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<h2 style="text-align: center;">A Veteran and Obama Alum</h2><span class="image image-framed image-right image-tilt-right" style="width: 42.5%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/14d84d79-60f4-48a6-8537-8ed9721f92d3/935e3415-7a80-4034-929f-55736c2de372/935e3415-7a80-4034-929f-55736c2de372.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C58%2C1834%2C1508&amp;w=1500" alt="Luke in Uniform" caption="" align="right" alignwidth="42.5" tiltdirection="right" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">A Rhodes Scholar, Luke served as a Navy intelligence officer and deployed to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. military’s anti-corruption task force.</strong></span></p><p><strong>There, Luke saw what happens when corruption replaces the rule of law: trust in government collapses, the well-connected benefit, and everyone else gets hurt.</strong></p><p><strong>Luke served as a senior official in President Obama’s Treasury Department and was part of the team that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to protect Americans from predatory lending and financial abuse.</strong></p><p><strong>Later, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.</strong></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-bg0-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-bg0-text);"><em>“I am honored to have earned the support of leaders and organizations in every corner of this district. I'm proud of the movement we're building, and I hope you'll join me.” -Luke</em></span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Updated July 10, 2026</strong></span><strong><br></strong></p><p>Voters across the district, including those who don’t typically vote in primaries, need to read and see that Luke Bronin will bring the new energy Democrats need to fight back against Trump and fix a broken system. John Larson is a good man, but he’s entrenched in this broken system – taking over $5 million in Corporate PAC donations, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Pharma and Big Banks. Luke Bronin refuses to take corporate PAC money, will make big corporations pay what they owe, will work to lower costs for working families and the middle class, abolish ICE, reverse Trump’s cuts to our health care, and repeal tax cuts for the super wealthy. John Larson has held elected office for nearly 50 years and is part of the broken political system where the big corporations call the shots, and Americans pay for it in higher prices. It’s time for new voices and new energy – that’s why the Connecticut Democratic Party has endorsed Luke Bronin.</p><p>Please check back for additional updates, photos, and video.</p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“We have so much respect for Congressman Larson, but this moment makes it clear it's time for new leadership in the Democratic Party and a different kind of candidate. That is why we are proud to support Luke Bronin for Congress. We ran our campaign reaching out to every single East Granby resident regardless of their party or beliefs, and we won because that's exactly what voters want from their elected officials right now. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Integrity, action, and the willingness to serve everyone in your community above all else.</strong>”</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“We appreciate everything John Larson has done for our district for the last twenty-eight years. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">But we hear from our constituents every day that they want to see big changes in Washington, because things feel so broken and so stuck right now. </strong>We need people who can bring some new energy to the fight to stop the corruption that’s destroying our politics and to help build an economy that actually works for working families. We saw Luke bring that new energy to Hartford as Mayor, and we know he’ll do it in Congress, too.”</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“We are proud to endorse our former mayor Luke Bronin for Congress. We’ve seen his work and his leadership up close, and he is exactly the kind of leader we need in Congress. He works twenty-four seven, he’s never afraid to tackle the hardest problems, and he’s serious about building partnerships to get things done. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">We cannot think of a better fighter for Hartford or for the communities of the First District.</strong>”</span><br></p>

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<h5 style="text-align: center;">Newington Deputy Mayor Kim Radda; Board of Education Chair Amy Devoe Perotti &amp; Members Jessica Weaver, Meri Beatrice, &amp; Shaun Holloran; and Councilmembers Kathy Gonzales, Hilda Nieves, &amp; AJ Tiniakos</h5><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“If we want to stand up to Trump and win back Congress and the White House, we can’t keep organizing or campaigning the same way. What we hear from our constituents is that they want policies and legislation that will make not only our state, but our country more equitable and affordable. To do that, we must work to drive down the costs of housing, childcare, education, healthcare, utilities. We need a new voice in Washington. Luke Bronin has been a friend to Newington. He hears and understands our concerns. <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">He has the energy and drive to show up every day and work hard for our community and our state. </strong>And he is going to stand up against Donald Trump and his MAGA allies to fight corruption and rebuild a government that works for all of us, not just the people at the top.”</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“We are proud to endorse Luke for Congress.</strong> We respect all the candidates in this race, but Luke is the right candidate to deliver for West Hartford and this district in Congress. Long before he began running for office, he’s spent lots of time in our community.&nbsp;As a former Mayor who’s also served at the federal and state level, he knows how to build coalitions and get things done. And beyond that, <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">we believe that he’s bringing the energy that the Democratic Party needs if we’re going to protect the values that are so important to our community here in West Hartford.”&nbsp;</strong></span><br></p>

