David Costello in Survey of 2024 Senate campaign websites

On Crime: Focus increased resources on violent offenses

David will help in enhancing public safety by supporting efforts to:
• Increase funding for community policing, substance abuse, and mental health services.
• Focus increased investigative and prosecutorial resources on violent offenses.
• Enhance police training and accountability.
• Build on recent common-sense gun safety laws and regulations.

On Energy & Oil: An aggressive national, science-based climate action plan

On Environment: Enact more stringent air and water quality regulations

David will help in further protecting our environment by supporting efforts to:
• Enact more stringent air and water quality standards and regulations.
• Preserve more places of natural beauty and ecological importance.
• Enact smarter, more sustainable development laws and regulations.
• Develop and implement a national Zero Waste plan to reduce, reuse, or eliminate hazardous and solid waste in the U.S.
• Enact stricter land and water conservation laws and regulations.

On Families & Children: Provide universal pre-kindergarten and aftercare

• Provide universal pre-kindergarten and aftercare.
• Expand workforce training and apprenticeships.
• Increase performance-aligned resources for our schools, colleges, students, and teachers.

On Foreign Policy: Expand military and intelligence gathering alliances

David will help in bolstering national security by supporting efforts to:
• Maintain military and intelligence gathering superiority over all potential rivals, especially China and Russia.
• Expand military and intelligence gathering alliances.
• Strengthen trade and foreign policy agencies and agreements.
• Become more fully, intelligently, and responsibly engaged in world affairs.
• Boost our nation's overall global economic competitiveness.

On Government Reform: Mandate automatic voter registration, early and mail voting

Pass the Freedom to Vote Act and other elections-related legislation to improve elections security, increase voter participation, and reinforce the legitimacy of elections results, by:
• modernizing nationwide voting infrastructure.
• mandating automatic voter registration, early voting, and no-excuse voting by mail.
• banning unreasonable voter purges, deceptive politicking, and partisan gerrymandering.
• reducing the inordinate, unfair influence of excessive funding & "dark money."

On Immigration: Comprehensive reform, resolve nation's worker shortages

David will help in addressing our nation's immigration challenges by supporting efforts to:
• Pass comprehensive immigration reforms that facilitate legal immigration and aid in resolving our nation's growing worker shortages.

On Social Security: Raise FICA tax cap, increase benefits to low-income retirees

David will help in strengthening Social Security and overall retirement security by supporting efforts to:
• Raise the FICA payroll tax cap.
• Provide increased benefits to low-income retirees.
• Establish a sovereign wealth fund to help in funding Social Security and Medicare.
• Back the expansion of government incentivized retirement savings and investment accounts for working- and middle-class Americans to supplement Social Security.

On Tax Reform: Ensure tax fairness via progressive tax reforms

• Raise adequate revenue and ensure tax fairness via the enactment of progressive tax reforms.
• Establish a global minimum corporate tax and enhanced labor and environment protections. Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Jul 24, 2023

  On Abortion: Support efforts to protect the reproductive rights of women

  David will help in expanding our nation's civil, civic, and human rights by supporting efforts to:
  • Protect the reproductive rights of women.
  • Approve the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
  • Enact the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Education: Provide universal pre-kindergarten and aftercare

  • Provide universal pre-kindergarten and aftercare.
  • Expand workforce training and apprenticeships.
  • Increase performance-aligned resources for our schools, colleges, students, and teachers.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Energy & Oil: Reallocate fossil fuel subsidies to clean energy initiatives

  • Boost investments in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure.
  • Spur scientific research and development (R&D).
  • Reallocate large agri-business and fossil fuel subsidies to rural economic development and clean energy initiatives.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Energy & Oil: Funding to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change

  Develop and implement an aggressive national, science-based climate action plan that includes, among other components: strict greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caps; ambitious GHG sequestration and "draw down" goals and actions; expanded clean energy, clean transportation, and energy efficiency initiatives; smarter development and land use regulations; greener appliance and building construction standards; and increased funding to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change. Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Foreign Policy: Engage more fully and responsibly in world affairs

  David will help in bolstering national security by supporting efforts to:
  • Maintain military and intelligence gathering superiority over all potential rivals, especially China and Russia.
  • Expand military and intelligence gathering alliances.
  • Become more fully, intelligently, and responsibly engaged in world affairs.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Free Trade: Strengthen trade and foreign policy agencies and agreements

  David will support efforts to:
  • Strengthen trade and foreign policy agencies and agreements.
  • Boost our nation's overall global economic competitiveness.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Health Care: Offer Medicare, including dental/vision, to all who want it

  David will help in guaranteeing adequate and affordable health care by supporting efforts to:
  • Offer Medicare, including dental and vision care, to all who want it.
  • Improve existing Affordable Care Act and other federal healthcare provisions for those who choose not to enroll in Medicare.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Jobs: Increase federal Child and Earned Income Tax Credits

  • Raise the federal minimum wage and increase federal Child and Earned Income Tax Credits.
  • Expand sustainable community and affordable housing development assistance.
  • Increase personal investment and savings incentives -- retirement and non-retirement.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Technology: Require social media to adhere to strict privacy rules

  ?Enactment of public interest social media rules and requirements that oblige social media platforms to adhere to strict privacy and anti-violence incitement rules and to provide space for important, fact-based public interest information. Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Feb 27, 2024

  On Budget & Economy: Boost investments in transportation, energy infrastructure

  David will help in fostering a thriving economy and broader prosperity by supporting efforts to:
  • Provide universal pre-kindergarten and aftercare.
  • Boost investments in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure.
  • Spur scientific research and development (R&D).
  • Raise the federal minimum wage and increase federal Child and Earned Income Tax Credits.
  • Expand sustainable community and affordable housing development assistance.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Oct 1, 2024

  On Civil Rights: Will support efforts to approve the Equal Rights Amendment

  David will help in expanding our nation's civil, civic, and human rights by supporting efforts to:
  • Protect the reproductive rights of women and the civil rights of everyone, including LGBTQIA+ persons.
  • Approve the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
  • Enact the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Oct 1, 2024

  On Drugs: Increase funding for substance abuse, mental health services

  David will help in enhancing public safety by supporting efforts to:
  • Increase funding for community policing, substance abuse, and mental health services.
  • Focus increased investigative and prosecutorial resources on violent offenses.
  • Enhance police training and accountability.
  • Build on recent common-sense gun safety laws and regulations.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Oct 1, 2024

  On Homeland Security: Expand military and intelligence gathering alliances

  David will help in bolstering national security by supporting efforts to:
  • Maintain military and intelligence gathering superiority over all potential rivals, especially China and Russia.
  • Prioritize nuclear and conventional arms control agreements.
  • Strengthen trade and foreign policy agencies and agreements.
  • Become more fully, intelligently, and responsibly engaged in world affairs.
  • Boost our nation's overall global economic competitiveness.
  Source: 2024 Maine Senate campaign website CostelloForSenate.com Oct 1, 2024

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