Positions

2020

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- No

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position

Defense

Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position

Energy and Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- No

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position

Trade

Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes

Nebraska State Legislative Election 2002 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels you will support for the following general categories.State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels you will support.

1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Decrease Funding

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Funding Status

3. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status

4. Health care
- Maintain Funding Status

5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease

11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

13. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

14. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

15. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

16. Inheritance taxes
- Slightly Decrease

17. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease

18. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

19. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

20. Should Nebraska expand the sales tax on services?
- Undecided

21. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No

22. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.c) Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Do you support the current two term eight year limit for Nebraska governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support the current two term eight year limit for Nebraska state legislators?
- Undecided

3. Individual
- No

4. PAC
- Yes

5. Corporate
- Yes

6. Political Parties
- Undecided

7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

8. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- No

9. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No

10. Do you support voting on-line?
- No

11. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

12. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Nebraska are closed?
- Yes

13. Do you support allowing Native American tribes to have casinos on reservations?
- No

14. Do you support allowing video gaming machines in Nebraska?
- No

15. Should Nebraska recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

16. Should Nebraska restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

17. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- X

3. Oppose the use of the death penalty in Nebraska.
- No Answer

4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

9. Support the .08 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.
- X

10. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

11. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

12. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X

13. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer

14. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- No Answer

15. Require that sex offenders register with local police in every county where they live, work, or go to school.
- X

16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Educational

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer

3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer

5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer

6. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer

7. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer

10. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- No Answer

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer

12. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- X

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning employment.Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- No Answer

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

8. College and university admissions
- No

9. Public employment
- No

10. State contracting
- No

Environmental and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Undecided

4. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- Undecided

5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.

1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer

2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer

7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health issues.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- X

3. Reduce the amount the state pays to pharmacies for filling Medicaid patients' prescriptions.
- No Answer

4. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

5. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer

6. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- No Answer

7. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

8. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in Nebraska.
- No Answer

9. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- No Answer

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X

2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X

4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X

5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer

6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- X

8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

2019

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position

Energy & Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- No

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Yes