Since my first week in the General Assembly, I have stood up to defend our basic, most important freedoms – especially protecting our communities from ICE and other federal overreach that threatens our voting rights and elections.

• Women’s Privacy Rights: I believe passionately in and have fought fiercely to protect a woman’s reproductive right and freedoms.
• Voting Rights and Elections: With a seat on Gov. Matt Meyer’s Task Force on Free, Fair, and Secure Elections and as Senate Elections Committee Chair, I work to bring about further security for our voting rights and election security.
  • This year, I sponsored “election protection” legislation because the right to vote is foundational and one that we Americans hold sacred as a free people. That right is under attack by Donald Trump. I helped lead the Delaware John Lewis Voting Rights Act to bipartisan victory, strengthening protections for every eligible voter ensuring that ballots can be cast freely, counted accurately, and without intimidation. The work continues in my role as Senate Election Committee Chair on Gov. Matt Meyer’s newly-created Task Force on Free, Fair, and Secure Elections.
• Campaign Finance Transparency: Delaware’s campaign finance laws must be changed to increase and clarify third party ‘outside’ spending’ requirements.
• Fighting Federal Voting Threats: I worked closely this past year on “election protection” efforts as the Trump Administration has attempted to force the Delaware Department of Education to turn over protected personal voter information.
• Gun Violence Prevention: The freedom to live in a safe community is fundamentally important to each of us. After 14 years, Delaware is now considered a national leader in gun violence prevention. Still, gun violence lurks and remains a leading cause of death in our country for children and those suffering from mental illness, especially suicide.
  • Continue to protect and vigorously enforce gun violence prevention laws that have been enacted in the face of numerous lawsuits from the ‘gun lobby’. Examples of such laws include: Secure Storage, Lethal Violence Protective Orders, and Permit to Purchase Guns statutes … all of which are saving lives.
  • I believe that with rights come responsibilities. Protecting the Second Amendment also means that we must have laws and policies that protect our communities and require gun owners to act responsibly.