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John Mannion
DemocratU.S. House · NY · District 22
U.S. House New York District 22
U.S. House · NY · District 22
Binghamton University—B.A.; State University of New York at Oswego—M.S.
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Mannion worked as a biology and chemistry teacher and served as president of the West Genesee Teachers' Association. He served in the New York State Senate before being elected to the U.S. House representing New York's 22nd Congressional District beginning January 3, 2025.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Agriculture · Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development · Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology · Committee on Education and Workforce · Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education · Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
John Mannion’s healthcare stance emphasizes expanding affordable coverage, restoring or protecting Medicare/Medicaid and ACA support, lowering prescription drug costs, protecting reproductive healthcare access, and improving mental health services.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion says he supports expanding healthcare access, restoring Medicare and Medicaid cuts, bringing back and extending ACA tax credits, creating a universal public healthcare option, lowering prescription drug costs, protecting abortion rights, and improving mental-health access.
SourceMannion co-sponsored legislation to amend the Public Health Service Act to temporarily limit the use of rebates under the 340B Program.
SourceMannion co-sponsored legislation related to direct-care workforce opportunities, a healthcare-adjacent measure affecting care delivery capacity.
SourceMannion co-sponsored legislation titled the Restoring Essential Plan Coverage Act, addressing health coverage access through the Essential Plan framework.
SourceMannion proposed legislation focused on improving mental-health and suicide-prevention planning on campuses.
SourceJohn Mannion emphasizes an affordability and jobs agenda focused on lowering household costs, expanding domestic manufacturing and workforce training, supporting small businesses and farms, and using tax policy to benefit working families rather than the wealthiest Americans. His record and platform also connect economic growth to clean-energy investment, veteran employment, direct-care workforce development, and local journalism sustainability.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion proposed legislation in the labor and employment area aimed at supporting workforce development through immersive technology training.
SourceMannion proposed tax legislation intended to support local journalism, an industry tied to local jobs and community economic resilience.
SourceMannion co-sponsored labor and employment legislation focused on expanding opportunities in the direct-care workforce.
SourceMannion co-sponsored legislation concerning small restaurants, aligning with small-business protection and local economic stability.
SourceMannion says he supports creating jobs, lowering costs, making the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share, restoring renewable energy tax credits, and combating grocery price gouging.
SourceJohn Mannion’s immigration stance combines support for bipartisan immigration reform with paths to citizenship and TPS protections with criticism of aggressive or unconstitutional ICE enforcement practices. He has also supported tougher detention rules for some undocumented immigrants accused of crimes, while later calling for reforms and oversight of immigration enforcement.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion co-sponsored legislation to designate Ukraine under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, providing certain Ukrainian nationals continued eligibility for temporary protected status.
SourceMannion’s campaign says he supports common-sense, bipartisan immigration reform with paths to citizenship.
SourceMannion demanded DHS review an incident involving ICE agents visiting a Syracuse poll worker and urged the department to stop ICE activity targeting First Amendment-protected speech.
SourceMannion said reforms to the federal approach to immigration enforcement were necessary for him to support a crucial government funding bill.
SourceMannion supported the Laken Riley Act, which requires detention of certain undocumented immigrants accused of crimes such as theft-related offenses and authorizes state lawsuits over immigration enforcement failures.
SourceJohn Mannion presents himself as pro-climate action and pro-clean-energy, emphasizing greenhouse-gas reductions, clean air and water, conservation, and a transition to renewable and nuclear energy that preserves affordability and reliability. His record for this topic includes co-sponsoring environmental-protection and water-infrastructure measures while publicly supporting renewable-energy tax credits, watershed protection, and clean-energy development.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion co-sponsored legislation to block a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA rule rescinding the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, aligning with habitat and wildlife protection priorities.
SourceMannion co-sponsored a water-infrastructure measure, consistent with his stated emphasis on protecting water resources and modernizing systems that support clean water.
SourceMannion says he supports growing a clean energy economy, combating climate change, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and protecting communities from severe weather events.
SourceMannion says he supports taking on energy costs by ensuring large companies pay for their energy usage and restoring renewable-energy tax credits.
SourceAs a New York state senator, Mannion highlighted bills to increase electric vehicle charging stations and prohibit fracking wastewater from being used on highways as part of an Earth Day environmental package.
