Hospitals and Quality Health Care facilities must remain in a reasonable distance from Rural Tennesseans. Expanding Medicaid ensures that small rural hospitals remain open for Tennesseans across the state.

Quality public education changes lives. We must invest in our public schools by raising educators’ salaries, rebuilding rural schools, and providing our children with the education they deserve.     

Rural Tennesseans deserve the opportunity to work in their communities at jobs which allow them to support themselves and their families. Small businesses, the backbone of rural Tennessee, should receive the same incentives for growth as those given to corporations and industries.

Expanding Broadband brings benefits to all Tennesseans, from Memphis to Mountain City. For rural Tennessee, those benefits mean economic opportunity and enhanced educational resources.