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Candidates › PA-13 race › 2025–2026
Beth Farnham
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, PA-13
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the general electionNov 3, 2026 · 105,443 votes (47.1%) · 2 of 2
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- Top priorities
- Choose Democracy
- The Environment
- Money
- $107.7K raised, $83.4K spent, $25.1K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 36% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 100% from Pennsylvania · largest committee giver MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS, $5K
- Outside groups
- $95 supporting, $97 opposing Farnham
- Backed by
- Pennsylvania AFL-CIO · National Women's Political Caucus · South Central Young Democrats and 9 more. As the campaign lists them
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Because we believe “All…are created EQUAL,” we hold dear our Representative Democracy.
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For 250 years, veterans, union members, and civil rights marchers have improved upon our self-governance with their sacrifices to extend to more Americans the right to vote and personal freedoms. When our elected leaders take their oaths to the U.S. Constitution seriously and do the necessary work of representation, regardless of party affiliation, we deliver greatness from our country, and The USA stands as a beacon of Democracy.
As a trusted member of our U.S. Congress, I pledge to:
- Uphold my oath to defend and support the US Constitution.
- Safeguard the rights and power of The American People.
- Legislate in the best interests of Everyday Americans.
- Ensure our national security.
- Maintain solid relationships with our trusted allies.
- Hold accountable those in power who violate our country’s laws.
- Pass term limits for justices of the Supreme Court and age limits for US Senators and US Representatives.
- Increase the number of US Representatives so they effectively represent 500 thousand constituents, instead of 765 thousand constituents.
- Hold in-person town halls in the district.
To defend and support the U.S. Constitution is to carry out the critical functions of this office. One of the powers of Congress is that of the purse. Congressionally-approved funds use taxpayer dollars to support programs of federal agencies and departments that in turn, support The American People. Yet, in early 2025, the current Trump administration unconstitutionally paused the federal funding of 2600 programs.
After unpausing them, President Trump then allowed his advisor, the wealthiest person on Earth, Elon Musk, to raid several federal agencies. Devoid of appropriate security clearance and, according to the attorneys of federal workers, in violation of laws, union contracts, and civil service agreements, Musk and his illegal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) helped themselves to classified information as well as the personal information of the American People, then stored it in unsecured files whose whereabouts are unknown. Attempts to subpoena Musk and his associates were thwarted by Republicans in Congress.
Since then, Trump, like a mad king, and his administration have, without consent of Congress; declared war on Iran, kidnapped and detained the president of Venezuela, enacted tariffs indiscriminately against several nations, abused the power of the United States military to kill over 60 alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean sea in violation of US and international laws, abused the power of Immigration Customs Enforcement to detain American citizens without due process, accepted a $400 million jet as a gift from a foreign nation in violation of the Emoluments clause, engaged in speculation and profit through crypto-currency schemes, indicted his political foes on dubious charges, demanded The Department of Justice grant him $230 million dollars in compensation for having been investigated, pardoned January 6th criminals, eroded the trust of our Allies, unjustly fired thousands of federal workers, compromised our national security, threatened to overrun American cities with the National Guards of other states, and torn down the East Wing of The White House.
The Trump administration has violated so many laws, there are currently over 718 legal challenges to it.
Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Congress does nothing to check Trump’s crimes.
PA-13’s own US Representative, multimillionaire John Joyce, is a part of that collective silence.
Joyce voted against The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act, The Inflation Reduction Act, The American Rescue Plan, and many other important pieces of legislation that are in the interests of Everyday Americans. All of that followed his egregious refusal in January 2021, hours after the shameful January 6th insurrection, to certify the valid electoral votes of Pennsylvanians who voted in 2020. This year, Joyce voted twice for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that removes healthcare and food assistance from millions of our neediest Americans, including over 17 thousand constituents in our 13th Congressional District. He also voted for the Save America Act that effectively disenfranchises people, especially married women who legally changed their names to those of their spouses, who attempt to register, or re-register when changing their address, name, or political party, as voters in their state and their names don’t match their birth certificates, nor do they own a passport as proofs of citizenship. Since Americans already prove to their states their citizenship and there is no evidence of widespread voter identity fraud, this is clearly an attempt to reduce the votes of women.
