Bob Brooks

Democratic Party (D)
U.S. Representative (District 7) · District 7, Pennsylvania, United States of America · 2026
PurposeBrooks, a firefighter and union leader, is challenging Mackenzie on a platform of Medicare for All, campaign-finance reform, and expanded transit investment in the Lehigh Valley.

Economy
On the economy, Brooks's issues page calls for repealing Citizens United, banning congressional stock trading, term limits, raising taxes on the wealthy including a billionaire minimum tax, repealing the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation, strengthening unions through the PRO Act, and enforcing price-gouging and antitrust rules; it also calls for protecting Social Security and passing a "Medicare/Social Security Fair Share Act."

Health
On health care, the campaign calls for implementing Medicare for All, restoring Medicaid cuts, reducing drug prices for medications like insulin and beta-blockers, expanding provider access in underserved areas, and reducing reliance on private-insurance profits.

Security
On public safety, the campaign backs fully funding first responders, investing in mental-health and addiction services, and defending collective bargaining for first responders, alongside veterans' healthcare, mental-health services, job training, and housing support and reversing VA funding cuts.

Immigration
On immigration, the campaign calls for securing the border "while treating people humanely," creating pathways to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants, and ending what it calls authoritarian enforcement practices.

Education
On education and childcare, the campaign calls for repealing Republican Head Start cuts, childcare subsidies, expanded pre-K and universal kindergarten, adequately funding public schools without vouchers, protecting teacher collective bargaining, and expanding vocational training and student-debt relief.

Infrastructure
On infrastructure, the campaign calls for expanding capacity at Lehigh Valley International Airport, restoring passenger rail service to Philadelphia and New York, improving traffic flow on Routes 22, 33, and 78, and supporting SEPTA expansion; it separately proposes restoring renewable-energy programs and investing in nuclear and natural-gas power.

Governance
On governance, the campaign calls for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, a ban on congressional stock trading, and stopping the firing of inspectors general.

Governance
The campaign's issues page also addresses regional concerns specific to Carbon County and the Lehigh Valley — limiting warehouse and data-center growth and preserving farmland — plus LGBTQ+ rights, gun policy, and foreign policy positions on Ukraine and Iran.

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