Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
What each candidate says on this issue, and what their own official record shows.
Campaign positions
His campaign says he will champion market-based production from hydropower, solar, oil, natural gas and nuclear power, citing demand from AI data centers, and that the country must never again depend on foreign despots for energy. It states no position on climate change.
Her campaign says climate change is real and man-made and falls hardest on working people, that she has championed tax rebates for efficiency upgrades such as skirting for mobile homes, and that abundant, cheap energy from traditional and renewable sources will help hold down prices.
Evidence timeline
official action
Gluesenkamp Perez supported a funding law with guidance favoring manufactured-home weatherization; her role adding the language and actual awards remain unverified.
Gluesenkamp Perez said she moved legislation providing weatherization grants for manufactured-home skirting and awnings. She voted for H.R.6938, enacted January 23, 2026. Its accompanying reports encourage prioritizing those projects within existing weatherization grants. Limit: Her role in adding the guidance and resulting awards remain unverified.
official action
Braun sponsored a bill for county-federal roadside fuel-break agreements and timber-revenue sharing; it stayed in committee.
Braun said he ran a state bill for local management of federal forests. He sponsored SB6242 in January 2026. It proposed county-federal agreements to manage roadside fuel breaks, with counties retaining timber-sale proceeds. Limit: It did not leave committee or transfer control of national forests to counties.
official action
He sponsored a 2026 state bill for a nuclear power plan that had a hearing and no vote; his record on the other sources was not checked.
His campaign says he will champion market-based energy production, including hydropower, solar, oil, natural gas and nuclear power. He is the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5821, filed for Washington's 2026 session. It would have the state Commerce Department, if it gets outside funding, write a nuclear power plan for the state energy strategy by December 15, 2026. It had a committee hearing on January 16, 2026, and its history shows no later action. Limit: This card covers nuclear power only; his record on the other four sources he names was not searched. The bill never reached a vote.
official action
She introduced a 2024 bill for a skirting tax credit that never left committee, and a 2025 report urged energy grants to favor skirting, which is not a rebate.
Her campaign says she has championed tax rebates for energy efficiency upgrades for working families, such as weather skirting for mobile homes. On October 4, 2024 she introduced the Lowering Energy Costs for Manufactured Homeowners Act (H.R. 9935). It would give a refundable tax credit of 20 percent of the cost of adding weather-resistant skirting to a manufactured home, up to $500. It was sent to the Ways and Means Committee and went no further. In July 2025 the House Appropriations Committee's report on the 2026 energy and water bill encouraged the Energy Department to favor skirting and awnings in its weatherization grants. Her office called that her provision in February 2026. Limit: Her record shows one skirting bill, and it never left committee. The report language asks the Energy Department to favor skirting in its grants; it is not a tax rebate.
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John Braun for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source setting out nine subjects. Three of its sentences are about his opponent's votes; a claim about an opponent is outside what this site checks, and those sentences are not used.
candidate statement
For: John Braun: campaign position; John Braun: Matches stated direction
Marie for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source setting out fourteen subjects. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
candidate statement
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: campaign position; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
KATU News · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Paraphrase from the dated debate; timestamp links to the statement.
candidate statement
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Perez voted Yea on the funding package.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 23, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Gives the accompanying explanatory statement conference-statement effect.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Carries House Report 119-213 guidance subject to specified exceptions.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Published Jul 21, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Encourages priority for manufactured-home skirting and awnings within existing weatherization grants.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
KATU News · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 29, 2026
Paraphrase from saved native captions; timestamp links to surrounding statement.
candidate statement
For: John Braun: Matches stated record claim
Washington State Legislature · Published Jan 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 29, 2026
Braun sponsors county-federal roadside fuel-break agreements with county timber-sale proceeds.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated record claim
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Oct 29, 2026
Referred to Local Government; February2 executive session scheduled with no action. No passage or forest-control transfer.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated record claim
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Sponsor list (Braun first of fourteen) and history: prefiled December 3, 2025, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology on January 12, 2026, public hearing January 16, 2026, no later action.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Section 2 has the Department of Commerce, if it receives outside funds, publish a nuclear power strategic framework as part of the state energy strategy by December 15, 2026.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her, introduced October 4, 2024, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means; policy area Taxation.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
GovInfo · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Section 2 creates a refundable credit of 20 percent of the cost of adding weather-resistant skirting to a manufactured home used as a primary residence, capped at $500, for joint filers with income up to $300,000 and others up to $150,000.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Committee report of July 21, 2025 on H.R. 4553. Pages 101 and 102 encourage the Energy Department to prioritize Weatherization Assistance Program grants for manufactured-housing skirting, awnings and other traditional means of energy efficiency.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
Office of Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Her congressional office's release of February 13, 2026. It calls the House report language her provision and links pages 101 and 102 of House Report 119-213.
candidate statement
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction