Lateefah Simon

Her campaign website says she would advocate for a public option and ultimately work toward an affordable single-payer health system.⁸

Her campaign website says she would close the Medicaid coverage gap.⁸

Her campaign website says she would expand Medicare drug price negotiation to cover all drugs.⁸

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

Her campaign website says she would expand Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage and lower the Medicare eligibility age.⁸

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

Her campaign website says she would work to write into federal law every American's right to reproductive health care, including abortion, and to guarantee access to safe and legal abortion for every woman regardless of where she lives.^8,9

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 would write into federal law the right to reproductive health care, protecting access to contraception and IVF across the United States.⁸

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 would establish a 12-week paid federal family and medical leave program.¹⁰

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 would work for affordable, high-quality child care and pre-K, along with long-term care and paid leave.¹¹

Her campaign website says she would restore the Child Tax Credit and expand it to provide up to $6,000 in tax cuts to families with newborn children.¹¹

Her campaign website says she would enact comprehensive labor law reforms to ensure collective bargaining for all workers.¹⁰

Her campaign website says she wants clear regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrency, AI and blockchain that support technological progress and protect consumers.¹²

Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments passing three bipartisan House bills aimed at expanding opportunities for small businesses in the East Bay.⁵

Her campaign website says she supports a plan announced by Kamala Harris as vice president to build 3 million homes, assist first-time home buyers and encourage local governments to remove barriers to construction.¹³

Her campaign website says she would use federal funds to turn empty government buildings into emergency shelters, build more transitional housing in the East Bay and pursue funding for permanent supportive housing for all homeless residents of the district.^13,14

Her campaign website says she would support legislation to end the federal death penalty and require resentencing of people now on death row.¹⁵

1. Use it more often or for more crimes (for example, child rape or drug trafficking)
2. Keep it as current law allows
3. Pause executions (a moratorium)
4. Abolish it

Her campaign website says she would expand legal pathways to work authorization and citizenship and end backlogs that lengthen waits for asylum applicants and employment-based immigration.¹⁶

Her campaign website says DACA should be written into law and that Dreamers should have a pathway to citizenship.¹⁶

Her campaign website says she supports protecting LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV from discrimination at work, at school and in public places, and writing the rights of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people into law.¹⁷

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 the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and automatic voter registration.¹⁸

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 says she supports expanding the number of Supreme Court justices and creating new federal judgeships.¹⁸

1. Add justices to the court
2. Keep nine justices under current law
3. Fix the number at nine in the Constitution

Her campaign website says she supports term limits for Supreme Court justices.¹⁸

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

Her campaign website says she would help impose an enforceable code of conduct on the Supreme Court, with limits on gifts and requirements for disclosure and recusal.¹⁸

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

Her campaign website says she supports ranked-choice voting.¹⁸

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

Her campaign website says she supports ending partisan gerrymandering.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she would work to reduce the influence of money in politics by eliminating secret corporate spending in elections.¹⁸

Her campaign website says she supports banning members of Congress and federal judges from trading and owning stocks.¹⁸

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

Her campaign website says she would work to cut defense spending and redirect the money to health care, education and housing.¹⁹

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

Her campaign website says she would expand affordable internet access.¹²

Her campaign website says she would work to end the split that gives 80% of transportation funding to highways and 20% to transit, and increase funding for transit infrastructure.²⁰

1. Shift more money to public transit, walking and biking
2. Keep the current split between highways and transit
3. Spend federal money mainly on highways and roads, and leave transit to states and cities

Her campaign website says she would streamline permitting for energy transmission lines to speed clean energy development.²¹

Her campaign website says she would build on the Inflation Reduction Act, pass the Green New Deal and provide more tax incentives for energy-efficient appliances in low- and middle-income homes.²¹