Dave Dawson

His campaign website says he supports a public option, a voluntary government-run health plan that anyone can choose, while protecting the right of union members and others to keep the private coverage they have negotiated.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 campaign website says he will fight any effort to cut Medicaid.⁴

His campaign website says he supports allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies and capping the cost of insulin and other lifesaving medications.⁴

His campaign website says he opposes any cut, privatization scheme or benefit reduction to Social Security or Medicare, and will fight to ensure annual cost-of-living adjustments keep up with the prices Iowa seniors pay.⁴

His campaign website says he supports lifting the Social Security payroll tax cap so the wealthiest Americans pay into the system at the same rate as everyone else.⁴

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website says he supports federal investment in high-speed broadband so every Iowa town has the same access as cities.⁴

His campaign website says he supports raising the federal minimum wage, which it notes has been $7.25 for 17 years.⁴

His campaign website says he will fight to pass the PRO Act, which it says would strengthen the right of every American worker to form a union and bargain collectively.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 campaign website says he supports expanding the Child Tax Credit.⁴

His campaign website says he supports federal investment in affordable child care so parents can afford to work.⁴

His campaign website says he will fight to close tax loopholes that let billion-dollar corporations pay no federal income tax.⁴

His campaign website says he supports restoring the full strength of the Voting Rights Act after recent Supreme Court rulings, including federal legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the ballot.⁴

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

His campaign website says the Supreme Court should be bound by a binding code of ethics, the same as every other federal judge.⁴

1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
3. Keep the court's current code

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and get corporate and dark money out of elections.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 campaign website says he will fight to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks.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 campaign website says he will fight for term limits of six terms in the House and two in the Senate.⁴

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website says he will work to expand the supply of health care providers in rural Iowa through loan forgiveness for doctors, nurses and mental health professionals who serve in those communities.⁴

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