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<h4><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">A Note from Luke:</span></h4><p><em>Our country is in crisis. We’re witnessing unprecedented corruption, abuse of power, and an all-out assault on our Constitution. Our government isn’t working. And for too long, most Americans have felt like our economy isn’t working, either. They’re right.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>We need to defeat Trump and the MAGA movement. But being against Trump isn’t enough. We need to put forward a clear agenda – and deliver. Here are some of my thoughts and priorities, from combatting corruption to bringing down costs.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>Policy matters. But to get any of this stuff done, we need members of Congress who are out there every day building the political movement to make it possible. That’s why it’s so important to get new energy, new ideas, and new perspectives in Washington – right now.</em></p><p><em>Over the course of the campaign we’ll add to this page, and follow me on social to hear my latest views on policy issues. If you have a policy idea you want our campaign to consider, email us: </em><a href="mailto:ideas@broninforcongress.com"><em>ideas@broninforcongress.com</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>– Luke B.</em></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Information About Connecticut's 1st Congressional District Primary Election on August 11, 2026</span></h4><p></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Why is Luke Bronin running for Congress?</strong></span></p><p>Luke Bronin is running for Congress because our country is in crisis: billionaires are receiving tax breaks while Connecticut families struggle with the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, and childcare. A father of three school-aged children, Luke believes the country needs a new direction for the Democratic Party beyond opposition to Trump and the MAGA movement. He’s running to bring new energy, ideas, and perspective to Congress and build a political movement that gets things done for working families.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">What is Luke Bronin’s background and experience?</strong></span><br></p><p>Luke Bronin served as Mayor of Hartford from 2016 to 2024. As Mayor, Luke led the effort to save Hartford from bankruptcy and stabilize its finances. He brought in record investment in housing that produced thousands of affordable units, created the nationally recognized Hartford Youth Service Corps, and led the city through the COVID-19 pandemic.<br></p><p>Before becoming mayor, Luke served as General Counsel to Governor Dannel Malloy, where he helped enact gun safety laws, supported green energy, and prioritized ending chronic homelessness among veterans.<br></p><p>Luke is a Rhodes Scholar and a U.S. Navy veteran from the anti-corruption task force in Afghanistan. He later served as a senior official in President Obama’s Treasury Department where he helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and later served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">What are Luke Bronin’s top policy priorities?</strong></span><br></p><p>Luke Bronin’s top <a href="https://www.broninforcongress.com/issues">policy priorities</a> are:</p><ul><li><p>Bringing down costs for housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare, and eldercare</p></li><li><p>Creating a fairer tax code and fighting corruption</p></li><li><p>Abolishing ICE and reforming immigration enforcement</p></li><li><p>Protecting Medicare and Medicaid while pushing for universal, affordable healthcare</p></li><li><p>Protecting reproductive freedom</p><p><br></p></li></ul><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">What is Luke Bronin’s position on healthcare?</strong></span><strong><br></strong></p><p>Luke Bronin believes the U.S. healthcare system needs major structural change. He supports protecting and strengthening Medicare and Medicate, negotiating down the price of prescription drugs, and creating a universal and affordable option so every American has access to care. Luke supports passing the Break Up Big Medicine Act to break up healthcare monopolies, and he will fight to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to all.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Where does Luke Bronin stand on taxes?</strong></span><strong><br></strong></p><p>Luke Bronin supports a tax code that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. Luke’s tax plan would close loopholes that benefit the wealthy at the expense of working Americans and ensure the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations pay their fair share. This includes rolling back the Trump administration's tax cuts for high-income earners and adding two new top income tax brackets.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Is Luke Bronin a progressive or moderate Democrat?</strong></span><strong><br></strong></p><p>Luke is a policy and results-driven Democrat, working to build new energy and momentum within the Democratic Party. From making billionaires pay their share and breaking up healthcare monopolies to codifying Roe v. Wade and banning assault weapons, Luke will fight for everyday Americans so we have an economy and government that works for all. Luke will never accept corporate PAC contributions and has taken the End Citizens United “Unrig Washington” Pledge.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">What makes Luke Bronin different from other candidates?</strong></span><strong><br></strong></p><p>Luke Bronin’s campaign is about developing a clear, affirmative agenda and electing new members of Congress willing to build the political movement to deliver it. Luke is the only candidate to have run a city government. As Mayor of Hartford, Luke led the city from the brink of bankruptcy and through the COVID-19 pandemic while balancing the budget and overseeing public safety. Luke also brings national security and anti-corruption experience from his time in Afghanistan and the Obama Treasury Department. That combination of running a major city’s government and budget as well as confronting corruption at the federal level gives Luke a clear understanding of how the government delivers (or fails to deliver) for people, and how to fight the ongoing abuse of money and power.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Why should I vote for Luke Bronin?</strong></span><br></p><p>Luke Bronin is running on a message of new energy and a new generation of leadership for the Democratic Party. Luke offers a rare combination of Connecticut and federal government experience from his time as Mayor of Hartford and service in the Obama Treasury, spending his career working on the issues he’ll take on in Congress. Luke will fight for affordability and a fair tax code to support working Americans, while combatting the corruption and the all-out assault on our Constitution.</p>

