Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Luria backs restored Affordable Care Act credits and lower drug prices; Kiggans says she led bipartisan work to renew the credits. Staten backs wider insurance coverage, billing transparency, transportation access and a stronger health-care workforce. Baker names health care among family costs. Luria voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, now law; its effects were not checked. Kiggans sponsored two credit bills, neither out of committee, and voted against a motion for a three-year extension.
Campaign positions
Her plan says she will build on what was done in Congress to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, reinstate the ACA tax credits, expand access to care, cut prescription drug prices, and see that Medicaid and Medicare are properly funded.
Her campaign says affordability and access are among her top priorities as a nurse practitioner, that she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits, and that she has worked to expand Medicare coverage, improve access to virtual care, lower prescription costs and expand mental health resources.
Staten wants more affordable health care by expanding insurance coverage, improving billing transparency, addressing nonfinancial barriers such as transportation, and strengthening the health-care workforce.
His platform names health care only as one of the costs squeezing families, in the line about bills nobody can predict, and offers no separate health-care section among its eight standalone stances or its four pillars.
Evidence timeline
official action
She sponsored two bipartisan bills on the credits, one extending them a year; neither has left committee. In December 2025 she voted against a failed motion to extend them three years.
Her campaign says she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits and co-led a bipartisan group announcing a framework to extend premium tax credit relief. She sponsored two bills on the subject in the 119th Congress: H.R. 5145, the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, on September 4, 2025, with 30 cosponsors, 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans, whose section 2 extends the enhanced credit by one year by striking "before January 1, 2026" and inserting "before January 1, 2027"; and H.R. 6575, the CommonGround for Affordable Health Care Act, on December 10, 2025, with 38 cosponsors, 23 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Both were referred to committee and neither has been reported. On December 17, 2025 the House took two recorded votes on H.R. 6703, a health bill she did not sponsor, whose sponsor is Rep. Miller-Meeks: she voted Nay on the motion to recommit, which Rep. Underwood offered to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years and which failed 210 to 218 (Roll Call 348), and Yea on passage, which carried 216 to 211 (Roll Call 349). The engrossed text of H.R. 6703 carries no occurrence of "premium tax credit" and none of "36B". Limit: She sponsored both bills and the cosponsors of each cross party lines, so "led" and "bipartisan" hold as descriptions of these two measures. Neither has moved out of committee and neither is law. Her opponent's platform says she voted against extending the same credits, and both sentences are true of different things: the credits she sponsored a bill to extend by one year are the credits the motion to recommit would have extended by three, and on December 17, 2025 she voted against that motion and for the bill that passed instead, whose text does not mention the credits at all. Which of those facts weighs more is a judgement this card does not make, and the card reads these votes and her two bills, not the rest of her record on health care.
official action
She voted for the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, which became law; whether it does each thing she names was not checked.
Her plan says she voted to slash prescription drug costs, cap out-of-pocket expenses for seniors, and cap insulin at $35 a month for seniors. She voted Yea on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation act known as the Inflation Reduction Act, on August 12, 2022 (Roll Call 420, agreed to 220 to 207); it became Public Law 117-169 four days later. Earlier, on December 12, 2019, the House agreed 231 to 192 to her own amendment to H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, clarifying that federal employee health plans are covered by the bill's price reduction provisions. Limit: The recorded votes move in the direction the statement describes. The card does not verify the specific effects she names, whose scope is a question about the text of Public Law 117-169 rather than about her votes, and it does not claim she wrote any of those provisions. Her amendment was to a different bill, which did not become law. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
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Elaine Luria for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read in an Internet Archive snapshot: elaineforcongress.com returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot of 2026-08-03. This is the campaign's only platform page: the site's own navigation links to /about, /issues and /news all return 404 in the archive's crawls, the most recent on 2026-08-03. The page carries no publication date.
candidate statement
For: Elaine G. Luria: campaign position; Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Kiggans for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her campaign's platform page, read live on 2026-09-13. Fifteen headed sections, from The Cost of Living to Protection of Women's Sports. It carries no publication date, and some passages date from her first term, including "In just over a year" and references to holding the Biden Administration accountable.
candidate statement
For: Jen A. Kiggans: campaign position; Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Virginia Mercury · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026
Read October 12, 2026, after Jay-J opened the guide and approved the health-care wording. The guide describes expanded insurance coverage, billing transparency, transportation and other nonfinancial barriers, and the health-care workforce. No visible statement date was assigned. Access history: not read on September 13, 2026. The page answered HTTP 403 to the desk on 2026-09-13, and an Internet Archive index query for this URL, and for every page under the guide's contests path, returned no capture at any timestamp, so there is no archived copy to read instead. The guide's own index does list him in this contest, so this is the page expected to carry his answers. The desk did not attempt to work around the refusal; the source was then flagged for a human to open in an ordinary browser. That check is complete.
original reporting
For: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten: campaign position
Matt Baker for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His platform page, read live on 2026-09-13: four numbered pillars covering the Constitution, Congress as a system, technology and energy, and Hampton Roads. It carries no publication date.
candidate statement
For: J. Matt Baker: campaign position
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-09-04, 30 cosponsors, 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means; not reported.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-12-10, 38 cosponsors, 23 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Referred to Energy and Commerce and, in addition, to Ways and Means and Rules; not reported.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
On the motion to recommit H.R. 6703, failed 210 to 218, action date 17 December 2025 at 6:21 PM Eastern; Kiggans Nay.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Granule CREC-2025-12-17-pt1-PgH5956-3. Offering the motion to recommit, Rep. Underwood states at page H5977 that it would extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years. Cited for what the motion would have done, which the Clerk's roll call does not record.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
On passage of H.R. 6703, passed 216 to 211 on 17 December 2025; Kiggans Yea.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
U.S. Congress via Congress.gov · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The text as passed by the House of the bill Kiggans voted for on 2025-12-17, sponsored by Rep. Miller-Meeks and not by her. A search of it returns no occurrence of "premium tax credit" and none of "36B", the section of the Internal Revenue Code the enhanced credits amend.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Two terms, the 118th and 119th Congresses, Virginia's 2nd District, since 2023; 78 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 5 floor amendments, and 700 cosponsorships. The member page refuses automated readers, so these were read on 2026-09-13 through the same publisher's API at api.congress.gov/v3/member/K000399.
official legislative record
For: Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 12, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation act known as the Inflation Reduction Act, agreed to 220 to 207 on 12 August 2022; Luria Yea.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Published Aug 16, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Became Public Law 117-169 on 2022-08-16. The desk cites it for the fact of enactment only, and makes no claim here about which of its provisions produced which effect.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Published Dec 12, 2019 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Offered by Luria to the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, "to clarify that federal employee health plans are covered by the price reduction provisions of the bill"; agreed to by recorded vote.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Dec 12, 2019 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
On agreeing to the Luria amendment to H.R. 3, agreed to 231 to 192 on 12 December 2019; Luria Aye.
official legislative record
For: Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction