stop treating family budgets like an afterthought. I support cutting wasteful federal spending, reducing unnecessary regulations that raise the cost of housing, energy, food, and health care, and ending policies that reward politically connected insiders at taxpayers’ expense.

We need sound money, affordable domestic energy, more competition in health care, and tax relief for working families and small businesses.

A healthy economy is built by people, workers, farmers, entrepreneurs, and families, not by Washington micromanagement.
Every eligible voter should have a fair, equal, and practical opportunity to vote, and every voter should be able to trust the result.

I support clear voter registration rules, reasonable voter ID requirements, accessible polling places, secure absentee voting, transparent ballot handling, and faster public reporting of election procedures and results.

I would oppose laws that use technical gamesmanship to keep candidates or voters out of the process. Elections should be decided by voters, not by insiders manipulating access to the ballot.
Health care should be more affordable, more transparent, and more patient-centered. I support expanding competition, price transparency, direct primary care, telehealth, and reforms that reduce the power of insurance, hospital, pharmaceutical, and government middlemen.

On reproductive health care, I support access to contraception, and I believe deeply personal medical decisions should not be used as political weapons.

My focus would be protecting patients, lowering costs, and keeping government and corporate bureaucracy from standing between people and care.
America has always been strengthened by people who come here to work, build businesses, contribute to our communities, & pursue freedom. Our immigration system should reflect those values.

Illegal immigration is a symptom of a system that is overly complicated, slow, & often dysfunctional. We need secure borders, effective screening, & clear, consistent enforcement of the law - but we also need to make it easier for peaceful people to come here legally to work, reunite with family, & seek opportunity.

Refugees & asylum seekers deserve dignity, due process, & timely decisions on their cases. Govt. should focus its resources on identifying genuine security threats & criminals, not creating unnecessary barriers for peaceful individuals who simply want to contribute.

I support a system that protects our national security, respects individual rights, expands legal pathways and treats every person with fairness under the law. We are strongest when we uphold both liberty & the rule of law.
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Make life cheaper for working Americans, crack down on corruption, and strengthen public safety.

My work as a firefighter has made it impossible for me not to run for office now. I consistently see patients refuse ambulance rides because of cost. homeless people starting fires in abandoned buildings just to stay warm, and people over dosing because they don't have access to help. These are policy failures by a government that is more interested in stock trading than fixing our economy.

I am also the Milwaukee HAZMAT lead. I work between the federal, state, and city governments to build a comprehensive budget making sure we have access to the correct training and equipment needed to keep Wisconsinites safe.
1. I will relentlessly go after monopolies pushing to strengthen, through amendments, antitrust acts like: The Sherman act, The Clayton act, The Packers and Stockyards act, etc. 2. Fight for a reinvestment in our industrial and agricultural bases to bring back jobs 3. Give the American people the same healthcare plan Congress has 4. Raise the minimum wage 20$/hr 5. Expand housing investment/make it easier to build housing through incentivized zoning reforms 6. Pass the PRO act to ban "right to work" and strengthen unions across all 50 states 7. Invest in high-speed rail projects to connect our cities and bring billions of $'s in infrastructure investment. 8. Overturn Citizens United 9. Overturn Speak Now
1. Make voting a federal holiday 2A. Automatic voter registration 2B. Pass a law mandating same day voter registration nation wide
1. Give Americans the same healthcare Congress has 2. Ban private equity from buying hospitals/nursing homes 3. Allow Medicare to negotiate all drug prices 4. Vote for the Women's Health Protection act
a secure border is a necessity to a stable nation. But the current lottery system for citizenship is insane. 1. We need to create a pathway to citizenship that is straightforward and rewards hard work and law abiding future citizens. 2. Reform H-1B and H-2B visas so that the immigrants visa status is not completely held by their employer. This leads to abuse in the work place and lower wages for all. 3. Stop destabilizing countries so we don't have so many refugee crises 4. maintain a secure border and expand our immigration courts so we can deport those who need to be deported faster.
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