Michael J. Quirk

Back family farms and ranches: conservation dollars that reach family operations, local meat processing that lets ranchers sell to their neighbors, and fair contract terms for producers

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AI rules that protect people without freezing progress: including privacy protection for what you tell a chatbot

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Consent for training data: AI companies built their models on people’s writing, art, and professional work without asking. The rule should be simple: ask first, pay fairly, or don’t train on it

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Grid Neutrality: a data center pays for the power it needs; your utility bill doesn’t subsidize a server farm

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Crack down on elder fraud: real enforcement against the robocalls and scams targeting seniors, and banks required to pause suspicious out-of-pattern transfers before the savings are gone

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End grocery-tax tariffs: restore open trade with Canada and Mexico; blanket tariffs are a tax families pay at the register

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Stabilize the insurance market: a federal catastrophic reinsurance backstop, long-term flood-insurance reauthorization, and faster FEMA claims when disaster hits

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Fund the way out: federal dollars for evacuation corridors like I-75 and for hardening the local bridges over the Myakka and Peace rivers that this district depends on

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Build reliable power the smart way: nuclear first for always-on energy; solar on rooftops and disturbed land before prime farmland; and data centers sited where the water and the grid can handle the

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Grid Neutrality: a data center pays for the power it needs; your utility bill doesn’t subsidize a server farm

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Send the water south: full funding for Everglades restoration so Lake Okeechobee discharges stop poisoning the Caloosahatchee and our coast

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Fight red tide with science: fully funded research and forecasting, including the work done right here at Mote, with monitoring that doesn’t stop when Washington shuts dow

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Make the Army Corps count our coast: lake-release decisions must weigh the harm to Charlotte Harbor and our economy equally with inland objectives; a dead harbor is a cost, and it counts

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Lower prescription prices: defend Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices, keep the insulin and out-of-pocket caps, and take on the middlemen who inflate prices at the counter

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Keep health coverage affordable: extend the premium tax credits working families rely on, and force insurers to cover mental health care like the health care it is

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Protect Social Security and Medicare: no benefit cuts and no retirement-age increases for current and near-retirees, and the highest earners pay in on every dollar they earn, the way most workers already do.

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Unfreeze condo financing: open federal financing pathways for necessary repairs so sound buildings and their owners aren’t locked out of the market

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Fund the way out: federal dollars for evacuation corridors like I-75 and for hardening the local bridges over the Myakka and Peace rivers that this district depends on

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Protect critical infrastructure: baseline cybersecurity standards for the grid, water systems, hospitals, and ports, with real support for the small utilities that need it most

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No sustained conflict without congressional authorization: debated, voted, on the record

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Retire the twenty-year-old war authorizations: replace them, when genuinely needed, with narrow, mission-specific authorizations that expire

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Objectives, exit conditions, and sunset dates in every military funding measure; no more open-ended checks

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No blank checks for any country, ally or not: military aid gets real conditions on how American weapons are used and a real up-or-down vote, not billions buried in a bill nobody dares touch

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Use the power of the purse: when a president ignores Congress on war, Congress stops writing the checks. That is the one power a veto cannot touch

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Fix Social Security without cutting it: invest a capped share of the trust fund in broad index funds, like Canada has for decades. Not privatization: no individual accounts, and no one's check rides on the market

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Protect Social Security and Medicare: no benefit cuts and no retirement-age increases for current and near-retirees, and the highest earners pay in on every dollar they earn, the way most workers already do.

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Use the power of the purse: when a president ignores Congress on war, Congress stops writing the checks. That is the one power a veto cannot touch

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A warrant before the government reads your communications: no renewal of warrantless-surveillance authority without one

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Close the data-broker loophole: if the government can’t seize your data without a warrant, it shouldn’t be able to buy it either

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A real federal privacy law: companies collect only what they need, you get the right to see and delete what they hold, and violations carry real consequences

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Truth in political advertising: clear disclosure when campaign ads use AI to fake events or voices, showing things that never happened, without policing ordinary speech

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AI rules that protect people without freezing progress: including privacy protection for what you tell a chatbot

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Consent for training data: AI companies built their models on people’s writing, art, and professional work without asking. The rule should be simple: ask first, pay fairly, or don’t train on it

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Protect critical infrastructure: baseline cybersecurity standards for the grid, water systems, hospitals, and ports, with real support for the small utilities that need it most

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Grid Neutrality: a data center pays for the power it needs; your utility bill doesn’t subsidize a server farm

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Deliver for veterans: funded VA care, shorter waits including mental health, a fully staffed crisis line, and a fixed claims backlog

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