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2016 priorities • Implement Medicaid expansion or an alternative to provide necessary health insurance coverage for approximately 77,000 Idahoans who are currently ineligible for both coverage under Medicaid and incentives to purchase coverage through the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange.

• Implement and align pre-kindergarten through post- secondary education, with an emphasis on STEM, and expand capacity of Idaho’s professional/career technical educational programs (PTE/CTE), leading to high demand, high wage jobs.

• Lower the supermajority to 60% from the current 66 2/3% to assist tax supported governmental entities, including school districts, to pass the bonds necessary for investment in schools and infrastructure.

• Preserve urban renewal and tax increment financing, and make other forms of development financing more accessible to increase economic development within the state of Idaho.

• Support the Idaho National Laboratory’s research and development mission, including advanced nuclear technology research and development, and importing research quantities of commercial nuclear fuel. Engage the legislature in support of the Governor’s recommendation for an INL/BSU collaboration in cybersecurity that includes the participation of ISU and UI through the IRON network. Work to ensure state, regional, and local support for the Department of Energy’s new GAIN initiative which is led by INL and aimed at advancing the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors. The economic impact of these missions is crucial for Idaho’s economy, now and into the future.

• Support legislation which reduces barriers and encourages additional and more substantive electrical generation and transmission capacity across the state. Increased capacity is critical to the testing and operating of commercial small modular reactors in Eastern Idaho.

• Take steps to protect the domestic water rights of Idaho cities from curtailment, thus allowing cities and urban economies to continue to grow.

• Align Idaho’s driver’s license and other picture identification instruments so they are accepted and compliant with federally required identification programs, which will allow Idahoans to gain access into federal facilities and to engage in uninterrupted travel outside of our state. federal delegates Senator Michael Crapo (R) Senator james risch (R) 410 Memorial Drive Suite 204 410 Memorial Drive Suite 204 Idaho Falls, ID 83402 Idaho Falls, ID 83402 208-522-9779 208-523-5541

REPRESENTATIVE RAUL LABRADOR (R) REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL SIMPSON (R) 33 East Broadway Avenue, 410 Memorial Drive, Suite 203 Suite 251 Meridian, ID 83642 Idaho Falls, ID 834022 208-888-3188 208-523-6701 state legislators Rep. jeff thompson (R) District 30 [email protected] 208-524-7367 Senator DEAN M. Mortimer (R) [email protected] Rep. (R) 208-528-6377 [email protected] 208-522-4387 Rep. (R) District 32 [email protected] 208-425-3329 Senator Mark Harris (R) [email protected] Rep. Thomas F. Loertscher (R) 208-547-3360 [email protected] 208-522-3072 Rep. Janet Trujillo (R) District 33 [email protected] 208-419-8266 Senator Bart M. Davis (R) [email protected] Rep. Linden B. Bateman (R) 208-529-4993 [email protected] 208-524-0927

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