Representative in Congress, District 17 candidates

Greg Steube

Currently represents District 17

Matthew Montavon

3 candidates. Listed as they appear on the ballot.

Greg Steube

Matthew Montavon

Greg Steube

Matthew Montavon

Michael J. Quirk

Position on major issues

Greg Steube

A Veteran. A Conservative. A Fighter for Southwest Florida. Congressman Greg Steube is new to many Lee County ballots, but his values are familiar. He is an Army veteran who served in Iraq and a proven conservative who believes public service means showing up, solving problems, and defending the freedoms that make Southwest Florida special. From rebuilding after hurricanes to lowering costs and protecting privacy, Steube is ready to fight for our community from day one.

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Matthew Montavon

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Michael J. Quirk

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Position on major issues

Abortion and reproductive policy

Official statement

I am a staunch defender of the right to life, and I am pleased that many states have sought to protect this right after the Supreme Court correctly decided that the Constitution did not prohibit states from acting to protect the lives of the unborn. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the School Health and Instructional Environment Limits and Disclosure (SHIELD) Act, legislation requiring local educational agencies to notify parents before distributing or disseminating information about abortion or abortion-related services to students. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today reintroduced his plan to prohibit Medicare from funding abortion services via telehealth.

Reproductive health decisions should be between a patient and their medical provider, but state legislators and Supreme Court decisions have diminished that basic principle of individual freedom. Read full quote

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Agriculture and rural policy

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I’ve worked in the agriculture community and know firsthand the issues facing our farmers, ranchers, and producers in Florida. Read full quote

Official record

Voted Yes on Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025

Jun 23, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted Yes on Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026

Apr 30, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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We must secure our borders and uphold the rule of law while simultaneously ensuring our local agricultural, hospitality, and construction sectors have access to a predictable, legal workforce.

An Orderly Pathway to Legal Status: Creating an organized, background-checked, and lawful process for individuals who are currently contributing to our local economy to earn legal status, stabilizing the workforce for Florida's critical small business and agricultural industries.

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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Artificial intelligence

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Voted Yes on AI for Main Street Act

Jan 20, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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

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

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

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Civil rights and freedoms

Official statement

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) joined with Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) today in introducing the Restoring Biological Truth to the Workplace Act. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today reintroduced The Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) sent a letter to President Trump urging the Administration to take additional action to protect Americans’ civil liberties and religious freedoms with respect to vaccine mandates. Read full quote

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As a nation, we need to respect the rights of all people living here under our Constitution, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, or who they love. Read full quote

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Criminal justice and policing

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WASHINGTON–U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) sent a letter of support to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche backing the North Port…

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations (FLAFO) Act, legislation prohibiting federal agencies from purchasing, leasing, operating, accessing, or sharing data with networked Automated License Plate Reader surveillance systems without a judicial warrant. Read full quote

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Voted Yes on National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026

Sep 16, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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Upholding Accountable Enforcement: Supporting our law enforcement professionals by providing strong standards of public accountability and transparency, ensuring community trust is maintained.

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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Economy, jobs and wages

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Voted Yes on Retire through Ownership Act

Sep 16, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted Yes on Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act

Sep 15, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored Permanent CBDC Ban Act

Aug 3, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

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Incentivizing Affordable Housing: Easing housing costs by supporting public-private partnerships and local incentives to build attainable, workforce housing for young professionals, teachers, first responders, and families. Read full quote

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

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

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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Education

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The amendment prohibits the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) from using any funds from this act to purchase, display, or maintain material that promotes radical gender ideology or pornographic content.

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I believe that education should be managed at the state level, and therefore, support the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. Read full quote

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And this June, we introduced the Fairness In Higher Ed Accreditation Act with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to strip woke ideologues of one of their most effective tools for influencing college campuses: the accreditation process

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Envisioning a future where students love learning, quality teachers are paid well, and education isn't banned. Read full quote

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Elections and voting

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Cosponsored Election Infrastructure Integrity Act

Aug 24, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

Cosponsored Protecting Ballot Measures From Foreign Influence Act of 2025

Aug 17, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

Cosponsored To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit the use of Federal funds for election administration in States that permit ballot harvesting.

Feb 4, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

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Congress must immediately pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to enshrine the basic principle of one person, one vote. Read full quote

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Energy

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WASHINGTON—U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) introduced the American Fuel Affordability Act, legislation to lower diesel prices immediately and expand American refining capacity to bring down fuel costs for the long term.

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Domestic energy production is critical to our economy and national security. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON–U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Restoring Economic Diesel (RED) Fuel Act, legislation that would eliminate federal penalties for the sale and use of dyed diesel fuel in traditionally taxable applications, including use on public roads and highways.

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Regional Planning Expertise: Leveraging Matthew's extensive professional background in urban and regional planning to effectively secure federal block grants and infrastructure resources. Read full quote

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

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

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Environment and climate

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I’ve worked in the agriculture community and know firsthand the issues facing our farmers, ranchers, and producers in Florida. Read full quote

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Assuring a swift and safe recovery for all victims of Hurricane Debby, Hurricane Ian, and Hurricane Idalia has been my utmost priority in the aftermath of these horrific disasters. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON—Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and Senator Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) today sent a joint letter to Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to preserve Charlotte County’s eligibility to seek federal funding for septic-to-sewer conversion projects.

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We must deal with the very real crisis of climate change, which is particularly problematic for Florida’s Gulf Coast. Read full quote

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

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

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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Firearms policy

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Gun homicides are 26 times higher in the U.S. than other high-income nations. Read full quote

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Government reform

Official record

Voted Yes on Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.

