Tom Suozzi on VoteMatch | |
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Strongly Favors
topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale) | Supports public funding for abortion services: Strongly Favors topic 1 |
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topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale) | Created most diverse working force in County's history: Strongly Favors topic 2 Voted YES on private lawsuits for school race discrimination: Favors topic 2 Sponsored bill for ratifying Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2 Combat international and domestic Islamophobia: Favors topic 2 |
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topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Favors
topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale) | Affordable healthcare is a basic human right: Strongly Favors topic 5 Opposes repealing mandated health insurance: Strongly Favors topic 5 Opposes repealing the 2010 affordable care act: Strongly Favors topic 5 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale) | Resist any efforts to privatize or weaken entitlements: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Opposes diverting some FICA into personal accounts: Strongly Opposes topic 6 |
No opinion on
topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (0 points on Economic scale) | Work with yeshivas that fall short on secular education: Neutral on topic 7 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (+5 points on Social scale) | Initiated 12 brownfield clean-up projects in County: Strongly Opposes topic 8 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale) | Supported the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Sponsored stricter rules for police accountability: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
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topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+2 points on Economic scale) | Supports restrictions on right to bear arms: Opposes topic 10 Sponsored bill for background checks for private transfers: Strongly Favors topic 10 |
Favors
topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-3 points on Economic scale) | Led fight to restore State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT): Opposes topic 11 Supports increasing income tax rates: Strongly Favors topic 11 |
Strongly Favors
topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale) | Opened location for undocumented to find work, learn English: Strongly Favors topic 12 Sponsored bill to disallow religion-based immigration ban: Strongly Favors topic 12 |
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topic 13: Support & expand free trade (0 points on Economic scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
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topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (+2 points on Economic scale) | Protect our core values as Americans: Favors topic 14 Supports standing with the nation of israel: Favors topic 14 |
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topic 15: Peace through Strength (-3 points on Social scale) | Warriors to Work: public-private partnership for vets' jobs: Favors topic 15 |
Strongly Favors
topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale) | Sponsored bill to expand voter registration and voter access: Strongly Favors topic 16 |
Opposes
topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (-3 points on Social scale) | His first House floor speech was in support of Israel: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Destroy ISIS & counter international terrorist threats: Opposes topic 17 Repeal 2002 Military Force Authorization against Iraq: Favors topic 17 |
Strongly Favors
topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale) | Threat of climate change is defining issue of our time: Strongly Favors topic 18 Opposed pulling out of the Paris Agreement: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supports federally developing renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supports regulation of greenhouse gas emission: Strongly Favors topic 18 Voted YES to assist rural electric renewable energy: Favors topic 18 |
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topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (0 points on Social scale) | (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Favors
topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale) | Bring tech, sports, tourism, and infrastructure jobs: Favors topic 20 Supports federal spending to promote economic growth: Strongly Favors topic 20 Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package: Favors topic 20 $1.9 trillion ARPA bill for COVID relief: Favors topic 20 |
Tom Suozzi is a Moderate Liberal
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