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1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Unknown Position
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?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
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
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Unknown Position
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?
- Unknown Position
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
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Unknown Position
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 public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Agriculture
- Slightly Increase
2. Arts
- Greatly Decrease
3. Defense
- Slightly Increase
4. Education
- Maintain Status
5. Environment
- Slightly Decrease
6. Homeland security
- Maintain Status
7. International aid
- Greatly Decrease
8. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
9. Medical research
- Maintain Status
10. National parks
- Maintain Status
11. Public health services
- Maintain Status
12. Scientific research
- Slightly Increase
13. Space exploration programs
- Slightly Increase
14. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
15. Welfare
- Maintain Status
16. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
17. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Armed Forces personnel training
- Slightly Increase
2. Intelligence operations
- Maintain Status
3. Military hardware
- Slightly Increase
4. Modernization of weaponry and equipment
- Slightly Increase
5. National missile defense
- Slightly Increase
6. Pay for active duty personnel
- Greatly Increase
7. Programs to improve troop retention rates
- Slightly Increase
8. Research and development of new weapons
- Slightly Increase
9. Troop and equipment readiness
- Slightly Increase
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Less than $25,000
- No Answer
2. $25,000-$75,000
- No Answer
3. $75,000-$150,000
- No Answer
4. Over $150,000
- No Answer
5. Over $40,000
- No Answer
6. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
7. Alcohol taxes
- Greatly Decrease
8. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate
9. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Decrease
10. Corporate taxes
- Eliminate
11. Gasoline taxes
- Greatly Decrease
12. Inheritance taxes
- Eliminate
13. Charitable contributions
- Eliminate
14. Child tax credit
- Eliminate
15. Earned income tax credit
- Eliminate
16. Medical expense deduction
- Eliminate
17. Mortgage deduction
- Eliminate
18. Student loan credit
- Eliminate
19. (HR25) Fed. Retail Tax
- (HR25) Federal Retail Tax
1. Do you support the permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
- Yes
2. Do you support making President Bush's tax cuts permanent?
- Yes
3. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support public taxpayer funding for federal candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
- X
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. Remove all contribution limits on federal campaigns and parties.
- No Answer
6. Require Section 527 organizations to register with the Federal Election Commission as Political Action Committees.
- X
7. Do you support instant run-off voting?
- Yes
8. Should Election Day be a national holiday?
- No
9. Do you support a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and woman?
- Yes
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
2. Eliminate the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with educational, vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
- No Answer
5. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- X
6. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
- No Answer
7. Impose stricter penalties for those convicted of corporate crimes.
- X
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- No Answer
2. Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- No Answer
3. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
4. Allow doctors to recommend 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."
- X
7. Support a federal law to standardize testing and penalties for steroid use in professional sports.
- No Answer
8. 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.
- X
4. Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
- No Answer
5. Reward teachers with merit pay for working in low-income schools.
- No Answer
6. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, technology).
- X
7. Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
- No Answer
8. Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
- X
9. Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
- X
10. 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.
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
7. Support the right of workers to strike without fear of being permanently replaced.
- No Answer
8. Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
10. The federal government should consider race and gender in government contracting decisions.
- No Answer
11. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- X
12. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
1. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
- No Answer
2. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
- No Answer
3. Support Clear Skies Act to reduce power plant emissions by setting a national cap on pollutants.
- No Answer
4. Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
- No Answer
5. Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
- X
6. Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
- X
7. Support increased development of traditional energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil).
- X
8. Strengthen emission controls and fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
- No Answer
9. Support opening a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
- X
10. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X
11. Support the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
- X
12. Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
- No Answer
13. Support the Kyoto Protocol to limit global warming.
- No Answer
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Reauthorize the ban on the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer
2. Maintain and strengthen the current level of enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
4. Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X
6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
7. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- X
2. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- No Answer
3. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
- X
4. Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
5. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- No Answer
6. Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
- No Answer
7. Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs such as CHIP and Medicaid.
- No Answer
8. Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
- No Answer
9. Allow laboratories to create new lines of stem cells for additional research.
- No Answer
10. 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. Support a temporary worker program that would enable illegal immigrants to work in the United States legally.
- No Answer
4. Relax restrictions barring legal immigrants from using government funded social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
- No Answer
5. Support amnesty for illegal immigrants already working in the United States.
- No Answer
6. 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.
- No Answer
3. Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- X
4. International Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated.
- X
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?
- Undecided
3. Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq?