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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">“<strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Luke has always understood that the future of the Democratic Party depends on investing in young people, new voices, and the next generation of leaders.</strong> Time and time again, he has worked side by side with young Democrats, supported younger candidates and elected officials, and helped young organizers, staff, and community leaders take on meaningful roles in public life.” <strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">-Andre Simons, Executive Board Member</strong></span></p>

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Serving Connecticut Families</h2><span class="image image-framed image-left image-tilt-left" style="width: 40%;"><span class="image-inner-wrapper"><img src="https://run.imgix.net/14d84d79-60f4-48a6-8537-8ed9721f92d3/99a3dc19-0231-4217-b841-8543e9dee9f9/99a3dc19-0231-4217-b841-8543e9dee9f9.jpg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C292%2C3862%2C2708&amp;w=1500" alt="Luke Bronin with Rebuilding Together Group" caption="" align="left" alignwidth="40" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed"></span><span class="caption" style="display: none;"></span></span><p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Prior to his terms as Mayor, Luke served as General Counsel to former Governor Dannel Malloy, where he helped enact Connecticut’s common sense gun laws, supported green energy initiatives, and made ending chronic homelessness among veterans a priority.</strong></span></p><h5><em>Luke will be the Congressman we need to meet the moment and take our country back.</em></h5>

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<p>Childcare and eldercare costs are forcing families into impossible choices.</p><p>These costs fall hardest on women and working families, and they hold back the entire economy by sidelining people who want to be working. Meanwhile, caregivers themselves are underpaid and undervalued.</p><p>We need to treat care as essential and worthy of fair pay, especially as so many more Americans live longer into old age.&nbsp;</p><p>That means expanding access to affordable childcare and eldercare, raising wages for caregivers, and helping families pay for care without going broke.</p><p><strong>Supporting care isn’t just about compassion. It’s smart economic policy.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Childcare and eldercare costs are forcing families into impossible choices. We need to treat care as essential and worthy of fair pay, especially as so many more Americans live longer into old age.&nbsp;</strong></p>

