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1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
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?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
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)?
- No
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Yes
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- 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.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial-birth" abortion.
- X
7. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Agriculture
- Maintain Status
2. Arts
- Maintain Status
3. Defense
- Slightly Increase
4. Education
- Slightly Increase
5. Environment
- Maintain Status
6. Homeland security
- Slightly Increase
7. International aid
- Maintain Status
8. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
9. Medical research
- Greatly Increase
10. National parks
- Maintain Status
11. Public health services
- Slightly Increase
12. Scientific research
- Greatly Increase
13. Space exploration programs
- Maintain Status
14. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
15. Welfare
- Maintain Status
16. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Armed Forces personnel training
- Maintain Status
2. Intelligence operations
- Slightly Increase
3. Military hardware
- Maintain Status
4. Modernization of weaponry and equipment
- Maintain Status
5. National missile defense
- Maintain Status
6. Pay for active duty personnel
- Slightly Increase
7. Programs to improve troop retention rates
- Slightly Increase
8. Research and development of new weapons
- Maintain Status
9. Troop and equipment readiness
- Slightly Increase
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Less than $25,000
- Maintain Status
2. $25,000-$75,000
- Maintain Status
3. $75,000-$150,000
- Maintain Status
4. Over $150,000
- Slightly Increase
5. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
6. Over $40,000
- No Answer
7. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Increase
9. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Increase
11. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Charitable contributions
- Maintain Status
14. Child tax credit
- Maintain Status
15. Earned income tax credit
- Slightly Increase
16. Medical expense deduction
- Maintain Status
17. Mortgage deduction
- Maintain Status
18. Student loan credit
- Maintain Status
1. Do you support permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
- No
2. Do you support eliminating taxes on dividends paid to individual investors?
- No
3. Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support public taxpayer funding for federal candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
- No Answer
2. Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
- No Answer
3. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
- No Answer
4. Allow unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
- No Answer
5. Allow ads paid for by soft money that support or attack a candidate for federal office.
- No Answer
6. Allow issue advocacy commercials by corporations, labor unions, and non-profit groups which appear within 60 days of a general election and within 30 days of a primary election.
- No Answer
7. Remove all contribution limits on federal campaigns and parties.
- No Answer
8. Do you support instant run-off voting (IRV)?
- No
9. Should Election Day be a national holiday?
- No
10. Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions?
- Yes
11. Should marriage be restricted to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
1. Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- X
2. Eliminate the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
3. Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
- X
6. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- No Answer
7. Support additional criminal penalties if a fetus is killed in the commission of a federal crime against a pregnant woman.
- X
8. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
- X
9. Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
- X
10. Impose stricter penalties for those convicted of white-collar crimes.
- X
11. Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
12. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- X
2. Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- X
3. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- X
4. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
5. Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
- X
6. Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards for and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
- X
5. Increase funding for block grants to states to aid in the hiring of additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer
7. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, technology).
- X
8. Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
- X
9. Support changing the mission of Head Start to emphasize improving the math and reading skills of disadvantaged children.
- No Answer
10. Providing education is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
11. Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
- X
12. Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
- X
13. Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide tax credits or grants to businesses that offer child care services to employees.
- X
4. Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
- X
5. Eliminate all federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
- No Answer
6. Increase the federal minimum wage.
- X
7. Support the right of workers to strike without fear of being permanently replaced.
- X
8. Allow workers to sell company stock and to diversify their company retirement funds into other investment options.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
10. The federal government should consider race and gender in government contracting decisions.
- X
11. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
12. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- X
13. Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
- X
1. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
- X
2. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
- X
3. Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
- No Answer
4. Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
- No Answer
5. Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
- No Answer
6. Support increased development of traditional energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil).
- X
7. Strengthen emission controls and fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
- X
8. Support opening a select portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
- No Answer
9. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X
10. Support the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
- No Answer
11. Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
- X
12. Support the U.S. re-entering the Kyoto treaty process to limit global warming.
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Renew the ban on the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- X
2. Maintain and strengthen the current level of enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
9. Establish a national database of ballistic "fingerprints" to track guns used in criminal activities.
- X
10. Support legislation that would protect manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms from civil lawsuits by crime victims.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
2. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- X
3. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
- X
4. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
- X
5. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
- No Answer
6. Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
7. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- X
8. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under private managed care plans.
