Inflation, abortion top final Kuster-Burns debate for 2nd CD

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster stated her Republican challenger was concealing his place on abortion laws, whereas Robert Burns accused the five-term Democratic incumbent of not doing sufficient in Congress to take care of rising prices throughout their second and last debate Friday.

The 2 candidates for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District agreed throughout their WMUR-TV debate on tax exemptions and credit for people who find themselves making their properties extra power environment friendly, however differed on the Low-Earnings Residence Power Help Program for households.

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Burns, who runs a high quality management and pharmaceutical security firm, stated he wouldn’t help this system. “What we have to do is decrease the price of power for everyone, not only a choose few which might be going to get a $500 voucher,” he stated. Kuster helps this system and requested for more cash.

Watch Burns, Kuster debate at NHPR (Oct. 28)

In bringing down prices total, Kuster stated she believes in a multi-pronged method, together with the manufacturing of lower-cost meals nearer to residence. Burns stated he’s in favor of opening up extra gasoline manufacturing in america and constructing new crops to course of diesel gasoline.

“The Biden administration was in full denial over the inflation and the oncoming financial catastrophe that we’re heading in direction of proper now,” Burns stated. “She’s been in there for 10 years. They have not been capable of handle these issues.”

Kuster responded that New Hampshire is “woefully behind” neighboring states in utilizing photo voltaic power. She stated she was happy in regards to the passage of the Inflation Discount Act, which incorporates funding in renewable power.

“We won’t preserve chasing oil and fuel and pipelines without end,” she stated.

Burns stated Congress ought to have been engaged on investing in nuclear energy and advancing battery expertise years in the past, however now, “it is a bit late.”

“However why is the state dragging their toes on the net-metering? That is a giant downside right here,” Kuster stated.

“Are you operating for governor or Congress?” Burns stated.

With regards to abortion, Burns, who’s pro-life, stated he helps a federal “heartbeat invoice” banning abortion at 12 to fifteen weeks. He stated he has all the time agreed there needs to be an exception for the lifetime of the mom.

Kuster, who helps the Girls’s Well being Safety Act, which might shield the fitting to entry abortion care nationwide after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, stated Burns was trying to vary his place.

She stated Burns has described himself as “100% pro-life at conception” and that Republicans in Congress are sponsoring a invoice that might ban abortion at conception. She stated the laws that Burns helps would criminalize abortion, placing ladies and docs in jail.

“Properly, in fact, that is fully unfaithful,” Burns, including, “that is absolute fear-mongering.”

On different matters, each candidates disagreed with a choice by Florida’s governor to pay for flights from Texas to Martha’s Winery that carried migrants who entered the nation illegally. In addition they had been towards the setup of immigration checkpoints on New Hampshire highways.