Amanda N. Pusczek

Her campaign website says she supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour right away, tying later increases to living costs and inflation, and ending lower minimum wages for tipped workers, farmworkers and workers with disabilities.⁹

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

Her campaign website says she would work to pass the full PRO Act, including union recognition through signed cards and financial penalties for corporate union-busting, and would ban mandatory anti-union meetings at work.⁹

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

Her campaign website says she supports the PRO Act in part to undo state right-to-work laws.⁹

1. Pass a national right-to-work law
2. Leave it to each state
3. Allow union contracts that require fees in every state, overriding state right-to-work laws

Her campaign website supports tariffs on goods made through labor or environmental exploitation in other countries.⁹

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

Her campaign website says future trade agreements should include enforceable labor and environmental standards to keep jobs from moving overseas.⁹

Her campaign website says she supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and allow limits on independent spending, a ban on corporate PAC contributions to federal candidates, and public matching funds for small donations.⁹

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

Her campaign website says every state should be required to use independent redistricting commissions made up of equal numbers of Democrats, Republicans and independents.⁹

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

Her campaign website says she supports a national standard letting any voter vote absentee by mail in federal elections without giving a reason, and ending notary and witness requirements for mail ballots.⁹

1. Mail a ballot to every registered voter
2. Let any voter request a mail ballot without giving a reason
3. Allow mail ballots only for voters with a reason, such as illness, disability or travel
4. End most mail voting, keeping it for military and overseas voters

Her campaign website says the forms of identification accepted in federal elections should be expanded to include student IDs, utility bills, bank statements, paychecks and tribal documents.⁹

1. Require a government-issued photo ID, with free IDs for people who need one
2. Require ID but accept other documents, such as a utility bill or bank statement
3. Don't require ID at the polls; confirm identity through registration records and signatures

Her campaign website says she supports a permanent national program guaranteeing every worker up to 12 weeks a year of paid, job-protected family and medical leave.⁹

1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states

Her campaign website says she supports federal matching grants to build and run public child care centers, with costs for working families capped at 7% of household income.⁹

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

Her campaign website says the federal government should be able to enroll eligible low-income residents of states that have not expanded Medicaid, such as Alabama, directly in coverage, and that those states should be offered full federal funding for the first five years of expansion.⁹

Her campaign website says she would reverse federal cuts to Medicaid payments for hospitals that serve many low-income patients and to other safety-net programs, pointing to cuts in laws such as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.⁹

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

Her campaign website says she supports a federal law protecting clinicians who provide gender-affirming care from state prosecution and overriding state bans on that care.⁹

1. Ban these treatments for minors
2. Allow some with limits, such as minimum ages, waiting periods or no surgery
3. No legal limits; leave decisions to patients, parents and doctors

Her campaign website says she would ban private insurers and Medicare Advantage plans from using automated AI systems to deny coverage, and would require a licensed independent physician to review any denial of prescribed medication or adaptive equipment within 24 hours.⁹

1. Expand Medicare Advantage and encourage more private plan options
2. Keep current rules
3. Tighten rules on what these plans are paid and when they can require approval for care

Her campaign website says future cost-of-living raises for Social Security, SSI and veterans' disability benefits should be based on an inflation index for older Americans that gives more weight to health care and utility costs.⁹

Her campaign website says she would work to pass the Women's Health Protection Act to create a nationwide right to provide and receive reproductive care, including abortion, that would override state bans and waiting periods.⁹

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

Her campaign website says she supports a federal right to IVF and other fertility treatments and a requirement that health plans cover all FDA-approved birth control at no cost to patients.⁹

1. Guarantee access to both in federal law, including insurance coverage for IVF
2. Lower IVF costs, such as through cheaper drugs and optional employer benefits, without a new federal right or coverage requirement
3. No new federal law; leave current federal and state rules in place
4. Let states limit some methods, such as by giving embryos legal protection

Her campaign website says she supports passing the Equality Act to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.⁹

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

Her campaign website says she supports passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore federal preclearance of voting changes in states with histories of discrimination.⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

Her campaign website opposes private school voucher programs such as Alabama's CHOOSE Act and says states that use public money for vouchers should lose an equal amount of federal Title I and special education funding.⁹

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

Her campaign website says she supports a federal law making associate degree, technical certificate and workforce training programs at public community colleges tuition-free.⁹

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

Her campaign website says she would offer up to $60,000 a year for up to five years in federal loan forgiveness to doctors, nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives and physician assistants who work in rural areas short of health care providers.⁹

1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
4. Broad cancellation of student debt

Her campaign website says she opposes efforts to move veterans' care to private providers through vouchers and would build new VA outpatient clinics in rural county seats in the district.⁹

1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it

Her campaign website says she supports legislation to abolish qualified immunity for all law enforcement officers.⁹

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

Her campaign website says she supports repealing the 2001 and 2002 war authorizations and requiring a recorded vote of Congress on a specific, time-limited authorization for any deployment into hostilities.⁹

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack

Her campaign website calls for a full audit of the Defense Department budget and caps on defense contractors' profits, with the savings going to rural health care, broadband and school meals.⁹

Her campaign website says she would permanently ban foreign state-owned companies, investment trusts and nonresident foreign nationals from buying or leasing farmland, timberland or water rights, and would require existing foreign holdings to be sold.⁹

1. Ban farmland purchases by all foreign buyers
2. Ban purchases by buyers tied to China, Russia, Iran or North Korea
3. Require more reporting and national security reviews of purchases, but no outright bans
4. Keep current reporting rules, with no new limits on foreign buyers

Her campaign website says she would shift federal crop insurance and disaster aid toward small, independent farms by capping the amount any one farm business can receive each year.⁹

Her campaign website says high-speed broadband should be treated as a public utility and that local utility boards and electric cooperatives should get federal grants to build fiber-to-the-home networks in rural areas.⁹

Her campaign website says she supports federal privacy legislation barring tech and telecom companies from tracking, storing or selling location data, search histories or health app data without users' explicit consent.⁹