Laphonza Butler in Survey of 2024 Senate campaign websites

On Homeland Security: Jobs & healthcare for 1.6 million veterans

Senator Butler believes that the nation owes its gratitude to our servicemembers, our veterans, and their families. She is dedicated to improving access to health care, mental health services, and good-paying jobs for the more than 160,000 active duty personnel and 1.6 million veterans and their families in California. She is committed to ensuring that veterans' facilities, including the West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center and other facilities in rural areas, have what they need to effectively serve our veteran community. Senator Butler is also fighting to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs has the resources to deliver on its promises to veterans and their families. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Abortion: Defend every woman's right to her own health decisions

Senator Butler is committed to fighting for affordable, high-quality, just health care and ensuring equitable access. A staunch champion of reproductive justice, she is committed to defending every woman's right to make her own health care decisions. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Budget & Economy: Equitable economy: invest in workforce development

Senator Butler is working to create an equitable and sustainable economy that works for all Americans, not just the privileged few. Ensuring access to banking services and fair credit reporting are cornerstones for building economic prosperity for future generations, as they enable working families to achieve homeownership. She believes that workers should be free to join a union without fear of retaliation and that gig workers deserve the full benefits and protections of employment. Senator Butler is supportive of investing in small businesses and ensuring fair access to capital, as she recognizes small businesses support working families and communities across California and the country. She strongly supports investments in workforce development to ensure that youth are able to build lucrative careers, and she is fighting so that workers are able to retire with dignity and enjoy economic security once they leave the workforce. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Civil Rights: Address decades-long racial disparities

Senator Butler is working to create an equitable and sustainable economy that works for all Americans, not just the privileged few.
As a mother and HBCU graduate, Senator Butler is fighting to ensure that all students have access to the critical resources.
Senator Butler is working to combat the misinformation and disinformation that seeks to polarize and disenfranchise marginalized communities.
She is working to increase access to housing and combat the decades-long racial disparities that exist in our housing market.

Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Education: Address teacher shortage & early childhood education

As a mother and HBCU graduate, Senator Butler is fighting to ensure that all students have access to the critical resources they need in order to thrive both inside and outside the classroom. She believes that providing students with the best possible education should be one of our nation's highest priorities. She is committed to addressing the existing shortages of teachers, providing children with access to early childhood education, and ensuring that all families have access to affordable, quality education. This includes supporting actions to make college more affordable, increasing educators' pay, and ensuring that classrooms across the country are safe. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Energy & Oil: Affordable clean energy with high efficiency standards

Senator Butler wants to ensure that Californians are provided with reliable, affordable clean energy, high efficiency standards, and jobs for the future. She is a proponent of modernizing our electric grid and utilizing more renewable energy sources. She believes it is essential that we increase the rate of deployable energy but do so in a manner that protects essential ecosystems. As homes, business, and vehicles continue to electrify, Senator Butler wants to push for the most stringent efficiency standards to save energy while also saving consumers money. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Environment: Ensure access to clean water& recreation in our public parks

Senator Butler is working to ensure the people of California have access to clean water, a healthy environment, and recreation in our public lands and parks. This includes providing federal funding to the millions of Californians currently facing soaring water rates and struggling to access clean water. She supports expanding protections for California's parks, forests, deserts, other magnificent public lands, and oceans. She is also committed to holding polluters accountable, and to improving California's water infrastructure and river flows to ensure that California's cities, farms, and imperiled fish populations can withstand severe droughts. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Government Reform: Fight voter suppression; combat misinformation

Senator Butler is hard at work to protect our democracy. She is focused on preserving the right to vote by fighting against voter suppression and working to restore and expand the Voting Rights Act. She is committed to rebuilding trust in our government and electoral system, which includes protecting election workers and investing in election modernization. Senator Butler is working to combat the misinformation and disinformation that seeks to polarize and disenfranchise marginalized communities. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Health Care: Affordable & just health care with equitable access

Senator Butler is committed to fighting for affordable, high-quality, just health care and ensuring equitable access. Senator Butler is taking strong, decisive action to combat our country's worsening mental health crisis. She is dedicated to supporting young people, and ensuring that families have the tools and resources to promote optimal mental health and overall well-being among our youth. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Immigration: Fair Day for Kids in Court: lawyers for unaccompanied kids

As a member of both committees of jurisdiction for immigration issues: Judiciary Committee and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Senator Butler is focused on repairing our immigration system. Her priorities include creating a pathway to citizenship for those who came to the U.S. as children, as well as clearing the backlog of legal immigrants who have been waiting years for green cards. One of the first bills she sponsored as a U.S. Senator was the Fair Day for Kids in Court Act, which provides counsel for unaccompanied children. She will continue to work to improve the immigration system, especially for immigrant children. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Technology: Largest investment in infrastructure in nearly a century

Senator Butler knows that millions of Californians depend on safe, reliable infrastructure. That is why she is working to ensure the state receives its fair share from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act--the largest investment in our nation's infrastructure in nearly a century. This investment will help fund more efficient, accessible, and affordable infrastructure, which will help cut down on traffic, improve air quality, and make transportation more accessible for low-income communities. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

On Welfare & Poverty: Address housing shortage & decades-long racial disparities

Senator Butler is concerned about the shortage of affordable housing, which has led to severe homelessness in California. As a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee, she is working to increase access to housing and combat the decades-long racial disparities that exist in our housing market. She is concerned that private-equity firms and hedge funds have taken advantage of the housing crisis, which has led to skyrocketing housing costs and a shortage of available homes. Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

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