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Ohio US House District 9

Ohio U.S. House RepresentativeBase Salary: $174,000Term Limit: 2 yrsResponsibilities:  To represent the people of Ohio, their district, and the United States in dealing with matters of national and international importance.  The general welfare should be a prime concern.

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    Steve Lankenau
    (Rep)

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    J.R. Majewski
    (Rep)

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    Derek Merrin
    (Rep)

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    Craig Riedel
    (Rep)

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    Terrence Smith
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

What are your top priorities and how will you address them?

State your position on voting and elections policy.

State your position on immigration policy.

State your priorities on foreign policy and national security.

State your position on environmental policy and natural resource management.

State your position on healthcare policy.

What role, if any, should government take to ensure no person is discriminated against?

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Fiscal responsibility. I will vote in a manner that is consistent with achieving a balanced budget. I will sponsor or support legislation to add a balanced budget amendment to our constitution. Yeah
My greatest concerns in this regard points to our adversaries in China and Russia. They have been known to attempt successfully and unsuccessfully to hack our voting systems. I believe we must focus on this as one of if not the greatest concern to maintain free and fair elections.
I believe that first the southern border must be shut down temporarily. I do not believe in trying to repair or attempt to fix the system we have now. I believe it must be scrapped and a new better system installed. I am a businessman who thinks in business terms of supply and demand. We have a great demand of people who want to come to this country. It should present as much an opportunity as a problem. We must ask people attempting to come here about their skill sets and education and criminal record not to mention whether they have family or friends to help support them until they get on their feet. I think it also is important that they learn English eventually so that people in this country can communicate.
I believe we must be wary of foreign entanglements. Our first president was right in this regard. But I also believe we must on occasion defend freedom and freedom loving people especially when it is in our national interest. When people we support fight for freedom we are not sending our men and women in uniform to do so. We must create greater unity of understanding that the government's of China and Russia remain our chief adversaries and their client states such as North Korea and Iran should be a focus of our attention as well.
The issues of environmental policy and natural resources management must be carefully balanced with the societal desire for energy for our economy and jobs for our citizens. In the end we must have a nation and a world environmentally worth passing on to our children.
Early in my working career I spent several years in the healthcare industry. It was known to be dysfunctional then and it is still largely dysfunctional for some aspects of our society today. Medical and pharmaceutical lobby is inordinately powerful. Elected representatives must find the will to resist their efforts that persist in making our healthcare and drugs some of the most expensive in the world.
I am not sure that government can succeed to eliminate discrimination, but it can make actions and words which are discriminatory illegal and punishable and should. The greater challenge is for public officials and all leaders of our communities to work to continue to change hearts and minds to see all people as equal not only in the eyes of the law but by all citizens of this country.
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