Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

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I’m taking on a broken DC that runs on corporate cash and corruption. I don't take corporate PAC money, and I've introduced legislation to ban congressional stock trading and freeze congressional pay. I fight for the people who build, fix, and grow things: good jobs that don't require a four-year degree, more apprenticeships, and stronger support for trades, timber, and manufacturing.

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Marie will always fight to make sure state and local law enforcement agencies have the resources they need to keep Fentanyl and illegal guns off of our streets. Marie believes we need to provide more federal funding to boost officer and firefighter pay to improve retention rather than furnish departments with unnecessary line items like night-vision goggles.

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Marie is working to bring down the cost of housing, increase choices for childcare options, and cut out the middlemen who jack up the cost of healthcare.

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Marie will always fight to make sure state and local law enforcement agencies have the resources they need to keep drugs and illegal guns off of our streets. ​​

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Marie is in Congress to fight for working people — not special interests. Her campaign doesn’t take money from special interests (like drug companies). She also believes that we need to ban our Representatives from other behaviors that erode public trust, like trading individual stocks.

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Marie has been working in Congress to combat unfair business practices — like opposing mergers of major grocery chains and opposing deceptive “Shrinkflation” food packaging. She believes a well trained workforce and higher wages for workers will increase the labor force and stabilize consumer prices across the economy. She believes abundant and cheap energy from traditional and renewable sources will provide further pricing relief to consumers.

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I'm protecting your freedoms: a woman's right to make her own medical decisions and your right to vote by mail, which the President wants to take away. And I'll always fight for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, affordable prescriptions, and the nurses, caregivers, and rural hospitals our communities depend on.

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Marie believes in fighting the drug crisis through increased border security, stricter punishments for sale and possession, expanded access to treatment and rehab, and better job opportunities. She believes it needs to be easier to find help getting sober than it is to find a dealer.

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Marie knows Washington has some of the best workers in the world. She is supporting efforts to create American jobs and making sure American workers have the training needed to do those jobs at good pay. She is fighting unfair trade and work practices by competitors like China to create a level playing field for American workers.

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As someone who ran an auto repair shop, Marie knows the hoops small business owners jump through to start, run, and grow their business. When her shop applied for a loan from the Small Business Administration (SBA), the application was the size of a phone book and took almost a year to complete. That’s why in Congress she’s fighting to streamline the application process for SBA loans and empower young people in the trades to start their own small businesses.

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Marie knows many good jobs don’t require a 4-year degree. In Congress, she is working to increase access to apprenticeships and technical training and reduce the number of jobs that require applicants to have expensive college degrees. She is also working to allow Pell Grants to apply to job training, not just college degrees.

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Marie is working to make sure Southwest Washington is getting its fair share of tax dollars back from Washington D.C. She worked to secure $600 million in funding needed to replace the 100-year-old I-5 bridge. This financial support is a down payment and essential to repair the bridge and avoid the need for tolls.

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Marie knows Social Security and Medicare are the backbone of the middle class. She will protect the benefits that seniors in Southwest Washington are counting on for their retirement and that they’ve paid into their whole working lives. Marie supports common sense legislation to strengthen the Social Security program for the long-run without raising the retirement age or reducing benefits.

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Marie is committed to making childcare more accessible and increasing flexibility for working families — particularly in rural communities. She supports re-introducing and expanding the Child Tax Credit, which makes it easier for parents to make the choices that best work for their families, whether that’s paying a family member or going to a traditional daycare.