Deborah K. Ross

Her campaign health care page says she has fought to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits so that health coverage stays affordable for North Carolinians.¹⁰

Her campaign health care page says she fought for more than 10 years in the state legislature to pass Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.¹⁰

Her campaign health care page lists helping pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which it says limited seniors' insulin costs to $35 a month and gave Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices.¹⁰

Her campaign retirement page says she is working to strengthen Social Security and will oppose any effort to roll back the benefits seniors need to retire with dignity.¹¹

Her campaign education page says she strongly supports tuition-free community college.¹²

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

Her campaign education page says that in Congress she is fighting for more federal resources for schools.¹²

Her campaign Women and Families page says she is a cosponsor of the Child Care for Working Families Act, which it says would ensure no middle-class family pays more than seven percent of its income on child care, and her education page says she is fighting for free, high-quality pre-K programs for all children.^12,13

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 climate page says she introduced the Defend Our Coast Act, a bill to bar offshore oil and gas drilling off the mid-Atlantic coast.¹⁴

Her campaign climate page calls offshore wind one of the best tools against climate change and says the Inflation Reduction Act included her provision lifting a 10-year moratorium on offshore wind leasing off North Carolina and other Southeastern states.¹⁴

1. Stop offshore wind projects, including some already approved
2. Let projects go forward case by case under the usual federal reviews
3. Lease more ocean sites and speed approvals to build more offshore wind

Her campaign climate page says the federal government should continue building a nationwide network of charging stations to support the transition to electric vehicles.¹⁴

Her campaign climate page says Congress should take up again a House-passed proposal from an earlier version of the Inflation Reduction Act that would use rewards and penalties to push utilities to cut their emissions.¹⁴

Her campaign infrastructure page lists among her accomplishments a U.S. Department of Transportation grant she helped win for new passenger rail service linking Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia.¹⁵

Her campaign infrastructure page says investment is needed in accessible public transportation to connect people with jobs, health care, housing and education, and that she voted for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.¹⁵

Her campaign immigration page says she is committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform that includes a fair pathway to citizenship, and that she is an original cosponsor of the American Dream and Promise Act, which it says offers protection from deportation and a path to citizenship for eligible Dreamers.¹⁶

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

Her campaign immigration page says she voted for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which it says would let farmworkers earn legal status by continuing to work in agriculture and would promote fair wages and working conditions for guest workers.¹⁶

Her campaign Women and Families page says women should decide for themselves about their own bodies and health care, and that she will keep fighting until the protections of Roe v. Wade are written into law.¹³

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

Her campaign Women and Families page says she will not stop fighting until the protections of Roe v. Wade are enshrined in law.¹³

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 Equality and Justice page says she has introduced legislation to reform what it calls North Carolina's partisan, secretive redistricting process, and a bill to end prison gerrymandering.¹⁷

Her campaign Equality and Justice page says that on the House Judiciary Committee she is working with colleagues on concerns that Supreme Court justices may lack impartiality or have conflicts of interest.¹⁷