SourceJohn Mannion emphasizes strong federal support for public education, drawing on his nearly three decades as a public school science teacher and teachers’ union leader. His education record and platform focus on protecting the Department of Education, expanding student mental-health and counseling supports, improving literacy, supporting students with disabilities, increasing public-school funding, expanding universal pre-K, and improving teacher pay and working conditions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion proposed legislation to prohibit transferring certain Department of Education offices and functions to other federal agencies.
SourceMannion proposed legislation focused on strengthening counseling support in elementary and secondary schools.
SourceMannion proposed legislation aimed at improving mental-health and suicide-prevention planning on college campuses.
SourceMannion proposed education legislation related to reading and literacy support.
SourceMannion proposed legislation focused on protections for students with disabilities.
SourceJohn Mannion frames public safety around supporting local law enforcement and first responders, community policing, officer wellness, and targeted crime-prevention investments. He also supports gun-safety measures such as enhanced/background checks and violence-prevention programs while presenting these as compatible with funding police and protecting communities.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mannion co-sponsored legislation in the crime and law enforcement area focused on officer wellness and peer-support resources for law enforcement personnel.
SourceMannion says he secured millions in community project funding for new mobile command units for the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office and Syracuse Police Department as part of his public-safety agenda.
SourceMannion’s campaign says he supports legislation such as the Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2025 as a common-sense gun-law reform to protect communities.
SourceAs a state senator, Mannion announced funding for gun-violence prevention programs and said public safety required addressing endemic gun crime.
SourceMannion’s campaign states that he supports bipartisan legislation intended to protect children from online predators.
SourceBallotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_22nd_Congressional_District_election,_2024Fetched: biography, education, professional background
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
https://clerk.house.gov/Members/M001231Fetched: hometown, committee assignments
U.S. House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/M/MANNION%2C-John-W--%28M001231%29/Fetched: biography, date of birth, education, professional background
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H4NY22085/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
OpenWatchdog
https://www.openwatchdog.com/member/M001231Fetched: partyAlignment, missedVotes, keyVotes
New York State AFL-CIO
https://nysaflcio.org/press-releases/new-york-state-afl-cio-endorses-mannionFetched: endorsements
League of Conservation Voters
https://www.lcv.org/media-center/lcv-action-fund-announces-new-slate-of-endorsements-for-u-s-senate-and-u-s-house-of-representatives/Fetched: endorsements
NTEU
https://www.nteu.org/~/media/Files/nteu/docs/public/legislation/2024/2024-endorsements.pdf?la=enFetched: endorsements
Public Employees Federation
https://www.pef.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Congressional-endorsements.pdfFetched: endorsements
Humane World Action Fund
https://humaneaction.org/press-release/2024/09/humane-society-legislative-fund-endorses-john-mannion-new-yorks-22ndFetched: endorsements
Mannion for New York - Healthcare
https://mannionforny.com/on-the-issues/healthcare/Fetched: issuePositions
Congress.gov - To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to temporarily limit the use of rebates under the 340B Program
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10770Fetched: bills
Congress.gov - Direct CARE Opportunity Act of 2026
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10704Fetched: bills
Congress.gov - Restoring Essential Plan Coverage Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10692Fetched: bills
Congress.gov - Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8978Fetched: bills
Utica University Center of Public Affairs and Election Research - NY-22 in 2025: Year in Review By Representative John Mannion
https://www.ucpublicaffairs.com/home/2026/1/22/2025-in-reviewFetched: issuePositions
Congressman John Mannion
https://mannion.house.gov/media/press-releases/representative-mannion-demands-answers-homeland-security-secretary-markwayneFetched: issuePositions
Central Current
https://centralcurrent.org/to-fix-broken-immigration-system-mannion-helped-expand-ices-powers-now-he-wants-reform/Fetched: issuePositions
Mannion for New York - The Environment
https://mannionforny.com/on-the-issues/the-environment/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate
https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/press-release/attachment/senate_majority_to_pass_earth_day_legislation_that_combats_climate_change_and_protects_the_environment.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Mannion for New York - Education
https://www.mannionforny.com/on-the-issues/education/Fetched: issuePositions
Mannion for New York - Public Safety
https://www.mannionforny.com/on-the-issues/public-safety/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - John Mannion gun violence prevention release
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/john-w-mannion/senator-john-w-mannion-announces-50000-support-gunFetched: issuePositions