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Michael LiPetri Jr.
DemocraticU.S. House · NY · District 3
U.S. House New York District 3
U.S. House · NY · District 3
University at Albany—Bachelor's degree in Political Science; Albany Law School—J.D.
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Michael LiPetri Jr. is an attorney and Republican politician who represented New York State Assembly District 9 from 2019 to 2021. His professional experience includes work as an associate at Rivkin Radler LLP, managing director at Park Strategies LLC, host/co-host of radio shows, and aide or legal roles connected to prosecutors' offices. He is a candidate for U.S. House in New York's 3rd Congressional District.
Committee Assignments: Corporations, Authorities and Commissions · Housing · Environmental Conservation · Racing and Wagering · Social Services
Michael LiPetri Jr. frames his healthcare platform around market-oriented reform, emphasizing patient choice, portable coverage, preventive care, and price transparency rather than expanded government control. Public reporting also indicates he opposes single-payer healthcare and supports reducing fraud and limiting government-supported benefits to eligible recipients.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri supports shifting control of healthcare decisions back to patients, doctors, individuals, and families rather than insurance companies and government bureaucrats.
SourceLiPetri supports personal and portable healthcare coverage that allows Americans to keep coverage when changing jobs or moving across state lines.
SourceLiPetri supports a 21st-century healthcare price transparency system as part of his broader healthcare reform agenda.
SourceA 2024 voter guide characterized LiPetri as opposing any single-payer healthcare plan because of cost and supporting a fair and competitive healthcare market.
SourceDuring an NY-03 debate, LiPetri defended efforts to reduce fraud in government-supported healthcare programs and restrict benefits to eligible recipients.
SourceMichael LiPetri Jr. frames his Economy & Jobs platform around affordability, tax cuts, deregulation, small-business support, and pro-growth policies. He supports extending Trump-era tax cuts, raising the SALT deduction cap, eliminating taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, reducing red tape for businesses, protecting crypto innovation, and using tariffs as a negotiating tool to rebuild supply chains.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri supports building on the Trump tax cuts, lifting the SALT tax cap, and eliminating taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security as part of an affordability agenda.
SourceLiPetri says he would promote small businesses by cutting red tape and restrictions that make doing business harder and by getting government out of the way of job creators and innovators.
SourceLiPetri defended tariffs as a negotiating tool to rebuild American supply chains and ensure other countries play fair with the United States.
SourceLiPetri has aligned his campaign with an agenda to grow the economy, cut taxes and regulations, advance American energy dominance, and promote Made in the U.S.A. policies.
SourceLiPetri supports a unified crypto regulatory framework that protects free markets and keeps the United States competitive in digital-asset innovation.
SourceMichael LiPetri Jr. emphasizes stricter border enforcement, deporting immigrants who commit crimes, support for ICE, and opposition to sanctuary-style limits on immigration enforcement. He also says he supports legal immigration, including merit-based pathways and a past process for Dreamers to obtain legal resident status.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri's campaign says the U.S. should continue deporting criminals who are in the country illegally and require immigrants to enter legally.
SourceLiPetri's archived campaign issues page said he would support a border security plan, expand merit-based legal immigration pathways, require true asylum cases to be heard quickly, add physical barriers at critical border points, fund biometric systems, and tighten visa oversight.
SourceA NY-03 voter guide cites LiPetri as supporting an end to asylum loopholes and catch-and-release policies.
SourceAs a state assemblyman, LiPetri introduced legislation to allow New York's DMV to share immigration-status information with federal agencies such as ICE, saying state and federal agencies should work together on public safety.
SourceA voter guide reports that in 2019 LiPetri supported having a process to give Dreamers legal resident status.
SourceMichael LiPetri Jr. emphasizes local environmental protection, especially water quality and infrastructure, while backing an energy mix that includes renewables, batteries, and natural gas. He opposes Green New Deal-style policies, gas-stove bans, electric-vehicle mandates, and costly climate legislation that he argues would raise costs.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri says that as a state assemblyman he co-chaired a statewide Water Quality Taskforce focused on aging water infrastructure, contaminants, and environmental hazards, and calls protecting ecosystems, wildlife, and waterways one of his highest priorities.
SourceLiPetri said the country needs wind, solar, batteries, and natural gas, while opposing the Green New Deal, gas-stove bans, and electric-vehicle mandates.
SourceLiPetri voted against a 2019 New York climate law, with voter-guide coverage citing his concern about the legislation's high subsidy costs for alternative energy.
SourceLiPetri supports creating a National Water Quality Task Force modeled on his statewide water-quality initiative to address regional water infrastructure and aquifer issues.
SourceDuring a NY-03 debate, LiPetri identified water quality as an under-addressed issue for Long Islanders and said policymakers should focus on proactive solutions to preserve drinking water.
SourceMichael LiPetri Jr. emphasizes conservative education themes: expanding school choice, devolving federal education authority to states and communities, and strengthening parental control over school-related decisions. He also criticizes COVID-era school closures and argues schools should better prepare students for trades and jobs.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri said he supports school choice, including voucher programs, tax credits, charter schools, private schools, and home schools.
SourceLiPetri said he supports eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and returning control over education to states and communities.
SourceLiPetri said parents should be kept informed about what their children are doing in schools and criticized proposals he described as stripping away parental rights.
