California — 3rd District

Ami Bera

Supports proactive wildfire prevention and community resilience

Bera advocates for proactive leadership to address increasing wildfire risks across El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada Counties. He focuses on long-term forest resilience, environmental protection, and ensuring local communities have necessary preparation and recovery resources.

• Addresses wildfire threats impacting public safety, air quality, and regional ecosystems in El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada Counties.
• Supports proactive funding and resources for community wildfire preparation, resilience, and recovery.

“Dr. Bera understands that this challenge requires proactive leadership focused on wildfire prevention, long-term resilience, and ensuring every community has the resources needed to prepare for, withstand, and recover from wildfire risks.”

Robb Tucker

Supports active forest management and timber industry partnerships

Tucker attributes severe wildfire risks to decades of poor forest management and regulatory gridlock. He advocates for aggressive thinning of hazardous dead timber and streamlining federal environmental reviews in partnership with the timber industry.

• Calls for active forest management including tree thinning and removing hazardous dead timber.
• Proposes streamlining regulatory processes that delay wildfire safety projects.
• Partners with the timber industry to maintain federal forest lands.

“We need active, common-sense forest management that includes thinning and the removal of hazardous dead timber. I will work to streamline the regulatory processes that currently stall vital safety projects.”

Ami Bera

Supports innovation, job training, and targeted small business growth

Bera promotes economic policies that foster innovation and competition while expanding job training, particularly in clean energy technologies. In Congress, he voted against major Republican fiscal proposals like the Limit, Save, Grow Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reconciliation measure while supporting the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act.

• Supports helping small businesses grow and incentivizing companies that create local jobs.
• Promotes job training initiatives focused on clean energy technologies.
• Voted against H.R.1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) and the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, while voting Yea on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.

“We need a vibrant economy that preserves the jobs we have while creating new ones through job training, especially in clean energy technologies.”

Robb Tucker

Supports cutting taxes, deregulation, and a balanced budget amendment

Tucker draws on his experience as a family business owner to advocate for rolling back taxes, deregulation, and reducing red tape. He opposes federal overspending as a driver of inflation and advocates for a constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment.

• Advocates cutting wasteful spending and scaling back the federal bureaucracy.
• Supports a Balanced Budget Amendment to place permanent guardrails on federal spending.
• Pledges to roll back federal taxes and regulations burdensome to small businesses.

“In Washington, I will fight to roll back the taxes and regulations that hold our local economy back.”

“I will strongly support efforts to cut wasteful and fraudulent spending in the federal government, scale back the federal bureaucracy across the board, and I will support a balanced budget amendment to permanently create guardrails to ensure fiscal sanity.”

Ami Bera

Supports comprehensive border security alongside targeted enforcement oversight

Bera considers border security an essential element of national security. However, in Congress he has consistently voted against Republican border enforcement and deportation measures such as the Laken Riley Act and the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act.

• Includes border security as a core national security priority.
• Voted Nay on the Laken Riley Act (S.5) requiring detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for theft crimes.
• Voted Nay on H.R.875 to make DUI convictions grounds for deportation or inadmissibility.

“Dr. Bera believes we must be tough and smart not only about challenges we face today, such as securing our borders and fighting terrorism, but also about the emerging threat of nuclear proliferation.”

Robb Tucker

Supports border wall completion and ending sanctuary jurisdiction funding

Tucker views border security as vital to national safety and strongly endorses physical barriers and modern surveillance technology along the Southern Border. He opposes California's sanctuary policies and advocates withholding federal funding from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with ICE and CBP.

• Supports fully funding completion of the Southern Border wall and implementing modern border technology.
• Calls for ending federal funding for sanctuary jurisdictions that impede federal immigration enforcement.
• Advocates a hardline federal enforcement posture to empower ICE and CBP officers.

“I will support continuing to fund the completion of the border wall and the utilization of modern technology to stop illegal crossings.”

“I support ending federal funding for sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement and taking a hardline approach at the federal level to ensure that our ICE and CBP officers can do their job and get dangerous illegal immigrants off our streets.”

Ami Bera

Opposes state judicial/voting restrictions while opposing extreme socialism

Bera voted in favor of House resolutions denouncing socialism while opposing Republican measures restricting federal court injunctions (NORRA) or adding federal voter ID requirements (SAVE Act).

• Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.9 denouncing the horrors of socialism.
• Voted Nay on the SAVE Act (H.R.22) and the No Rogue Rulings Act (H.R.1526).

“H.Con.Res. 9 (Denouncing the horrors of socialism.) was a resolution approved by the House of Representatives denouncing socialism and opposing the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.”

