AJC/ACC Voter Guide - Congressional Candidate Questionnaire - 2024 General Election

Ballotpedia, Tracey Verhoeven

Supports policies that aim to create jobs and grow the economy, especially in underserved communities, in an effort to rebuild the middle class.

Supports tax incentives for small businesses.

Supports expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare to support working families.

- Supports policies that aim to create jobs and grow the economy, especially in underserved communities, in an effort to rebuild the middle class.
- Supports tax incentives for small businesses.
- Supports expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare to support working families.

Economy

Supports implementing sustainable policies to drive job growth, protect the environment, and ensure a greener future.

Supports implementing sustainable policies to drive job growth and protect the environment.

- Supports implementing sustainable policies to drive job growth and protect the environment.

Energy & the Environment

Healthcare

Supports voting rights and wants to implement reforms to ensure fair and transparent elections.

Supports overturning Citizens United, which allows for third parties to spend unlimited funds to influence elections.

Supports overturning Citizens United, which allows third parties and corporations to spend unlimited funding on campaigns.

- Supports voting rights and wants to implement reforms to ensure fair and transparent elections.
- Supports overturning Citizens United, which allows third parties and corporations to spend unlimited funding on campaigns.

Voting & Elections

Supports gun control legislation, such as background checks and red flag laws.

- Supports gun control legislation, such as background checks and red flag laws.

Public Safety

Supports reforming the education system to better support students and teachers with necessary resources and improvements.

- Supports reforming the education system to better support students and teachers with necessary resources and improvements.

Education

Supports comprehensive immigration reform and "humane immigration policies that protect families, ensure the safety of children, and support bipartisan efforts for reasonable reform."

- Supports comprehensive immigration reform and "humane immigration policies that protect families, ensure the safety of children, and support bipartisan efforts for reasonable reform."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Tracey Verhoeven (Write-in)

Barry Loudermilk

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HR 25  118th Congress (2023-2024)

Supports a balanced budget amendment for federal budgets.

As representative, co-sponsored the "FairTax Act of 2023" which eliminates income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate and gift taxes in favor of a 23% sales tax. This bill also abolishes the Internal Revenue Service after 2027.

- Supports a balanced budget amendment for federal budgets.
- As representative, co-sponsored the "FairTax Act of 2023" which eliminates income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate and gift taxes in favor of a 23% sales tax. This bill also abolishes the Internal Revenue Service after 2027.

Supports research in alternative energy methods.

As representative, supported legislation which  repealed the forty year old ban on exporting oil from the United States.

- Supports research in alternative energy methods.
- As representative, supported legislation which  repealed the forty year old ban on exporting oil from the United States.

As representative, voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

- Opposes federal funding for abortions.
- As representative, voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

As representative, objected to the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia.

- As representative, objected to the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia.

As representative, voted for the The Student Success Act, which allows "states to withdraw from participation in Common Core and gives parents the autonomy to opt their children out of standardized assessments. "

- As representative, voted for the The Student Success Act, which allows "states to withdraw from participation in Common Core and gives parents the autonomy to opt their children out of standardized assessments. "

Supports increased border security measures, including increased law enforcement presence and "reinforcing the fences and walls along the U.S. border."

As representative, voted for the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which provided $14.3 billion in emergency military  funding to Israel.

As representative, co-sponsored the "Laken Riley Act," which requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented migrants "who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The bill also authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement."

Supports military aid for Ukraine, saying "I have supported every military aid funding package that has come through Congress, and urge the Biden administration go even further and provide Ukraine with the MiGs they have been asking for."

- Supports increased border security measures, including increased law enforcement presence and "reinforcing the fences and walls along the U.S. border."
- As representative, voted for the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which provided $14.3 billion in emergency military  funding to Israel.
- As representative, co-sponsored the "Laken Riley Act," which requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented migrants "who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The bill also authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement."
- Supports military aid for Ukraine, saying "I have supported every military aid funding package that has come through Congress, and urge the Biden administration go even further and provide Ukraine with the MiGs they have been asking for."

Candidate website

The candidate's website says, "Protect Social Security. Americans have paid in to Social Security for all of their working years and rely upon it. It must be our nation’s priority and should not be taxed."

Promises to "protect social security", and believes that social security should not be taxed. 

The candidate's website says, "Prices & Inflation need to be reduced. Washington can’t or won’t live on a budget. It is spending 50% more than 5 years ago. This must stop so inflation can be reduced."

Opposes the current level of government spending, and believes that it is contributing to inflation. 

- Promises to "protect social security", and believes that social security should not be taxed. 
- Opposes the current level of government spending, and believes that it is contributing to inflation. 

As of July 25, 2024, Katy "Kate" L Stamper’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said, "Women and Children Deserve Safety, Respect, and Dignity. Non-women should not displace us or intrude into women’s and children’s sports and bathrooms."

- Said, "Women and Children Deserve Safety, Respect, and Dignity. Non-women should not displace us or intrude into women’s and children’s sports and bathrooms."

Said, "We traded Ma Bell for Big Brother, our constant companion and spy. We don’t have to live this way and I will work to change it."

- Said, "We traded Ma Bell for Big Brother, our constant companion and spy. We don’t have to live this way and I will work to change it."

The candidate's website says, "The Financing of Higher Education Must Be Restructured. Our young people are starting out in the world strangled by debt. This must change."

Plans to "restructure" how young people pay for higher education, and believes that higher education gives young people too much debt. 

- Plans to "restructure" how young people pay for higher education, and believes that higher education gives young people too much debt. 

The candidate's website says, "Protect our Border to prevent terrorism and to spend our Tax Dollars on where America needs it most, including our poor, our combat veterans and our debt."

Plans to "protect our Border to prevent terrorism and to spend our Tax Dollars on where America needs it most, including our poor, our combat veterans and our debt."

- Plans to "protect our Border to prevent terrorism and to spend our Tax Dollars on where America needs it most, including our poor, our combat veterans and our debt."

Katy "Kate" L Stamper

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Georgia currently has 14 US Representatives.
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- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Georgia and a US citizen for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.