Arvind is an ER doctor and has served on the McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority.

Arvind Venkat is a state representative for District 30.  He was first elected in 2022 and is serving his first term.

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Plans to prioritize using federal funds to upgrade local infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and sewer systems.

- Plans to prioritize using federal funds to upgrade local infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and sewer systems.

Economy

Believes in making healthcare more accessible and affordable by enacting medical debt relief, reducing copayments and deductibles, and expanding resources for addiction and mental illness treatment.

- Supports abortion access.
- Believes in making healthcare more accessible and affordable by enacting medical debt relief, reducing copayments and deductibles, and expanding resources for addiction and mental illness treatment.

Healthcare

Believes in ensuring schools have adequate resources to remain open and maintain safe environments for children and teachers.

As of September 30, 2024, Arvind Venkat’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Education

Believes climate change is real and serious, and it requires "real, serious solutions."

Supports enhancing environmental quality with clean air and water, green spaces, and better flood and stormwater management.

- Believes climate change is real and serious, and it requires "real, serious solutions."
- Supports enhancing environmental quality with clean air and water, green spaces, and better flood and stormwater management.

Energy & the Environment

Public Safety

Believes voting should be "easy and secure" and opposes changing voting standards to "make it harder" for people to be heard.

- Believes voting should be "easy and secure" and opposes changing voting standards to "make it harder" for people to be heard.

Voting & Elections

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Arvind Venkat

Arvind Venkat is an ER doctor and has served on the McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority.

Arvind Venkat currently serves as member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing District 30.  He was first elected in 2022.

Believes in strong work ethic and perseverance in building a good life, drawing from personal experience as the child of immigrants.

Believes in using crisis management experience to advance Pennsylvania's economy.

Supports the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council.

Believes Pennsylvania's infrastructure commitments have not kept pace with the state's economic growth.

Believes infrastructure is crucial for economic development and public policy.

Supports investing in infrastructure improvements.

Believes healthcare is a crucial policy issue.

Believes in protecting reproductive health and liberties, and supports safe medical procedures to prevent dangerous outcomes, as demonstrated by his experience treating a woman with a back-alley abortion.

Supports access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare.

Believes education is an important policy issue.

Supports policies that improve education quality and access.

Believes "every child should have the opportunity to live up to their highest potential."

Supports union representation for teachers.

Supports the use of renewable energy sources.

Believes the environment is an important policy issue.

Believes in protecting the environment and addressing climate change.

Said, "I have worked to ensure we address climate change and empower citizens to determine what is best for them in their communities."

Endorsed by the Young Democrats of Allegheny County.

Supports gun control and received a Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate Distinction.

Believes rebuilding communities will enhance quality of life and generate construction and trades jobs.

Served on the McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority to ensure vital emergency medical services are available for the community.

Believes in prioritizing family, service, and community to enhance public safety.

Believes emergency rooms should treat patients in crisis and address community health issues.

Believes in advocating for more effective representation for farmers.

Believes voting should be "easy and secure" and that elections should reflect the will of the electorate, not ideologues.

Believes in the importance of community service and advocacy based on personal experience.

Endorsed by the Steel City Stonewall Democrats.

Supports the Farmers Allied for Responsive More Effective Representation.

Believes in the importance of good government and fair elections.

As of October 1, 2024, Arvind Venkat’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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