Suhas Subramanyam

Democrat

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About

Meet Suhas

Suhas Subramanyam has dedicated his life to service and taking on tough fights to deliver real results for our community and our country. Suhas's family's story in America began right here in Virginia in 1979, at Dulles Airport. His mother, a native of Bengaluru, India, immigrated to the United States to unite with his father, who grew up in Chennai and Secunderabad, India, to get an education and pursue the American dream. Suhas's parents taught him the value of family and service from a young age, as well as the value of a great education. Suhas took those lessons of service to heart while attending college at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he helped organize volunteers to rebuild the communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. Since this experience, Suhas has worked tirelessly to improve the health, safety, and prosperity of all Virginians and Americans. He served on Capitol Hill as a policy aide, where he worked to expand and improve health care access to millions of Americans, helped build a bipartisan coalition in support of immigration reform, and drafted legislation to increase job opportunities and funding for veterans, seniors, and working families. After earning his law degree with honors at Northwestern University, Suhas served as a White House technology policy advisor to President Obama. During his time in the Obama Administration, Suhas tackled some of the most challenging issues facing our nation, including addressing cybersecurity threats, exploring opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and modernizing government agencies so that they were better equipped to serve the needs of the American people. After serving in the White House, Suhas started his own small business in Loudoun County and also served our community as a volunteer EMT and firefighter. In 2019, Suhas was elected to the Virginia General Assembly. His first act as a legislator was to create the Commonwealth Caucus, a group of legislators dedicated to finding bipartisan solutions and bridging the divides in our politics. He has been an effective lawmaker for small businesses and working families in our community, fighting to secure common sense solutions for Northern Virginia families. When politicians on both sides of the aisle refused to take on Big Pharma, Suhas passed legislation to bring down drug costs and increase price transparency for consumers. When powerful toll operators attempted to gouge Northern Virginia commuters, Suhas stood up to them and cracked down on egregious toll hikes. And when Virginia consumers were overcharged by hundreds of millions of dollars on energy bills, Suhas built a coalition across party lines to fight back, resulting in more than $300 million in refunds to Virginia families. In Congress, Suhas will continue to take on the tough fights for Virginia families and deliver real results for our community. Suhas and his wife Miranda Peña Subramanyam reside in Loudoun County, Virginia with their two daughters. They were married in Sterling, and their two girls were born in Leesburg.

Positions

Economy & Job Creation

Suhas is a small business owner and he understands that small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Virginia's 10th Congressional District is home to tens of thousands of federal civil servants and contractors, and Suhas will protect those jobs so that our community can continue to thrive. In the Virginia General Assembly, State Senator Subramanyam has successfully passed legislation that brought down rising costs. For example: - HB 528: Refunded over $300 Million to Virginia ratepayers in overcharges by the electric utility corporation (Chief Patron) - HB 1832: Prevented a 40% toll hike on the Dulles Greenway Toll Road (Chief Patron) - HB 2007: Requires transparency in drug pricing (Chief Co-Patron) In Congress, Suhas will continue to deliver real results to grow our economy and create jobs. He supports manufacturing in the United States, investing in America's infrastructure, and continuing to strengthen the middle class.

Protecting Women's Healthcare

The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs was a devastating blow to women across the country and their ability to make their own health care decisions. In light of this, Suhas believes that Congress must prioritize making sure everyone, no matter their zip code, has access to affordable, reliable, and safe reproductive health care. In the Virginia legislature, Suhas sponsored a constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, and fought to protect women's health choices. He will always support the right to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and a woman's bodily autonomy.

Responsible Gun Ownership

Suhas and his wife have two young daughters who go to school in our community. Their school has armed security and bulletproof windows, and kids across our community do active shooter drills. This reality shouldn't be our new normal. In the legislature, Suhas has actively supported common sense gun safety laws, and he proudly pushed several measures which passed the General Assembly just this year, two of which were signed by a Republican Governor. Suhas believes we can achieve serious progress on this issue while respecting the Second Amendment, and without undermining the rights of responsible gun owners.

Environmental Protection & Renewable Energy

Suhas believes we are facing a climate emergency that poses a grave threat to the future of our planet. Experts report that natural disasters have cost the United States more than $450 billion over the past three years, and are projected to cost $54 trillion globally by 2040. Those numbers fail to convey the devastation from lives lost, and the impacts on communities displaced by increasing climate crises. Suhas cannot imagine leaving his daughters with a world that is less habitable and more unstable because of a problem that we have the resources and knowledge to tackle now. As a Senator and Delegate, he has advanced a bold agenda to promote the environment and conservation, all while creating jobs and promoting economic opportunity for small businesses.