Protecting What's Important

Catherine’s key initiatives shaping WA-01’s future.

Term Limits

I propose that all branches of government have term limits to protect the interests of American citizens and not the greed of career politicians. I will support legislation to establish term limits, and to prevent former members of congress from becoming lobbyists.

Clean, Affordable Energy

Americans need affordable energy to heat our homes and cook our food. By investing in renewable energy sources and rebuilding the national energy grid, we can ensure that every home in America has reliable power when they need it most. I support the Green New Deal, and will write each piece of it separately if I have to in order to pass it.

Environmental Sustainability

We have a right to clean air, water, and food grown from unpoisoned land. We need to strengthen the power of the EPA to enforce laws, and to write stricter laws to protect our lands and combat climate change. We need to have plans in place for disaster relief, but we also need to make drastic changes in land stewardship to lessen the occurrence of these disasters.

Click here to learn more about my plans for environmental protection.

Education

Our children deserve to go to schools and be safe, fed, and supported as they learn to become the leaders of the future. The department of education needs more funding to support school districts nationwide that need help.

Student debt is crippling, and over 43 million Americans have student loans that equal to over 1.75 TRILLION dollars. These are working adults who cannot pay their loans because of unstable job markets, an increase in education costs, and stagnant wages. We can ease this burden by forgiving federal student loans and establishing free higher education at public colleges and universities across the country.

Anti-lobbying

Lobbying is bribery, and those with the most money are buying legislation. Lobbying is the reason it's so hard to file your taxes. Lobbying is the reason your dental insurance is not part of health insurance. It needs to go. While I support HR1601: Ban Members from Becoming Lobbyists Act, I believe we need to go further and ban money in lobbying altogether.

Immigration

The United States was built on immigration. American was known as the great Melting Pot. We need immigrants today to keep our culture robust, to own small businesses and bring life into our communities. The immigration process today is confusing, difficult, and tedious. I propose major reform to the immigration process to allow our neighbors to come here safely and live, work, and participate in society. I will work to make that process easier, as well as the path to citizenship.

Healthcare

Healthcare is not an industry, and hospitals should not be for profit. Healthcare is a human right. Getting laid off shouldn't come with a loss of health insurance. Your insulin should not be so expensive that you have to take out a loan just so you don't ration it. Studies have shown that single payer is more affordable than the system we have. Both for individuals like you and me, and for the government. I will vote for Medicare for All. For All.

Medical patents must be abolished. A newly created, life-saving medication needs to be shared with the world, not kept secret to create maximum profits. Pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are in the market to maximize profits over people, and we are all suffering for it. I will work to pass legislation making patents for medications illegal.

Gun Violence

At the time of this writing, there have been 187 mass shootings in the USA so far in 2026. We are only 142 days into the year. There have been more mass shootings than there have been days in 2026. This is completely unacceptable. And this doesn't even account for single deaths, either by homicide, suicide, or accidental deaths from gun violence, sometimes known as 'family fire'.

The ATF is not able to protect people from gun violence because there are not enough laws for them to enforce.

We need enforceable laws that ensure gun owners are being responsible with storage and handling, prevent violent criminals and domestic abusers from easily accessing firearms, and close loopholes that allow private sales without background checks.

Every firearm must be registered and tracked from owner to owner, and licenses should be dependent on proper background checks, testing of proper firearm handling, and regular audits to ensure safe storage.

Ghost guns and assault weapons must be banned.

The US and Israel

Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, and the US is financing it.

I want to be very clear that I do not support genocide anywhere in the world, and I will work to end US support for the Israeli government as they continue to commit heinous war crimes throughout the Middle East.

I do not accept AIPAC money, and I never will.