Shawn Harris

His campaign website says he supports term limits of three two-year terms in the U.S. House and two six-year terms in the U.S. Senate.¹⁰

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website says he supports the ETHICS Act, which bans members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks, bonds, commodities or cryptocurrencies, or alternatively mandatory qualified blind trusts.¹⁰

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

His campaign website says he would scrap the Social Security payroll tax cap so that high earners keep paying into the system throughout the year.¹¹

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website says he would update the Social Security cost-of-living formula to reflect modern-day costs and index it to keep up with inflation.¹¹

His campaign website says he would expand Medicare price negotiation opportunities to ensure the lowest possible drug costs.¹²

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 would expand Medicare to include nursing homes for long-term care.¹²

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 says he would get Wall Street out of the housing market by stripping federal tax incentives from corporate buyers and blocking federal financing and securitization for them, and that he supports the executive order President Trump signed on the issue.¹¹

1. Tighten the ban, such as by covering smaller investors or ending exceptions
2. Keep the 2026 law as passed
3. Loosen or repeal the ban

His campaign website says he would temporarily suspend the federal excise tax on fuel, which it says would cut gas prices by 18 cents a gallon and diesel by 24 cents.¹¹

1. Raise the federal gas tax
2. Add new fees, such as a yearly fee on electric vehicles or a charge for each mile driven
3. Keep the gas tax as is and cover the gap with other federal money
4. Cut or suspend the federal gas tax

His campaign website says he would fight for Northwest Georgia’s fair share of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding and bring reliable fiber-optic access to unserved rural valleys.¹³

His campaign website says he would make SNAP part of mandatory spending so that payments continue during a government shutdown, and make Head Start an essential service protected from shutdowns.^14,15

His campaign website says he would pass the EATS Act so that time spent in class counts toward the work requirement for SNAP benefits, and would shield SNAP payments from government shutdowns.^14,15

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

His campaign website says he would support farmers who grow food rather than only commodity crops and would give small and medium-sized farms the same access to EQIP dollars for farm maintenance projects such as fencing and wells as larger farms have.¹⁴

His campaign website says he would restore the Department of Education.¹⁵

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 he would fight against block grants for Medicaid that lack the flexibility to address health crises.¹²

His campaign website says he would oppose the push to privatize veterans’ health care, stop arbitrary VA budget cuts and expand local care for rural veterans.¹⁶

1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it

His campaign website says he would restore support staff at the VA and prioritize hiring claims processors to reduce wait times.¹⁶

1. Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
2. Keep staffing near current levels
3. Cut VA staff further, especially in administrative jobs

His campaign website says he supports the right of law-abiding citizens to carry firearms in public, and that gun owners should be trained on the firearms they own and store them safely.⁷

His campaign website says he supports the Women’s Health Protection Act, which it describes as establishing a nationwide right to provide and receive abortion care.¹⁷

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 abortion care is a health care issue and that the decision belongs between a woman and her doctor.¹⁷