The intransigence of elected Republicans, especially those entrenched in power for decades, has now led to a lack of a continuing resolution for our federal budget and a partial shutdown of our federal government.
When Congress ceases to function, the American People have no voice in our own government.
Our U.S. Congress has effectively yielded the power of The People to the executive branch. That’s why Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, handed over his speaker gavel to Trump on July 4th, 2025.
We cannot risk further erosion of our precious Democracy.
Additionally, to avoid situations of incompetence, or sudden death due to advanced age in office, I advocate the age limit of 75 years on members of Congress. I further advocate an increase of US Representatives so that they each represent 500 thousand constituents instead of 765 thousand constituents.
Please vote for me, Beth Farnham, for US Representative of Pennsylvania’s 13th District, as I will do everything in my power to protect your sacred right to vote, continue the necessary operation of our government, and be a voice for us because I love my country.
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For 250 years, veterans, union members, and civil rights marchers have improved upon our self-governance with their sacrifices…See more
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Every American deserves excellent, affordable, and accessible healthcare.
As our US Representative of Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, I pledge to:
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- Enshrine into federal law a national healthcare program so that all of our treatments and preventative care are covered, no matter our age, employment status, sex, gender expression, pre-existing condition, economic status, marital status, race, color, creed, religion, political party, or education level.
- Expand the footprint of quality licensed healthcare, including maternity care, especially in rural areas.
- Impeach directors of the US Department of Health and Human Services who do not support evidence-based science.
For the newborn to the elderly, for those suffering pre-existing conditions to the newly-diagnosed, for those simply needing annual physicals to those requiring hospital stays, healthcare, rooted in evidence-based science, is essential to advancing survival and increased quality of life.
In every other developed country, citizens have such universal healthcare programs that cover their medical needs, but in America we do not.1 Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act have attempted to fill gaps of inequity, but those safety nets are frequently targeted by Republicans who falsely claim to offer alternatives, but offer nothing of substance.2
In Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District (PA-13), 160,000 residents rely on Medicaid benefits and 194,000 residents rely on Medicare benefits. In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which removes Medicaid from 12 million Americans was signed into law. This means that over 17,000 PA-13 residents will lose Medicaid and several others will experience dramatically rising Affordable Care Act (Pennie, ACA) premiums that will no longer be subsidized.3 It also means that once this bill increases our national deficit to a critical level sequestration will be triggered and Medicare coverage will be cut by $536 billion by 2034.4 Our current US Representative, multimillionaire John Joyce, voted not once, but twice, for this bill to pass.
Kaiser Family Foundation, a leader in US healthcare, has crunched the numbers and delivered sobering statistics.
“More than 22 million people receive the subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year… Losing the subsidies could mean that average out-of-pocket premium payments could double in 2026, from $888 a year to $1,904, an earlier KFF analysis found.” Yet, a majority of Trump supporters supported these subsidies.5 Unfortunately, the Republican-controlled Congress refused to reinstate the subsidies in a continuing resolutions bill, so the increases are likely to go through in 2026 unless a new vote is taken on this issue in 2025.6
Meanwhile, Americans whose wages put them above the Federal Poverty Line, but whose employers don’t offer healthcare benefits are still strapped by significant medical expenses whenever they suffer a health crisis or seek preventative routine care. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “medical debt has become a leading cause of personal bankruptcy, with an estimated $88 billion of that debt in collections nationwide.”7 If the United States had a national healthcare program, Americans would have access to preventative care, staving off crises, and many of those personal bankruptcies might have been avoided.
Additionally, Americans are unduly burdened by trying to understand what care they can receive and/or afford in a confusing patchwork of healthcare services from urban state-of-the-art hospitals to rural healthcare centers that by turns unpredictably reward or punish those who dare to move across state or even county lines.
