Mary Peltola

Mary Peltola has taken a nuanced approach balancing Alaska's oil-dependent economy with environmental concerns. She pushed the Biden administration to approve the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope, joined the bipartisan Congressional Western Caucus, and criticized the reversal of ANWR leases. However, her League of Conservation Voters (LCV) lifetime score is 73%, with a 100% pro-environment score in 2022 and 87% in 2023. She has supported clean energy tax credits for solar, wind, and hydropower, and her campaign platform calls for permitting reform and diversifying Alaska's energy portfolio with renewables to lower costs.

Mary Peltola's Local Issues stance centers on affordability for Alaskans. She advocates lowering costs through expanded domestic energy production and energy policy reforms to lower fuel prices, and she proposes targeted tax relief\u2014including eliminating the federal income tax for working and middle-class Alaskans earning under $92,000 per year\u2014funded by higher taxes on the wealthy; she also supports the Expanded Child Tax Credit and measures to reduce housing and shipping costs for families.

Peltola pledges to lower health care costs for Alaskans by supporting the extension of Obamacare subsidies and reversing Medicaid reductions; she frames health care affordability as a central component of her broader affordability agenda.

Mary Peltola maintained a strongly pro-Israel voting record in the House, breaking with her party to support a standalone Israel aid package, a measure to override the Biden administration's hold on arms sales to Israel, and sanctions on Iran and the International Criminal Court. She also supported aid packages for Ukraine and Taiwan, and voted to combat fentanyl trafficking. She supported the Antisemitism Awareness Act and resolutions condemning campus antisemitism.

Mary Peltola advocates an affordability-focused economic plan to lower costs for working Alaskans, including eliminating federal income tax for earners under $92,000 and expanding tax credits for families and renters.

Mary Peltola describes herself as pro-choice and opposes a national ban on abortion. She supports codifying Roe v. Wade, public funding for abortion services beyond the Hyde Amendment, and access to IVF. She received a 72% score from Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) for her 2024 voting record, consistently voting against anti-abortion measures including bills to penalize FDA officials over mifepristone access, restrict servicemembers' abortion access, and defund reproductive health programs.

Mary Peltola has taken a moderate-to-tough approach on immigration, often breaking with her party. She voted for the Laken Riley Act requiring detention of undocumented immigrants arrested for burglary or theft, voted to condemn President Biden's handling of the southern border, and supported a bill to deport undocumented migrants who assault police officers. She has been one of the Democrats most likely to vote with Republicans on border enforcement legislation.

Mary Peltola is a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and was endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) in 2024 — a rare endorsement of a Democrat. She introduced the bipartisan Tribal Firearms Access Act to allow tribal ID cards to be used for firearm purchases, protecting Native Americans' gun rights. She has spoken in favor of responsible gun ownership, hunter education, and enforcing existing laws, while taking a moderate tone on gun control that emphasizes Second Amendment rights over gun bans.

Mary Peltola is the first Alaska Native member of Congress and a Yup'ik woman who has championed tribal sovereignty and Native rights. She introduced the Tribal Firearms Access Act to protect Native Americans' Second Amendment rights and secured tribal seats on fisheries management councils. She supported the Antisemitism Awareness Act and voted against resolutions targeting LGBTQ+ students. Her campaign platform emphasizes Alaska Native subsistence rights and ensuring tribal communities have a seat at the table in federal decision-making.

Mary Peltola studied elementary education at the University of Northern Colorado and has spoken about Alaska's unique educational challenges, including rural school funding and the importance of career and technical education. Her campaign website's affordability agenda includes expanding childcare access through grants, forgivable loans, and tax credits to make it easier to open childcare businesses in rural and underserved communities.

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Mary Peltola was elected in 2022 under Alaska's ranked-choice voting system and has defended the system. She supports campaign finance reform including the DISCLOSE Act for transparency in election spending, a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and banning members of Congress from stock trading through the Restore Trust in Congress Act. She advocates 12-year term limits for Congress and opposes dark money in Alaska elections.