Robb Tucker

Opposes Sacramento state overreach and Governor Gavin Newsom's policies

Tucker campaigns aggressively against what he terms Sacramento overreach and the leadership of California Governor Gavin Newsom. He specifically condemned Bera for comments regarding socialism and promises to hold state politicians accountable.

• Critiques California state governance on homelessness, crime, economy, and wildfire response under Governor Newsom.
• Condemned Bera for comments on the rise of socialism.
• Advocates defending local community decision-making against state mandates.

“I will stand up to Sacramento overreach and defend the right of our communities to determine their own fate. I will be a loud voice highlighting the failures of Newsom and his cronies in the State Capitol.”

“Robb Tucker Condemns Ami Bera’s Comments on the Rise of Socialism”

Ami Bera

Supports expanding patient access, reducing costs, and protecting Medicare

Drawing on his career as a physician, Bera criticizes healthcare corporate bureaucracies that prioritize profits over patients. He advocates for preventive care expansion and pledges to protect Medicare as a guaranteed promise for seniors.

• Leverages his medical background to advocate putting patient care ahead of corporate profits.
• Promotes expanded access to basic preventive care to lower long-term healthcare costs.
• Opposes cuts or privatization efforts affecting Medicare.

“Dr. Bera has spent his professional life caring for people and educating the next generation of doctors.”

“Dr. Bera believes that Medicare and Social Security are guaranteed promises and the key to a dignified retirement.”

Ami Bera

Supports abortion rights, equal pay, and healthcare access

Bera champions women's healthcare autonomy and pay equity as fundamental rights, asserting that reproductive choices belong strictly between a patient and her doctor. Recognized as Planned Parenthood's 2015 National Women's Health Champion, he also supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Paycheck Fairness Act.

• Advocates protecting reproductive healthcare decisions from political interference.
• Earned Planned Parenthood's 2015 National Women's Health Champion award.
• Supports federal equal pay legislation including the Paycheck Fairness Act.

“As a physician, Bera understands that a woman’s decisions about her health care should be between her and her doctor and that it is wrong for politicians to threaten women’s healthcare to score political points.”

Robb Tucker

Opposes gun restrictions and supports national concealed carry reciprocity

Tucker strongly defends Second Amendment rights, opposing California's restrictive gun regulations which he argues penalize law-abiding citizens without curbing violent crime. He advocates for nationwide concealed carry reciprocity and strict enforcement against violent offenders rather than new gun control legislation.

• Opposes new federal gun restrictions on hunters, sportsmen, and gun owners.
• Supports national concealed carry reciprocity legislation.
• Focuses law enforcement efforts on prosecuting violent criminals rather than restricting legal firearms.

“I will strongly oppose any attempt to dilute your second amendment rights. I will also be a champion of policies that counter the harmful approach California has taken—including national concealed carry reciprocity.”

Ami Bera

Supports clean energy transition and science-based Lake Tahoe conservation

Bera advocates transitioning toward sustainable energy practices and green economy initiatives while opposing traditional fossil fuel deregulation. He champions science-based protection of Lake Tahoe to preserve water clarity and local outdoor tourism.

• Promotes clean energy transition to protect long-term economic and environmental sustainability.
• Advocates science-based environmental protections for Lake Tahoe and Sierra natural landscapes.
• Voted Nay on the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1).

“From preserving the lake’s world-renowned clarity to safeguarding the surrounding Sierra landscapes, Dr. Bera is committed to practical, science-based leadership that protects our environment, supports our local economy, and ensures future generations can continue to enjoy this remarkable place.”

Ami Bera

Opposes privatization and supports protecting the Social Security Trust Fund

Bera pledges to protect Social Security from privatization or stock market speculation, viewing it as an indispensable commitment to American seniors. He opposes using the Social Security Trust Fund for non-program spending.

• Signed a pledge to protect Social Security and oppose privatization efforts.
• Opposes investing Social Security Trust Fund assets in the stock market.

“Protecting Social Security also means keeping government’s hands off of the Social Security Trust Fund.”

Ami Bera

Supports expanding VA healthcare staffing and reducing wait times

Bera advocates for increased medical personnel within the Veterans Affairs system to eliminate long wait times for veterans' care, describing the neglect of veterans as unacceptable and un-American.

• Worked across party lines to expand medical staffing within the VA healthcare system.
• Focuses on reducing appointment wait times for military veterans.

“In Washington, Dr. Bera has worked across party lines to get more medical staff into the VA system so that no veteran has to wait for months on end for the care they need.”