<h2>Affordable Childcare &amp; Eldercare</h2>

<p>The housing crisis is one of the biggest issues facing Connecticut.</p><p>Young people can’t find or afford a place to rent, young families can’t find or afford to buy a home, and our seniors who want to downsize but stay in their communities just can’t do it. It’s hurting our families, our communities, and our state.&nbsp;</p><p>One of the biggest reasons is that we just don’t build enough housing, here or across the country.</p><p><strong>As a member of Congress, one of my top priorities will be making sure that the federal government gets serious about housing.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>We need to incentivize smart development around transit.</p><p>We need more flexible federal financing tools, to help communities build a mix of market rate and affordable housing in a way that’s healthy for neighborhoods.</p><p>We need to accelerate the use of new materials to bring down costs.</p><p>And we need to make sure that slumlords and absentee-landlords can be held accountable.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>The housing crisis is one of the biggest issues facing Connecticut. It’s hurting our families, our communities, and our state.&nbsp;As a member of Congress, one of my top priorities will be making sure that the federal government gets serious about housing.&nbsp;</strong></p>

<h2>Building More Housing</h2>

<h4>Out with the old? Young Democrats are trying to convince voters to send a new generation to Congress</h4>

<p><strong>Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.</strong></p><p>Every woman must have the right to decide what to do with her body, what is best for her health, and when, how, and whether she wants to start a family. Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.</p><p>As Mayor, I led the passage of one of the first ordinances in the country to protect against the abuses of crisis pregnancy centers, which often mislead women who are seeking reproductive care. <strong>That ordinance became a model for legislation in the state of Connecticut.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>And as a member of Congress, I will fight to make sure that my two daughters have the same rights as their mother and grandmothers had, no matter where they live in this country.</p>

<p><strong>Reproductive freedom is a basic human right. Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.</strong></p>

<h2>Safeguarding Reproductive Freedom</h2>

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<p>High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. We need to build more housing, produce cheaper renewable energy, and make sure markets actually work to give consumers real choices.</p><p><strong>As a member of Congress, I will focus relentlessly to make life easier and more affordable.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Policy choices have directly driven up costs. The biggest example is Trump’s tariffs and unnecessary trade wars. But we’ve also made it way too hard and costly to build housing. We’ve prohibited Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating drug prices on all but a handful of drugs. And we’ve turned a blind eye when the consolidation of corporate power reduces competition and drives up costs.&nbsp;</p><p>In some areas, we need to make investments that the private sector won’t make on its own. For example, expanding the supply of clean energy, building a modern electric grid, and building 21st century transit.&nbsp;</p><p>Making things more affordable means being serious about how markets actually work and recognizing when they don’t. It means fixing bottlenecks that artificially drive up prices, from permitting delays to outdated regulations. It means making smart public investments. And it means doing everything possible to create more good, well-paid jobs.</p>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">High costs are crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans – housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare and eldercare. As a member of Congress, I will focus relentlessly to make life easier and more affordable.&nbsp;</strong></span></p>

<h2>Bringing Down Costs</h2>

<p>Gun violence isn’t an abstract issue for me. As Mayor, I’ve sat in too many living rooms with parents or grandparents who’ve lost kids to gun violence. I’ve been to too many funerals and watched children grieving the death of their friends.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>I’ve also seen that smart prevention, effective policing, and common-sense gun laws can actually make a difference.</strong></p><p>As General Counsel to Connecticut’s Governor in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook, I helped to write the comprehensive set of common-sense gun laws that made Connecticut a model when it comes to gun safety.</p><p>As mayor, I supported new and expanded prevention initiatives and <em>also</em> demanded real accountability for people involved in gun violence.</p><p>As a member of Congress, I’ll bring that same commitment to Washington.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>I’ll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and serious consequences for gun dealers and gun manufacturers who break the law.</p><p>I’ll support vital community violence prevention work like violence interrupters and hospital-based violence intervention programs.&nbsp;</p><p>And I’ll work to reverse the Trump administration’s damaging cuts to ATF, which is a vital partner in helping to trace crime guns and identify the illegal gun dealers that flood our streets with guns.&nbsp;ATF needs to be strengthened, not cut.</p>

<p><strong>I’ll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and serious consequences for gun dealers and gun manufacturers who break the law.&nbsp;</strong></p>

