Richard E. Neal

His campaign website lists ending the tariffs that raise prices among the things he is fighting for.⁶

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

His campaign website says he will always fight for the right to organize.⁵

His campaign website says he supports a new federal assault weapons ban, noting that he supported the 1994 ban.⁸

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says he supports universal background checks, including for sales by unlicensed sellers, online and at gun shows.⁸

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says he was an original cosponsor of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, which it says would eliminate the qualified immunity doctrine, among other changes.⁹

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

His campaign website says he has fought against the death penalty, voting repeatedly to end the practice.⁹

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

His campaign website says he supports the Equality Act.¹⁰

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

His campaign website lists among his record voting no on a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman and signing an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.¹⁰

His campaign website says he supports an expansion of the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.^5,11

His campaign website says he supports birthright citizenship.¹²

1. Keep automatic citizenship for every child born in the US
2. End it for children of parents here without legal permission, such as by amending the Constitution
3. End it for children of parents here without legal permission or on temporary visas, such as by amending the Constitution

His campaign website says he supports creating pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including a pathway for DREAMers.¹²

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 campaign website says he introduced the Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act, which it says would expand the number of drugs Medicare can negotiate and give people with private insurance access to the negotiated prices.¹³

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 has worked to protect and improve Social Security, including by cosponsoring legislation and holding hearings on increasing benefit amounts.¹⁴

1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
2. Keep the current benefit formula
3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments extending the tax credits for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans through 2025.¹³

His campaign website says he continues to protect programs such as the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act.¹⁵

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments developing and passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which it says uses tax incentives to speed clean energy production, energy efficiency, clean fuels, clean vehicles and clean manufacturing.¹⁶

His campaign website says he has championed improving and expanding passenger rail service between Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester and Boston, and lists $108 million in federal funding for East-West Rail among his accomplishments.¹⁷

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation