Democrat Theresa Boisseau and Independent Jeff Miller are challenging Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, who first won the seat in 2005.
The details
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*indicates incumbent
Theresa Boisseau (D)
Experience:
Realtor
Occupation:
former public school teacher, local business owner, mom
Candidate Website:
https://www.theresa4texas.com
Contact Information:
512-489-7822
Why are you running for this position?
As a single mother, I have fought every day for my own child. As a teacher, I fought every day for each of the children that walked into my classroom. Now, I will take the fight to Washington to build a brighter future for every child in Texas and beyond.
What would be your top priorities if elected?
Adequate and accessible health care from children to our elders including reproductive freedom. Affordable housing, job creation and solutions to the effects of extreme weather. We need to ensure that everyone has the right to vote, first and foremost. We cannot have a stable democracy while politicians choose for us.
What are the biggest challenges for the residents in your district and how will you address them?
Accessible and affordable health care, reproductive freedom and living affordability. See response [No. 4] about health care. I would focus on restoring Roe [v. Wade] along with codifying access to birth control and [in vitro fertilization]. I would pass legislation that ensures that big corporations are not price gouging that harm their customers for a bottom line.
What are ways you would make sure your constituents have access to health care they need?
We need equitable and accessible health care for all, in all stages of human existence. In Congress, I would introduce legislation to eliminate middle men like pharmacy benefits managers, cap prescription drug prices, revolutionize how America provides health care to its citizens and limit large corporations control over medical facilities and hospitals.
What are your priorities regarding the nation’s immigration policy?
We should learn from the past and plan for the future for humane solutions that modernize not militarize the border. We should use eVerify nationwide to secure needed workers across industries, finalize pathways to citizenship for Dreamers, establish clear processes for asylum seekers and tackle the root causes of migration.
How will you build working relationships across district and party lines?
Skills learned as a teacher and in the family business including the art of negotiation, striving to make transactions win-win while working with a broad spectrum of students and clients from varying socioeconomic backgrounds and cultures will prove invaluable. I will continue on this path, onward in Congress.
Michael McCaul* (R)
Experience:
U.S. Representative for the 10th Congressional District of Texas
Occupation:
attorney
Candidate Website:
https://www.michaelmccaul.com
Contact Information:
512-494-1882
Why are you running for this position?
I’m running to keep America safe from national security threats, to fix this broken economy, to secure our border and to stand up to communist China.
What would be your top priority if elected?
In Congress, I’ve served as chairman on the Homeland Security Committee and chairman on the Foreign Affairs Committee. In both these positions, I’ve made it my mission to ensure that America is safe and continues to project strength on the world stage. I’ll also work to fix the broken …
What are the biggest challenges for the residents in your district, and how will you address them?
The biggest challenges facing TX-10 residents are inflation and a sluggish economy. It’s getting harder and harder for families across the district to make ends meet. We need to lower taxes on the middle class, rein in government spending, get government bureaucrats off the backs of small businesses and ensure …
What are ways you would make sure your constituents have access to health care they need?
I’m working to bring down the costs of prescription medications, expand access to telemedicine and defend Medicare. I also believe we need to increase price transparency for medical and drug costs while pushing back on those seeking to enact government-run health care in this country. Additionally, I have made it my …
What are your priorities regarding the nation’s immigration policy?
The border crisis is a national security threat. We have millions of people coming over the border illegally, along with massive amounts of fentanyl and other lethal narcotics, and documented cases of terrorists trying to infiltrate the border. I believe we need to finish the wall, reinstate the Remain-In-Mexico policy …
How will you build working relationships across district and party lines?
Throughout my career I have consistently been named as one of the most effective members of Congress. The issues directly impacting voters in this district—they are not “Republican issues” or “Democratic issues.” They are American issues and we have to work together to solve them as Americans.
Jeff Miller (I)
Experience:
42-year Texas resident, Brazos County Libertarian Party chair, State Libertarian Executive Committee representative
Occupation:
office manager
Candidate Website:
https://www.vote-miller.org
Contact Information:
936-931-7328
Why are you running for this position?
Bill Kelsey, our original Libertarian candidate, was deemed ineligible for not paying the unconstitutional fee funding Democrats and Republicans. I'm running as the replacement candidate, meeting all qualifications. If elected, I'll fight to expand citizens' freedoms in this district, challenging the status quo and promoting libertarian values.
What would be your top priorities if elected?
As Barry Goldwater once said, "My goal is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." There are too many laws, too many regulations, too many taxes. My top priority would be to reduce the government burden on all people and allow them to live as they see fit.
What are the biggest challenges for the residents in your district and how will you address them?
In short, the rising costs of everything due to the fiscal irresponsibility of our lawmakers. I would address this head on by working on stopping the spending and rampant money printing that has inflated and reduced the value of our currency and put our economic solvency at risk.
What are ways you would make sure your constituents have access to health care they need?
Step one is to eliminate as many government barriers to health care as possible. Get the laws and regulations out of the way that keep costs high and seek market-based solutions that promote competition, transparency in pricing and voluntary cooperation among health care providers, insurers and patients.
What are your priorities regarding the nation’s immigration policy?
Prioritize speeding up the process for legal immigrants to work, start businesses and contribute to our free market. Additionally, end drug laws that create black markets, driving dangerous border crossings controlled by drug cartels and instead promote safe and orderly immigration.
How will you build working relationships across district and party lines?
As I am neither a Republican or a Democrat, I would have a great opportunity to build relationships with members of the other parties on common goals such as lowering government spending and criminal justice reform since they would not automatically see me as "the enemy" in today's polarized environment.
