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Along with the Ossoff/Perdue race, this January 5th runoff will decide control of the US Senate. See GArunoff.us for key information.

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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT No. Supports lawsuit to end ACA. Calls Yes. Would “protect, improve, and build Support , aka Medicare for All insidious attack on liberty. upon the Affordable Care Act.” Obamacare? CLIMATE CHANGE No climate change position found. Her Yes. It “is not something that is coming, it is Is human-caused climate change a company previously lobbied for cap and here. It is way past time for all of us to get serious threat? Address as a top trade when they’d likely have gotten serious.” “Set goals for carbon reduction and priority by taxing or limiting output of contracts to administer it. robust climate standards for newly greenhouse gases? manufactured cars and infrastructure.” COURTS Before. “Our country’s future is at stake and Wait. “The voices of the people that Pick Ruth Bader Ginsburg replacement Trump has every right to pick a new justice [Ginsburg] stood up for time and time again before November election? before the election.” ought to be heard before there is a vote.” See CEEP Supreme Court guide. COVID-19 Yes. “Trump and his administration have No. Both Trump and Governor Kemp Support administration’s response to taken the threat of COVID-19 seriously from have stumbled on pandemic response. “We coronavirus pandemic? the beginning.” Senate and Justice need leadership that believes in science and Department cleared Loeffler of insider will act with integrity.” trading following early COVID briefings. COVID-19 Introduced bills to protect reopening Will better support “those who have been hit Economic response to coronavirus businesses from liability if employees or hardest by the pandemic … working to fund pandemic? customers are infected, to make stop-gap unemployment and other systems,” ensuring “short-term health plans a permanent that small businesses are not left out of relief solution,” and to get U.S. medical supply programs. companies to relocate from to U.S. EDUCATION Yes. Let states send federal funds for low- No position found. Public funding for private or for-profit income students to both public and private schools? schools. ELECTIONS Supports. “We fully support President Opposes. “ and @KLoeffler are Support Texas lawsuit to overturn Trump's legal recourses and Attorney General trying to overturn a free and fair election and election results in Georgia, Michigan, Paxton's lawsuit.... any illegal vote submitted undo the will of Georgia voters.” Pennsylvania and Wisconsin cannot be counted.” ENVIRONMENT Unclear, but general anti-regulatory stance. Tighten. “Environmental justice is on the Tighten or loosen environmental Wants to “look at what we’re doing with ballot.” Nothing is “more important than regulations? regard to the economy and the environment honoring and protecting the only home collectively.” we’ve been blessed with.”

ISSUES LOEFFLER (R) WARNOCK (D) FINANCIAL REGULATION Loosen. Co-sponsored bills to eliminate No position found. Tighten or loosen regulation of banks “unnecessary” regulations, and to delay and credit card companies? banking regulations. “Phase out all federal regulations that have been waived during the COVID-19 crisis.” GUNS No. “Strong Second Amendment supporter.” Yes. “The answer to America’s gun violence Enact more restrictive legislation on Sponsored bill barring national firearm isn’t to encourage masses of people to carry guns? database. guns.” IMMIGRATION Yes. Co-sponsored Asylum Abuse Reduction No. Immigration is “desperately broken.” Expand border walls? Reduce Act. Undocumented should not get free Cites Jesus as an “undocumented immigration? health care. immigrant.” IMMIGRATION No. Wants to “hold illegal immigrants Yes. “People need a dignified path to Create path to citizenship for 11 million accountable.” Co-sponsored bills to stop citizenship.” About DACA, “You have no right undocumented residents, including states from issuing driver’s licenses to to celebrate the dream if you will not liberate DACA participants, or “dreamers” undocumented immigrants and set fines for the dreamers.” brought to the U.S. as children? aliens in the U.S. improperly. IMPEACHMENT No. “This impeachment sham is an attack on No position found. Support calling witnesses and indicting what was a free and fair election.” Advertises Trump on impeachment charges? her “100% Trump voting record [as] the most conservative senator in America.” LABOR Yes. Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work No. Supports “pay equity” with “honest Support “right to work” laws, barring Act, establishing right to work on a national wages, protected retirement, and fair unions from mandating dues? basis. overtime compensation.” Endorsed by Georgia AFL-CIO. LEGAL ABORTION Ban. “Unapologetically pro-life.” Has co- Legal. Supports “a woman’s right to choose Keep legal or ban? sponsored “four bills to protect the unborn.” …, a decision between her and her doctor.” LGBTQ RIGHTS Not if it interferes with religious faith. Yes. Will “protect members of the LGBTQ+ Protect against discrimination based on “People of faith should be protected.” community from housing, financial, and sexual orientation? employment discrimination.” MARIJUANA Ban. Is “concerned about the negative effects Legal. Wants to decriminalize marijuana. Legal or ban? that legalizing marijuana would have.” MINIMUM WAGE No position found. Yes. $7.25 an hour “is not a living wage.” Will Raise federal minimum from $7.25 per “fight to raise the minimum to a livable hour? wage.” PLANNED PARENTHOOD No. Called for investigating Planned Yes. Opposes “all partisan attacks defunding Allow receiving public funds for non- Parenthood for receiving taxpayer funds health care providers like Planned abortion-related health care? under the Paycheck Protection Program. Parenthood.” POLICE/COMMUNITY No. Co-sponsored resolutions supporting Yes. Wants increased accountability and bias Restrict police use of force and increase “Back the Blue” and opposing calls to defund. training and a uniform standard for the use public oversight? Critics failing “to support law enforcement at of force. Does not support defunding. a time when they need it most.” STUDENT FINANCIAL AID No position found. Yes. Work to fully fund Pell Grants and Support lower interest or forgiveness on strengthen loan forgiveness programs to student loans? ensure graduates can pay their loans. VOTING RULES Yes. Introduced bill to raise penalties for No. Supports restoring oversight provisions Support stricter ID requirements and voter fraud and illegal ballot harvesting. of Voting Rights Act, which made voting other rules on voting? restrictions harder to enact.

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