Member of Congress, 1st District — Democratic: Nancy S. Goroff

Nancy S. Goroff

Democrat

BACKGROUND:

• Goroff, 56, of Stony Brook, is a former chair of the Stony Brook University chemistry department who ran unsuccessfully for the First District Congressional seat in 2020.
• Goroff is a founding member of the Long Island Strong Schools alliance, a nonprofit public school advocacy group.
• Goroff received an AB in chemistry from Harvard University in 1990 and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles in 1994.

ISSUES:

• Goroff said if elected she would work to codify the rights in Roe vs. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and would oppose a national abortion ban.
• She said she would work to restore the full state and local tax (SALT) deduction as well as the expanded child tax credit offered during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It's never going to happen while the Republicans control the House," she said of the SALT deduction. "They have no interest in doing that; they want to use this as a cudgel against blue states."
• Goroff said she would make a priority of securing federal funding for affordable housing initiatives.

By Vera Chinese

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Vera Chinese joined Newsday in 2017 after working as an editor for the East End lifestyle publication northforker and a general assignment reporter for the New York Daily News.