Michael L. Kripchak

Strongly Disagree

Abortion services are only a small sliver of the services provided by Planned Parenthood. Because the GOP refuses to pass any form of public healthcare, Planned Parenthood is essential for women's reproductive health, and health in general. This is especially true given our country's atrocious maternal death rate, when compared to the rest of the world.

Disagree

These medications already meet the stringent standards established by the FDA. Statistically, Tylenol and penicillin are more dangerous.

Until fetal viability, under the circumstances as determined by the woman. After fetal viability, under the circumstances as determined by the woman and her doctor prioritizing the health and life of the woman.

The best way for the government to limit abortion, as demonstrated through years of data, is to fund sex education and contraceptive healthcare. If required, the Federal government does have a role in protecting a women's right to abortion access and guaranteeing her bodily autonomy.

Reduce healthcare costs, increase domestic energy supply not tied to OPEC+, increase competition in underserved sectors and thus salaries to induce domestic demand, hold China accountable for WTO violations.

Neutral

There is no financial burden to shift. If anything, forgiving student debt would increase GDP and tax revenue by stimulating domestic demand.

Yes

There are a number of different categories that are used to determine investments. ESG ratings are a good way to incentivize economic activities that are beneficial to us as a society.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Agree

We do not want to recreate the system that existed in our nation's past with second class citizens that could be refused services. Serving "blacks" was once considered against certain moral and religious beliefs.

Public schools require vaccinations to stop the spread of diseases such as measles, smallpox, and polio. These are important to maintain the health of our citizenry.

B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options.

None of these answers closely embody my view of foreign policy. US foreign policy (diplomatic, military, economic) should be focused on strengthening the stability and prosperity of the United States. This can best be maintained with a strong diplomatic corps and involvement in settling conflicts that are disrupting international stability.

Strongly Agree

Yes, this relationship is important. They are a vital ally in the Middle East.

I believe the decline in recruitment can best be explained by the deterioration of the social contract and the ever expanding wealth gap. We have a government that has continually told its people "you're on your own." This doesn't engender an attitude of service to one's country.

Agree

This is best done by increasing the ability of legal points of entry to process incoming immigrants and fully funding the Judicial Branch to efficiently process asylum requests which we are bound by international treaty to honor.

Asylum seekers as determined by our judicial system, as well as those with sponsorship and valuable work skills.

Neutral

I do not agree with public funds being removed from public institutions in order to pay for private or religious schools - unless there is a circumstance where the public institutions cannot meet the needs of the student (ex. medical needs).

Strongly Disagree

US Dept of Education is a vital piece of ensuring we have a mature citizenry, capable of being good citizens as well as economically productive. Educating our youth is a public good and vital for national security.

Neutral

Marriage, in the view of the government, is a tax contract between two consenting adults.

Strongly Agree

I strongly agree, but this seems to be a leading statement, mostly informed by current, and unscientific, anti-LGBTQ propaganda. For example, circumcision is bodily mutilation, yet it is an accepted religious practice. Grooming of minors from clergy is a proven greater threat to children than from a library book demonstrating self-acceptance. Archaic laws in states allowing 13-year olds to be married to older men should be the focus of the anti-grooming movement.

Agree

Gender transition services are healthcare.

I was raised as, and am still, a practicing Roman Catholic. I pray to Christ, but I have a much more open and non-dogmatic view of religion and spirituality. As a Congressman, my job will be to serve and represent all my constituents, not just my fellow Catholics.

Neutral

Disagree

An amendment should be passed to require all states to submit their Electoral College vote divided in proportion to the popular vote in their state. This would eliminate the issue of votes "not counting" in heavily Democratic and Republican states. This would still allow a decentralized election, which we learned in 2020 is an incredibly vital part of election security.

Neutral

This is a flawed question referencing a very specific graduate-level legal and philosophical theory and attempting to broaden it to a narrative - as was the intent of the pundits that first began spreading this manufactured controversy. Do I believe that systemic racism exists in the systems present in the US? Yes, I do. The data is very clear about that fact. The alternative is to believe that a certain portion of our population is inherently inferior to another.

Neutral

Inter-sex is a fact of biology present in all species of the animal kingdom. Transexuality has long been a reality of human existence. The first books burned by the Nazis were from trans and homosexual scientific research. Please be careful of falling into the trap of ridiculing that which you do not understand. You have been using the bathroom with transexual people for decades and you didn't realize it, just as you have always worked with homosexual people and you didn't realize it.

Strongly Agree

As stated by the most recent National Security Strategy: "Of all the shared problems we face, climate change is the greatest and potentially existential for all nations."

For now? Fossil fuels. In the near future? Renewables. In 20-30 years? Fusion.

Very Conservative

The Constitution of the United States is the single greatest political document written by mankind. I will do everything in my power to conserve this traditional institution and the Enlightenment values it represents.

To help maintain a structure for society. The US federal government? "Establish Justice, insure [sic] domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," per the Constitution of the United States.

No.

No.

Neutral

Unnecessary. Given the fact that we currently have the most financially corrupt Supreme Court since the Civil War, and the US Senate is not performing their necessary duty of holding the Justices accountable, an enforceable ethics code needs to be established.

Disagree

Police departments, as with most of our public institutions, need more funding to do the work that we expect of them.

As a Federal officer, I believe that State and Local governments are best equipped to satisfy the needs of protecting public safety within their jurisdictions. Broadly, per Justice Scalia, "longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms," have existed in our nation.