Nineteen-term Democratic incumbent David Obey is the senior member of the Wisconsin delegation to Congress. Obey serves on the House Budget, Joint Economic, and Appropriations Committees. Obey's top priorities include strengthening federal investments in education, doubling federal investments in medical research and in expanding access to affordable health care, fighting budget deficits, rolling back tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of Americans, assisting family dairy farmers, preventing anti-environmental riders from being attached to appropriations bills, and pushing for greater security in U.S. ports, rail and air transportation, and protecting the country's food supply.
Nick Reid, former Press Secretary to Representative Jim Ryun from Kansas, is running on a platform of more government accountability (controlling spending, keeping taxes low), stronger immigration enforcement, reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil through increasing America's refining capacity and expanding the use of renewable fuels, eliminating the current tax code in favor a simpler system, defending traditional marriage, and opposing abortion rights.
Mike Miles, a peace, human rights, and environmental activist, was the 2004 Wisconsin Green Party nominee, receiving 9 percent of the vote. Miles is campaigning to stop funding the war in Iraq immediately and bring U.S. troops home, to create a "Manhattan Project" size public works projects to make renewable energy a high priority, and to nationalize health care funded by a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
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