Brian Lambert

Agree

The right to life is foundational, and I believe every human life has inherent worth from conception. At the same time, I don't believe government belongs in the exam room dictating medical decisions. As a legislator, I will support protecting the dignity of life while keeping those deeply personal decisions between a patient, their doctor, and their own conscience or faith.

Agree

IVF is a blessing and it deserves protection. Families who fight for years to have a child shouldn't have Washington or a courtroom standing in the way. But embryos are human life, and destroying them with malicious intent — by a third party, by a clinic's recklessness, or by anyone acting against the parents' wishes — should carry real consequences. Protect the process. Punish the malice. Those two aren't in conflict.

I don't like abortion, and I believe life has inherent worth. But government has no business walking into a doctor's office and dictating what procedures a patient may have. That decision belongs to the patient, their doctor, and God — not politicians or bureaucrats. I won't legislate my way into that exam room.

Disagree

No. Taxpayer funding is government intervention from the other direction. If I don't want Washington in the exam room dictating procedures, I shouldn't want Washington funding them either. Government should stay out of these decisions entirely — that means no mandates and no taxpayer subsidies.

Disagree

An 1873 obscenity law should not be revived to set national abortion policy that Congress never voted on. If Washington wants to change the law, it should pass one and answer to voters for it — not dust off a Victorian statute and let the Justice Department do it by memo. And it still puts the federal government between a patient, their doctor, and God.

Strongly Agree

Free enterprise and private property are the foundation of American prosperity. Property is what turns work into ownership. A man who can keep what he earns and build on what he owns will invest in his community, hire his neighbors, and pass something on to his kids. Free enterprise lets him compete on what he offers, not who he knows. Government's job is to protect those rights and enforce honest rules — not to pick winners, bail out the connected, or bury a small business in paperwork.

Disagree

I support a flat tax — one rate applied equally to everyone. Someone who earns more still pays more, but the rules don't change based on who you are. And every dollar should be taxed only once: income already taxed shouldn't be taxed again when it's saved, invested, or passed on. Working families get relief from simpler rules and a growing economy, not a bigger tax code.

Strongly Agree

This month the debt crossed $40 trillion — it has more than doubled in a decade. Interest alone now runs roughly $1 trillion a year, the third-largest line in the entire budget, ahead of defense. That is money buying nothing: no road, no soldier, no cure. Every year we put this off, the payment grows and the choices get worse. We can't tax our way out and we can't grow our way out alone. Washington has to spend less.

1. Pass a real Pentagon audit. DOD has failed eight straight and cannot fully account for its own budget. No more blank checks until it can. 2. Close the Department of Education and return those dollars and decisions to states and parents. 3. Codify cuts into law. Reforms made by executive action vanish with the next administration. If a cut is worth making, Congress should vote on it. 4. End duplicate programs across agencies doing the same work. 5. Justify each dollar, not just the increase.

Disagree

No one should be forced by the government to say or do something their conscience forbids. That is not a small thing — it is the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights, and it protects everyone, not just people who believe what I believe. A baker, a doctor, a printer: the answer is to find another provider, not to compel a person to violate their faith. Freedom means the right to decline, or it means nothing.

It means the government cannot establish a state church, cannot write religious doctrine into law, and cannot tell any American how to worship. It also means the reverse: government has no business scrubbing faith out of public life or punishing people for living by their convictions. The First Amendment is a wall against government interference — not a wall keeping believers out of the public square.

C. Medicare and Medicaid are promises already made. Seniors paid into them their whole working lives, and I won't break that. But I don't support stacking new taxpayer-funded programs on top. What drives cost isn't a shortage of federal programs — it's a system where nobody sees a price, hospitals and insurers negotiate in the dark, and the patient gets the bill afterward. Fix transparency and competition first.

Strongly Disagree

Absolutely not. A federal list of sick Americans, sorted by what they cost the taxpayer, is not a budgeting tool — it is a target list waiting for someone to use it. Once government tracks who is expensive, the next question is always what to do about them. Your diagnosis is between you, your doctor, and God. It is not Washington's file to keep.

C. We have spent trillions and buried too many of our own trying to rebuild countries that never asked for it. That money and those lives belong to the American people. I'm not an isolationist — when Americans face imminent danger, we act, and decisively. But restraint should be the default. Congress should declare war before we fight one, and every deployment needs a defined mission and an exit, not an open tab.

Strongly Agree

The CCP steals our research, buys our farmland, hollowed out our manufacturing, and probes our power grid and water systems. It is a serious threat, and it is the one that actually reaches Americans at home. The answer is not another war halfway around the world — it is rebuilding what we make here, protecting our networks and our patents, and refusing to hand a rival state the tools it needs to beat us.

Yes, the relationship matters — Israel is a friend, a democracy, and a sovereign nation with every right to defend itself. But we are over $40 trillion in debt, and I don't believe we can keep writing checks abroad while Americans go without at home. I would phase out foreign aid across the board, not single out one ally. Partnership should rest on shared interests, trade, and intelligence cooperation — not a permanent transfer from our taxpayers.

