CAL CUNNINGHAM

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

When we see the corrupting influence of political decision making in our public health professionals, we should ask questions.

Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.

This is where I would lodge my deepest criticisms. We have very whimsically been threatening and then backing off of tariffs. The people who are paying the price for the lack of strategy are North Carolina consumers who are paying more for durable goods and North Carolina farmers who don't have markets today.

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.

A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.

Pride month is a time for us to celebrate love and recommit ourselves to continuing our efforts to ensure equal treatment for all those who call our state, and country, home, no matter who they love.

I believe in the people of our state and making sure the voices of the people of our state are heard in Washington. And that frankly stands in contrast to some of what we've seen out of Sen. Tillis.

A person's safety and quality of life should not be conditioned upon who they love or how they identify.

North Carolinians are hard-working common-sense, decent and stubbornly independent people.

There is an important role for a United States senator as a check and balance on the president of the United States.

Tillis has been weak on China since he got to Washington.

When law enforcement violates departmental policies or operates outside of its certified training, it should not be insulated from liability to the victims of these breaches.

We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes, but goes beyond, police reform.

We should not judge law enforcement's success by the number of tickets and arrests, but by the security and comfort the community feels in the public square.

I support equal rights for LGBT Americans.

I think the American people have a lot of questions about the governance of this country.

In the push and pull of Washington politics, Thom Tillis has decided there are things more important than representing North Carolina. He has put his own political interests, and serving the special interests, ahead of North Carolina's interests.

Without law, without the social stability it provides, there can't be contracts and deals, there can't be chamber meetings, there can't be good jobs and safe families.

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.

Law and order are more fragile than we might think.

Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.

It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal laws and our civil justice laws - too often have the opposite effect. These laws are clearly rooted in a false assumption that those in power can do no wrong.

I grew up to believe in public service. It is in the core of who I am.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.