Adam Schiff
Progressive
Democrat
Senator
California
Current Position: Senator from California
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For increased national defense spending; voted for every increase in the defense budget during his career
Business & Labor
- For raising the minimum wage
Health Care
- For expanding health care access and lowering prescription drug costs
- For universal healthcare and expanded access to health care for all
Environment
- For addressing climate change through Apollo Project-level investment in clean energy and creating green jobs
- For protecting animal welfare; led a letter signed by 32 Democratic senators urging exclusion of provisions that would overturn California's Proposition 12 animal welfare law
- For alternative protein development; authored legislation to direct USDA to develop a national strategy for protein diversification and authorize $500 million for plant-based and cultivated meat
Civil Rights
- For surveillance reform; introduced the Telephone Metadata Reform Act to prohibit bulk collection of domestic phone records and supported reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For impeachment of Donald Trump; led the first House impeachment inquiry and served as lead impeachment manager
- For a ban on stock trading by members of Congress
- For press freedom; formed the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for the Freedom of the Press and authored the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act
- For expanding voting rights and ending Citizens United
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against the 2003 invasion of Iraq; voted for it but later said 'Absolutely' when asked if he regretted the vote, calling it a cascading series of events with disastrous consequences
- For recognizing the Armenian genocide; led efforts in Congress and authored House Resolution 106 which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2019
- Against the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen; voted for a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to end U.S. involvement in 2019
- For repealing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists; introduced bipartisan legislation because he felt the current AUMF was outdated
- Against ceasefire in Gaza but for humanitarian pauses to deliver aid to Palestinians
- For the 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran; claimed Israel could 'not afford' to let Iran develop a nuclear weapon
- For supporting Israel; expressed support for Israel's right to self-defense during the Gaza war
Public Safety
- For gun violence prevention; introduced the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act to ensure the gun industry is not shielded from liability when it acts negligently
- For criminal justice reform and the Justice Reinvestment Initiative to reduce spending on incarceration while reinvesting savings in public safety