Distrito 48 — Cámara de Representantes del los Estados Unidos
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- Hacer que la economía funcione para todos: es inaceptable...
- Mejorar la atención a la salud: Estados Unidos paga...
- Enfoque en la energía y el clima: las empresas ricas...
- Límites de mandato: impulsar una resolución conjunta...
- Desinversión obligatoria: exigir a los miembros del...
- Consecuencias: establecer pautas más estrictas y sanciones...
- Límites de mandato
- Simplificar el Código Fiscal
- Camino a la paz para Ucrania
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Hacer que la economía funcione para todos: es inaceptable la elevada tasa de inflación. Las empresas ricas tienen beneficios exorbitantes, pero los trabajadores no ganan una parte justa. El salario de los trabajadores debe aumentar a medida que aumentan los beneficios.
- Mejorar la atención a la salud: Estados Unidos paga más por los cuidados de la salud que cualquier otro país. Sin embargo, los resultados de los pacientes están por debajo del nivel de otros países. La pandemia puso de manifiesto la existencia de brechas que deben subsanarse con una mayor protección a los pacientes.
- Enfoque en la energía y el clima: las empresas ricas que producen petróleo y gas reciben miles de millones en subsidios cada año. Los contribuyentes también pagan precios más altos por sus productos. El Congreso debería eliminar los subsidios a estas empresas rentables.
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MEET STEPHEN HOULAHAN Stephen lives and breathes California's 48th congressional district. Raised in Santee, he has traveled the U.S. as a nurse, catching sight of the Rockies and vast beauty of Alaska, but always returned home to the Golden State. Raised by a hardworking single mom, Stephen knows what families in California are going through. His mom worked two jobs to make ends meet, while Stephen slept in the family living room and helped raise his younger sister. Working since he was 13 years old, Stephen is full of grit and determination. He attended the University of San Diego, earning both a Masters in Nursing and an MBA. He went on to serve his neighbors on the City Council and as Vice Mayor. Working across party lines with four Republicans as the lone Democrat, he stopped a power plant and pipeline from threatening the air and water quality in his community and the health of his neighbors. He has protected his community from corruption by fighting for and passing term limits and took on the entire council to call for inclusionary housing policies in the face of corporate development. Before serving on the frontlines of COVID, Stephen ensured that emergency responders were paid a fair wage and had the resources they needed to do their jobs. Dismayed and angry about the mismanagement of the COVID crisis and the failures of elected officials — Stephen is running to protect his family, friends, and neighbors.
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As your representative from the 48th Congressional District, I will support federal grants for local agencies and individuals, to continue programs to supply water to their ratepayers. I will also support new projects that these agencies may develop to augment their current programs. Severe drought conditions require such an initiative.
San Diego County is enduring its ninth driest year in 128 years: fewer than 5.33 inches of rain have fallen, based on the normal amount. Therefore, this issue merits stronger federal support, than a loan and mere words.
In congress, I will provide grants to the Advanced Water Purification agency, instead of a loan. This joint power authority was created by the Padre Dam and Helix Water Districts, as well as the city of El Cajon and San Diego County.
I will also fund individual actions, as part of the solution. I will vote to supply rebates to those who buy rain barrels and supply some of their own water. In addition, I will support subsidies for installation and use of gray water systems that reuse water from laundry, dishwater, baths, and showers.
Our immigration system needs comprehensive reform. This has been sought for years by immigration lawyers, members of Congress and numerous presidents. The main hindrance to getting this done is the unwillingness of many politicians to work collaboratively on immigration law.
Assuming that no comprehensive reform can be achieved, I propose the following:
1) Create a path to citizenship over eight years for those here unlawfully (about 10.5 million people). Many of these residents are married to U.S. citizens and have children born and raised here. They are employed, pay taxes and are a productive part of our communities.
2) Update the family-based immigration system, which would allow family members to enter the nation and become citizens. This would ensure that families would stay together.
The reason why I am running for the U.S. House of Representatives is that the people of the United States are more polarized than ever. It is time for working citizens to stand up and fight for the life of our democracy.
As we all know, a house divided against itself cannot stand. Bearing this in mind, I will, when elected, serve all of my constituents in the 48th Congressional District.
I’ve lived in this area my entire life, and as a resident of the newly established 48th Congressional District, I know and collaborate with many whose political preferences differ from mine. However, we share many basic values on family and community. Just as when I coach my son’s West Hills Little League team, I work for the entire group. Our community means more to me than any partisan connection!
As a member of Congress, I will listen to the voices from across the entire 48th Congressional District. I will hold town halls, survey constituents and have offices in at least two areas of the district, so my staff can easily assist constituents.
As your member of Congress, I will combat climate change by protecting wildlands, rivers, estuaries and the ocean from harmful uses. I will protect the backcountry of East County from urban sprawl and large wind and solar farms. The Cleveland National Forest must be a protected water shed, for public recreation, not permanent housing or industrial level power generation.
