Businessman

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.

For too long, people in Washington and Congress point fingers at each other, even as millions of middle-class Americans remain unemployed and our economy continues to sputter. They must realize that we are all in this together, and I respectfully submit that the best way to remind Congress of this is to tie their pay to their collective results.

I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.

There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.