Amanda Marie Green

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“North Florida deserves representation that shows up to answer our questions. We need a Congress that doesn’t sell our future to the highest bidder. As your next representative, I promise I'll fight for you and your family's interests.”

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Lower Costs for North Florida Families

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I support intensive and comprehensive immigration reform that creates a fair, orderly, and humane system. That means modernizing legal immigration pathways, protecting asylum rights, reducing backlogs, shutting down detention centers, and providing a path to legal status for longtime undocumented residents who are members of our communities and contribute to our economy. Our current system is broken, exploitative, and creates uncertainty for families, employers, and communities. America is a country of immigrants that needs to return to valuing and celebrating diversity instead of criminalizing it.

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Yes. Climate change poses a significant financial threat to our economy. We see the costs every day in Florida through stronger storms, rising insurance rates, damage to infrastructure, threats to agriculture, and subsequently, increased healthcare expenses. In my district, our farmers, timber industry, coastal communities, and military installations are already feeling these impacts. We have houses that still have tarps serving as their roof from Hurricane Michael in 2018, we have wildfires being fed with the debris that never gets cleared after a storm, and we have the Apalachicola River suffering at the hands of extreme drought and threatening the livelihoods of our fishers and oystermen. Addressing climate change is not just an environmental issue, it’s an economic issue that requires investments in resilience, clean energy, and modern infrastructure.

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My first priority is addressing hunger in my district. We must strengthen our food and agricultural systems by ensuring North Florida has a seat at the table. I plan to serve on the House Agriculture Committee so I can advocate for the farmers, ranchers, foresters, and rural communities that power our region. That includes passing a strong Farm Bill that supports producers and addresses the pervasive underfunding of SNAP. Nutrition assistance and agriculture are deeply interconnected, and strengthening both is essential to reducing hunger, supporting local economies, and ensuring federal programs deliver for the people they were created to serve. My other top priority is lowering costs and strengthening economic security for working families. I plan to do this by expanding access to affordable healthcare, especially for those in our most rural areas, tackling the housing crisis to ensure we are building adequate supplies of affordable housing and to stop corporations from owning unuse

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Freedom of speech means every American has the right to express their views, criticize those in power, organize, advocate, worship, and participate in public debate without fear of government censorship or retaliation. It has always and should continue to protect speech we agree with AND speech we disagree with. A healthy democracy relies on earnest, open debate and difference of opinion.

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Congress has the constitutional responsibility to provide oversight of federal agencies on behalf of the American people. Federal agencies operate under laws that are passed by Congress, and oversight is essential to ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible use of taxpayer dollars. No administration, no president, regardless of party, should be exempt from congressional oversight and proper checks and balances. As a former USAID contractor, I take particular issue with the current administration running roughshod over our federal agencies.

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Voting should be accessible, not burdensome. If documentary proof requirements were imposed, I would support federal funding and partnerships with states to ensure citizens can obtain necessary documents quickly and at no cost. Special attention should be paid to women whose names may have changed through marriage or divorce, seniors, rural residents, and low-income Americans who often face the greatest barriers from financial barriers, to language barriers, and even to transportation barriers. No eligible citizen should lose their voice because obtaining paperwork is expensive or hard to understand, or because they simply can’t get to the proper office to file it.

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The federal government should be a partner in expanding opportunity. At the preschool level, we should support access to affordable, high-quality early childhood education because early learning improves outcomes throughout life. Headstart was a huge difference maker for members of my family and must be expanded. At the K-12 level, the federal government should ensure equal access to quality education, support students with disabilities, and invest in teachers and school infrastructure. In higher education, the federal government should make college, technical training, and workforce development more affordable and accessible so students can pursue careers without being overwhelmed by debt. Education is one of the strongest investments we can make in our country's future.

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Raised by a large, loving family, Amanda understands the sacrifice required for military service as the daughter and granddaughter of veterans, the importance of public service, and the heart and grit required for entrepreneurship. As the proud member of a family that hunts, fishes, camps, and hikes, Amanda knows we must protect our North Florida way of life from overdevelopment and mismanagement. The historic devastation from hurricanes over the last decade is a stark reminder that we must prioritize economic growth without compromising our safety, economic responsibility, and resiliency

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Amanda will fight for a seat on the House Agriculture Committee, champion a strong Farm Bill, support local producers, strengthen food supply chains, and fully fund nutrition programs that help one out of four families in Florida’s 2nd Congressional District to put healthy food on the table.

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Amanda’s common-sense approach to policy is rooted in her experiences in North Florida. She’ll never forget where she came from as she’s fighting for us in Washington, D.C. Amanda believes government should work for everyday people, not just billionaires. That means lowering costs, protecting the promises we've made to the American people, demanding that billionaires pay their fair share, and creating more opportunity right here at home.