Christina Bohannan

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Our health care system is broken. We all know it. We just need the political willpower to change it. We must bring down the cost of health care in this country. I believe that allowing Iowans the option to buy into Medicare at any age – which will increase competition, expand choice, and bring down costs – is the best way to do it.

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It’s time we put our Constitution over corruption, and people over corporations. I take no corporate PAC money. In Congress, I will reject the corrupting influence of money and special interests, and I will always put Iowans first.

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I oppose forcing everyone onto Medicare, so I oppose a single-payer system. I want everyone to have health care coverage, and I want everyone to have choices. I want you to have the choice to have Medicare as your health insurance if you want it, and I want you to have private insurance as an option too.

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Lowering prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices on more lifesaving drugs and capping insulin costs at $35 per month for everyone

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With Medicare as a choice, everyone will have a guaranteed affordable option. Large corporate health care companies such as Wellmark or UnitedHealth will have to compete with a reasonably-priced option and can no longer price-gouge Iowans – which will bring down premiums for everyone through greater competition.

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Cracking down on utility monopolies and expanding Iowa’s clean energy economy to lower energy bills

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Immediately reverse the Medicaid cuts that will kick more than 100,000 Iowans off their health care and close rural hospitals and nursing homes

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Growing Iowa’s economy to increase jobs and wages while continuing to invest in organized labor and union protected man hours

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Ban the trading of stocks by all Members of Congress, Executive Branch Members, Supreme Court Justices, their spouses, and staff – including requiring divestment of currently-owned stocks

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Ban personal use of Congressional office budgets

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Allow Iowans to buy into Medicare at any age

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Create a truly independent Congressional Ethics Agency with the power to investigate members for wrongdoing, so members of Congress no longer get to regulate themselves

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Expand the number of drugs for which Medicare can negotiate lower prices and extend those lower negotiated prices to Iowans on private insurance

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Ban pay to all Members of Congress, Executive Branch Members, and their staff during shutdowns, with all such income used to pay down the national debt

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Make prescriptions available as lower-cost generics sooner

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Permanently ban all Members of Congress, their families, and their staff from becoming lobbyists, including retroactively

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Expand Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing care

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Ban family members from being paid by congressional members’ campaigns or official offices

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Expand Medicare to cover home health costs for family caregivers

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Ban Members of Congress from using taxpayer dollars for first-class and business-class air travel

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Invest in more mental health care, where Iowa is severely lacking and ranks near the bottom in the country

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Ban the abuse of leadership PACs as a loophole to personal spending

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Expand Iowans' voice and fight extremism in both parties by passing the Let America Vote Act to allow the 33% of Iowans who are independents to participate in primaries

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Exercising Congress’s power to end the disastrous tariffs that are one of the biggest tax increases in American history and have left Iowans to pay thousands per year in higher costs

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Prohibiting hedge funds and private investors from buying up Iowa’s family homes and land and artificially raising rents

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Building and rehabilitating more housing to make it affordable for every Iowan to find a safe place to live

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Cracking down on corporate price gougers and their corrupt anti-competitive practices that are jacking up costs on groceries, everyday goods, and farming inputs like fertilizer and seed

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Pass a constitutional amendment to reverse the Citizens United decision and block unlimited corporate and billionaire spending on campaigns

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Institute term limits and age caps

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Institute a Code of Ethics for Supreme Court Justices

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Cap insulin costs at $35 per month for all Americans

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Hold drug companies accountable for price gouging by imposing tougher penalties for raising prices faster than inflation

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I believe our state and country should recommit to making education a priority, with a special focus on rural and small-community schools that face unique challenges. This focus on education is crucial to ensuring that our children will thrive, our economy will grow, and our nation will flourish. I support a comprehensive and historic national investment in education at every level.

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Make Iowa number one in public education again

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Guarantee every child access to a high-quality education by pushing for a substantial national investment in public education and school infrastructure, with a special focus on rural and small-town schools

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Expand Career and Technical Education (CTE) so that students can find good-paying jobs in the trades or manufacturing

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Ensure every Iowa child has access to school lunch and summer lunch so that every child can eat, and every child can learn

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As an environmental engineer and a mother, I know that we also need to improve Iowa’s water quality, protect our natural resources, and safeguard our public health. Water pollution from nitrates, PFAS chemicals, and other contamination is increasingly widespread across the state. In some places, Iowans cannot drink the water; in others, we can’t enjoy recreation on impaired waterways.

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Through my work as an environmental engineer, I learned that when it comes to improving water quality and protecting the environment, the government must work with farmers and business owners, not against them. At a time when our farmers are beset with skyrocketing input costs, tariffs, and trade wars, I support significant investments – not unfunded mandates – to allow immediate action on these important issues. Iowa farmers are smart and resilient. With the right resources, our farmers can enrich the soil, sequester CO2, improve our water quality, and make their crops more profitable at the same time.

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We must also bring down costs and expand markets for Iowa family farms and renewable energy producers. First, we must reverse the tariffs and trade wars that have created hardship and uncertainty for our farmers. Second, we must increase competition by taking on the Big Ag stranglehold on seed and fertilizer inputs as well as in meat and grain processing outputs. Third, passing the Farm Bill must be a top priority for any Iowa congressional representative, but the last Farm Bill expired years ago, and Rep. Miller-Meeks has failed multiple times to pass a new one. We must pass a Farm Bill now that works for Iowa’s local farmers, not giant agricultural corporations. Fourth, we must take on the corrupt practices of Big Oil – corporations that want to dominate the U.S. energy market, deny climate change, and prevent the growth of Iowa’s renewable energy economy.

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Reverse chaotic tariffs and trade wars, and actively expand markets for Iowa farmers

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Crack down on price gouging and anti-competitive practices in the agricultural industry to reduce costs of seed, fertilizer, meat and grain processing, and other costs

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Pass a Farm Bill that provides fair crop insurance rates to protect against extreme weather

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Invest in Iowa’s clean energy economy, and make America more energy-independent with lower costs

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Increase resources and incentives for farmers to boost buffer zones surrounding waterways to block pollutants

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Increase resources and incentives for farmers to grow cover crops that reduce runoff and sequester carbon

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Ensure the next generation of family farmers can thrive and continue our farming tradition

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I believe our seniors deserve safety and security. That’s why I will always fight for Social Security and Medicare. Our seniors have paid into Social Security and Medicare over a lifetime of hard work. They’ve earned it. They depend on it. And we’ve got to protect it.

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Fight to protect Medicare and Social Security, and shore up the Social Security trust funds to fully fund them for future generations

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Work to stop those in Washington who seek to cut, privatize, or jeopardize these critical programs

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Allow Medicare to negotiate for lower prices on more drugs so seniors and other taxpayers pay less

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Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing care

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Expand Medicare to cover home health costs incurred by family caregivers

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To me, freedom is being able to control your own destiny. That means the right of free speech for all regardless of your views or political beliefs, the right to protect your property from being taken by the government for corporate profit, the right to grow through education, the right to make your own health care decisions, the right to safe and healthy communities free from crime and pollution, and the right to participate in a fair and open economy in which hardworking people share in the wealth they help to create and get a fair shot to get ahead. I will always put Iowa and our freedoms first.

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As we knock doors across this district to talk with voters, it’s clear that Iowans value our freedom and are sick of politicians like Miller-Meeks pushing their own dangerous agendas instead of listening to the will of the people.When I’m in Congress, I will defend the freedoms of all Iowans, no matter what. And I will fight every day to put Roe v. Wade back into federal law where it belongs and restore reproductive freedom for all Iowans.