Sydney Kamlager
U.S. House, District 37 · Democratic · California
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Where they stand
Voting rights: Kamlager-Dove supports expanding voting rights.
Reproductive rights: Kamlager-Dove supports reproductive justice.
Health care: Kamlager-Dove supports health care for all.
Where Sydney stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Housing and community · Supports: The federal government should expand rental assistance for low-income households.
Housing and community · Supports: The federal government should make permanent supportive housing and homelessness services more widely available.
Economy and jobs · Likely supports: The federal government should increase funding for job training and apprenticeship programs.
Economy and jobs · Likely supports: The federal government should raise the federal minimum wage.
Economy and jobs · Supports: The federal government should strengthen worker organizing and collective-bargaining rights.
Economy and jobs · Likely supports: The federal government should strengthen workplace safety protections and shield workers from employer retaliation.
National security and immigration · Likely supports: The federal government should modernize legal immigration pathways for employers and families.
National security and immigration · Likely supports: The federal government should support diplomacy and alliances as the primary tools of foreign policy.
Environment and energy · Likely opposes: The federal government should increase domestic oil drilling and refinery capacity.
Environment and energy · Likely supports: The federal government should increase investment in clean energy deployment.
Environment and energy · Likely supports: The federal government should strengthen environmental standards that limit harmful emissions.
Environment and energy · Likely supports: Congress should increase penalties and enforcement against companies that violate federal air and water pollution limits.
Health and care · Supports: The federal government should establish a universal publicly funded health insurance program.
Health and care · Likely supports: The federal government should increase support for child care affordability and access.
Health and care · Likely supports: The federal government should regulate prescription drug and medical service prices.
Health and care · Supports: The federal government should make health care more affordable by reducing overall household medical costs.
Public safety and justice · Supports: The federal government should prioritize criminal-justice reforms that reduce incarceration and emphasize diversion, rehabilitation, and second chances.
Public safety and justice · Likely supports: The federal government should strengthen preparedness and response systems for natural disasters and other domestic emergencies.
Public safety and justice · Likely supports: The federal government should increase support for community-based violence prevention programs.
Public safety and justice · Supports: The federal government should strengthen oversight and accountability for law enforcement misconduct.
Public safety and justice · Likely supports: Congress should ban assault-style weapons.
Public safety and justice · Likely opposes: Congress should not add new federal restrictions on gun ownership.
Rights and inclusion · Supports: The federal government should establish a statutory right to abortion access before fetal viability.
Rights and inclusion · Likely supports: The federal government should strengthen federal civil-rights protections against discrimination more broadly.
Rights and inclusion · Supports: The federal government should protect access to contraception nationwide.
Rights and inclusion · Likely supports: Congress should require employers to show a job-related reason for any pay gap between men and women in the same job.
Government and elections · Likely supports: The federal government should set national minimum standards for voting access in federal elections.
Government and elections · Supports: The federal government should preserve constitutional checks and balances and limit executive overreach.
Education and youth · Supports: The federal government should preserve the Department of Education and its federal role in supporting equitable access to schooling.
Education and youth · Opposes: The federal government should create or support school choice programs, including vouchers for private schools.
In the news
Rep. Kamlager-Dove seeks impeachment of Trump’s budget director (spectrumlocalnews.com, Aug 6, 2026)
LA congress member seeks to impeach President Trump’s budget director (dailynews.com, Aug 6, 2026)
2026 Election Results: In CA-37, D-Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Baltazar Fedalizo are leading in the primary race (dailynews.com, Jun 2, 2026)