Priorities

Protecting Our Climate and Environment

Use Congressional oversight authority to ensure the EPA enforces existing Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act violations starting with the 335 facilities in NJ-07 that have been out of compliance for nine months or longer.
Restore EPA enforcement funding and staffing gutted by the Trump Administration.
Use Congressional oversight authority to ensure New Jersey’s landmark settlements with DuPont ($875 million in direct payments, up to $1.2 billion in cleanup) and 3M ($450 million) reach NJ-07 communities with documented PFAS contamination and help constituents navigate the process of receiving their payouts.
Restore and codify the EPA’s PFAS drinking water limits into federal law, mandate treatment for PFAS discharge entering waterways, and create a publicly accessible federal dashboard with weekly updates on PFAS monitoring across NJ-07.
Restore EPA environmental justice grants and direct them to the NJ-07 communities that have borne the heaviest pollution burdens.
Introduce federal legislation modeled on New Jersey’s ‘Polluters Pay to Make New Jersey More Affordable’ Act (a.k.a. the ‘Climate Superfund’ Act) to require fossil fuel companies to pay cost recovery fees proportional to their historical greenhouse gas emissions towards climate adaptation and resilience projects.

Codify into federal law EPA’s Endangerment Finding, the scientific and legal foundation that had given EPA authority to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act until the Trump Administration gutted it.
Undo the Trump Administration’s assault on New Jersey’s clean energy future by repealing the One Big Beautiful Bill provisions that eliminated EV tax credits, killed residential solar incentives, and rescinded over $5 billion in clean energy grant funding; restoring the Inflation Reduction Act programs that had been lowering energy bills and creating clean energy jobs in New Jersey; and lifting the freeze on federal offshore wind permitting.
Introduce legislation requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure that AI data centers pay their share of grid costs rather than shifting large infrastructure expenses to residential ratepayers.
Restore funding for USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program to help NJ-07’s rural small businesses and agricultural producers access grants and loan guarantees for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements.

Restore funding for USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program so that NJ-07 farmers can again access federal support for sustainable practices, including cover cropping, integrated pest management, and nutrient management.
Restore funding for USDA’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program so that NJ-07 farmers and landowners can resume protection of Highlands farms, forests, and wetlands that supply clean drinking water to millions of New Jerseyans.
Protect and fully deploy Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for lead service line replacement in NJ-07 communities.
Direct Congressional appropriations to flood-vulnerable NJ-07 communities where engineered solutions have repeatedly proven insufficient and green infrastructure, such as riparian buffers and floodplain restoration, is targeted for cuts by this Administration.
Introduce legislation creating a federal resilience fund for inland and riverine communities (similar to what exists for coastal communities) so that managers of the Raritan, Passaic, and other flood-prone waterways can access funding before the next disaster, not just relief after it.

Champion the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to streamline the union election process, strengthen penalties for employer violations, and establish first-contract arbitration procedures, bringing union representation to the millions of workers who currently want a union but are locked out of getting one.
Push for sectoral bargaining standards for prevailing wages that set wage floors and working conditions across entire industries. This approach prevents a race to the bottom and is particularly critical in NJ-07’s retail, hospitality, and service sectors where fragmented employers make traditional union bargaining challenging.
Close the loophole that lets corporations use subcontractors, franchisees, and staffing agencies to avoid bargaining with the workers they actually control by restoring the National Labor Relations Board’s broader joint employer rule.

Champion legislation requiring employers to bargain with workers over the design and implementation of AI systems in the workplace so technology serves workers rather than surveilling and disciplining them.
Push for mandatory advance notice to workers and their unions before AI systems are deployed in their workplace, giving workers a meaningful opportunity to raise concerns and negotiate protections before the technology is in place.
Push for AI to improve work-life balance rather than leading to widespread layoffs.

Champion automatic annual adjustments to the federal minimum wage tied to inflation so Congress can never again let the minimum wage erode in real terms through simple inaction.

Use Congressional oversight authority to demand transparency and accountability from DOGE, including pushing to reinstate workers who were illegally terminated.
Strengthen collective bargaining rights for federal, state, county, and municipal workers and oppose any effort to reclassify career civil servants in ways that strip them of employment protections so they can do their jobs free from political interference.