Qualifications: What training, experience and characteristics qualify you for this position?
Democracy: What, if anything, needs to be done to protect our democracy and restore faith in our institutions?
Immigration: What policy changes are needed so the U.S immigration system is both effective and humane?
International Relations: What is the role of the U.S. in protecting democracy across the world and how do we balance that position against our economic interests?
Climate Change: What measures, if any, need to be taken at the federal level to address the impacts of climate change?
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A. "Robert" Hassan
The Senate must be able to communicate effectively with a variety of people, including colleagues, staff, constituents, and the media. I am most capable of working well under pressure.
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American democracy is at a dangerous inflection point. The moment requires a step-change in strategy and support. Without such momentum, the country faces a democratic setback. Many Americans view this moment with concern with worthy measure. America’s system is creaky, but the world’s oldest democracy has strong institutions and will pull through.
Since the end of the Cold War, most democratic failure globally has been caused by elected governments using legal methods, such technical rule changes, to derail democracy. Their destructions of their own democracies have been supported by pluralities or majorities of their citizenries, whose polarization leads them to back policies that harm democracy to ensure their side prevails.
Many of the laws that form institutional guardrails were written poorly in the aftermath of the Civil War, with loopholes that are easily challenged given a lack of precedent. Moreover, the country’s age means that much of what are presumed to be laws and institutions are, in fact, simply norms. These norms are eroding quickly.
In America, many states have been flooded with laws to alter voting. The worst of these maneuvers have occurred in a dozen states that have passed laws transferring power to more partisan electoral bodies and/or criminalizing their election administrations. These antidemocratic legal moves cannot be overcome by turnout. In turn, effecting all climate change policy measures.
