Mark Cohen

His campaign website lists campaign finance reform and overturning Citizens United among his goals, and says unlimited donations to candidates and the use of PACs to get around contribution limits also threaten democracy.^2,4

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 the SAVE Act addresses a problem that barely exists, noting that every state already has voters attest to their citizenship and that voting fraud is extremely rare, argues it would keep some eligible citizens, including women who changed their names after marriage, from voting, and says he opposes it.⁴

1. Require documents proving citizenship to register
2. Check citizenship against government records instead of requiring documents
3. Keep relying on applicants' sworn statement, under penalty of perjury, that they are citizens

His campaign website lists banning stock trading by House members among ways to make the House work better.⁴

His campaign website lists term limits among ways to make the House work better.⁴

His campaign website says he opposes unilateral tariffs that harm Nebraska's farm export markets without achieving concrete, measurable results, and wants to work with allies, rather than through unilateral tariffs, to address China's trade practices.⁴

His campaign website says he supports broader trade deals that open overseas markets to Nebraska corn, soybeans, beef and pork, and that he will review each agreement for its effect on Nebraska agriculture.⁴

His campaign website says he wants to strengthen unions and protect collective bargaining rights.⁴

His campaign website says proposals to reduce or end public employees' right to negotiate would be bad for workers, public safety and citizens who want responsive services.⁴

His campaign website says he supports an independent central bank and an independent audit of the Federal Reserve, saying independence is not immunity from oversight.⁴

1. Give the president more say over interest rates and Fed leadership
2. Keep rate decisions independent but add audits or more oversight by Congress
3. Keep the Fed's current independence

His campaign website lists supporting lighter banking regulation for community banks and credit unions with more oversight of the largest banks, and reinstating and strengthening safeguards for systemically important financial institutions.⁴

His campaign website says the country should return to a tax structure more like that of the Eisenhower years, with higher rates on the highest incomes.⁴

1. Replace the current income tax with a single flat rate or a national sales tax
2. Cut rates further, including the top rate
3. Keep current rates
4. Raise rates on high incomes only (for example, above $400,000)

His campaign website says he supports higher corporate taxes, as in the Eisenhower years, and closing loopholes that let corporations shift profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.⁴

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website says both parties are responsible for the national debt, that waste, fraud and abuse do not come close to explaining the deficit, and that balancing the budget through spending cuts alone would require severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It lists opposing tax cuts that add to the deficit unless offset by spending reductions or other revenue.⁴

His campaign website lists working to restore Medicaid funding and opposing Medicaid cuts that would reduce mental health coverage among his commitments.⁴

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

His campaign website lists supporting the Affordable Care Act and strict regulation of insurance companies among his health care commitments.⁴

His campaign website says he supports significantly expanding Medicare's authority to negotiate prescription drug prices.⁴

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

His campaign website says he supports lifting the Social Security payroll tax cap, by raising or eliminating it, so that high earners pay the same percentage on all their income as other workers, in order to fund Social Security without benefit cuts.⁴

His campaign website says he would vote against any bill that reduces Social Security or Medicare benefits.⁴

His campaign website criticizes the lack of a guarantee of paid family leave in the United States, and says parents of newborns and people caring for an ailing parent should not have to choose between that care and their jobs or finances.⁴

His campaign website says rural child care facilities deserve public investment just as roads and bridges do.⁴

His campaign website lists opposing cuts to SNAP, housing assistance and other programs that veterans depend on among his commitments for veterans.⁴

His campaign website says gay couples should be able to enter the same legal relationships as everyone else.⁴

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says Congress, not the president, holds the power to declare war, and that he would have demanded a congressional vote before the first strike on Iran, along with a legal justification, a defined objective and an exit strategy.⁴

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

His campaign website says the United States should do everything it can to help Ukraine and protect its allies, and criticizes what it calls appeasement of Russia.⁴

His campaign website lists working to repair the damage it says the current administration has done to NATO among his defense commitments.⁴

His campaign website lists strengthening the VA Community Care Program, so that rural veterans can get quality care near home, among his commitments for veterans.⁴

His campaign website lists fully funding the VA and supporting the PACT Act with adequate VA funding and staffing among his commitments for veterans.⁴

His campaign website lists, among his commitments for veterans, restoring the VA's authority to offer abortion counseling and abortion care.⁴

His campaign website says he sees a constitutional right to privacy and considers the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade correct, and that he does not answer questions framed as pro-life or pro-choice.⁴

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

His campaign website says unwanted pregnancies can be reduced by educating young people and making birth control available to those who choose to be sexually active.⁴

His campaign website says he will fight to keep public funds from going to private schools, and that charter schools and vouchers draw money away from rural public schools.⁴

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

His campaign website says rural schools rely on federal funds from the Department of Education and that eliminating it would likely force school consolidations.⁴

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website says Congress should forgive federal student loans for teachers who agree to work five years in rural districts, and says he believes student loan debt should be dischargeable in bankruptcy like consumer or medical debt.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

His campaign website says state and local governments should have the authority to set rules on transgender athletes in women's sports, and that he would support that authority in Congress.⁴

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity

His campaign website says he would oppose efforts to set up a religion preferred by the government, including proposals to bring specific religious teachings into public schools.⁴

His campaign website lists pushing to cut ICE funding to Biden-era levels and opposing detention without due process of people suspected of being in the country illegally among his immigration commitments, and says immigration reform should recognize that immigrants are critical to Nebraska's agriculture and other industries.⁴

His campaign website lists making it illegal for officers to conceal their faces or badge numbers, apart from a few limited situations or when a court allows it, among his commitments.⁴

His campaign website says he will push for an agricultural visa system that works for Nebraska's economy, and says tighter visa programs have left farms and other industries short of workers.⁴

His campaign website lists supporting federal restrictions on purchases of American farmland and critical infrastructure by foreign adversaries.⁴

His campaign website says he opposes periodic mental health checks for owners of AR-15-style rifles, and that he supports responsible gun rights.⁴

His campaign website says he supports legalizing and regulating marijuana for adults, and that he has seen no evidence it is more dangerous than alcohol.⁴

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

His campaign website says rural sheriff and police departments need federal money to hire and train more officers, and that cuts to federal grants have hurt rural departments.⁴

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

His campaign website says Congress should pass a code of conduct for the Supreme Court that is binding and enforceable, with clear rules on financial disclosures and gifts, and should end the practice of letting each justice decide whether to recuse.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 lists fighting to make sure federal BEAD broadband funds reach the most underserved rural areas, and supporting enforceable buildout requirements, among his broadband commitments.⁴

His campaign website says he will support comprehensive federal data privacy legislation giving Americans the right to know what data is collected about them and who buys and sells it, and to correct it, opt out of collection and have it deleted.⁴

His campaign website lists pushing for federal standards that govern how AI surveillance tools, facial recognition and predictive policing are used.⁴

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website says he does not oppose data centers but opposes giving away what he calls Nebraska's most precious resource to attract them, discusses the water data centers use, says Congress can play a role through bills such as the GRID Act and the Shield Act, and says he will fight for full public disclosure of deals before they are signed.⁴