Emilia Sykes

Protecting Women’s Right to Healthcare

Strengthen accountability for people who target seniors through fraud schemes.

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Supports Medicare negotiating prescription-drug prices; federal law already authorizes negotiation for selected drugs.

Use prescription-drug savings to expand Medicare benefits to vision, hearing, and dental services.

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Supported the Inflation Reduction Act provision capping insulin costs for Medicare recipients at $35 per month.

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Co-sponsored the Social Security 2100 Act to protect and extend senior benefits and improve the program's long-term resources.

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Protect and expand Social Security and Medicare benefits so Americans can retire with safety and dignity.

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Support the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act to protect access to voting.

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Support the Freedom to Vote Act to make voting more accessible and protect ballot counting.

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Hold accountable people who violently attack the right to free and fair elections.

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Co-sponsored the EDUCATORS for America Act to provide resources to students, educators, and schools.

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Co-sponsored the American Teacher Act to strengthen resources for educators and schools.

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Expand affordable postsecondary education options that do not leave Ohioans burdened by student-loan debt.

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Invest in the future of American manufacturing to expand good-paying jobs in Northeast Ohio.

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Expand access to job training and apprenticeship opportunities for young people and workers.

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Keep American jobs from moving overseas and bring jobs back to Ohio.

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Cap patient costs for life-saving medications such as insulin.

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Expand access to affordable long-term care for Ohioans.

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Eliminate systemic biases that produce health inequities.

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Introduced the Mental Health Improvement Act, which passed the U.S. House to expand mental-health resources in Ohio's 13th District.

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Oppose cuts to Medicaid that would reduce coverage and threaten rural hospitals.

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Pursue a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration solution.

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Strengthen border security to keep out dangerous drugs and weapons.

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Ensure people who immigrate lawfully, pay taxes, and follow the rules receive the same rights and protections as others.

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Crack down on cartels that traffic people and drugs into the United States.

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Sponsored the Raise the Wage Act to increase the federal minimum wage in line with inflation.

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Introduced the Lower Your Taxes Act to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.

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Introduced the Bring Jobs Home Act to deter companies from moving American jobs overseas.

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Introduced the HOMES Act to restrict tax breaks for large corporate investors that buy homes and can drive up prices and rents.

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Secured federal funding for a technology hub in Ohio's 13th Congressional District.

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Co-sponsored the National Apprenticeship Act to invest more than $3.85 billion in apprenticeship access.

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Co-sponsored and advocated for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act to strengthen workplace organizing rights.

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Protect the right to make personal health-care decisions involving abortion and contraception.

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Co-sponsored the Women's Health Protection Act to protect reproductive health-care access.

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Worked across party lines to introduce legislation improving hiring and retention resources for local law enforcement.

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Provide law-enforcement agencies the resources needed to protect communities while pursuing criminal-justice reforms that strengthen accountability and public trust.

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