- X
9. Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
- X
10. Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs such as CHIP and Medicaid.
- X
11. Allow 55-65 year-olds to buy into Medicare.
- No Answer
12. Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
- X
13. Allow laboratories to create new lines of stem cells for additional research.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Decrease the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
- No Answer
2. Establish English as the official national language.
- No Answer
3. Increase the number of visas issued for agricultural workers.
- No Answer
4. Relax restrictions barring legal immigrants from using social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
- No Answer
5. Support amnesty for certain illegal immigrants who already reside in the United States.
- X
6. Support the detention of asylum seekers from countries known to sponsor terrorism.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
- X
2. Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States.
- X
3. Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- No Answer
4. Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated.
- No Answer
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should the United States continue to provide leadership in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
- Yes
2. Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state?
- Yes
3. Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq?
- No
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
5. Should the United States use diplomatic and economic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
- Yes
6. Should the United States use military force to destroy the North Korean nuclear weapons program?
- Undecided
7. Should the United States remove the North Korean government from power?
- No
8. Should the United States increase financial support to Afghanistan?
- Yes
9. Should the United States increase military support to Afghanistan?
- Undecided
10. Should the United States maintain its financial support of the United Nations?
- Yes
11. Should the United States decrease its financial support of the United Nations?
- No
12. Should the United States commit troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- Yes
13. Should the United States lift the travel ban to Cuba?
- Yes
14. Should the United States increase its financial support to Colombia to combat "the war on drugs"?
- Yes
15. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund distribution of contraceptives?
- Yes
16. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention fund abstinence education?
- Yes
1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- No
2. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- Yes
3. Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- Yes
4. Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation) status with the United States?
- Yes
5. Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
- No
6. Should trade agreements include provisions to address environmental concerns and to protect workers' rights?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists when ordinary civilian courts are deemed inappropriate or impractical?
- Yes
2. Should the United States adopt stricter rules for student visa applications from nations known to sponsor terrorism?
- Yes
3. Should the United States grant law enforcement agencies greater discretion to read mail and email, tap phones, and conduct random searches to prevent future terrorist attacks?
- Yes
4. Should the United States hold foreign states accountable for terrorists who operate in their country?
- Yes
5. Should the federal government increase funding to states and cities for homeland security?
- Yes
6. Do you support a policy of pre-emptive strikes against countries deemed to be a threat to national security?
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves.
- No Answer
2. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
- No Answer
3. Invest a portion of Social Security assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of United States Treasury securities.
- No Answer
4. Increase the payroll tax to better finance Social Security in its current form.
- No Answer
5. Lower the annual cost-of-living increases.
- No Answer
6. Raise the retirement age for when individuals are eligible to receive full Social Security benefits.
- No Answer
7. Other of expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Collect taxes on commercial Internet transactions.
- No Answer
2. Continue the moratorium on Internet taxation.
- No Answer
3. Implement regulation of Internet content.
- X
4. Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
- X
5. Support strict penalties for Internet crimes (e.g. hacking, identity theft, worms/viruses).
- X
6. Support legislation to detail how personal information can be collected and used on the Internet.
- X
7. Regulating the Internet is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
8. Impose regulations on "spam" emails.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Require welfare recipients to spend at least 40 hours a week in a combination of work and training programs.
- X
2. Increase funding for child care programs.
- X
3. Continue to give states and local governments flexibility in and responsibility for welfare programs through federal block grants.
- No Answer
4. Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based, or other non-profit organizations.
- No Answer
5. Abolish all federal welfare programs.
- No Answer
6. Support housing assistance for low-income families.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
On an attached page, disk, or via email, please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
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?
- No
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position
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?
- No
