Dave Bushaw

His platform page says he supports universal healthcare through Medicare for All, replacing premiums, copayments and deductibles with a payroll tax, and says he endorses Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act.⁴

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His platform page says he will fight for penalties on employers that violate workers' rights and for amending the National Labor Relations Act to give farm workers and other excluded workers federal protections to unionize.⁴

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

His platform page says he will fight to end right-to-work laws, which it says let workers who do not pay union dues receive the benefits of union contracts.⁴

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

His platform page says he will work to pass legislation reinstating a Glass-Steagall framework that separates commercial and investment banking.⁴

1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
2. Keep current rules
3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

His platform page says he will support expanding early learning and Head Start programs for working families and passing the Head Start for America's Children Act.⁴

His platform page says he supports banning stock trading for Members of Congress.⁴

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His platform page says he supports the Democracy is for the People Amendment to the Constitution, which would limit making contributions and expenditures to influence elections to natural persons.⁴

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

His platform page says he will work to equip the Federal Trade Commission to investigate private equity firms' monopolization of housing and rental markets, including nursing homes and trailer parks.⁴

His platform page raises concerns about a federal executive order that it says blocks states from responding to the effects of AI development and data centers, and says he will defend state and local rights to regulate the expansion of private data centers.⁴

1. Override state AI laws with a single national approach
2. Set national rules as a minimum and let states add stronger ones
3. Let states keep writing their own AI laws

His platform page says data centers' use of water and electricity, and the utility cost increases from grid upgrades, concern him, and says he will work with Iowa communities and other members of Congress on a federal and local regulatory framework for data centers.⁴

His platform page says he will critically evaluate current military budgets, demand transparency in spending, and work to cut the military budget so that it prioritizes domestic defense.⁴

1. Increase military spending
2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
3. Cut military spending

His platform page criticizes military funding for Israel in the annual defense authorization law, saying he does not see the logic in giving American taxpayer dollars to a country that guarantees health care to its citizens.⁴

His platform page says he believes strong borders are necessary and that, as a representative, he will advocate expanding naturalization programs and moving non-criminal undocumented workers through a legal pathway to citizenship.⁴

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His platform page says he opposes funding for indiscriminate immigrant roundups, which it says put Iowa's agricultural and manufacturing industries at risk.⁴

His platform page says he will work to decriminalize marijuana nationwide, advocate full record expungement of nonviolent marijuana convictions, and create a plan to support communities hit hardest by criminalization.⁴