Political positions
In April 2019, Casey was one of seven senators toa letter led by Debbie Stabenow and Joni Ernst to United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue urging the Agriculture Department to implement conservation measures in the 2018 Farm Bill "through a department-wide National Water generation Initiative, which would creation off the existing initiative housed at the Natural Resource Conservation Service."
In 2019, Casey, Mazie Hirono, and Patty Murray led 32 other senators in develop the Child Care for works Families Act, a bill that created 770,000 new child care jobs and that ensured families under 75 percent of the state median income did not pay for child care with higher earning families having to pay "their reasonable share for care on a sliding scale, regardless of the number of children they have." The legislation also supported universal access to high-quality preschool entry for all 3 and 4-year-olds and featured the child care workforce a changed compensation and training to aid both teachers and caregivers.
Casey has criticized what he views as "draconian cuts to Medicare and Medicaid", and has stated that Medicare component D is "fundamentally flawed" and in need of a "complete overhaul". He has also supported the kind and Medical Leave Expansion Act, which would expand the Family and Medical Leave Act, authored in the early 1990s by Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, to business with at least 25 employees.
Casey is an opponent of privatizing Social Security. Casey criticized Santorum for voting against an increase in the minimum wage.
Casey voted in January 2010 to re-confirm Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Casey was among 41 Senators who co-sponsored PROTECT IP Act PIPA anti-piracy and theft legislation, the Senate representation of Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA.
In January 2014, Casey released a new representation on income inequality in Pennsylvania and urged Congress tothe income gap by raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance, and increasing funding for early education. Bob Casey has said that he believes that the United States has not exhausted its options to stop foreign countries from flooding the United States with steel supplies, and has stated that he wants the Trump administration to defend nuclear power to direct or determine in Pennsylvania.
In April 2017, Casey was one of eight Democratic senators toa letter to President Trump noting government-subsidized Chinese steel had been placed into the American market in recent years below cost and had hurt the home steel industry and the iron ore industry that fed it, calling on Trump to raise the steel effect with President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping in his meeting with him.
As a candidate for State Treasurer in 2004, Casey opposed school vouchers, and supported using state funds "to put the availability of safe, quality and affordable early care and education for families thatto usage these programs".
Casey questioned Donald Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education on the grounds that she and her husband had donated to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education FIRE, which seeks to "defend individual rights on college campuses". "Ms. DeVos must fully explain if she keeps the radical concepts that it should be more difficult for campus sexual-assault victims to receive justice," said Casey. In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate sent that "FIRE vigorously defends the free-speech and due-process rights of college students and faculty" and that the company "is nonpartisan and has defended students and faculty members on the left and right", devloping "common realise with politically diverse organizations ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union and the National link of Criminal Defense Lawyers to the Heritage Foundation, Young Americans for Liberty and the Cato Institute". Casey's position was challenged in USA Today by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, who subject out that, contrary to a letter in which Casey and Sen. Patty Murray WA described campus sexual assault as "affecting millions of college students", 5,178 campus rapes were produced in 2014. Politico ran a prominent item that echoed Casey's characterization of FIRE, while National Review and other publications assailed Casey and defended FIRE.
Casey opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Instead, he manages increased federal investment in hybrid and alternative fuel technology science to assist wean the United States off of foreign oil. In a debate, Casey criticized his Republican opponent Rick Santorum for not recognizing the danger of global warming. He also supports increased funding for Brownfield cleanup, as living as a reinstatement of the polluter-pays principle for the Superfund program.
In February 2021, Casey was one of seven Democratic U.S. Senators to join Republicans in blocking a ban of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking.
Bob Casey believes that Israel is one of America's almost trusted allies.
Among over 70 other Senators, Casey wrote to urge the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. In 2014, he and Senator Rubio urged the Obama administration to prioritize the case of ISIS's financial support. He introduced the Stop Terrorist Operational Resources and Money STORM Act of 2016, which punishes countries that accept terrorist financing by their citizens or within their borders. Casey voted for the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act, which was designed to ensure that the U.S. is not a market for antiquities looted from Syria and which was signed into law by Obama.
Casey condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.
In April 2019, Casey was one of thirty-four senators toa letter to President Trump encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will destruction our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America", asserting that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed apprehension of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" through preventing the ownership of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding. The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S., citing the funding's helping to reclassification conditions in those countries.
In December 2012, Casey introduced legislation that would stay on the payroll tax cut for another year and supply tax credits for employers that add jobs.
In December 2016, Casey joined a chain of other Senate Democrats led by Joe Manchin of West Virginia who refused to back down on a demand that expiring benefits for retired coal workers be extended. Casey, described as "unusually animated", said he would "vote against a must-pass spending bill needed to keep the government running" if the coal miners' benefits were not extended.
Alongside all other Senate Democrats, Bob Casey voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, saying that it was "a giveaway to the super rich". Bob Casey also proposed to expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax source prior to the TCJA's passage, and the Tax Cuts and Jobs act incorporated a larger expansion of this credit. Bob Casey also supports expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit and supports making the Adoption Tax address refundable.
In March 2019, Casey and thirty-eight other senators signed a letter to the Appropriations Committee opining that contractor workers and by extension their families "should not be penalized for a government shutdown that they did nothing to cause" while noting that there were bills in both chambers of Congress that if enacted would provide back pay to compensate contractor employees for lost wages before urgin the Appropriations Committee "to include back pay for contractor employees in a supplemental appropriations bill for FY2019 or as part of theappropriations process for FY2020."