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Yassamin Ansari
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, AZ-03
Representative since 2025
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- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Arizona US House 3
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Affordability
- Abolishing and Prosecuting ICE
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety
- Oversight and Accountability
- Campaign Finance
- In Congress
- Representative since 2025 · votes with their party 97% of the time. See the record · Office phone 202-225-4065
- Money
- $1.7M raised, $1.3M spent, $410.6K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 17% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 46% from Arizona · largest committee giver MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS, $10K
- Outside groups
- $3.6K supporting Ansari
- Backed by
- GIFFORDS PAC · Brady PAC · Association of Professional Flight Attendants and 8 more. As the campaign lists them
- Sponsored most in
- Health, Immigration, International Affairs
13 priorities from yassaminforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
As Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Lowering Costs Task Force, Yassamin is dedicated to passing bold, commonsense policies to bring down the cost of living and make the American Dream a reality for all Americans.
Yassamin believes Congress must pass Medicare for All before more hardworking Americans are crushed by medical debt and surprise bills. We must build more affordable housing, provide free childcare to working families, and expand essential programs like SNAP and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
She also supports raising the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly two decades – to a liveable wage of $25/hour.
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Yassamin believes we must abolish and prosecute ICE, Stephen Miller, and all those responsible for its sadistic mass deportation agenda, full stop.
In the 119th Congress, she introduced the Fund Schools, Not ICE Act, which would transfer over $39 billion in unobligated ICE funding to Title I grants for local school districts; the Drain ICE Act, which eliminates $75 billion in ICE funding appropriated in the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act; the Studying Disastrous Impacts of Mass Deportations Act, which conducts a study on the long-term economic impacts of Trump’s immigration policies; and the Stop Inhumane Conditions in ICE Detention Act, which mandates reporting requirements about detainees in immigration detention facilities.
To date, she has conducted over 13 oversight visits at ICE detention facilities in Arizona, Texas and Florida to witness firsthand the brutality and horrific conditions of these centers and hear from detainees firsthand.
She is a proud champion of the American Dream and Promise Act and believes we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform that will protect our diverse communities, including Dreamers (DACA recipients), refugees, and asylum seekers, to ensure that they have the necessary tools to succeed.
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Yassamin is deeply alarmed by the rapid advancement of highly capable AI frontier technologies.
She is a proud supporter of legislation introduced by Congressman Greg Casar and Senator Bernie Sanders to ban artificial superintelligence, pause advanced AI research, and establish a new federal agency to regulate AI technologies and the AI industry.
She believes trillion-dollar AI companies are putting their record profits over the safety of the entire globe.
A champion of AI safety in the Congress, Yassamin has led the way in demanding that Trump convene an international effort to set global AI rules — as the U.S. has led in the past with nuclear and aviation safety.
She also knows that the Trump Administration’s refusal to regulate the AI industry — despite dire warnings about potential threats to the safety and economic well-being of Americans — is all part of the corruption story, with Donald Trump and his sons all profiting off of AI related investments.
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Yassamin is leading the charge to impeach Pete Hegseth for incompetence, mismanagement, and crimes.
As a member of the powerful House Oversight Committee, she is investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the biggest cover-up in American history, led by Donald Trump and his administration.
She is demanding answers on Trump family corruption, Big Oil’s pay-to-play, the administration’s violations of court orders, and its illegal dismantling of federal agencies, undermining public health, and the indiscriminate firing of government employees.
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Yassamin does not take a single dime in corporate PAC money, and supports legislation to Abolish Super PACS to get big money out of politics.
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Yassamin serves as the Ranking Member of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee, where she works tirelessly to hold Big Oil and corporate polluters accountable.
She deeply values our public lands and national monuments, and is committed to protecting them against attacks by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration.
Yassamin believes we must aggressively invest in clean energy projects and energy efficiency, electrify our transportation system, and ensure that we not only meet our climate and emissions commitments, but surpass them.
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Yassamin supports halting the construction of more massive data centers until we have a comprehensive plan to protect our water, our electrical grid, and Arizona ratepayers.
She believes we must tackle our state’s historic water crisis and prioritize the people of Arizona first.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · yassaminforcongress.com/issues-policy
Yassamin believes in the power of multilateral institutions and negotiations through diplomacy. She started her career at the United Nations as an advisor on the Secretary-General’s Climate Action Team where she helped to deliver the historic Paris Climate Agreement.
She has been fighting for an end to Trump’s horrific and illegal war in Iran, including with accountability for unacceptable civilian deaths and potential war crimes in U.S. strikes in Minab, Iran.
She firmly believes that the administration’s actions in Cuba and the Caribbean are outrageous and immoral.
She is proud to stand with U.S. allies in NATO, for the sovereignty of other nations like Denmark and Canada, and to support Ukraine in its fight for freedom.
Yassamin knows that the only way to have lasting and enduring peace in the Middle East is for there to be an independent, viable, and prosperous Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel. She strongly opposes the Netanyahu government’s appalling actions in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank which undermine that future, and she is a cosponsor of the Block the Bombs Act.
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Yassamin believes gun violence is a national emergency and a public health epidemic. She is an original co-sponsor of the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2026 that would require federally licensed dealers to verify the identity of individuals purchasing ammunition online by checking a photo I.D.
She supported H. R. 1307, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2025, a bill that would reestablish an Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was dismantled by the Trump Administration.
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Yassamin is a proud cosponsor of Medicare for All and believes healthcare is a human right.
She believes we must also address the glaring inequities in our healthcare system, which has historically ignored or downplayed the pain of women and people of color. That’s why Yassamin introduced the HER Agenda, which includes:
- The Gynecologic Pain Management Study Act, to address barriers to access for pain management options during gynecologic procedures.
- The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, to provide 12 days of paid leave for reproductive health reasons like extreme menstrual pain, menopause symptoms, vasectomies, and more.
- The Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) Research Act, to study under-researched and underdiagnosed PMDD, a severe form of PMS.
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Yassamin believes that housing is a human right and that we must build more housing (and quickly!), invest massively in social housing projects, and expand support for low-income renters.
That’s why she introduced the HAVEN Act, which expands housing voucher programs to cover every eligible household, expands eligibility, and bans landlords from discriminating against voucher-holding tenants.
She was also proud to support and pass the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act – the most significant housing legislation in decades.
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Yassamin is a cosponsor of the John R Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
She is supportive of a House bill calling for restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act, eliminating the Senate filibuster, and enacting structural changes to the Supreme Court.
She supports the Youth Voting Rights Act that establishes a private right of action to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which prohibits denying or abridging the right to vote based on age.
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