2020 Senate Impact

Justice 2020

Secure Our Senate 2020

DSCC

Blue Senate 2020

Opposes tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs and supporting made-in-America incentives

Opposes tax breaks that benefit the rich while leaving behind poor and working families

- Opposes tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs and supporting made-in-America incentives
- Opposes tax breaks that benefit the rich while leaving behind poor and working families

Taxes

Will protect and build upon the Affordable Care Act

Defends protections for pre-existing conditions

Supports providing comprehensive access to reproductive and mental health services

Supports legislation to lower the costs of prescription drugs, including legislation to authorize the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to bring down prices

Advocates for Medicaid expansion and support for rural and urban hospitals

- Will protect and build upon the Affordable Care Act
- Defends protections for pre-existing conditions
- Supports providing comprehensive access to reproductive and mental health services
- Supports legislation to lower the costs of prescription drugs, including legislation to authorize the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to bring down prices
- Advocates for Medicaid expansion and support for rural and urban hospitals

- Will protect and build upon the <pv key='aca'>Affordable Care Act</pv>
- Defends protections for pre-existing conditions
- Supports providing comprehensive access to reproductive and mental health services
- Supports legislation to lower the costs of prescription drugs, including legislation to authorize the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to bring down prices
- Advocates for <pv key='medicaid-expansion'>Medicaid expansion</pv> and support for rural and urban hospitals

Healthcare

Started Project Green: Sustainable Ebenezer to get congregants involved with environmental projects and has preached about environmental justice

Supports policies that will combat climate change and pollution

- Started Project Green: Sustainable Ebenezer to get congregants involved with environmental projects and has preached about environmental justice 
- Supports policies that will combat climate change and pollution

Environment

Supports additional funds for those who have been hit hardest by the pandemic

Supports transparency around economic development programs like the Paycheck Protection Program

Advocates for honest wages, protected retirement, and fair overtime compensation

Encourages technical and vocational training, and apprenticeships to meet the needs of an evolving economy

- Supports additional funds for those who have been hit hardest by the pandemic
- Supports transparency around economic development programs like the Paycheck Protection Program
- Advocates for honest wages, protected retirement, and fair overtime compensation
- Encourages technical and vocational training, and apprenticeships to meet the needs of an evolving economy

- Supports additional funds for those who have been hit hardest by the pandemic
- Supports transparency around economic development programs like the <pv key='ppp'>Paycheck Protection Program</pv>
- Advocates for honest wages, protected retirement, and fair overtime compensation
- Encourages technical and vocational training, and apprenticeships to meet the needs of an evolving economy

Economy

Commits to listen to the experts to take steps to get the coronavirus under control, including supporting robust testing, contact tracing, and basic preventive safety like the use of face masks

- Commits to listen to the experts to take steps to get the coronavirus under control, including supporting robust testing, contact tracing, and basic preventive safety like the use of face masks

COVID

Supports responsibly funding police departments while increasing accountability and ensuring our communities can support critical services outside of the criminal justice system

Advocates for reforming the bail system and ending mass incarceration

Ensure returning citizens can reenter society with access to adequate resources and support

- Supports responsibly funding police departments while increasing accountability and ensuring our communities can support critical services outside of the criminal justice system
- Supports a reduction of gun violence
- Advocates for reforming the bail system and ending mass incarceration
- End the use of privatized prisons;
- Ensure returning citizens can reenter society with access to adequate resources and support

Criminal Justice

Raphael Warnock

A US Senator represents all of Georgia in the US Senate, where they can author, sponsor, and vote on bills within the Senate that may become federal laws after going through the legislative process. The Senate, along with the House of Representatives, makes up the US Congress. Congress acts as the Legislative Branch of the United States Government. Like all states, Georgia gets two US Senators, both of whom represent the entire state for six-year terms in Washington DC.

Federal legislation is extremely important in our day-to-day lives. For example, S.3548 (better known as the CARES Act) began in the Senate. The “S” at the front of a bill number indicates that it started in the Senate, meaning a US Senator had to sponsor this bill. This involved garnering support for CARES Act among Senators, successfully taking it through all relevant committees within the Senate (in this case, the finance committee), and ultimately passing it on to the US House of Representatives where the bill repeated the process with US Representatives.

Powers specific to the US Senate include:

- Handling impeachment trials of government officials, which has happened 19 times, (including two presidents) in Senate history
- Voting on nominations of Supreme Court justices, Ambassadors, and other roles
- Voting on treaties
- Expelling Senators, which has happened 15 times in Senate history
- Investigating the executive branch

Represents all of Georgia as a federal lawmaker in the US Senate

Georgia

Economic Growth

Foreign Policy and Immigration

- The US Senator is a member of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. There are a total of 100 US Senators. Georgia, like every other US state, has two senators. 
- US Senators have a great deal of power when it comes to bringing the concerns of their state to the national arena. US Senators can author, sponsor, amend, debate and vote on bills which may become national law. 
- US Senators have an important role in deciding who runs the federal government. They hold confirmation hearings for most presidential appointees, including new Supreme Court Justices and Presidential Cabinet Members.
- Senators can be appointed to committees which focus on particular issues. Examples include the Appropriations Committee, which handles budget planning, or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is a diplomatic body that welcomes foreign delegations.
- Senators are elected to six-year terms in statewide elections. US Senators are paid a salary of $174,000/year.