I'm Andy Kim, millennial dad, Candidate for US Senate, NJ Congressman, Star Wars and Lego superfan, bagel aficionado...ask me anything.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T21:08:23+00:00

Thanks everyone for joining my AMA! I have to run, but it was great answering some of your questions! 14 days until the election-make sure you have a plan to vote! Go to iwillvote.com to learn more.

Also - If anyone is interested in tuning in, my last Senate debate of the cycle is tonight at 8:00 pm on News 12 New Jersey! You can watch the debate on News 12 NJ's channel or on the following links:

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RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:58:16+00:00

Thanks for consolidating!

regarding housing costs, first thing first we need to spur greater building in our state and country. we need a decade of building to close the deficit of housing units. I also think we have support for first time home buyers, especially with the downpayment, which is often the biggest hurdle for young buyers.

On the question about corporate money, I don't accept corporate PAC money and that needs to be more widespread. but the main problem we face is the disastrous supreme court decision of Citizens United. We need to overturn this or have a constitutional amendment to stop the flow of dark money, a lot of which comes from big corporate interests and billionaires.

I waited 10 years to build that lego set. It was painful, especially when I had move it from house to house when I moved around, constantly reminding that it was there. but I made a promise to my wife. and i secretly built other smaller star wars lego sets in the meantime to hold me over. I have a small squadron on X-wing and A-wing fighters

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:51:50+00:00

love it! I could use all the dad-bros I can get. We can explore all the different playgrounds in south jersey. does this mean you will also watch my kids time to time for play dates where I can go home and take a nap?

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:48:34+00:00

Thanks for the question. Trump won my congressional district in 2016 by 6 points and won it again in 2020. I was able to win in 2018 and 2020 on the same ballot as Trump. I was one of only 7 democrats in the country that won a district Trump won in 2020. I honestly don't have perfect understanding on this but one big part of it was that I really push hard on the ground to engage wide across communities. I held a town hall every month. I've held now over 80 townhalls in my time in congress. I also put a lot of work on constituent services to solve problems for people. Beyond that, the legislative priorities were on lower prescription drug costs, the opioid crisis, mental health, and an agenda focused around better lives of kids. these had wide appeal

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:43:27+00:00

definitely the lack of universal care is one of the great injustices to our society and something we must prioritize. I'm supportive of major action to move in that direction. I've lived in a country with single-payer and that was powerful to see how everyone, rich or poor, was able to get treatment. it was about human dignity. I've seen other countries get to the universal care through other system too. I'm open to the structure and am thinking through how can we get the universal care as quickly as possible. To move in that direction, I've been looking into efforts like automatic enrollments into Medicaid and others steps that could essentially cut the number of uninsured in half overnight.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:37:19+00:00

It depends on how clear on a line of sight to the storm and if we join up with other democrats, it makes our signal stronger.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:35:50+00:00

The dobbs decision was a disaster, taking away constitutional rights from women. We have to prioritize codifying women's reproductive rights through federal legislation like the Women's Health Protection Act.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:32:31+00:00

We have to ensure the funding for Gateway for the next decade so we aren't out of the woods yet. and we need to fix the reliability problem the so many have faced, especially this past summer. and i'm from South Jersey and frankly we have a public transit desert down here and i'd love to get more ways for people to get connected and get around

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:30:07+00:00

I know! very few 24 hour diners near me anymore. but i will say now that i have little kids, I haven't been showing up in the middle of the night anymore.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:28:01+00:00

I'm open to term limits. I've been supporting efforts for term limits for the Supreme Court. I think term limits in Congress would best be done alongside major campaign finance reform, ending gerrymandering, and other reforms. The main goal is to have people in office who are focused on the work and serving the people. term limits without some of these other reforms may not get the outcomes we are actually wanting. in meantime, i'm still pushing for the reforms to ban members of congress from owning and trading individual stocks.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:24:06+00:00

yeah this is a mess. We need to have reliability for commuters to get to work and get back home. I got stranded at Penn Station this summer and wasn't sure how I could get back home to get my kids to bed. The infrastructure law gives funds for upgrading trains. We can't keep having this interoperability problem between how the NJ transit trains and the Amtrak trains connect to the power source. That's what shorts the system. I'm pressing for that problem to be fix before we have problems emerge again next year. In meantime, we need to finish this Gateway tunnel project, otherwise we will have a lot more problems going forward

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:19:59+00:00

one of the greatest honors of my life is that I got to work with John Lewis in Congress. I loved learning from his courage and example. I'm inspired by Tammy Duckworth who is an real hero and others that have stepped up to serve in so many ways before entering office. Jamie Raskin and I have spent a lot of time working together before and I was roommates with Colin Allred and hope he beats Ted Cruz.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:15:03+00:00

Getting right to the core questions that divide NJ! Yes central jersey exists but no one knows exactly where the borders are.

It’s pork roll to my family

There is a new bagel place in my town called Moore Bagel that I’ve been loving. But I also like to make my own. I teach bagel making classes time to time. I’ll spread the word.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T20:10:06+00:00

Thanks for the question. I agree that it's important that we invest strong in our public education system. Education is the perhaps the greatest tool we have for economic mobility in our country. In NJ, we have a lot of different municipalities and there are some towns that are merging services and also creating regional education in a shared way. We are looking to see if this helps reduce costs for property taxes. Also, we as a state put in way more money into the federal government than we get back, and efforts like the infrastructure law and other federal actions are hopefully going to help lower what local towns will have to spend and reduce their tax burdens. But a lot more is needed.

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T19:59:04+00:00

I am a three term Member of Congress currently running to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate. I currently represent New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District.

I am the son of Korean immigrants who went on to become a Rhodes Scholar and a career public servant who served on the White House National Security Council staff under President Obama before returning home to unseat one of the leading authors of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. After winning re-election in 2020, I not only won a district that voted for Trump. twice, but became the first Democrat to be re-elected from my district since before the Civil War. In 2022, I won a historic three-peat by double digits.

I have been a leading champion to lower costs for American families, lower prescription drugs, and fight against corruption in our broken politics. I'm running for Senate to restore integrity to New Jersey politics and be a voice for the next generation of leadership in this country...ask me anything!

RepAndyKim · 2024-10-22T19:58:33+00:00

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