Jack Reed
Bio | Jack Quinn is an American Republican politician and academic administrator who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 27th and 30th congressional districts from 1993 to 2005. Following his time in the House, Quinn served as the 10th President of Erie Community College from 2008 to 2017. |
Status and Position | Current US Senator of Rhode Island |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Democrat, Rhode Island |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 Senate Election Rhode Island 1 | Rhode Island 1 | Yes | Running | 53.0% |
Campaign Financing | Reed has the largest donations from lawyers and law firms, Leadership PACs with largest donations coming from General Dynamics, L3Harris Technologies, and Walt Disney Co. |
Voting Rights | Jack was a co-sponsor in the Voters Rights Act of 2006 and helped push the voting rights advancement act (VRAA). |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | For | Reed openly supports the idea of universal health care. Jack has backed medicare and has introduced the Choose Medicare Act stating this would be the path to take to get to universal health care. |
| Socialized Healthcare | For | Backs Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. |
| Private Healthcare | Against | Has passed bills to regulate private health insurance such as the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act forces private health insurance to guarantee coverage for birth defects, prosthetics and reconstructive surgery. |
| LGBT Rights | For | Reed is open about his support of the LGBT community. Voted for the right to let same sex couples to be able to marry, voted to include sexual orientation in list of hate crimes and voted for ENDA. |
| Taxes | For | Has voted for bills to increase taxes. Voted for bill that would increase taxes for those earning over $1 million, voted no on repealing AMT, and voted no on repealing "death tax" altogether. |
| Flat Tax Rate | Against | Has voted for bills that would increase taxes for those that are in the "1%" margine. Voted for bill that would increase taxes for those earning over $1 million, voted no on repealing AMT, and voted no on repealing "death tax" altogether. |
| Abortion | For | Reed is pro choice. Has voted against bans that would withhold funds for population control. Voted no to including unborn children to SCHIPP, and voted for $100 million grant to go towards sex education. |
| Gun Control | For | Reed has voted for many bills and acts for gun control. Voted for the banning of high capacity magazines, background checks for persons attending gun shows, and voted to allow for suing of gun manufacturers. |
| Assisted Suicide | Unknown | Reed has made no clear stance on this issue. Voted for the banning of high capacity magazines, background checks for persons attending gun shows, and voted to allow for suing of gun manufacturers. |
| Government Interference | For | Has backed bills to have government regulate guns, healthcare, and business. |
| Planned Parenthood | For | Voted to help keep federal funding flowing to the "Family Planning Clinics." Also cosponsered bill that would protect the reproductive rights of women. |
| Welfare | For | Has voted for bills that would back and help lower income groups. Reed voted for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and supports workfare and child support. |
| Welfare | For | Reed pushed for and signed a letter to the president to have him increase funding for stem cell embryonic research. Also voted yes to the Stem Cell Research act of 2007. |
| Death Penalty | For | Has backed bills for death penalty. Voted no to replace death penalty with life sentences, no to making appeals for death penalty harder, but pushed for bill that all federal executions need DNA proof. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue |
| Military Spending | For | Has received funding from Raytheon, a US defense contractor that builds weapons and electronics. |
| War on Terrorism | Nuance | Has backed bills to help police with domestic terror issues like COPS. Has voted yea and nay for redeployment of troops between 2006 and now. Voted to put more pressure on Iran. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Reed is for interaction with other countries Voted to allow syrian refugees in looking for opportunity, voted yes to enlarging NATO to include eastern Europe, and voted yes to stop bill that enacts sanctions on china if they were found to be selling illicit weapons. |
| United Nations power | Unknown | Does not have a clear stance on this issue. |
| Nationalism | Unknown | Has not made a clear stance on this issue |
| Free Markets | Against | Has Voted against trading opportunities with South America. Reed has voted against free trade relations with Peru, Chile, Oman, and Singapore. |
| Brexit | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue |
| Affirmative Action | For | It has been stated to be for affirmative action and is said to have set aside fund from RI highway to help minorities and women. |
| Government Spending | For | Has stated his wants for a universal healthcare system, military budget expansion, and affirmative action stance. |
| Charter Schools | Nuance | Voted and supports "Schools 2000" but voted no for the flexibility in federal school rules. |
| Common Core | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue. N/A |
| Clean Energy | For | Has backed green energy solutions. Backed a federal grant that gave $3.5 million to the production of wind turbines. Also backed issues relating to greenhouse gases and a way to deal with them. Votes include not barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases and tax incentives for renewable energy. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Is for religious freedom. Has stated his upset with the travel ban, and has stated the importance of religious freedoms and rights. |
| Separation of Church and State | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue |
| Slavery Reparations | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue. |
| Border Control | Against | Reed has voted against border control bills and acts. Reed has voted no to making english the official language of the US, no the border wall, yes to funding sanctuary cities and voted yes for illegal immigrants to have social security. |
| Passenger Profiling | Unknown | Has made no clear stance on this issue. |
| DACA | For | In an address to the president he stated the ramifications and error of stopping the DACA program. |
| Sanctuary Cities | For | Voted to pass bill to allow for funding of sanctuary cities. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | For | Has voted for all medical and business use but not the use of it recreationally. |