2020

Abortion

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

Budget

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

Crime

1. Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders?
- No

Economy

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

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

Education

1. Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

Energy

1. Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- Yes

2. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes

Environment

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

Guns

Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

Health Care

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

Immigration

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

Marriage

Do you support same-sex marriage?
- No

National Security

1. Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
- Yes

Social Security

1. Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- Yes

Congressional Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

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.
- No Answer

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.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 1: Budget Priorities

1. Agriculture
- Maintain Status

2. Arts
- Maintain Status

3. Defense
- Slightly Increase

4. Education
- Maintain Status

5. Environment
- Maintain Status

6. Homeland security
- Maintain Status

7. International aid
- Maintain Status

8. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status

9. Medical research
- Maintain Status

10. National parks
- Maintain Status

11. Public health services
- Maintain Status

12. Scientific research
- Maintain Status

13. Space exploration programs
- Maintain Status

14. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase

15. Welfare
- Maintain Status

16. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 2: Defense Spending

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
- Greatly 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

Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 3: Taxes (A)

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. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

6. Over $40,000
- No Answer

7. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

8. Capital gains taxes
- Slightly Decrease

9. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease

11. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Inheritance taxes
- Eliminate

13. Charitable contributions
- Slightly Increase

14. Child tax credit
- Slightly Increase

15. Earned income tax credit
- Maintain Status

16. Medical expense deduction
- Greatly Increase

17. Mortgage deduction
- Maintain Status

18. Student loan credit
- Slightly Increase

Budgetary, Spending, and Taxes, Part 3: Taxes (B)

1. Do you support permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
- Yes

2. Do you support eliminating taxes on dividends paid to individual investors?
- Yes

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
- Yes

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

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)?
- Undecided

9. Should Election Day be a national holiday?
- No

10. Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions?
- No

11. Should marriage be restricted to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

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.
- X

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.
- No Answer

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

Drug

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.
- No Answer

4. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

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

Education

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

2. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
- X

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.
- X

5. Increase funding for block grants to states to aid in the hiring of additional teachers.
- No Answer

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

7. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, technology).
- No Answer

8. Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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

Employment and Affirmative Action

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.
- X

3. Provide tax credits or grants to businesses that offer child care services to employees.
- No Answer

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. 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.
- No Answer

11. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- X

12. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer

13. Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

Environment and Energy

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. Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
- X

4. Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
- X

5. Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
- X

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.
- X

9. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X

10. Support the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
- X

11. Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
- No Answer

12. Support the U.S. re-entering the Kyoto treaty process to limit global warming.
- No Answer

13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

1. Renew 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 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. Establish a national database of ballistic "fingerprints" to track guns used in criminal activities.
- No Answer

10. Support legislation that would protect manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms from civil lawsuits by crime victims.
- X

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

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.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

5. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
- X

6. Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

7. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- No Answer

8. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under private managed care plans.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- X

Immigration

1. Decrease the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
- No Answer

2. Establish English as the official national language.
- X

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.
- No Answer

6. Support the detention of asylum seekers from countries known to sponsor terrorism.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 1: International Aid

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

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 2: International Policy

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?
- No

7. Should the United States remove the North Korean government from power?
- No

8. Should the United States increase financial support to Afghanistan?
- Undecided

9. Should the United States increase military support to Afghanistan?
- Undecided

10. Should the United States maintain its financial support of the United Nations?
- No Answer

11. Should the United States decrease its financial support of the United Nations?
- Yes

12. Should the United States commit troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- No Answer

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

International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 3: International Trade

1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- Yes

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

National Security

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?
- No

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?
- No Answer

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

Social Security

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.
- X

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
- X

Technology and Communication

1. Collect taxes on commercial Internet transactions.
- No Answer

2. Continue the moratorium on Internet taxation.
- No Answer

3. Implement regulation of Internet content.
- No Answer

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.
- No Answer

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

Welfare and Poverty

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.
- 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 low-income families.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer