Cameron Webb (D)

Background

Webb grew up in Spotsylvania. A er graduating from the University of Virginia with medical and law degrees, Webb earned a White House Fellowship under the Obama administration. Webb served on Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative and the White House Health Care Team under Presidents Obama and Trump. Webb currently practices internal medicine at the UVA Hospital and serves as the Director of Health Policy and Equity at UVA’s School of Medicine.

Legislative priorities COVID 19 RECOVERY

• Enact recurring direct stimulus payments to individuals through the COVID-19 crisis. • Expand eligibility and o erings in the Medicaid and SNAP programs. • Protect people from eviction and from mortgage or student loan default. • Mandate at least 12 weeks of paid sick, medical, and family leave for all employees. • Scale up our testing capacity to the size of the crisis. • E ciently trace contacts to minimize the spread of disease. • Ensure an adequate supply of personal protective equipment. • Adhere to best practices in identifying and disseminating therapies and technologies. • Provide adequate financial support for hospitals. • Ensure robust funding of forgivable, emergency loans to small businesses. • Impose a national moratorium on small business debt collections. • Close the loopholes that allow large corporations to take advantage of federal dollars they don’t need.

HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• Establish a public health insurance option but allow Americans to keep their private insurance if they want to.

• Reduce the cost of prescription drugs by closing anti-competitive loopholes exploited by drug companies and establishing a cap for out-of-pocket drug costs. • Increase funding to help ensure access to critical reproductive health services. • Invest in true health access in rural, low-income, and underserved communities.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

• Protect the health of our planet by making evidenced-based decisions. • Establish a clean energy standard that urgently requires 100% of U.S. electricity to come from clean and renewable sources.

• Invest in programs to eliminate carbon emissions in agriculture and land use through reforming economic support programs for farms. • Make sure that we can keep clean energy jobs right here in Virginia.

STRENGTHENING EDUCATION

• Pursue the legislative goal of providing equitable education for all children. • Incorporate planning for educational equity and standardized reporting to close achievement gaps. • Close the digital divide through access to broadband and necessary electronic devices.

• Streamline the FAFSA process so that it works for more people and leverage loan forgiveness programs to make school more a ordable. • Support e orts to make community colleges and public colleges/universities tuition-free for lower-income individuals.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

• • • • • • Support refundable tax credits to rent-burdened individuals.

Target tax subsidies toward lower-income, first-time homeowners and lower-income renters to address the gap in homeownership. End the exclusionary zoning that maintains the legacy of redlining. Incentivize the construction of a ordable housing units. Support and strengthen fair housing rules.

Address our homelessness crisis through supportive housing, rapid rehousing, more funding for case management, mental health services, crisis response systems and a ordable housing.

JOBS AND THE ECONOMY

• Address the factors that make it hard for entrepreneurs and small businesses to thrive, from di culties related to access to capital to record levels of student loan debt. • Navigate the risk-aversion that is sure to follow this coronavirus recession with thoughtful fiscal policy. • Support e orts to achieve a national $15 minimum wage in the next five years. • Raise the tax rate on top earners and increase the capital gains tax. • Close loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying taxes and increase the number of IRS auditors to hold them accountable.

WOMEN’S EQUALITY

• Advocate for robust work-family policies and other antidiscriminatory policies to speed the closing of the gender wage gap. • Advocate on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.

• Ensure that every woman in our commonwealth, regardless of race, income, or ZIP Code has access to quality healthcare including reproductive care.

• Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, including provisions to close the boyfriend loophole and ensure protections for LGBTQ+ victims of domestic abuse. • Protect women’s right to choose.

REFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• Further reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug o enses and eliminate the discrepancy between crack and powder cocaine sentences. • Continue improvement of prison conditions, healthcare access and rehabilitative o erings. • Phase out detention centers and private prisons. • Eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline which results in marginalized youth constituencies being over-disciplined. • End our system of cash bail that places those in poverty at the highest risk of remaining involved with the criminal justice system. • Support e orts to decriminalize mental health crises and legalize marijuana.

• Support a federal “ban-the-box” law that would update the hiring practices of federal agencies and contractors to help remove the barriers for formerly incarcerated individuals to fully reintegrate into society. • Restore voting rights for citizens with past criminal convictions.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Support ongoing and coordinated e orts to get the necessary funding for broadband internet access to make sure we can deliver on this critical infrastructure. • Ensure significant investment in historically marginalized