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Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues United States Representative; District 24 | |||||
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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Climate Change,
Health Coverage,
Immigration
Click on a name for candidate information. See also more information about this contest.
Answer from Marta Ann Jorgensen:
I will stand up to the commercial interests profiting from our current energy situation. We need a major environmental health agenda that challenges these entrenched interests with major new initiatives in solar energy, doubling motor vehicle fuel efficiency, and other quantified sustainable and clean energy technologies. Promote recognition that current fossil fuels are producing not just global warming, but also cancer, respiratory diseases, and geopolitical strife. Work to fight environmental racism that leads to more contaminated water, air, and toxic dumps in poorer neighborhoods.
1. Freezing carbon emissions now.
Answer from Marta Ann Jorgensen:
Answer from Marta Ann Jorgensen:
Congress should pass the USA Family Act (HR 440). It offers immigrants a clear road map to legal status in the United States. Among other changes, it grants legal permanent residence to immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for five or more years. It offers conditional legal status and work authorization to all law-abiding immigrants living in the United States for less than five years. And it revokes current laws that bar certain people who live abroad from re-entering the U.S. for a period of three to 10 years.
The Department of Defense should not have control over border security. In our democracy, it is important that we preserve the distinction between our armed forces and domestic law enforcement. Also, I am concerned about the threat of vigilantes intimidating or attacking individuals at the border. Border security is a job for state and local authorities, not soldiers or splinter groups.
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