Cut interest rate for undergraduates;

Expand income-based repayment;

continue Public Service Loan Forgiveness and loan discharge programs;

Restoring Pell Grants

Encouraging widespread relief and forgiveness of debt to students harmed by fraudulent institutions

Closing for-profit schools that engage in fraudulent and illegal conduct;

Providing every family with access to high-quality childcare and high-quality preschool programs;

Engaging students to be critical thinkers and civic participants while addressing the wellbeing of the whole child;

Increasing investments in after school and summer learning programs;

Holding schools, districts, communities, and states accountable for raising achievement levels for all students;

Opposing high-stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students;

Enabling parents to opt their children out of standardized tests without penalty to the student or their school.

Ensuring teachers receive tools and ongoing professional development;

Investing in high-quality STEAM [sic] classes, community schools, and arts education;

Expand link learning models and career pathways.

Working to improve school culture and combat bullying of all kinds.

Raising household incomes in poor communities;

Ensuring children have health care, style housing;

Ensuring children have a community free of violence

Increasing transparency and accountability for all charter schools.

Removing barriers to states which seek to experiment with plans to ensure universal health care

Repealing the excise tax on high-cost health insurance;

making premiums more affordable;

Reducing out-of-pocket expenses;

Capping prescription drug costs;

Fighting  Medicare privatization and elimination of Medicaid, and SNAP

Expanding the ACA Medicaid expansion.

Encouraging providers to work with underserved populations through the National Health Service Corp;

Prohibiting anti-completive “pay for delay” deals that keep generic drugs off the market;

Allowing individuals, pharmacists, and wholesalers to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries with appropriate safety protections;

Assuring Medicare negotiates lower prices;

Fully funding NIH

Promoting better practices by prescribers;

Fully implementing the protections of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008

Educating our youth, families, teachers, coaches, etc. to intervene early

Expanding community-based treatment for substance abuse disorders and mental health conditions;

Creating a national initiative around suicide prevention;

Conducting a nationwide early screening outreach campaign;

Pushing states to require health insurance coverage for autism services

People with autism are not denied care.

Repealing the Hyde Amendment;

Opposing laws that impede a woman’s access to abortion;

Defending the ACA’s incursion of no-cost contraception

Providing services during pregnancy and after bthe birth of a child, including adoption and social support services.

Protecting women against pregnancy discrimination;

Creating a society where children are safe and can thrive.

Supporting the Violence Against Women Act;

Closing dangerous loopholes in our current laws;

Repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act;

Keeping weapons of war off our streets;

Giving the CDC the resources it needs to study gun violence as public health issue.

opposing attempts to cut public health services and funding;

Ensuring adequate funding of public health eduction at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels;

Increasing investments and coordination in public health;

Addressing social factors and empowering communities to respond to their most pressing health needs.

Supporting laws that recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman;

Reversing the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage;

Opposing government discrimination against businesses or entires which decline to sell items or services to individuals for activities that go against their religious views;

Removing structural inpediments such as over-regulation of start-up enterprises

Removing excessive licensing requirements;

Removing needless restriction on formation of schools and day-care centers;

Removing restrictions on providing public services in fields like transport and sanitation;

Protecting teachers against frivolous lawsuits;

Allowing reasonable actions to maintain discipline and order;

Replacing rigid tenure systems with merit-based approach;

Background checking all personnel who interact with school children.

Making technology a key element in education;

Allowing Title I and IDEA funds follow the child to whatever school the family thinks will work best;

Repealing federal regulations which interfere with state and local control of public schools;

Advancing the concept of block grants;

Opposing divisive programs that limit students’ ability to advance in American society;

Opposing school-based clinic  that provide referral or counseling for abortion and contraception;

Defunding mandatory or universal mental health,, psychiatric or socio-emotional screening programs;

Raising household incomes in poor communities;

Ensuring children have health care, style housing;

Ensuring children have a community free of violence

Saluting states that filed suit against the use of Title IX;

Condemning campus-based Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns against Israel;

Ending “safe zones”

Empowering states to allow a wide array of accrediting and credentialing bodies to operate;

Reducing mandates and increasing healthcare options;

Proposing a block grant for Medicaid;

Returning regulation to the states;

Implementing programs to protect against elder abuse.

Codifying the Hyde Amendment;

calling for a permanent ban on federal funding and subsidies for abortion and healthcare plans that include abortion coverage;

Banning human cloning for research or reproduction;

Banning the creation of, or experimentation on, human embryos for research;

Applauding the ban on FDA approval of research involving three-parent embryos;

Cutting federal and state funding for entities that endanger women’s health by performing abortions in a manner inconsistent with federal or state laws;

The United States remains the world leader in life sciences and medical innovation;

Millions of high-paying, cutting-edge device and drug jobs stay in the US.

US patients benefit first and most from new devices and drugs.

The FDA no longer wastes US taxpayer and innovators’ resources through bureaucratic red tape and legal uncertainty.

Restructuring the tax code to consider ways companies can benefit from the talent and energy of disabled employees.

Mininmizing the separation of children with disabilities from their peers;

Endorsing efforts like Employment First;

We replace dependency with jobs in the mainstream of the American workforce.

Opposing the non-consensual withholding of care or treatment from people with disabilities, including newborns, the elderly, and infirm;

Opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide;

Requiring the President to adhere to the rule of law;

Creating a bipartisan presidential commission to purge the Code and the body of regulations of old “crimes.”

Urging Congress to codify the Common Law’s Rule of Lenity;

We have fewer crimes.

Encouraging states to offer opportunities for literacy and vocational education;

Enacting mandatory prison time for all assaults involving serious injury to law enforcement officers;

Targeting particular categories of crime, such as nonviolent offenders and persons with drug, alcohol, or mental health issues,  for any modification of mandatory sentences

Urging energetic prosecution of child pornography, which is lclosely linked to human tafficking.

Passing the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.