News coverage of `Blue Wave` 2018 House races in Michigan


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Abortion     Justin Amash: Would extend 14th Amendment rights to fetuses.

Budget & Economy     Justin Amash: Wants major cuts of government programs.

Civil Rights     Justin Amash: Allow transgender people in the military.     Rashida Tlaib: Will propose new Civil Rights Act, Justice for All.     Brenda Jones: Fight for funding & legal protection for LGBT community.     Andy Levin: Will work to end discrimination against LGBT+ people.     Rashida Tlaib: Supports fighting discrimination with new Civil Rights Act.     Rashida Tlaib: Title IX creates incentives to ignore gender discrimination.     Elissa Slotkin: Important LGBTQ progress must be defended and advanced.     Justin Amash: Government shouldn't be defining marriage.

Corporations     Brenda Jones: Close corporate tax loopholes; make them pay fair share.     Rashida Tlaib: Stop corporate welfare tax giveaways; they hurt citizens.

Crime     Brenda Jones: Work to decriminalize non-violent federal offenses.     Andy Levin: Advocates criminal justice reform for fairer system.

Education     Brenda Jones: Federally fund state & public higher education choices.     Rashida Tlaib: Tuition-free higher education, including trade schools.     Brenda Jones: Universal education plan: early education through college.     Elissa Slotkin: Earn-while-you-learn at community colleges.     Andy Levin: Universal public education, starting with preschool.

Energy & Oil     Elissa Slotkin: Need a climate change bill that's specific & result-oriented.     Brenda Jones: Backs clean energy incentives & expanding renewables.     Andy Levin: Stopping global warming is moral imperative.     Brenda Jones: Invest in clean, renewable and alternative energy sources.     Haley Stevens: Supported Cash for Clunkers, for environmental efficiency.     Rashida Tlaib: Expand renewable energy; phase out dirty fossil fuels.     Rashida Tlaib: For green new deal: building renewable energy infrastructure.

Environment     Debbie Dingell: Called on EPA to maintain & strengthen Clean Water Act.     Haley Stevens: Launched Congressional Plastics Solutions Task Force.     Brenda Jones: Close loopholes that exempt drilling & fracking from EPA.     Rashida Tlaib: Fight to cleanup environment and undo EPA's budget cuts.     Brenda Jones: Protect wildlife and national parks from private interests.     Elissa Slotkin: Protecting our Great Lakes must be a top priority.     Rashida Tlaib: Fight invasive species & pollution in the Great Lakes.

Families & Children     Andy Levin: Expand Family Leave for both spouses at same employer.     Haley Stevens: Expand Family Leave for both spouses at same employer.     Andy Levin: Expand paid family leave; fight for gender pay equity.

Free Trade     Andy Levin: Need trade policy to support workers, planet, not free trade.     Elissa Slotkin: Discipline China on trade, without hurting American business.     Andy Levin: Make increasing living standards a part of all trade deals.     Rashida Tlaib: Helping trade flow should mean good jobs for the community.

Government Reform     Andy Levin: Supports election reform & overturning Citizens United.     Elissa Slotkin: Doesn't accept corporate contributions to her campaign.     Rashida Tlaib: Overturn Citizens United; fight voter suppression.     Andy Levin: Turn democracy from a spectator sport to participation sport.     Brenda Jones: Eliminate discriminatory voter suppression laws.     Brenda Jones: Eliminate dark money in federal elections.     Elissa Slotkin: We should be making it easier to legally vote, not harder.     Haley Stevens: Citizens United lets anonymous billionaires buy elections.     Rashida Tlaib: Fight back against voter suppression that targets minorities.

Gun Control     Elissa Slotkin: Believes in the Second Amendment but with background checks.

Health Care     Haley Stevens: Lower prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries.     Brenda Jones: Supports a single-payer Medicare-for-All healthcare system.     Elissa Slotkin: Support ObamaCare's coverage of pre-existing conditions.     Rashida Tlaib: Medicare-for-All: healthcare is a right, not a privilege.     Andy Levin: Medicare-for-All is first step toward basic morality.     Brenda Jones: Single-payer system is best, without individual mandate.     Elissa Slotkin: Buy-in to Medicare; then negotiate drug prices.     Haley Stevens: Protect ObamaCare: health care is a right, not a privilege.     Rashida Tlaib: ObamaCare was step in direction toward universal healthcare.     Andy Levin: Health care is a basic human right, period.     Andy Levin: Medicare-for-All; address prescription drug cost.

Homeland Security     Elissa Slotkin: Supports vets wage bump; but cut Pentagon budget elsewhere.     Brenda Jones: Remove burden of proof from Vets; stop delays in benefits.     Justin Amash: Led fight in House against domestic NSA surveillance.

Immigration     Brenda Jones: Congress should create reasonable pathway for immigration.     Rashida Tlaib: Provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented & DREAMers.     Andy Levin: Founded IRATE:Immigration Reform/Advocacy/Training/Education.     Brenda Jones: Protect DREAMers, and pathway to citizenship for others.     Elissa Slotkin: Path to citizenship for DREAMers; then comprehensive reform.     Haley Stevens: Comprehensive reform, with long-term solution for DREAMers.     Rashida Tlaib: Pathway to citizenship for all undocumented residents.

Jobs     Brenda Jones: Increase minimum wage to $15/hr and match inflation rate.     Rashida Tlaib: Equal pay for equal work, make it fair for everyone.     Rashida Tlaib: Protect the unions; they built the middle class.     Rashida Tlaib: Fight for $15 minimum wage, plus livable wage jobs.     Andy Levin: Too many of our jobs have been offshored or contracted out.     Rashida Tlaib: $15 hourly minimum wage is economic justice.     Andy Levin: Too many jobs have been offshored and privatized.     Andy Levin: No Worker Left Behind: 120,000 jobs during Great Recession.

Principles & Values     Debbie Dingell: Voted for impeachment because of danger to national security.     Brenda Jones: Stand up for constituents when not getting their fair share.

Social Security     Andy Levin: Make wealthy pay more to protect Social Security.     Haley Stevens: Fight any attempt at Social Security privatization.     Elissa Slotkin: Medicare & Social Security: pillars of retirement security.     Brenda Jones: Expand Social Security; amend contribution limits.     Rashida Tlaib: Against any cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.     Andy Levin: Fight efforts at Social Security privatization.

Tax Reform     Elissa Slotkin: Make tax bill more equitable, and eliminate loopholes.

Technology     Elissa Slotkin: Real federal dollars for infrastructure on roads and water.     Elissa Slotkin: Laser-focus on fixing crumbling roads & water infrastructure.     Haley Stevens: Invest in maintenance & repair of built environment.     Andy Levin: Green infrastructure plan for roads, water, and trains.

War & Peace     Brenda Jones: Diplomacy is basis of foreign policy; war is last resort.     Elissa Slotkin: Since Iraq war, Congress has failed to update the 2001 AUMF.

Welfare & Poverty     Rashida Tlaib: Lift up under-represented communities and voices.     Brenda Jones: Abolish unfair redlining practices in her district.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Andy Levin Democrat U.S. Rep Michigan- 9 Brenda Jones Democrat U.S. Rep Michigan- 13 Debbie Dingell Democratic House Member U.S. Rep Michigan-12 Elissa Slotkin Democrat U.S. Rep Michigan- 8 Haley Stevens Democrat U.S. Rep Michigan- 11 Justin Amash Michigan Libertarian Presidential Challenger Rashida Tlaib Democrat U.S. Rep Michigan- 13