Bob Good (R)

Good hails from Lynchburg, where he served on the Campbell County Board of Supervisors from 2016 to 2019. A graduate of Liberty University, Good is a born-again Christian and his devotion to his faith is the guiding influence in his life. He worked as the Sr. Associate Athletics Director for Development and Executive Director of the Flames Club at his alma mater from 2005 until he was elected to public o ce in 2015. Before that, he worked in the lending division of CitiFinancial.

LAW AND ORDER

• Create a Law Enforcement “Bill of Rights” that protects those who protect us.

• Increase funding for law enforcement departments, including competitive raises.

• Make crimes against law enforcement a true hate crime.

• Protect police o cers/deputies from assault and harassment, including protecting their families from the same.

• Provide greater protections for law enforcement o cers from frivolous civil actions.

• Provide greater protection for police/deputies from unintended consequences of rightful/reasonable actions.

ECONOMY AND TRADE

• Help cultivate an economic and regulatory environment that facilitates entrepreneurial development and business growth.

• Maintain and expand the President’s tax cuts for individuals and businesses.

• Streamline and simplify the burdensome federal tax code.

• Identify and reduce, through legislation, needless regulations that increase costs, create barriers to entry, diminish productivity, and inhibit economic growth.

• Continue policies that have resulted in American energy independence.

• Ensure the United States expands free and fair trade and promotes open markets.

• Confront and penalize foreign governments, like China, for the the of American intellectual property.

• Protect American jobs for American workers by reforming our immigration policies and creating more incentives for companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

• Preserve the “Right to Work” for all Americans, and prohibit unions from holding workers hostage through mandatory dues or membership.

• Ensure the slogan “Made in the USA” continues to be a standard of excellence throughout the world.

IMMIGRATION

• End chain migration.

• Improve and increase border enforcement and funding.

• End birthright tourism.

• Eliminate the Diversity Visa Program (the Visa Lottery) and end visa overstays.

• Make E-Verify mandatory.

• Strengthen our immigration biometric identification system.

• End amnesty and rewards for illegal immigrants (such as sanctuary cities and in-state tuition).

• Reduce or stop foreign aid to countries who do not help stop illegal immigration from their country into the United States.

ABORTION

• Make the Hyde Amendment permanent.

• Eliminate and prohibit all Federal funding of abortion supporters and providers such as Planned Parenthood.

• Work to have a Human Life Amendment enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

• Protect the rights of Healthcare Providers who do not want to provide abortions or sterilization.

• Categorically reject any and all attempts to pass into law any pro-abortion or anti-life bills.

• Reject attempts to pass a “Medicare for All” bill that would require taxpayer funding of abortion.

• Permanently safeguard Federal policies and regulations that protect the right to life.

• Sponsor a personhood/heartbeat bill recognizing and protecting life from conception.

• Boldly work to enact the Life at Conception Act and the Support and Value Expectant Mothers and Babies Act.

SECOND AMENDMENT

• Stand up for our right to keep and bear arms.

RURAL BROADBAND

• Strengthen President Trump’s rural infrastructure program through various legislative actions.

• Support the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Universal Service Fund, which helps provide access to quality telecommunications and information services for farmers and rural consumers.

• Promote free, fair, and open market solutions for broadband expansion.

• Provide the FCC and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) needed resources that fall within the purview of the Federal government’s constitutional role and responsibilities.

ENERGY

• Remove cumbersome regulations that hold energy producers hostage and drive up energy costs for consumers.

• Encourage all forms of energy development and the responsible harvesting of our national resources.

• Incentivize appropriate environmental stewardship that is balanced with the economic needs provided by sufficient a ordable energy.

• Fight the influence of environmental and climate extremism on policy and legislation.

• Eliminate barriers that reduce our energy exports to the global market.