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His campaign website says he has backed bills in the House to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.⁸

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

His campaign website says he fought for the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which it says is expanding high-speed internet to communities that lack broadband.^4,8

His campaign website says he has backed and helped pass gun safety measures that would institute universal background checks.⁹

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 supports reinstating national restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.⁹

His campaign website says a bill he championed to help states set up red flag laws became part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and that such laws save lives by temporarily removing guns from people who pose a danger while preserving due process.⁹

His campaign website says Social Security benefits should be increased and that he opposes privatizing Social Security.¹⁰

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 says he has fought for bills that let Medicare negotiate directly with drug companies and cap out-of-pocket costs, and that the government should use its bargaining power to lower prescription prices.^10,11

His campaign website says rural health care providers are shortchanged by Medicare reimbursements and that the government should look at incentives for doctors and hospitals to operate in rural areas.¹⁰

His campaign website says he voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act and has fought for legislation to improve and expand the health care system.¹¹

His campaign website says that through COVID-19 relief laws he helped expand Affordable Care Act tax cuts that lowered premiums for millions of families.^11,12

His campaign website says he urged President Biden to cancel student debt for struggling borrowers, and it supports lower interest rates on federal student loans and letting borrowers refinance.¹³

His campaign website says he supports two years of tuition-free community college.¹³

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

His campaign website says he introduced and passed a bill to ban future offshore oil drilling off California's coast and that he will keep opposing new offshore drilling.¹⁴

His campaign website says he is helping guide the first offshore wind project off the coast of Morro Bay and that more must be done to bring wind and biofuel projects to market.¹⁴

His campaign website says he has worked to create a new marine sanctuary and to designate parts of the Los Padres National Forest and the Carrizo Plain National Monument as protected wilderness.¹⁴

1. Protect more land, such as with new national monuments or wilderness areas
2. Keep roughly the current mix of protection and development
3. Open more federal land to mining, logging and grazing

His campaign website says he is a cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act, which would protect the right to an abortion nationwide.¹⁵

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)

His campaign website says he cosponsors bills to repeal the Hyde Amendment so that all women can access abortion care.¹⁵

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

His campaign website says he introduced legislation to provide no-cost contraception to military members through TRICARE.^11,15