This is most evident in GoodRx map that depicts the number of healthcare deserts -“…areas that lack adequate access to and infrastructure for healthcare services” – by county. In PA-13, Adams, Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, and Perry counties are noted as having as few as one (Bedford) and as many as 5 (Perry) healthcare deserts.8
In 2023, PA-13’s Juniata County was named one of five counties considered a “maternal health desert” 9 which are counties “…where maternity care services—like prenatal doctor visits, screenings for preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications, and hospitals or clinics with birth centers—are limited or nonexistent.” In Perry county there are currently only 3 pharmacies for a population of over 46k people, nor do residents have a local hospital or an urgent care.
In Franklin County, Wellspan Chambersburg Hospital stopped admitting pediatric patients in December 2023 and transferred their pediatric staff elsewhere, while Wellspan Waynesboro Hospital already didn’t admit pediatric patients.
In other words, children in Franklin county who need ongoing care must seek it in another county of Pennsylvania or across the state line into Maryland. Our current US Representative, John Joyce, frequently announces his support for Community Healthcare Centers which provide basic services for rural residents, but many PA-13 mothers and children need far more healthcare than a few stitches or flu testing.
The expansion of Medicaid that provided children and families with healthcare throughout the pandemic ended in 2023. Through June 2025, over 6 million American children have been dropped from Medicaid. “Last April, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Dr. Valerie Arkoosh told PBS-affiliate WHYY that 75,000 of those kicked off Medicaid were able to obtain insurance through Pennie, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace.” 10 Unfortunately, with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminating subsidies to make ACA premiums affordable, many of those same children may be dropped again. If we had a national healthcare program, all of these children would be covered.
Lastly, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is the director of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is considered a danger to public health by nine former Center for Disease Control staffers. “Nine former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have spoken out against Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, publishing an open letter that criticises his policies – including restricting vaccines, pulling funding for research, and firing thousands of healthcare workers.” If we continue to allow unserious people to lead our nation in health programs that are not rooted in evidence-based science, we risk the health of our nation. 11
Please vote for me, Beth Farnham, so Congress can improve the health and wallets of Everyday Americans.
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Only when we have agency over our own bodies are we free to create the families we choose.
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With Reproductive Freedom, we, along with our trusted healthcare professionals, make personal medical decisions such as: abortion, birth control, disease prevention, nutrition, exercise, in vitro vertilization (IVF), and gender-affirming care and NO ONE has the right to stand in the way of them nor have access to our private medical information.
As US Representative of Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, I pledge to:
- Enshrine into federal law Reproductive Freedom including, but not limited to: abortion, gender-affirming care, birth control, and IVF.
- Ensure publication of the ratified 28th (Equal Rights) Amendment to the US Constitution that reads, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
- Enshrine into federal law national sex education standards.
- Require clear labeling of crisis pregnancy centers (CPC’s) that are not regulated healthcare facilities.
