Regina is from Bandera, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in government and history. She has a master’s degree in counseling from St. Edward’s University and a doctorate from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.

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Regina Vanburg is from Bandera, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in government and history. She has a master’s degree in counseling from St. Edward’s University and a doctorate from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.

Regina currently works as a data analyst supporting recruit well-being at Lackland Air Force Base and runs a small business. She is a licensed psychologist and operates a private practice focused on telehealth services. Regina previously served as a trauma psychologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Audie Murphy Memorial Veterans' Hospital and the Kerrville outpatient clinic. 

Regina Vanburg’s campaign for U.S. Representative for Texas’s 21st Congressional District is her first entry into politics.

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Regina’s campaign for U.S. Representative for Texas’s 21st Congressional District is her first entry into politics.

Supports strong labor standards, the right to organize, and collective bargaining for all workers, including those in the gig economy.

Supports strong labor standards, the right to organize, and collective bargaining for all workers.

Supports increasing the federal minimum wage.

Supports closing tax loopholes, taxing wealth fairly, and ensuring corporations pay taxes so public funds benefit everyone, not just the wealthy.

Supports closing tax loopholes, taxing wealth fairly.

Supports limiting corporate homeownership to prevent firms from buying housing stock, increasing prices, and "hollowing out communities."

Supports limiting corporate homeownership to prevent firms from buying housing stock.

Supports banning non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for public assets, utilities, and funds.

Supports federal oversight and investment in Texas's energy infrastructure to prevent power outages and modernize systems using technologies like GIS and radar for leak detection and efficiency improvement.

Supports federal oversight and investment in Texas's energy infrastructure.

Supports "protecting water rights, regulating irresponsible development, and ensuring Texas land, utilities, and natural resources serve Texans, not speculators."

Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy to create jobs, diversify the energy portfolio, strengthen reliability, and respect Texas communities.

Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy to create jobs.

Supports the Green New Deal, believing it will create jobs, lower energy costs, modernize infrastructure, and address climate change while boosting domestic industry.

Supports the Green New Deal, which are policies designed to combat climate change while simultaneously addressing economic inequality and social injustice.

- Supports strong labor standards, the right to organize, and collective bargaining for all workers.
- Supports increasing the federal minimum wage.
- Supports closing tax loopholes, taxing wealth fairly.
- Supports limiting corporate homeownership to prevent firms from buying housing stock.
- Supports banning non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for public assets, utilities, and funds.
- Supports federal oversight and investment in Texas's energy infrastructure.
- Supports protecting water rights.
- Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy to create jobs.
- Supports the Green New Deal, which are policies designed to combat climate change while simultaneously addressing economic inequality and social injustice.

Economy

Supports gun control and "common-sense reforms" such as universal background checks, domestic violence restraining orders, and temporary firearm access restrictions by courts with due process.

Supports gun control, including policies such as background checks.

Opposes for-profit prisons and plans to end federal contracts that incentivize incarceration over rehabilitation and human dignity.

Opposes for-profit prisons and plans to end federal contracts that incentivize incarceration over rehabilitation.

- Supports gun control, including policies such as background checks.
- Opposes for-profit prisons and plans to end federal contracts that incentivize incarceration over rehabilitation.

Public Safety

Supports a "modern, phased-in Medicare for All system that guarantees comprehensive care without premiums or surprise bills."

Supports a Medicare for All system that guarantees comprehensive care.

- Supports a Medicare for All system that guarantees comprehensive care.
- Supports abortion access.

Healthcare

Opposes "national voucher programs that drain public dollars from public schools to subsidize private interests."

Supports tuition-free public college, strong funding for higher education, and major student debt relief.

Supports tuition-free public college and major student debt relief.

- Opposes national voucher programs.
- Supports tuition-free public college and major student debt relief.

Education

Supports regulating irresponsible development, and protecting Texas land and natural resources.

Wants to address climate change while boosting domestic industry.

- Supports regulating irresponsible development, and protecting Texas land and natural resources.
- Wants to address climate change while boosting domestic industry.

Energy & the Environment

Supports federal measures to ensure voting access and prevent election manipulation, including independent redistricting and national standards for voting methods.

Supports federal measures to ensure voting access and prevent election manipulation.

Supports strict campaign finance limits, full transparency, and public financing of elections to reduce the influence of wealth and corporate power.

- Supports federal measures to ensure voting access and prevent election manipulation.
- Supports strict campaign finance limits.

Voting & Elections

Supports Ukraine and wants to ensure U.S. involvement has "oversight and accountability."

Supports Ukraine and wants to ensure U.S. involvement has accountability.

Opposes "authoritarianism and corruption while rejecting blanket sanctions that harm civilians."

Opposes "authoritarianism and corruption."

Supports diplomacy, indigenous sovereignty, environmental protection, and peaceful cooperation with NATO allies in the Arctic.

Supports cooperation with NATO allies in the Arctic.

- Supports Ukraine and wants to ensure U.S. involvement has accountability.
- Opposes "authoritarianism and corruption."
- Supports cooperation with NATO allies in the Arctic.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Regina Vanburg

- Supports strong labor standards, the right to organize, and collective bargaining for all workers.
- Supports increasing the federal minimum wage.
- Supports closing tax loopholes, taxing wealth fairly.
- Supports limiting corporate homeownership to prevent firms from buying housing stock.
- Supports banning non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for public assets, utilities, and funds.
- Supports federal oversight and investment in Texas's energy infrastructure.
- Supports protecting water rights.
- Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy to create jobs.
- Supports the Green New Deal.

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Texas currently has 36 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 Texas for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.