Daniel Betts
Conservative
Democrat
N/A
Texas
Current Position: Attorney
Running For: House Representative - District 21
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For grants for low-water crossings, levees, and diversion projects
- For reforming the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
- For expanding support for adoption and family services
- For building a more distributed naval fleet with unmanned vessels
- For mandating open-architecture middleware for defense systems
Health Care
- For innovative, clinically supervised therapies for PTSD and addiction for veterans and first responders
- For research and early detection for serious behavioral and personality disorders
- For research improving fetal and maternal outcomes
Education
- For increasing trained School Resource Officers (SROs) and voluntary guardian programs in schools
- For strengthening parental rights in school safety policies
Environment
- For blocking federal rules that threaten natural gas generation
- For fast-tracking small modular nuclear projects
- For piloting innovative nuclear solutions including floating molten-salt reactors
- Against federal land seizures
- Against overreaching conservation easements
- For voluntary, Texas-led wildlife and water conservation programs
- Against "green" subsidies that disadvantage natural gas and nuclear power
- For investment in recharge zones for the Edwards and Trinity aquifers
- For funding rain capture, storage basins, and flood-to-flow systems
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; supports state-level abortion restrictions
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
- For sanctioning foreign suppliers of precursor chemicals for fentanyl
- For funding better screening at ports of entry
- For funding rapid field-testing equipment for local law enforcement to detect drugs
Public Safety
- For expanding access to addiction treatment and naloxone
- For expanding real-time river gauge networks and geo-targeted flood alerts
- Against federal bans on commonly owned firearms, firearm accessory bans, and gun licensing schemes and registries
- For layered defenses against drones and missiles
- For defending satellites and enabling rapid-launch replacements