In America, veterans, union members, and civil rights activists have fought tirelessly to ensure that citizens of the United States of America have agency over our own bodies, but currently, those assigned female at birth do not have the same bodily agency that those assigned male at birth enjoy in all 50 states. For example, in several states, pregnant people may not seek abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy, which time can end before the person even discovers they’re pregnant.1
In states where abortion access is limited, pregnant people who suffer miscarriage, which typically occurs in 1 out of 5 pregnancies (wanted or not), risk death from sepsis. Medical professionals who might remove the dead fetal tissue are threatened with loss of medical licenses or even criminal prosecution. Therefore, in those abortion-restricted states, some women suffer to the point of infertility, come close to death, and/or actually die before legislators decide whether or not their lives are worth saving.2
With homicide and suicide as the leading causes of maternal death, it is imperative that those who have unwanted pregnancies be free to end them on their terms.3
Additionally, a pregnant person forced to carry a fetus to term may not attend prenatal appointments, take prenatal vitamins, or seek the care that a pregnant person who desires the pregnancy would be motivated to do. They may engage in self-harm and/or harm of the fetus. In abortion-restricted states, infant mortality has also risen due to the rise of those born with congenital deformities.4
It is also important to note that people most likely to seek abortion identify as mothers and live in poverty. In other words, they seek abortion because they cannot afford another mouth to feed.5 There are so many hungry children in the United States of America, charities like No Kid Hungry exist to try to meet the need.6
Many people mistakenly believe that babies given up for adoption will be adopted, but the state of Pennsylvania alone has over 400 children waiting for that day to be welcomed into a family.7
One reason a person may have an unwanted pregnancy is a lack of access to effective birth control. Places where there are no healthcare centers to obtain birth control are known as “contraceptive deserts.” Contraceptive deserts are mostly concentrated in states that restrict access to birth control.8
Another reason a person may have an unwanted pregnancy is a lack of comprehensive, science-based, LGBTQ+ inclusive sexuality instruction, otherwise known as “sex ed,” taught by certified secondary education teachers. Because the topic of sex ed is often awkward for families, it may not be addressed in the home, but qualified instructors can deliver critical information to adolescents who might engage in such behavior. While abstinence is important to be taught, it is equally important that students learn about effective means of birth control and disease prevention. Condoms are the most effective for preventing both unwanted pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections.9
National standards in sexuality education ensure public school students receive this important information delivered without any religious bias.10
Unfortunately, some sexuality “instruction” is “taught” by employees of crisis pregnancy centers (CPC’s). Frequently, the “education” is not science-based, nor vetted by educators, nor delivered by certified secondary education teachers. Instead, school districts across the country welcome church ladies wearing medical dress-ups to deliver their faith-based programs that often provide outdated concepts such as: victim-blaming for rape, sex negativity (especially for girls), strict heteronormativity, marriage as a gatekeeper to sex, comparisons of human sexuality to drug and alcohol misuse, and misinformation about condoms, birth control, and the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine that protects against 9 different cancers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists describes CPC’s as “…certain facilities that represent themselves as legitimate reproductive health care clinics providing care for pregnant people but actually aim to dissuade people from accessing certain types of reproductive health care, including abortion care and even contraceptive options. Staff members at these unregulated and often nonmedical facilities have no legal obligation to provide pregnant people with accurate information and are not subject to HIPAA or required by law to maintain client confidentiality. Many CPCs are affiliated with national organizations that provide funding, support, and training to advance a broadscale antiabortion agenda.”11
Without regulation, CPC’s are not required to abide by standards of sanitation either.12
It is therefore imperative that CPC’s be clearly labeled so consumers can make informed choices about the quality of information and care they are to receive.
Lastly, Americans who seek gender-affirming care, IVF, or same-sex couple adoption should also be free to do so, but without federal regulation, these important life decisions are under attack in several states.13
Please vote for me, Beth Farnham, to enshrine into federal law our Reproductive Freedom and create the families we choose!
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The soaring cost of living is unsustainable.
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Everyday Americans like you – the hard-working families, the retirees on a fixed income, the young adults just making your way, veterans, college students, or anyone who is not ultra-wealthy – suffer for the unjustified benefit of the millionaires and billionaires.
As US Representative for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, I pledge to:
- Substantially increase the federal minimum wage.
- Sharply reduce tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.
- Ensure a sound tariff policy that is guided by informed economic advisors.
- End union-busting ability of large corporations.
- Increase the availability of affordable housing.
- End Citizens United.
