OR · DISTRICT 6

Andrea Salinas

DemocratOregonCurrently serving

Sworn in for the 119th Congress on January 3, 2025 Source ↗

What they said 6

Their stated policy positions and commitments, with quotes and links to the original sources.

All statements (6)Campaign (6)

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Energy & environment

Renewable energy and pollution reduction

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Salinas supports growing Oregon’s renewable-energy and sustainability sectors, reducing pollution, protecting air and waterways, and putting the state on a path to 100% green energy. She presents this approach as a way to address climate change while bringing secure, living-wage jobs to Oregon, and says she will stand up to corporate polluters.

Context: The passage does not give a timeline or specify how Oregon would reach the 100% goal.

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Immigration

Immigration and border security

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Salinas supports strengthening border security through investment in what she calls smart border security, streamlining immigration courts, and providing certainty for immigrants already living in the United States who pay taxes and contribute to their communities. She says she is working with members of both parties on border security and these immigration-system changes.

Context: The passage does not specify the proposed border-security measures or how court streamlining would work.

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Housing

Affordable housing and homelessness

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Salinas supports investing in affordable housing, expanding mental health services, funding addiction treatment, and increasing economic opportunity as ways to address housing instability and homelessness. She supports legislation that would pave the way for two million affordable homes to be built over the next decade, and says she is prioritizing housing for unhoused people, emergency shelter funding in Oregon, and support for unaccompanied homeless youth.

Context: The two-million-home figure describes legislation she supported, not homes already built.

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Healthcare Civil rights & justice

Abortion and reproductive health access

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Salinas supports codifying the right to abortion in federal law and improving access to reproductive health care. She also supports improving maternal health care, increasing access to affordable contraception and other family-planning treatments, and expanding resources for underserved communities, particularly communities of color.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

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Healthcare

Mental health and substance-use care

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Salinas supports expanding access to mental health care, including culturally responsive services for communities that face barriers. Her HOPE and Mental Wellbeing Act would provide Medicare and Medicaid recipients with three free behavioral health visits each year. She has also introduced two bills to expand peer support programs for mental health and substance-use issues.

Context: The three free visits are proposed in the HOPE and Mental Wellbeing Act; the passage does not specify the details of the two peer-support bills.

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Healthcare

Prescription drug costs and Medicare negotiation

AI-assisted summary

Andrea Salinas supports capping prescription drug prices and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. She says she will continue pushing for these policies to make health care more affordable, and has supported price transparency at hospitals and insurance companies.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.