SourceLiPetri said schools should encourage entrepreneurship and trades so students are prepared for the jobs of tomorrow.
SourceLiPetri criticized pandemic-era policies that he said locked children out of school and damaged children’s educational and personal development.
SourceMichael LiPetri Jr. presents a tough-on-crime public safety platform centered on support for police, stronger penalties for violent crime and illegal gun possession, opposition to bail reform, and enforcement against undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
Specific Actions & Proposals
LiPetri says he will give law enforcement "full and unapologetic support" and describes himself as a leading supporter of police during the Defund the Police movement.
SourceDuring an NY-03 debate, LiPetri called for tougher penalties, including the death penalty for killing police officers and increased mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession.
SourceLiPetri supports allowing homicide or murder charges against drug dealers whose illegal opioid sales lead to fatal overdoses.
SourceLiPetri says he supports federal law enforcement efforts to target and deport criminals who are in the country illegally.
SourceLiPetri criticized efforts to repeal qualified immunity, arguing that doing so would make law enforcement officers personally liable for conduct in the line of duty.
SourceBallotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_election%2C_2026_%28June_23_Republican_primary%29Fetched: biography, education, professional background, political office
BallotReady
https://www.ballotready.org/people/michael-j-lipetri-jrFetched: education, professional background
The Full Record
https://www.thefullrecord.org/guide/race/us-house-ny-3/michael-lipetri-jrFetched: committee assignments, education, professional background
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY03304/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
OpenSecrets search
https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=Michael%20LiPetri%20JrFetched: campaignFinance
New York State Board of Elections
https://elections.ny.gov/certification-november-5-2024-general-electionFetched: endorsements
New York Young Republican Club
https://nyyrc.com/endorsements/endorsement-mike-lipetri-for-new-yorks-third-congressional-district-2/Fetched: endorsements
iVoterGuide
https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/52904/race/28482/election/1430Fetched: endorsements, ratings
New York League of Conservation Voters
https://nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-state-scorecard-web.pdfFetched: ratings
National Federation of Independent Business
https://assets.nfib.com/nfibcom/New-York-Voting-Record-9-1-2020-FINAL.pdfFetched: ratings
New York State Rifle and Pistol Association
https://www.nysrpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nysrpa-Bullet-Oct20-web.pdfFetched: ratings
guides.vote
https://guides.vote/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NY-US-House-NY-03-Guide-2024-Full-Color-Print.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/longisland/amp/35051913/suozzi-lipetri-clash-over-trump-stock-trading-in-heated-ny-3-debateFetched: issuePositions
Long Island Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/longisland/amp/35009182/meet-the-candidate-mike-lipetri-for-congress-3rd-congressional-districtFetched: issuePositions
CBS News New York
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/tom-suozzi-mike-lipetri-ny-3-congressional-race/?intcid=CNR-01-0623Fetched: issuePositions
Long Island Life & Politics
https://lilifepolitics.com/news/politics/lipetri-set-to-challenge-suozzi-again-for-congressional-seat/Fetched: issuePositions
Branch.vote
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-us-representative-ny-congressional-3/candidates/michael-j-lipetri-jrFetched: issuePositions
Mike LiPetri for Congress archived issues page
https://web.archive.org/web/20241105051423/https:/www.lipetriforcongress.com/issuesFetched: issuePositions
Guides.vote NY-03 Voters Guide
https://guides.vote/guide/2026-new-york-ny-03-us-house-voters-guide/Fetched: issuePositions
WSHU
https://www.wshu.org/news/2020-01-30/bill-would-allow-information-sharing-between-new-york-dmv-and-iceFetched: issuePositions
News 12 Bronx
https://bronx.news12.com/power-and-politics-assemblyman-michael-lipetri-41108042Fetched: issuePositions
Guides.vote
https://guides.vote/guide/2026-new-york-ny-03-us-house-voters-guide/Fetched: issuePositions
E&E News by POLITICO
https://www.eenews.net/articles/5-new-york-house-races-where-energy-policy-could-matter/Fetched: issuePositions
Glen Cove Library PDF
https://www.glencovelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Vol.-33-No.-45-Oct-31-Nov-06-2024.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Suozzi for Congress
https://suozziforcongress.com/article/takeaways-from-the-debate-between-rep-tom-suozzi-and-challenger-mike-lipetri/Fetched: issuePositions
iVoterGuide
https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/52904/race/2151/election/1230?culture=en-usFetched: issuePositions
Smarter.Vote
https://smarter.vote/races/ny-house-03-2026/compare/?candidates=tom-suozzi,michael-lipetri-jrFetched: issuePositions
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/glencove/candidate-profile-mike-lipetri-3rd-congressional-districtFetched: issuePositions
Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/candidate-profile-mike-lipetri-3rd-203043630.htmlFetched: issuePositions
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/longisland/suozzi-lipetri-clash-over-trump-stock-trading-heated-ny-3-debateFetched: issuePositions
CBS News New York
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/long-island-death-by-dealer-statute/Fetched: issuePositions
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/longisland/amp/35009182/meet-the-candidate-mike-lipetri-for-congress-3rd-congressional-districtFetched: issuePositions
The Cats Roundtable
https://catsroundtable.com/michael-lipetri-making-border-security-and-public-safety-central-to-ny-03-race/Fetched: issuePositions