Sep 2, 2026 · Did not pass · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored Accountability for Government Censorship Act

Sep 1, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

Voted Yes on LACA

Aug 31, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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Healthcare

Official statement

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) led a group of lawmakers in a letter to the Department of Justice yesterday calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to pursue legal action against states that refuse to provide a religious exception for vaccine mandates.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Health Privacy From Global Bureaucrats Act. Read full quote

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Practical Healthcare Solutions: Improving the transparency of healthcare and prescription drug pricing, maximizing market competition, and expanding access to high-quality care without upending consumer choices.

Congress should also fix the Affordable Care Act’s gap in Medicaid coverage, which allows states like Florida to refuse extra federal funds to cover health insurance for low-income families.

We have been told that Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable, that they will not be able to pay out benefits much longer. Read full quote

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

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

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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Housing

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Voted Yes on Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025

Sep 15, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Did not vote on Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6644, with amendment.

May 20, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted Yes on 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act

Feb 9, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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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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Immigration

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The lawlessness we see at our southern border is a direct result of the Biden Administration’s complete dereliction of duty in enforcement of existing immigration laws. Read full quote

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Cosponsored No HUD Funding for Sanctuary Cities Act

Sep 14, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

Infrastructure and transportation

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Voted Yes on Water Resources Development Act of 2026

Sep 16, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored Non-Domiciled CDL Integrity Act

Jul 27, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

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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

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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Local control

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Voted Yes on Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025.

Feb 4, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025.

Feb 2, 2026 · Became law · Source: Congress.gov

Voted Yes on Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022.

Jun 13, 2023 · Did not pass · Source: House Clerk

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National security and foreign policy

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Voted Yes on Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

Sep 16, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted No on Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.

Sep 15, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2026

Jul 27, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

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International trade should be an instrument of peace, not of bullying. International cooperation has been the foundation of peace. We are a world leader and should not willingly cede that position to China.

As a world leader, we must reestablish respect rather than yield to other countries such as China. Read full quote

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

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

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

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Taxes and government spending

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WASHINGTON–On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman Greg Steube’s H.R. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) announced that President Donald Trump signed the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act into law, delivering critical tax relief and certainty to Americans recovering from federally declared natural disasters. Read full quote

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WASHINGTON–U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and Representative Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) today introduced the Safeguarding America’s Nonprofits Act, legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code and clarify that a nonprofit’s federal tax-exempt status does not constitute federal financial assistance.

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Easing the reliance on executive orders and ensuring major policy changes—especially regarding economic tariffs—go through Congress to keep decision-making closer to the voters.

Rooting Out Bureaucratic Waste: Implementing regular, strict financial audits across federal agencies to identify and eliminate redundant programs, unnecessary red tape, and wasteful spending. Read full quote

Streamlining federal agencies so they remain efficient, responsive, and accountable to the public.

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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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Technology and privacy

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Driving down the road does NOT give the government permission to track your every move. I’m introducing the FLAFO Act to fight Flock camera surveillance. The Fourth Amendment is not optional. Get a warrant or stop tracking us.

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As a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, I have had the opportunity to investigate the censorious relationship that developed between federal agencies and certain large social media companies. Read full quote

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

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

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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Veterans

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Cosponsored Hire Veterans Act

Sep 1, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

Voted Yes on To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".

Jul 16, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted Yes on Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act

May 21, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

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Veterans sacrificed to serve their country, and they should return to civilian life with all the support they need: access to education, help finding a job, affordable housing, and good healthcare. Read full quote

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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Animals and wildlife

Official statement

WASHINGTON–U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Gathering Alligator Treatment, Oversight, and Response Act of 2026, or the GATOR Act, legislation that requires the Comptroller General and the Department of the Interior to study how a decades-old federal species listing affects the ability of state wildlife agencies to remove nuisance alligators from residential and commercial waterways.

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Voted Yes on Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026

Sep 1, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Emergency management

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Voted Yes on Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025

Jul 13, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Voted Yes on TRUE Accountability Act

Jun 8, 2026 · Passed · Source: House Clerk

Cosponsored FEMA Act of 2025

Jan 21, 2026 · Source: Congress.gov

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Representative in Congress, District 17

Meet the candidates

Greg Steube

Matthew Montavon

Michael J. Quirk

Common Ground

Position on major issues

Position on major issues

Position on major issues

Abortion and reproductive policy

Agriculture and rural policy

Artificial intelligence

Civil rights and freedoms

Criminal justice and policing

Economy, jobs and wages

Education

Elections and voting

Energy

Environment and climate

Firearms policy

Government reform

Healthcare

Housing

Immigration

Infrastructure and transportation

Local control

National security and foreign policy

Taxes and government spending

Technology and privacy

Veterans

Animals and wildlife

Emergency management

Position on major issues

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Representative in Congress, District 17

Meet the candidates

Greg Steube

Matthew Montavon

Michael J. Quirk

Common Ground

Position on major issues

Position on major issues

Position on major issues

Abortion and reproductive policy

Agriculture and rural policy

Artificial intelligence

Civil rights and freedoms

Criminal justice and policing

Economy, jobs and wages

Education

Elections and voting

Energy

Environment and climate

Families and social services

Firearms policy

Government reform

Healthcare

Housing

Immigration

Infrastructure and transportation

Local control

National security and foreign policy

Social Security and retirement

Taxes and government spending

Technology and privacy

Veterans

Animals and wildlife

Emergency management