Economy and Energy

Investing in the American Workforce

When I was a child, I picked up litter from the parking lot of my father's restaurant. That's how | learned that work means helping our families prosper in a community. It's not that way anymore. Manufacturing is shipped overseas, unions lose members, wages decline, top tax rates are slashed, and the gap between worker and C-suite pay expands to unprecedented levels. Family and society are no longer the center of American prosperity. Jobs no longer hold people to a community, the middle class disappears, and America's debt overshadows our once global economic leadership. To build back American manufacturing and American agriculture, we must invest again in the American worker. When you elect me to Congress, I will work to keep American jobs in America, invest in American manufacturing and agriculture, and vote for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.

Energy and Corporate Greed

During my campaign I am driving everywhere in Montana Congressional District 2, so I know about high gas prices. Ukraine didn't cause gas prices to explode. It was corporate greed. Montana's current Representative voted against the Price Gouging Prevention Act (HR 7688). This is not the act of someone who has the best interests of Montanans in mind. I appreciate our oil and gas producers and refiners because they help us maintain our energy independence and provide good jobs to our residents. However, I believe that we also need to increase our commitment to renewables like solar and wind projects. These projects now create more jobs than oil and gas production, benefit farmers and ranchers who can lease their land out, assure that energy consumers will have the power they need, and help to address the challenges of climate change. When you send me to Congress, I will vote to control price gauging, work to build alternative energy sources to increase good paying jobs and address climate change, and ensure that oil and gas are reasonable prices.