Ballotpedia, Samantha Meadows

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Believes funds are directed to urban areas, leading rural communities to face geographical isolation, fewer healthcare providers, poor quality roads, and limited high-speed internet access.

Wants to bring back well-paying jobs to the area.

Believes poverty "is not a moral failure; it is policy failure."

Believes wage gaps in the US keep "the rich, rich, and the poor, poor."

Wants to establish policies aimed at providing opportunities for low-income earners to promote economic mobility.

Wants more affordable housing and to enhance living conditions "for ALL Americans."

Supports financial transparency and holding government accountable.

- Believes funds are directed to urban areas, leading rural communities to face geographical isolation, fewer healthcare providers, poor quality roads, and limited high-speed internet access.
- Supports worker's rights and unions.
- Wants to bring back well-paying jobs to the area.
- Believes poverty "is not a moral failure; it is policy failure."
- Believes wage gaps in the US keep "the rich, rich, and the poor, poor."
- Wants to establish policies aimed at providing opportunities for low-income earners to promote economic mobility.
- Wants more affordable housing and to enhance living conditions "for ALL Americans."
- Supports financial transparency and holding government accountable.

Economy

Plans to make efforts to expand access to healthcare.

Prioritizes reducing prescription drug costs.

Wants to ensure women do not face criminal charges due to pregnancy outcomes.

Supports lowering prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate costs, capping out-of-pocket expenses, and increasing pricing transparency.

- Plans to make efforts to expand access to healthcare.
- Prioritizes reducing prescription drug costs.
- Supports abortion access.
- Wants to ensure women do not face criminal charges due to pregnancy outcomes.
- Supports lowering prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate costs, capping out-of-pocket expenses, and increasing pricing transparency.

Healthcare

Public Safety

Supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) policies that provide a path to citizenship.

Supports strengthening the Veterans Administration (VA) to ensure high-quality healthcare and mental health services for veterans.

- Supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) policies that provide a path to citizenship.
- Supports strengthening the Veterans Administration (VA) to ensure high-quality healthcare and mental health services for veterans.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

As of August 7, 2024, Samantha Meadows’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Said she is "running for US Congress because I believe that rural America has been underrepresented in national politics."

Promises to actively engage with the community if elected.

- Said she is "running for US Congress because I believe that rural America has been underrepresented in national politics."
- Promises to actively engage with the community if elected.
- Supports term limits.
- Supports eliminating the filibuster.

Voting & Elections

Plans to invest in trade programs and vocational education.

Opposes school vouchers, saying the program's effects "are detrimental to public education."

- Plans to invest in trade programs and vocational education.
- Opposes school vouchers, saying the program's effects "are detrimental to public education."

Education

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Plans to oppose "unnecessary regulations on cryptocurrency."

- Wants to cut taxes.
- Plans to oppose "unnecessary regulations on cryptocurrency."

Said, "I believe the unborn deserve to be protected by the law. We must focus more on solutions for women who find themselves with unwanted pregnancies by prioritizing adoption access, child care access, and the codification of laws that make men equally responsible in such cases."

- Said, "I believe the unborn deserve to be protected by the law. We must focus more on solutions for women who find themselves with unwanted pregnancies by prioritizing adoption access, child care access, and the codification of laws that make men equally responsible in such cases."

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Supports increasing funding and resources for Border Patrol officers.

Opposes intervention in international conflicts and prioritizes domestic policy.

- Plans to "secure the border."
- Supports increasing funding and resources for Border Patrol officers.
- Opposes intervention in international conflicts and prioritizes domestic policy.

Supports ending the stigma on fossil fuels and increasing the use of nuclear energy.

Supports "unshackling" fossil fuels and increasing the use of nuclear energy.

- Supports "unshackling" fossil fuels and increasing the use of nuclear energy.

As of August 7, 2024, David J. Taylor’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said, "The current curriculum in public schools pits students against each other on the basis of race, misrepresenting our past, and teaching kids to hate our great country."

Supports defunding and dismantling the Department of Education.

- Said, "The current curriculum in public schools pits students against each other on the basis of race, misrepresenting our past, and teaching kids to hate our great country."
- Supports defunding and dismantling the Department of Education.
- Opposes teachers unions.

David J. Taylor

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Ohio currently has 15 US Representatives.
- US Representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become national law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain policy areas, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Ohio, and have been a citizen of the United States for 7 years. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.