Strongly Agree

Radical Islamic terrorism is a real threat and I won't pretend otherwise. But two decades of occupation did not end it, and it cost us trillions and thousands of our sons and daughters. The answer is serious intelligence work, secure borders, and striking those who attack us — not rebuilding nations that never asked us to.

We need a secure border and a legal system that actually works. We have neither. We cannot absorb unlimited arrivals, and pretending otherwise is unfair to Americans already here and to those waiting years in line the right way. Set levels to what we can genuinely absorb, prioritize those who come legally and contribute, and fix a process that takes a decade and a lawyer to navigate. Enforce the law — through courts and due process, not force.

Disagree

A city doesn't get to pick which federal laws it helps enforce. If we don't like an immigration law, change it in Congress — don't have local governments quietly opt out. But cooperation is not the same as cruelty. Police should honor lawful detainers and warrants, federal agents should carry warrants and answer to courts, and judges should apply the law as written, not rewrite it from the bench. Follow the law — all of it, all of us.

Strongly Agree

The Department of Education doesn't teach a single child. It moves money and issues mandates, and it has grown for decades while reading and math scores have not budged. Parents, local school boards, and states know their children and their communities — Washington does not. Send the dollars back to the states with the strings cut, and let the people closest to the classroom decide how they're spent.

Strongly Agree

No foreign government should be buying influence in American classrooms — and China is the one doing it most. Universities have taken hundreds of millions from foreign states, often without disclosing it as the law requires. If a foreign power wants to shape what our students learn about it, that's not philanthropy, it's a soft-power operation. Enforce disclosure, and bar funding from hostile regimes outright.

Strongly Agree

Adults should be free to live as they choose. That freedom ends where harm to a child begins. England's Cass Review found the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in minors remarkably weak, and Sweden, Finland and Norway have pulled back for the same reason. A child's brain is not developed enough to consent to sterilization or surgery, and anyone who pushes a minor into irreversible medical procedures should answer for it in court.

Agree

As a Bible-believing Christian, I believe God designed marriage to be between one man and one woman. That is my conviction and I won't apologize for it. But God is a God of free will — He offers His way and lets us choose whether to walk it. Many Americans do not share my faith, and under our laws that is their right. I won't ask government to enforce my theology on my neighbors, any more than I would want theirs enforced on me.

I'm a Christian, Southern Baptist. I believe the Bible is the best guide to life ever written — though I'll be honest, I don't open it as often as I should. I believe in the power of prayer, in thoughtful discernment, and in taking time to consider a thing before acting on it. James tells us to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. I try to live that way, and I fall short of it often enough to stay humble about it. I don't think faith makes a man right about everything. I think it makes him accountable — to God, and to the people he serves. That is the standard I'd carry into office: listen first, decide carefully, tell the truth about it afterward, and admit it when I get it wrong.

Strongly Disagree

Voting is the best way a citizen has to make their voice heard, and that's exactly why it's worth protecting. You show ID to board a plane, open a bank account, or buy cold medicine. Asking for it at the polls isn't a burden — it's an ordinary safeguard, and voter ID has broad support across party lines. A standard driver's license should be enough; nobody should need a passport or birth certificate to cast a ballot. Verifying a voter is who they say they are protects every legitimate vote.

Strongly Agree

Adults are free to live as they choose. But freedom doesn't mean freedom from consequence, and it doesn't extend to overriding someone else's. Women fought a long time for their own competitions and their own spaces, and those exist for real reasons — fairness in sport, and safety in shelters, locker rooms, and prisons, where women are most vulnerable. Saying so isn't hostility toward anyone. It's declining to take something from one group in order to give it to another.

Nuclear. It runs around the clock in any weather, emits nothing, and modern reactors are far safer than the ones people picture. With demand climbing from data centers and manufacturing, nothing else delivers reliable baseload power at that scale.

No

No

Lean Conservative

I'm a conservative-leaning libertarian. I hold traditional convictions — I'm a Southern Baptist, I believe in the sanctity of life, and I believe marriage is God-ordained. But I don't think it's Washington's job to enforce my faith on my neighbors, and I don't trust government to be in an exam room, a classroom, or a church. Where I want government strong is on the things it's actually for: the border, the debt, the Constitution, and protecting the vulnerable from real harm.

Strongly Agree

This is what government is actually for. I want Washington out of your exam room and out of your church, because adults can decide for themselves. A child cannot. A ten-year-old can't consent — not to a predator in a chat window, not to anything else. Protecting those who cannot protect themselves is not overreach; it is the first duty of government. Enforce the laws we have, fund the units that actually work these cases, and hold platforms accountable for what they knowingly host.

None on law-abiding citizens. Shall not be infringed means what it says. The existing bar on felons, domestic abusers, and the dangerously mentally ill is constitutional — Heller said so plainly — and I'd enforce it. But look at the pattern in these attacks: a man in crisis, warning signs everywhere, and nobody who reached him in time. We keep debating hardware while the mental health system fails people long before they ever reach a gun store. That's where prevention actually happens.