John Briscoe

Immigration Family migration is wonderful! Under current law if a family wants to bring in Granny from Cambodia or Vietnam, Granny is welcomed under family repatriation rules. However, the inviting family must promise in writing that Granny will never ever never be on welfare or collect social security. The sponsoring family promises to support Granny for all her remaining days of life. This is fantastic! Families brought together at no risk of taxpayer obligation. Immigration The Federal Government must focus priority resources on getting rid of all convicted felons and criminals from other countries. The infamous “MS-13 Gang” is a prime example of bad seeds planted across our nation. Every “MS-13 Gang” member that is documented and deported represents tens-of-thousands of dollars saved for incarceration costs, community robbery costs, and rape & murders that will not happen. Immigration The US owns and is responsible for maintenance of a secure and locked border. It is the job and duty of the Federal Government to assure that only authorized and approved persons cross our border into the USA. To accomplish this we must do everything possible to stop unauthorized border crossings. These measures can include airplane patrols, motor vehicle patrols, boats in river adjacent borders, radar, and fencing. Infrastructure / Transportation The Federal Government must spend the highway trust fund dollars on infrastructure as intended. Diversions of highway money to alternative uses like the “bullet-train-to nowhere” must stop. Private and public partnerships can extend tax dollars effectiveness with benefits for all. Project Labor Agreements are the bane of cost savings and taxpayer value. Infrastructure / Transportation Our Long Beach harbor is the economic engine of our City of Long Beach in the 47th Congress District. The harbor is one of the largest and busiest in the world with over half of all ship based US imports coming through the Long Beach/LA Harbor complex. We have a problem Houston, Panama has built new canal locks to steal away our Long Beach Port shipments. Heretofore large container ships could not fit through the old nineteenth century locks; shippers were forced to use Long Beach/LA ports. Today New York, Miami, and New Orleans ports are vying to steal our shipping. Congress must do everything possible to bolster the infrastructure of the harbor to keep it competitive with transshipment through the new Panama Canal locks. Healthcare Current Federal Affordable Care Act laws protect preexisting conditions as part and parcel of all health insurance plans and should remain so. Healthcare Hospitals, doctors, drug companies, insurance companies and third party administrators are locked into an evil cabal of price controls that do nothing but go up. In the same hospital for the same procedures and medical care there could be twenty or thirty different prices. The patient cannot see these ‘double-secret-handshake’ price lists because they are negotiated in secret with outside payers. All pricing must become open, published and transparent so the consumer can see what they are paying for and shop around for the best prices for the best services. Infrastructure / Transportation Currently, Congress uses the Highway Trust Fund that we all paid for with our gas tax dollars as a cushion to bolster the budget each year. I will make Congress spend OUR money on OUR roads and bridges as the federal gas tax trust fund was intended. My point is simple, we have the money, the trust fund money belongs to us, SPEND THE MONEY! Defense / Veterans It’s time to STOP the border invasion and promote legal immigration!