Since 2009 the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25/hour – about $15,000 a year which is not a living wage.1 Meanwhile, food prices have steadily climbed. When this wage was set in 2009, a Big Mac sandwich cost $3.50;2 today, it’s nearly $6, but the real stress appears on grocery bills. Prices for coffee, beef, and other staples are rising rapidly due to Trump’s tariffs, anti-immigration policies that target agricultural workers, and his refusal to address climate change. 3 By allowing Trump to: set tariffs through emotional tweets, raid immigrant residences and places of work with no due process, and deny climate change, Americans are whip-sawed from one inflated cost to another. He also seems incapable of understanding that the tariffs affect US consumers the worst.4
It’s not just food – the costs of housing5, electricity 6, and healthcare7 keep rising far faster than Americans can pay for them. In Pennsylvania’s 13th District, more than 110,000 constituents rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits8, 160,000 constituents rely on Medicaid9, 13,000 constituents rely on Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits10, and over 46% of our public school students qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch program.11
Yet our own US Representative, multi-millionaire John Joyce, voted twice for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which cuts Medicaid from 17,000 recipients and SNAP from 6,000 recipients in our district, and ends subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) recipients.12 During this federal shutdown, Joyce’s cruelty means the loss of SNAP benefits to 43 million Americans, with only a vague promise of partial USDA relief.13 With average SNAP benefits of $211 a month, children and seniors may only see $105 within the next month.
And all of this hardship funds tax breaks for billionaires. In other words, Trump and Joyce serve the ultra-wealthy, not us, the Everyday Americans.14
Moreover, the Trump administration, with silent condonement from John Joyce, ended collective bargaining ability of federal workers who try to secure better wages and fair working conditions for themselves.15
In other news, American farmers who rely on federal funds and programs are suffering. In PA-13, over 25 farms have been denied the average $68k per farm from the Local Food Assistance Program (LFPA) that compensates farmers for the crop overyields they donate to food pantries.16 This denial is due to the halting of federal funds and programs that Trump conducted without Congressional consent, yet our wealthy member of Congress, John Joyce, says nothing against this crime, nor does he fight for US soybean farmers who have lost marketshare this year. Even though Trump is working on a deal with China, the rising costs of pesticides due to Trump’s continued tariffs still hurt these farmers. 17
Economic volatility threatens job growth and affordable housing. To ensure stable communities, we must expand property tax/rent rebates and double funding caps for housing affordability and neighborhood assistance programs.
Part of the reason that Joyce ignores Everyday Americans is because he is sponsored by big money. Since the 2010 Citizens United decision, members of Congress have received unlimited funding from corporate interests and “dark” money from unknown donors through political action committees (PAC’s). This big money tilts elections in favor of those who serve the ultra-wealthy and not us Everyday Americans.18
Please vote for me, Beth Farnham, on November 3rd, 2026 so that I can put Everyday Americans first and billionaires last.
When we choose Beth Farnham and Everyday Americans, we Choose Democracy!
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Gun violence is the number one killer of American children.
Gun violence is the number one killer of Pennsylvania children.
Not cancer.
Not car accidents.
Unique to the United States of…
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Unique to the United States of America, gun violence is the number one killer of children because laws to:
- safely store firearms (Ethan’s Law)
- report lost or stolen firearms,
- require universal background checks,
- restrict ownership of firearms to those individuals at an elevated risk of harming themselves or others,
don’t exist at the federal level.
Since the National Rifle Association (NRA) has raised millions of dollars to lobby legislators who would vote against such common sense regulations, thousands of children die brutal, blood spattered deaths every year.
Elect Beth Farnham to help craft such sensible legislation as listed above in order to prevent the senseless killing of US children, and other Americans, by firearms.
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Since the passing of the Immigration Act of 1965, immigrant workers have had fewer paths of entry, including green card status, into the United States. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a pattern of either unlawful entry, or more commonly, unlawful overstay of temporary visa status…See More
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Since the passing of the Immigration Act of 1965, immigrant workers have had fewer paths of entry, including green card status, into the United States. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a pattern of either unlawful entry, or more commonly, unlawful overstay of temporary visa status, for large numbers of immigrants referred to as “undocumented immigrants.” However, it is important to note the following:
Undocumented immigrants pay federal taxes.
Undocumented immigrants pay state taxes.
Undocumented immigrants pay local taxes.
Undocumented immigrants pay sales taxes.
