Sean Casten

His campaign website says he believes in common-sense gun reforms like universal background checks, and lists cosponsoring the Bipartisan Background Checks Act.^4,8

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 lists cosponsoring the Assault Weapons Ban, which it describes as outlawing semi-automatic guns with military-style features.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 strongly supports expanding the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and making them permanent, and that he has cosponsored legislation to make them permanent.⁹

1. Don't bring back the larger credits
2. Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
3. Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
4. Bring back the larger credits permanently

His campaign website says everyone has a right to universal, high-quality, affordable health care, and that the country should protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act by ensuring that all Americans have insurance and fixing flaws in the insurance marketplace.⁹

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which it says would stop drug companies from charging Americans more than other countries for the same medication.⁹

1. Leave US prices to the market and to negotiation
2. Seek prices like other wealthy countries pay through deals with drug makers, without a law requiring it
3. Require that Medicare and Medicaid pay no more than other wealthy countries do
4. Require that all US buyers pay no more than other wealthy countries do

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which it says would give Medicare the power to negotiate directly with drug companies.⁹

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the CONNECT for Health Act, which it says would permanently expand Medicare access to telehealth services.⁹

1. Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
2. Leave new coverage mainly to Medicare's own reviews of the medical evidence
3. Add services only when savings elsewhere in Medicare cover their cost

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Social Security 2100 Act to strengthen benefits for current and future generations.¹⁰

His campaign website says he is 100 percent pro-choice and believes every woman has the right to make her own health care decisions.¹¹

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Women's Health Protection Act, which it says would protect the right to access abortion care throughout the United States.¹¹

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 lists cosponsoring the Raise the Wage Act to increase the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour.¹⁰

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 lists cosponsoring the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to enhance workers' right to organize.¹⁰

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

His campaign website lists introducing the Chief Risk Officer Enforcement and Accountability Act, which it says ensures that large banks employ a Chief Risk Officer to help mitigate future risk.¹²

His campaign website says he continues to fight to protect the U.S. Department of Education.¹³

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 lists introducing a bipartisan bill to quadruple the amount teachers can deduct for qualified out-of-pocket expenses on their tax returns.¹³

1. Expand these breaks and make more of them refundable, so families who owe little income tax also benefit
2. Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
3. Keep the current breaks
4. Cut back these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates or deficit reduction

His campaign website lists introducing the End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act to eliminate loopholes and tax breaks that benefit the oil and gas industry.¹⁴

His campaign website says he supports comprehensive immigration reform and finding pathways to citizenship, and lists cosponsoring the American Dream and Promise Act, which it says would create a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and people with Temporary Protected Status. It also lists voting for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which it says lets agricultural workers and their families earn permanent legal status through continued farm work.¹⁵

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 opposes the Trump administration's policies that, it says, aim to deport people without regard for due process, and that he opposes Operation Midway Blitz.¹⁵

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the No Secret Police Act, which it says prohibits federal officers from using face coverings when conducting arrests and ensures clear identification of officers.¹⁵

His campaign website lists cosponsoring a resolution saying the House is committed to keeping the United States open to people lawfully seeking refuge and asylum, regardless of their race or country of origin.¹⁵

His campaign website lists demanding that President Trump immediately withdraw National Guard troops from Illinois among his actions in Congress.¹⁵

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which it says would, among other things, eliminate qualified immunity.¹⁶

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 lists cosponsoring the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which it says would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Voting Rights Enhancement Act, which it says would update the formula for which states have shown a pattern of voting rights violations.¹⁷

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

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Equality Act, which it says would extend nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ Americans in employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs and jury service.¹⁸

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 says he is a strong advocate for vote-by-mail, which it calls a safe and secure way to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to vote.¹⁷

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the For the People Act, which it says would, among other reforms, end partisan gerrymandering.¹⁷

His campaign website lists cosponsoring the Major Richard Star Act, which it says would let combat-disabled retirees with fewer than 20 years of service receive both retirement pay and disability compensation.¹⁹

1. Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
2. Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
3. Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%

His campaign website lists cosponsoring and voting for the Respect for Marriage Act to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage.¹⁸

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