<h2>Reducing Gun Violence</h2>

<p>The tax code is riddled with loopholes that reward wealth over work and allow those at the top to avoid paying what they owe. Meanwhile, working families and small businesses carry the burden, and we’re building up debt at a level that’s going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids.&nbsp;</p><p>We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. That means closing ridiculous loopholes, making it harder to shield huge fortunes from taxes for generation after generation, and ensuring the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations actually pay their fair share.&nbsp;</p><p>Why does this matter? Because right now, we’re racking up levels of deficits and debt that are going to crush our economy in the long-run. We’re literally borrowing from our kids to fund loopholes for the ultra-wealthy today.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Here's my plan:</strong></p><h5>1.&nbsp;Close Ridiculous Loopholes</h5><p><strong>End multiple loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest Americans</strong>, from the carried interest loophole which lets hedge fund managers treat their fees as capital gains, to the loopholes that allow wealthy families to avoid tax liabilities by borrowing against their assets and passing investments onto their heirs without paying capital gains.</p><p><strong>Curb permanent wealth concentration by increasing the estate tax and ending dynastic trusts</strong>, so the ultra-wealthy can’t shield assets that exist in perpetuity, indefinitely transferring wealth across generations while avoiding gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.</p><h5>2.&nbsp;Make the Wealthiest Americans and the Biggest Corporations Pay a Fairer Share</h5><p><strong>Make the richest Americans pay a fairer share&nbsp;by reversing decades of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy</strong>, rolling back Trump’s tax cut for high income earners, and adding two new top income tax brackets.</p><p><strong>Make the capital gains tax more progressive</strong> so earnings from long-term investments aren’t taxed at far, far lower rates than ordinary income.</p><p><strong>Make big corporations pay what they owe</strong>&nbsp;by restoring the corporate tax rate back to the pre-Trump rate of 35% or at minimum to 28%, while shutting down offshore tax avoidance schemes that allow corporations to dodge taxes by offshoring profits.</p><p>Actually&nbsp;<strong>enforce tax laws against the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations</strong>, which use armies of lawyers and accountants to dodge what they owe — and which the Trump administration has made easier by gutting the IRS.</p>

<p><strong>We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. That means closing ridiculous loopholes, making it harder to shield huge fortunes from taxes for generation after generation, and ensuring the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations actually pay their fair share.</strong></p>

<h2>Creating a Fair Tax Code</h2>

<p>When voters talk to me about AI in this district, I hear a version of the same thing: nobody asked us. It showed up in our kids' phones, in the hiring process, in our electric bills, and there's no one in charge of it. That worry isn't irrational and it isn't anti-technology. It's what people feel when something this big moves this fast and the rules are nowhere in sight. It’s important that the United States continue leading the world in AI development, but we need to make sure it’s developed safely and works for people, not just tech companies and billionaires.</p><p><strong>As a Member of Congress, my job will be to make sure AI innovation means more money in your pocket, not less.</strong></p><p>We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers. The people I hear this from most are in their forties and fifties, good at what they do, quietly wondering whether the job they trained for will exist in five years. Nobody has given them a straight answer. They deserve one.</p><p>We also need to make sure that we guard against the risks that AI will pose to our national security, and that our tax code is fair so that the AI boom doesn’t just supercharge wealth concentration at the top, but instead helps us make new investments in people, in jobs, in infrastructure, in education, and in communities.</p><p><strong>In Congress, I’ll always evaluate AI policy proposals with these values in mind.</strong></p><p>Congress should act quickly to establish a federal framework for AI that includes clear standards for transparency and testing. That will require increased investment in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to ensure that the federal government has the capacity to test &amp; evaluate models for safety and alignment.</p><p>Connecticut has recently enacted landmark legislation to protect our kids, workers, and whistleblowers. Congress should build on these policies.</p><p>Congress should also take action to maintain our international lead in AI development, because winning the AI race doesn't mean running it without rules, it means being the country that writes them. I spent years in Obama’s Treasury Department building the Iran sanctions program and chasing terrorist financing, and I deployed to Afghanistan as a Navy intelligence officer. I know what it looks like when a capability outruns the rules around it. This is where we are with frontier AI right now, which is why we need to strengthen our export controls so advanced computer chips don’t fall into the wrong hands. And we need to treat the theft of frontier AI models like a national security threat by requiring labs to strengthen their security to government-grade standards.</p><p>I hear it from parents everywhere I go, and there's a particular kind of dread in it: something is talking to your kid all day and you have no idea what it's saying. No parent should have to be a software engineer to keep their child safe. We’ve watched as social media has harmed a generation of kids’ mental health, and we can’t let the same happen with AI chatbots. I’d be proud to join Sen. Blumenthal in pushing for the GUARD Act, which would bar minors from accessing chatbots and mandate disclosure that chatbots aren’t humans or licensed professionals. We cannot allow AI companies to put their bottom lines before kids’ wellbeing.</p><p>We also have got to make sure that we’re prepared for the way that AI will transform our economy. I ran a city that lived through what happens when the economy changes and nobody plans for it. Hartford did not get hollowed out overnight. It got hollowed out because the people making decisions decided the workers who got left behind were somebody else’s problem. I am not going to sit in Congress and watch that happen again on a national scale and call it innovation.</p>