- Yes
4. Should the United States send more troops to Iraq?
- No
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
6. Should the United States use diplomatic and economic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
- Yes
7. Should the United States use military force to dismantle the North Korean nuclear weapons program?
- Undecided
8. Should the United States remove the North Korean government from power?
- No
9. Should the United States increase financial support to Afghanistan?
- No
10. Should the United States increase military support to Afghanistan?
- No
11. Should the United States maintain its financial support of the United Nations?
- No
12. Should the United States decrease its financial support of the United Nations?
- Yes
13. Should the United States commit troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- No
14. Should the United States lift the travel ban to Cuba?
- Undecided
15. Should the United States increase its financial support to Colombia to combat "the war on drugs?"
- No
16. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund distribution of contraceptives?
- No
17. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund abstinence education?
- Yes
1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- No
2. Do you support the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)?
- No
3. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- No
4. Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- No
5. Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation) status with the United States?
- No
6. Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
- Undecided
7. Should trade agreements include provisions to address environmental concerns and to protect workers' rights?
- Yes
8. 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 grant law enforcement agencies greater discretion to read mail and email, tap phones, and conduct random searches to prevent future terrorist attacks?
- No
3. Should the United States hold foreign states accountable for terrorists who operate in their country?
- Yes
4. Should the federal government increase funding to states and cities for homeland security?
- Undecided
5. Do you support the prohibition of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of prisoners in U.S. custody?
- Yes
6. Do you support a policy of pre-emptive military strikes against countries deemed to be a threat to U.S. national security?
- Yes
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.
- X
2. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
- X
3. Invest a portion of Social Security assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of United States Treasury securities.
- X
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 individual eligibility to receive full Social Security benefits.
- No Answer
1. Collect taxes on commercial Internet transactions.
- No Answer
2. Continue the moratorium on Internet taxation.
- No Answer
3. Implement government regulation of Internet content.
- No Answer
4. Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
- No Answer
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.
- No Answer
7. Regulating the Internet is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- X
8. 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.
- No Answer
3. Continue to give states and local governments flexibility in and responsibility for welfare programs through federal block grants.
- X
4. Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based, or other non-profit organizations.
- X
5. Abolish all federal welfare programs.
- No Answer
6. Support housing assistance for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
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-life
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?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
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
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
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
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
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
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?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position
Think Northwest Indiana voters won't have a choice when it comes to picking their representative in Congress? Think again. Sure, Democrat Pete Visclosky, looking for a 13th term representing the U.S. House 1st District, is unopposed in the May 6 primary, but Republican primary voters have a menu of five candidates, covering nearly all positions on the ideological spectrum. Candidate Chuck Barman of Cedar Lake is a borderline Libertarian conservative. Highland's Mark Leyva, running for the nomination to face Visclosky for a fifth time, is a more doctrinaire Republican. Jayson Reeves is a Gary community activist. Mark Coleman, an Ogden Dunes environmentalist, was blocked from running as a Democrat and said he regrets he'd be sworn into office too late to begin impeachment proceedings for fellow Republican George W. Bush. Ric Holtz of Merrillville did not return calls from The Post-Tribune. In November, the winner will face Visclosky, the most senior congressman in the Indiana delegation, and his $1.5 million campaign war chest. Coleman is making the environment the center of his campaign, saying he was inspired to run by Visclosky's refusal to fight for stronger environmental controls on the expanded BP refinery in Whiting. The region's heavy industry could be revamped to produce green energy equipment, such as wind turbines and solar cells. "If we spend the money on developing wind and solar I think that'd be a better way to help the country instead of helping the coal and oil industry the way Visclosky has," he said. Barman chose to run after lobbying against Visclosky's plan for a $1 billion extension to the South Shore commuter rail. A construction contractor, Barman nonetheless opposes measures that promote suburban sprawl. "Visclosky is a pork-barreler, and that's why the Republicans never run anyone against him," Barman said. "Like the rail line. He says he's going to give you $1,000, but you'll have to make $1,500 to make up for the taxes you lose." Reeves, who ran for Gary mayor in 2007, said his commitment to the community and background as an engineering designer and small business owner makes him the strongest contender. "The 1st Congressional District seat would allow someone with my abilities to do a lot for so many people," he said. Leyva said his experience running a campaign in a district that spans five counties gives him better name recognition against an established politician. Unlike his GOP rivals who oppose the Iraq war, Leyva, whose son has served two hitches in Iraq, said the issue is more complicated and he would heed the advice of military commanders. "I would see to it more of the funding there is reaches the troops on the ground instead of contractors," Leyva said.
