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Says that healthcare is a fundamental right and it should be protected.

Supports affordable healthcare in both rural and urban communities.

Wants to strengthen and protect Medicare and Medicaid.

Wants to mandate lower prescription drug prices and protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.

- Says that healthcare is a fundamental right and it should be protected. 
- Supports affordable healthcare in both rural and urban communities. 
- Wants to strengthen and protect Medicare and Medicaid. 
- Wants to mandate lower prescription drug prices and protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Healthcare

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Immigration

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports efforts to protect our air, land, and water.

Promises to provide adequate funding to the Environmental Protection Agency and forest services to protect our forests and national resources.

Wants to protect national parks and resources from fracking and drilling.

Supports providing increased resources to environmental justice efforts in vulnerable and minority communities.

- Supports efforts to protect our air, land, and water. 
- Wants to strengthen the Clean Water Act. 
- Promises to provide adequate funding to the Environmental Protection Agency and forest services to protect our forests and national resources. 
- Wants to protect national parks and resources from fracking and drilling. 
- Supports providing increased resources to environmental justice efforts in vulnerable and minority communities.

Environment

Supports job training programs like apprenticeships that are in partnership with local labor unions.

Wants to fight for equal pay for women and all people.

Supports a living wage and promises to raise the federal minimum wage.

Promises to support labor unions and collective bargaining in Georgia.

Supports the expansion of Savannah Ports to increase jobs and revenue.

Wants to increase green and hi-tech jobs into the district.

- Supports job training programs like apprenticeships that are in partnership with local labor unions. 
- Wants to fight for equal pay for women and all people. 
- Supports a living wage and promises to raise the federal minimum wage. 
- Promises to support labor unions and collective bargaining in Georgia. 
- Supports the expansion of Savannah Ports to increase jobs and revenue. 
- Wants to increase green and hi-tech jobs into the district.

Economy

Joyce Marie Griggs

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Believes that healthcare should not be tied to employment because it does not work for the thousands of Georgians that lost their job during the pandemic.

Wants to expand affordable healthcare while also protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act.

Wants to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

Supports increased investments in preventative health care including access and education.

Wants to address in mental health and suicide prevention, especially in military communities.

Wants to eliminate VA co-pays to improve preventative healthcare for veterans.

- Believes that healthcare should not be tied to employment because it does not work for the thousands of Georgians that lost their job during the pandemic. 
- Wants to expand affordable healthcare while also protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act. 
- Wants to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. 
- Supports increased investments in preventative health care including access and education.
- Wants to address in mental health and suicide prevention, especially in military communities.
- Wants to eliminate VA co-pays to improve preventative healthcare for veterans.

Wants to reunite children that were separated from their parents at the US Border.

Wants to provide legal protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals including a pathway to work permits and citizenship.

- Wants to reunite children that were separated from their parents at the US Border. 
- Wants to provide legal protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals including a pathway to work permits and citizenship.

Said, "A strong military maintains the peace. The United States must remain engaged with the world, working cooperatively with our allies."

Supports better defense for modern-day threats, including "cyber-attacks on our elections, banking, infrastructure, health, and financial systems."

Wants to increase funding and modernize VA facilities.

Wants to expand eligibility for VA benefits to allow more veterans to access the VA.

- Said, "A strong military maintains the peace. The United States must remain engaged with the world, working cooperatively with our allies."
- Supports better defense for modern-day threats, including "cyber-attacks on our elections, banking, infrastructure, health, and financial systems."
- Wants to increase funding and modernize VA facilities. 
- Wants to expand eligibility for VA benefits to allow more veterans to access the VA.

Promises to fight for all the natural wonders in the district (Okefenokee Swamp, the great watersheds, and the 14 barrier islands),

Believes in the dangers of climate change and will fight to make sure the district receives infrastructure investment to lessen storm damage and flooding.

Supports increased investment in clean energy jobs

Wants to ban offshore drilling and reduce carbon emissions.

- Promises to fight for all the natural wonders in the district (Okefenokee Swamp, the great watersheds, and the 14 barrier islands), 
- Believes in the dangers of climate change and will fight to make sure the district receives infrastructure investment to lessen storm damage and flooding. 
- Supports increased investment in clean energy jobs
- Wants to ban offshore drilling and reduce carbon emissions.

Believes housing in the US should be affordable, stable, accessible, and energy efficient.

Promises to increase investments in the Housing Trust Fund to increase the number of affordable housing units on the market.

- Believes housing in the US should be affordable, stable, accessible, and energy efficient. 
- Promises to increase investments in the Housing Trust Fund to increase the number of affordable housing units on the market.

Wade Herring

- 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.
- 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 Georgia and a US citizen for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.

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