<p><strong>As a Member of Congress, my job will be to make sure AI innovation means more money in your pocket, not less. We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI without letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids.</strong></p>

<h2>Getting the Balance Right with Artificial Intelligence</h2>

<p>The Democratic Party created Social Security nearly a century ago, and we’ve protected it ever since.</p><p><strong>It’s more than a promise — it’s earned. </strong>And it needs to be secure for generations to come.&nbsp;</p><p>As a member of Congress, I’ll work to ensure that Social Security is there for everyone who’s receiving it now, and for everyone who’s paying into it now and depending on it in the future.</p><h2></h2>

<p><strong>As a Member of Congress, I’ll work to ensure that Social Security is there for everyone who’s receiving it now, and for everyone who’s paying into it now and depending on it in the future.</strong></p>

<h2>Strengthening Social Security</h2>

<p>Every person deserves to live freely, safely, and with dignity, no matter who they love or how they identify. Connecticut has been a leader in protecting basic rights for LGBTQ+ Americans, but across the country, those rights are under attack.</p><p><strong>As mayor, I worked to make city government more inclusive, and Hartford earned one of the </strong><a href="https://ctmirror.org/2019/11/20/connecticut-communities-score-high-on-lgbtq-issues-civil-rights-group-says/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>highest</strong></a><strong> LGBTQ+ equality scores in the country.<br></strong></p><p>In Congress, I’ll fight to pass the Equality Act, because we must ensure that LGBTQ+ Americans are protected from discrimination under federal law. I’ll also fight to enshrine protections for marriage quality and I’ll support the Global Respect Act to help protect LGBTQ+ people around the world who face physical harm and persecution.</p><p>Equality shouldn’t depend on your zip code, and no American should be denied a job, a home, health care, or basic dignity because of who they are.</p>

<p><strong>Every person deserves to live freely, safely, and with dignity, no matter who they love or how they identify. Equality shouldn’t depend on your zip code, and no American should be denied a job, a home, health care, or basic dignity because of who they are.</strong></p>

<h2>Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights</h2>

<p>As a Member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand support to quality classroom education across the country, from early childhood education all the way through to affordable pathways to college or skilled trades.</p><p>In this age of addictive algorithms and short attention spans, we should ban phones in schools. Period.</p><p>We should invest more in people, with smaller class sizes, stronger teacher training and recruitment, better teacher pay.</p><p>And we need to make sure schools are actually using the best practices that we know actually work to help kids learn.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>As artificial intelligence comes at us fast, it’s more important than ever that every single child in America is prepared to be a strong critical thinker.</strong></p><p>We need to double down on the fundamentals of reading, math, science, and history.</p><p>We need to help students learn the social skills of listening, disagreement, and debate.</p><p>And we need to make sure that every child, regardless of where they live, gets full and fair access to arts and sports.</p>

<p><strong>As a member of Congress, I’ll fight to expand support to quality classroom education across the country, from early childhood education all the way through to affordable pathways to college or skilled trades.&nbsp;</strong></p>

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