Furthermore, I will create subsidies for microgrids, rather than industrial-scale production. Innovative use of ocean currents to generate energy for communities along the coast, geothermal energy for use by communities near these sources, wind energy produced by wind farms located closer to the users, and distributive solar on individual homes or near buildings where energy is used. We must reduce wildfire-causing wires strung across miles of wildlands that are subject to damage by high winds during East County’s annual Santa Ana events.
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Election Integrity The United States of America is the birthplace of modern democracy. We believe that everyone deserves the right to vote and to participate in our democracy. That is why as your congressman, I will do whatever it takes to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
I believe that life’s quality improves when people can engage in the decisions that impact their lives. That’s why we need to make it easier to vote, not harder. We need to make sure that partisan gerrymandering stops and we don’t keep ending up with districts that look like this in order to cut out entire populations.
California can set the example for the rest of the country: we already have same-day voter registration, and most counties already allow early voting.
Fighting Corruption
None of the policy priorities we have listed above are attainable if we don’t tackle corruption head on. That is why as your congressman, I will advance a 3-step plan to fight corruption:
1.Build strong and enduring institutions 2.Provide transparency of government finances 3.Bring integrity to Congress’s payment structures
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Top Domestic and International Priority in Congress
My top domestic priority is to strengthen our economy. My top international priority is protecting our country from terrorism and war by ensuring our country’s armed forces are strong.
My top domestic priority is to strengthen our economy. The current rate of inflation is unacceptable and I will address the root cause. While unemployment is down to 3.6%, those who are working are not reaping the benefits of having jobs. Prices, especially at the gas pump, are skyrocketing. Corporations are unfairly profiting from this situation. Some wealthy corporations pay no taxes at all, leaving the middle class to pay higher taxes to cover the shortfall. As a member of congress, I will lead a bi-partisan effort to protect consumers from price-gouging. I will also work to make the tax system fairer.
My top international priority is protecting our country from terrorism and war by ensuring our country’s armed forces are strong. The best ways to address this are by enhancing our intelligence and collaboration with allies, in addition to having a well-equipped military. I will work on a bipartisan basis to defend our nation, as it is the prime responsibility of government under our Constitution.
Addressing Economic Pressure Facing Americans
I will use the available tools to mitigate inflation. That tool is deficit reduction. Growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will also ease the economic pressure.
The only way to address the economic pressures facing Americans is for our leaders to make sound fiscal decisions that transcend partisan politics and special interests.
While inflation management is the primary job of the Federal Reserve Central Bank, over which the House of Representatives lacks jurisdiction, I will use the available tools to mitigate inflation. That tool is deficit reduction. When I vote on the version of the budget produced by the House Budget Committee, I will consider it with an eye toward deficit reduction. This means that I must work with others in Congress to cut excessive expenditures.
Growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will also ease the economic pressure, but requires reinvestment in infrastructure and subsidization of emerging technologies. The law of supply and demand are driving the massive increase in gas prices, requiring an “all of the above” approach which includes conversion to a clean energy future that denies tyrants the ability to hold the world hostage with fossil fuel price gouging.
Housing, Homelessness, and Veteran Affairs
Affordable housing is an important component of every community. Homelessness requires a multipronged approach to ever be solved. Veterans in our district are numerous and often overlooked.
As your Representative at the Federal level, I would use my influence to ensure our taxpayer money was returned to the local level to address local issues including housing, homelessness, and veterans’ affairs.
Affordable housing is an important component of every community, giving families a place to start and elderly a place to retire in proximity to their children. As a former city council member, I was a champion for inclusionary housing. In Congress I will fight for Federal subsidies which are needed to incentivize affordable housing development.
Homelessness requires a multipronged approach to ever be solved. Federal dollars are needed at the local level to fund the mental health, substance abuse, occupational training, and transitional living programs that solve homelessness.
Veterans in our district are numerous and often overlooked. They served our country, protected our freedom, and it’s time that the Federal Government lived up to its promises to our veterans. The Veterans' Affairs Committee oversees the VA Healthcare system. My knowledge in the healthcare field will help me to improve the service provided by this huge system. There is a real problem with wait times for care. There are many suicides that occur because the veterans are unable to get the service they need to deal with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other service related conditions. I will work with advocacy groups, such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Vietnam Veterans of America to ensure that veterans are properly housed and cared for.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Límites de mandato: impulsar una resolución conjunta para enmendar la constitución e imponer los límites de mandato en la cámara y el senado.
- Desinversión obligatoria: exigir a los miembros del Congreso que desinviertan antes de la fecha de asunción, para eliminar los conflictos de intereses y garantizar que nadie utilizará el cargo para beneficio personal.
- Consecuencias: establecer pautas más estrictas y sanciones genuinas para los miembros de la legislatura que incumplan las normas establecidas. Se deben tener estándares más altos para los funcionarios electos y las multas por sí solas no garantizan esto.
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I’m Matthew Rascon, a life-long Californian, Catholic, and proud San Diegan.
