Currently holds the office of U.S. House of Representatives - Massachusetts 6th Congressional District until January 3, 2025.
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Massachusetts 6th Congressional District in 2024 Massachusetts General Election.
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Get StartedWe should be diverting funds from police departments to social services; from policing crime to preventing crime; for providing more mental health support to people in our communities before they get caught up in the criminal justice system. Learn more
In addition, require a mandatory counseling session for everyone returning from a combat deployment within two weeks of arriving home. Fill all mental health vacancies at the VA and adopt a more holistic approach to treatment, including alternative therapies like mindfulness, exercise, and cannabis. Fund an ad campaign for veterans’ families to recognize mental health symptoms. Learn more
My plan to make mental health check-ups as routine as a physical for active-duty military and veterans would: Require annual mental health check-ups just like annual physicals. Mindfulness training is preventative medicine as pioneered today by the special operations community and other elite units. Learn more
No more building outdated, costly weapons systems—we need to make sure our troops have the best technology to defeat our adversaries and support our allies. That means dramatically increasing our investment in autonomous, hypersonic, and cyber weapons—and continuing to invest in basic scientific research, education, and immigration. Learn more
The Green New Deal needs to be built around green jobs and clean energy, decarbonization and breakthrough technologies, and access to green energy for the developing world—and America should lead the way in winning this moral and economic opportunity. We can lead the world in green tech and green jobs, and we should set the standards for other countries to follow. Learn more
We can start by passing an assault weapons ban and background checks, not letting people who are on a terrorist no fly list buy guns, and enforcing red flag laws. Learn more
Ensuring Health Care—and Mental Health Care—For All. Learn more
We should be diverting funds from police departments to social services; from policing crime to preventing crime; for providing more mental health support to people in our communities before they get caught up in the criminal justice system. Learn more
We should be investing targeted foreign aid in the Northern Triangle, addressing the violence that’s driving people from their homes and to our borders. Learn more
We can rebuild our economy by rebuilding our country. That starts with connecting every house in America to affordable, high-speed internet. And it means not just repairing our roads, bridges, and water pipes but building next-generation transportation, like high-speed rail, because everyone should have access to good jobs in their region and a chance to make it home after work in time for dinner. Learn more
Reversing the Trump tax cuts and raising the rates for corporations and top earners. Taxing capital gains at the same rate as working Americans. Funding the IRS so that tax shelters and tax cheats are audited, not ordinary Americans. Learn more
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