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Greg Stanton

Liberal
Democrat
House Representative
Arizona - District 4

Current Position: US House Representative AZ-4

Running For: House Representative - District 4

Policy Positions

Economic Policy

  • Against Trump's tariffs; supports rolling them back and pursuing alternative trade policies
  • For building approximately four million new homes over the next decade through permitting and zoning reform
  • For the USMCA trade agreement to strengthen North American trade partnerships
  • Against privatizing Social Security; opposes efforts to privatize Social Security benefits
  • For protecting Social Security and Medicare from cuts; voted against Republican legislation that would worsen Medicare finances while providing tax breaks to the wealthy

Business & Labor

  • For creating a national paid family and medical leave program
  • For regulating large data centers and requiring them to bear their own energy costs to protect residential ratepayers from higher utility bills
  • For paid family and medical leave; cosponsored the FAMILY Act guaranteeing up to 12 weeks of partial income during family or medical leave
  • For domestic semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain investment; led effort to pass the CHIPS and Science Act and supports CHIPS 2.0
  • For raising the minimum wage
  • For workers' right to organize; voted for the PRO Act to strengthen collective bargaining rights

Health Care

  • For extending ACA tax credits, expanding Medicaid, and strengthening Medicare benefits
  • For Medicare negotiating prescription drug prices; helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act authorizing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, capping insulin at $35/month for Medicare patients, and limiting annual Part D out-of-pocket costs at $2,000
  • For protecting and extending Affordable Care Act coverage; signed discharge petition to force a House vote on extending ACA tax credits and voted for the three-year extension
  • Against Medicaid cuts; voted against Republican legislation that slashed Medicaid to fund tax breaks for the wealthy
  • For protecting NIH-funded medical research; cosponsored the PHARA Act to protect NIH research from politically driven cuts
  • For the PACT Act; helped pass the PACT Act of 2022 expanding VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances

Education

  • Against public funding for private school voucher programs; supports directing public education funds exclusively to public schools
  • Against eliminating or weakening the Department of Education; opposes cuts to Title I and special education funding
  • For universal pre-K and expanded early childhood education access

Environment

  • For protecting Colorado River water rights and securing equitable conservation agreements among Basin states; supports federal funding for water recycling, groundwater recharge, drought relief, and local water infrastructure; opposes rollbacks of Waters of the United States rule
  • For the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate, clean energy, and drought relief investments; supports clean energy manufacturing, renewable energy expansion, and EV infrastructure

Civil Rights

  • For abortion rights; supports restoring federal abortion protections via the Women's Health Protection Act, protecting access to contraception and IVF, stopping the Comstock Act from being used as a national abortion ban, and providing VA abortion care for veterans; endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Reproductive Freedom for All
  • For banning congressional stock trading and imposing enforceable Supreme Court ethics rules
  • For LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections; helped pass the Respect for Marriage Act to protect marriage equality, cosponsored the Equality Act for federal LGBTQ+ civil rights protections, cosponsored the Fit to Serve Act protecting transgender servicemembers, cosponsored legislation prohibiting commercial conversion therapy, and pushed FDA to end discriminatory blood-donation restrictions on gay and bisexual men
  • Against Republican efforts to ban transgender students from school sports
  • For abortion rights; helped introduce the Women's Health Protection Act to restore federal abortion rights, supports protecting contraception and medication abortion, and cosponsored the Right to Contraception Act and Access to Family Building Act

Voting Rights & Democracy

  • For requiring congressional authorization before the president uses military force
  • For the For the People Act, including strengthening voting rights and cracking down on dark money
  • Against unauthorized presidential military action; condemned Trump's unauthorized military engagement with Iran and voted to bring troops home absent congressional authorization

Immigration & Foreign Affairs

  • Against giving ICE unchecked funding; supports withholding additional ICE funding until the agency undergoes comprehensive reform
  • For border security with modern technology and trained personnel focused on cartels, traffickers, and fentanyl smugglers, while also demanding ICE reform, accountability, and oversight; opposed increased ICE funding without oversight and introduced legislation to redirect ICE funding to local public safety
  • For a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; supports Israel's right to defend itself and the U.S.-Israel relationship, but opposes Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence; supports delivering aid to Palestinian civilians
  • For protecting noncitizen and DACA servicemembers from deportation and involuntary separation from the military

Public Safety

  • For full release of the Epstein files
  • For treating extreme heat as a public health and infrastructure emergency; co-founded the bipartisan Congressional Extreme Heat Caucus
  • For maintaining and investing in local law enforcement; opposes defunding or disbanding police departments, supports community policing, body cameras, and crime-solving technology
  • For common-sense gun safety laws to keep dangerous weapons out of dangerous hands while respecting law-abiding gun owners