READING LIST — NY-17 PUBLIC RECORD
Before Election Day, start with six bounded questions.
A voter guide should help you compare evidence, not flatten every issue into a score. These six guides separate Mike Lawler's documented record, Cait Conley's stated proposals and the law or public status that applies now.
Choose the question that matters to you
- Medicaid: separate a recorded vote, an enacted eligibility rule and campaign promises →
- SALT: understand why a temporarily higher deduction cap is not repeal →
- Congressional stock trading: compare a House vote with a trading-ban and divestment proposal →
- Haitian TPS: keep a House bill, a future commitment and current federal status separate →
- Indian Point: distinguish candidates' positions from the authority required to operate a nuclear plant →
- Iran war powers: read six roll-call votes alongside a challenger's broader proposal →
What the six guides have in common
Each brief asks one answerable question. Where Lawler has a recorded House vote, the guide treats that as a documented incumbent record. Where Conley states what she would do if elected, the guide labels it as a proposal. Neither kind of evidence is silently converted into a law, an outcome or a motive.
The guides also preserve asymmetry. A specific vote and a broad campaign promise are not made equivalent just to create matching columns. If a candidate has not answered the exact legislative question, the article says so instead of guessing.
What this reading list does not claim
This is not an endorsement, a candidate rating or a complete account of either campaign. It does not tell a reader how to vote, and it does not imply that six issues are the only issues that matter. It gathers work whose source and accuracy gates are already closed; unresolved assignments remain out of the public list until their controlling records can be checked.
Voting logistics and poll-site protections are separate service questions. Early voting ended November 1. Use the Election Day and mail-ballot guide → and the poll-site rights guide → for assigned-site hours, official lookup links, return rules and reporting routes.
What this changes for a Rockland voter: six record-based comparisons now have one permanent starting point, so readers can move issue by issue without relying on campaign shorthand or hunting through the full publication archive.
Compiled October 29, 2026, from six published Rockland Edit Public Record guides. The six destinations and their controlling source status were rechecked November 2, 2026, at 2:57 p.m. EST; the Medicaid guide includes the October 29 district-court ruling, and the voter-service handoff now reflects that early voting has ended. Each linked guide preserves its primary sources, check dates and evidence limits. No campaign supplied, reviewed or paid for this reading list.