Like many in my generation, I’ve grown up living through an endless stream of “unprecedented times”. From the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, the 2008 market crash, constant wars, ever increasing political divide and even a global pandemic, there hasn’t been a lull for decades and our politicians seem to be actively working against doing what needs to be done to fix the issues our Nation faces instead, embracing the status quo and taking actions to protect their own vested interests.
I'm an average American, who has spent his life in this district, and seek to fight tirelessly for the people who call it home.
Preguntas y Respuestas
Preguntas de League of Women Voters of California (4)
The water shortage and continued drought has become a true burden on California, one that we can lessen by investing on two fronts. Frist, by shifting to large scale Controlled-Environment Agricultural efforts (Indoor agriculture and vertical Farming) we can reduce overall water needs by optimizing resource usage. Secondly, by installing desalination plants strategically around the state’s coast, we can offset the drop in available water caused by the drought while simultaneously boosting local economies with the jobs created to construct and operate said desalination plants.
In regard to our immigration laws, two areas that would greatly benefit from reevaluation are the U.S. capped percentage by country for immigration, and how we go about the distribution of immigrants seeking new life in the U.S. The attempted Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 was a move in the right direction that would change our immigration system to a more merit-based one that allowed the U.S. to allow in, and benefit from, skilled laborers wishing to come here.
Coupling this with new programs designed to disperse new arrivals to less densely populated states in need of particular skill sets could help our great nation flourish as a whole. By providing a modest avenue to share state cultures with a wider audience and allow for healthy competition in monopolized industries, we would have a chance to create new lasting opportunities in states that have seen decline in available jobs as the market needs continue to change over time.
I think immigration is an act that needs some level of reciprocation and joint benefit. Ideally those with particular trades or skill sets in demand would be allowed in, and the US would work towards getting them into the states and communities that would most benefit from their presence. Beyond that, those who can prove to be finically stable and not be a burden of the state should have a means to immigrate. The very notion of people wanting to come to America is a sign we as a nation are doing something right. When it comes to refugees and asylum seekers, we should do our part to help our fellow people, but the process should be looked at as one used for temporary relief, and shelter during incredibly trying times with the goal of those seeking refuge being able to return to their homelands. Permanent status for those under these difficult circumstances, sadly, should still be a rarer occurrence and not the active goal. Humanitarian relief should be our first approach prior to taking in refugees if it’s possible.
I think democracy is only at risk if we continue to elect those who fail to safeguard and protect it. I believe in the resilience of the American people and the great experiment of modern democracy we are meant to embody, and I know so long as we push for those who will fight to protect our democracy and remove those who see political office as a means of self-enrichment at the cost of said democracy, we will continue to lead the way.
To help ensure that our democracy stands firm, we should work to move Election Day to a weekend or the following Monday and make it a national holiday. This would free up time for more people to be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Additionally, we need to do more to push for total transparency and early voting as to allow for more thorough review and tallies as opposed to the current system where we can see hectic & rushed efforts to finish the tally as fast as possible for the iconic “night of” calling of elections.
Artificial barriers to voting is the antithesis of a free and fair election process and we as a nation should work towards allowing our citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Congress can combat climate change by focusing on making it an economically favorable option. A higher focus on the economic potential of greener initiatives can make actions to deal with climate change more palatable. One such concept Congress can look at is shifting of subsidies and creation of more specialized grants to spur on a transition to large scale vertical farming operations and indoor agricultural efforts, practices known as “controlled-environment agriculture” that allow for growth in less-than-ideal climates while optimizing use of resources to reduce waste. While requiring an initial investment, it can help reduce unneeded land usage and ensure American agricultural independence as we create the environment for the crops we need.
I’m against fracking, and specifically against the expansion of the practice, but current practices must remain till we can properly substitute them for cleaner practices. I believe it is important that we maintain current practices as we transition into renewable energy. While eventually we need to do away with fracking, and transition passed gas and oil where possible in favor of renewables, first we must create the new infrastructure to facilitate 100% clean energy. However, there should be stricter oversight & penalties where harm to the ecosystem happens in our current systems.
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If you ask politicians what the most important issue facing us right now is they might say its Border protection, or the Defense Budget, or Climate Change, or even how divisive our country has become. I’d say they’d be wrong. The biggest issue facing our nation at this moment is the dire need for political reform and the blatant corruption and indifference caused by way things currently are. While other issues might very well be more important in the grand scheme of things, without fixing the body that’s making the decisions, we’ll constantly face deadlock and failure as our representatives fail to represent us and focus on self-serving goals.
my political philosophy is that if we want to see real change, real governance by the people and for the people, the first step is to clean up Congress. I’m running to push for that needed change and work towards imposing term limits in the House and Senate via a constituional amendment as well as remove conflicts of interest that lead politicians to put profit and Lobbyist’s wants before the needs of their constituents.
proper governance requires being able to put the needs of the nation over one's own intrests, and an understanding of the people you represent.
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Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Límites de mandato
- Simplificar el Código Fiscal
- Camino a la paz para Ucrania