John Hickenlooper

Progressive

Democrat

Senator

Colorado

Current Position: Senator from Colorado

Running For: Senator

Policy Positions

For affordable housing initiatives; supports preventing large corporations from dominating the housing market and reducing regulatory barriers to home construction

For labor unions and collective bargaining rights; co-sponsors the PRO Act to strengthen workers' rights; against revoking federal employees' right to collectively bargain
For regulating artificial intelligence industry
For legalizing and regulating sex work
For antitrust action against large tech companies; called for revamping the Clayton Antitrust Act to clamp down on anti-competitive behavior by companies like Amazon and Google

For universal, affordable healthcare including a public option, Medicare drug price negotiation, and expanded Medicaid; views healthcare as a right; against cuts to Medicaid, ACA subsidies, and SNAP

For protecting public lands from sale; against selling federal public lands to fund tax cuts
For climate change investment and clean energy economy; supports Paris Climate Accord goals; created methane-capture regulations for oil and gas companies
For hydraulic fracturing (fracking); believes it is a beneficial practice with minimal environmental harm

For abortion rights; supports restoring Roe v. Wade, protecting access to mifepristone and medical abortions, establishing a nationwide right to IVF access, and protecting Planned Parenthood funding; pro-choice

Against Citizens United ruling; supports overturning it and enacting stricter regulations and disclosures for money in politics; opposes dark money and corporate PAC influence; does not accept corporate PAC money
For voting access expansion including universal vote-by-mail; against voter suppression efforts and deployment of ICE agents to polling places

Against ICE's current operations; introduced legislation to ban ICE agents from wearing masks and conducting raids at sensitive locations; supports overhauling or shutting down ICE; opposes mass deportation efforts
For DACA protections; signed legislation granting in-state tuition to DACA recipients; joined lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from ending DACA
Against providing economic support (stimulus checks) to undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic; voted against it on February 4, 2021
For legislation punishing companies that boycott Israel; signed bill HB 16-1284 into law in 2016

For gun control measures including universal background checks on all gun sales, assault weapons ban, limits on high-capacity magazines, red flag laws, and regulations on safe home storage of firearms; helped pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
Against the death penalty; granted a reprieve citing inequity in the legal system and evidence against its effectiveness as a deterrent; expressed opposition in his 2016 memoir citing bias against minorities and people with mental illness
For federal cannabis legalization; introduced the PREPARE Act to develop a regulatory framework for cannabis similar to alcohol; evolved from opposing state legalization to supporting federal decriminalization and legalization
For allowing states to decriminalize drugs beyond marijuana, including heroin and cocaine, and for safe supervised injection sites