To know the above information is to accept boring truths – that people who live among us in the 13th Congressional District and pick our fruit, staff our tourism industry, build our homes, prepare our food, maintain our yards, and whose labor we rely on in so many ways, contribute to our society. And like generations of huddled masses before them, these taxpayers work hard and nurture families, supporting and sustaining America, all while denied a path to legal residency and its benefits.
According to The American Immigration Council, “Undocumented immigrants in Pennsylvania paid an estimated $418.1 million in federal taxes and $238.3 million in state and local taxes in 2018. Pennsylvania DACA recipients and DACA-eligible individuals paid an estimated $17.4 million in state and local taxes in 2018.” That older data from the second sentence of the quote about DACA recipients aligns with the 2022 assertion from the Migration Policy Institute that, “DACA holders contribute nearly $42 billion to U.S. gross domestic product each year and add $3.4 billion to the federal balance sheet.”
In other words, undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients in Pennsylvania paid hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state taxes in 2018 alone, helping our economy and boosting our Social Security and Medicare programs. Since then, estimates of taxes paid by undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients have only grown larger, but to swallow the dehumanizing and Republican lie of “Illegals don’t pay taxes” is to be ignorant of this truth.
Researchers at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimated that if undocumented immigrants had been granted legal status, they might have paid $51 million more in Pennsylvania state and local taxes in 2017 alone. Instead of using taxpayer money to find ways to keep undocumented immigrants out of our country, Congress should legislate realistic routes to legal status. This may be accomplished by Congress amending our Immigration Act of 1965 by expanding DACA and Temporary Protection Status work authorization and protection from deportation through programs emulating those of Maryland and Utah, for example. If I am elected, I will work on strengthening ways for undocumented immigrants, those hard workers on whose labor we in Pennsylvania rely for basic services, and DACA recipients, who were brought here as minors, to pursue legal status and add even more to our economy and our Social Security and Medicare programs.
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Public education is a foundation of our country’s greatness.
Guaranteeing access to formal education for generations of Americans has contributed to advancements in medicine, technology, business, law, economics, literature, arts, and…See More
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Guaranteeing access to formal education for generations of Americans has contributed to advancements in medicine, technology, business, law, economics, literature, arts, and a myriad of other ways throughout the centuries.
Public education can never discriminate against its students on the basis of race, color, religion, language, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, or disability.
Quality public instruction promotes student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by exposing them to the truest and newest information available. Primary sources of history, field trips to original works of art and architecture, texts from multiple perspectives and literary styles, scientific experimentation, proven mathematical formulae, comprehensive and LGBTQ+ inclusive sexuality instruction, musical performances, mixed media creations, and so many more practica, delivered by licensed professional educators provide students with life-changing knowledge, opportunities, and standards to meet those goals of achievement.
To continue to turn out competitive American graduates, Congress must ensure that federal tax dollars even out state or local iniquities of poorly resourced regions, and that no tax dollars fund private or parochial schools through vouchers or any other mechanism.
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Climate change is real.
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As the Earth’s average temperatures continue to rise, our very humanity is threatened by increased drought, severe weather events, sea level rise, acidification of the oceans, increased frequency of wildfires, and disruption of stable agriculture.1 It becomes imperative then to mitigate the mechanisms that substantially contribute to climate change in the first place – excessive greenhouse gas emissions like methane, hydroflurocarbons (HFCs), and carbon dioxide2.
As US Representative of Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional district, I pledge to:
- Reduce our dependence on fossil fuels such as oil, gasoline, coal, and natural gas.
- Expand access to renewable energy sources like solar panels, windmills, geothermal, and hydro power.
- Reduce methane produced by human activity.
- Increase the affordability of electrification for low- to moderate-income households, including through tax incentives.
- Support new nuclear technologies, such as Small Modular Reactors, or Molten Salt Reactors which can safely power high-demand facilities like data centers.
- Preserve our national parks.
But to mandate any of these positive measures requires federal legislation.
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