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Lanier for Congress
Tim Lanier talking with students at Middle Tennessee State University

The platform

What Tim will fight for.

Each position below is grounded in specific federal policy levers. We'll update this page as the campaign hears more from neighbors across the district.

Cost of living & affordability

Housing, groceries, and healthcare costs are squeezing families. The federal government has real levers here — supply, competition, and targeted relief.

  • Expand housing supply via federal incentives for permitting reform.
  • Crack down on price-fixing in essential goods and pharmaceuticals.
  • Targeted middle-class tax relief tied to verified cost-of-living indices.

Schools & Workforce

Pay teachers like the professionals they are and rebuild real pathways to good careers.

  • Increase Title I and special education funding to fully funded levels.
  • Expand apprenticeship and trade pathways with industry partners.
  • Trust teachers as trained professionals and give schools the resources and autonomy to do their jobs well.

Infrastructure & the smarter future

Roads, broadband, clean water, and reliable energy that actually gets built — and stays affordable.

  • Rural broadband completion with strict deployment milestones.
  • Permitting reform for transmission, water, and clean energy projects.
  • Federal incentives for advanced manufacturing in district communities.

Veterans & service

We owe veterans the care they were promised — on time, close to home, and without bureaucracy.

  • Eliminate VA wait-time backlogs through accountability metrics.
  • Expand community-care access for rural veterans.
  • Mental health parity and crisis support that actually picks up the phone.

Honest government

Term limits, transparent earmarks, and an end to insider stock trading by sitting members.

  • Ban congressional stock trading by members and senior staff.
  • Mandatory plain-language summaries on every major bill.
  • Independent ethics oversight with real subpoena power.
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Answers grounded in Tim's positions.
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