Nancy Goroff is a scientist, teacher, and community leader who has built her life in Suffolk County. She raised her kids here and taught Chemistry at Stony Brook University. While working at Stony Brook, Nancy led the effort to provide healthcare to uninsured workers. She also founded a non-profit that helped defeat more than 20 Moms for Liberty extremist candidates who were trying to ban books from our schools. In Congress, Nancy will take on extremists once again. She will fight against their attempts to ban abortion nationwide and undermine our democracy. That’s why she was endorsed by EMILY's List and honored by her local Planned Parenthood. Here are some of the issues Nancy will tackle when elected:

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Abortion and Women’s Rights

Nancy has always and will continue to fight for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. Her local Planned Parenthood honored her with their Impact Award in 2023. In Congress, she will pass a law to restore Roe, protect the right to an abortion and reproductive freedom, and stand up to the extremists who are trying to enact a national abortion ban.

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Nancy will also fight for women’s economic rights. Women deserve equal pay for equal work, a better family care infrastructure that includes support for child and elder care, and paid family leave.

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Affordability and the Economy

​Everyone deserves the opportunity to put food on the table and provide for their families, but the high cost of living is a burden on too many. We need successful small businesses and strong unions to grow a strong economy that protects workers’ rights. In Congress, Nancy will fight for workers, small businesses, and families. She will help build the economy we deserve by reinstating the expanded Child Tax Credit, repealing the cap on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, expanding the affordable housing tax credit, increasing the federal minimum wage, investing in infrastructure, and protecting Social Security and Medicare.

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Crime and Public Safety

​As a mom, Nancy is committed to keeping Suffolk safe. Nancy is honored to be recognized as a Moms Demand gun sense candidate. In Congress, Nancy will pass common sense gun safety reform, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and close the loopholes for universal background checks. She will ensure law enforcement and social services have the resources and training to do their jobs, invest in community policing, and work toward a fairer criminal justice system that keeps everyone safe.

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Democracy

Our democracy is at stake, and Nancy is committed to protecting it. When local democracy was under attack by extremists who wanted to take over school boards and ban books, Nancy banded together with other local moms to fight back. Together, they formed a local non-profit to protect democracy by electing good candidates to school boards across Long Island. In Congress, she will pass pro-Democracy reforms like repealing Citizens United to get big money out of politics, restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act, and enhancing transparency and accountability in our government by requiring members of Congress to place their investments into a blind trust, and enacting ethics reform and standards for the Supreme Court. 

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Education

Nancy taught at Stony Brook University for over 20 years, helping students at the public university build a better future for themselves. When extremists started attacking local schools, Nancy and a group of other moms came together to form a non-profit to advocate for public schools, elect good people to school boards across Long Island, and ensure that our schools are a welcoming place for all children. In Congress, Nancy will continue this fight. Access to quality education for all students, regardless of background, needs to be a priority. Nancy supports making significant investments in preschool programs and taking meaningful steps to close the achievement gap that exists in too many communities.

 

Nancy will also address the rising cost of tuition and the crippling student loan debt. Programs to support graduates who enter public service must be protected and strengthened. In Congress, Nancy will make sure our schools are providing students with the skills they need to succeed, whether through a four-year degree or a technical education that allows them to thrive in our current economy. For-profit schools should be held to rigorous standards to qualify to participate in federal student-loan programs. 

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Environment and Climate

Our way of life on Long Island is threatened by extreme weather, coastal erosion, and sea level rise, all due to climate change. As a scientist and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nancy is uniquely qualified to be a climate action leader in Congress. At Stony Brook University, Nancy’s research lab helped create technologies to make renewable energy like solar more reliable and affordable. To make the United States carbon neutral by 2035, Nancy will support legislation to aggressively deploy existing technologies in renewable energy, clean vehicles, and ultra efficient buildings nationwide.

 

Long Island also faces threats to clean water, both in our bays and in our taps. We need to protect our water supply. In Congress, Nancy will protect our water against contaminants such as PFAS and dioxane that threaten our groundwater, and will support funding to improve our sewer systems and install modern septic systems. 

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Healthcare

Every person deserves access to high quality, affordable healthcare. As a leader at Stony Brook University, Nancy created a plan to provide health insurance to workers who did not qualify for employee plans. In Congress, Nancy will work to expand access to healthcare to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. This means protecting the Affordable Care Act and vital government health programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and the VA, lowering the minimum age of Medicare, allowing younger people to buy into Medicare as a public option, and expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. 

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Immigration 

America is a place of hope and opportunity, where you can work hard and support your family. But our immigration system is broken. Nancy will work to fix our broken immigration system by securing our borders and enforcing laws against traffickers and violent criminals, while improving the process for work visas and providing a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and those without a criminal record. Nancy believes we should allow law-abiding immigrant families to come out of the shadows, pay taxes, play by the rules, and earn citizenship. It’s critical we increase funding for our immigration courts to alleviate the backlog in asylum hearings and ensure that migrants enter into our legal system for a fair hearing.

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LGBTQ+ Rights

Nancy is a staunch defender of LGBTQ+ rights.  When extremists were attacking LGBTQ+ kids, Nancy brought people together to stop them. With LGBTQ+ rights under attack across the country, Nancy will keep defending the rights and well being of every Long Islander. In Congress, she will support legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community by passing legislation like the Equality Act. 

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