2021

Abortion

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

Budget

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?
- Unknown Position

Campaign Finance

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

Crime

1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No

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?
- 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

Education

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

Energy and Environment

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

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes

Health Care

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

Immigration

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

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)?
- No

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

Congressional Election 1994 National Political Awareness Test

Crime

1. Impose a national ban on the public sale of assault weapons.
- X

2. Impose a national ban on the sale of handguns to minors.
- X

3. Impose "truth in sentencing" legislation for violent criminals so they serve a full sentence with no chance of parole.
- X

4. Create "boot camps" for juvenile and adult first-time offenders.
- X

5. Prosecute as adults youths who are third-time violent felons.
- X

6. Impose the death penalty for certain federal crimes, including civil rights murders, rape and child molestation murders, death resulting from drive-by shootings or car-jacking, and murder of court officers or federal witnesses.
- No Answer

7. Impose mandatory life sentences for third time violent felons.
- X

8. Fund programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills.
- X

9. Increase the availability of college loans for youth in crime-ridden urban areas.
- X

10. Fund programs which provide job training and employment opportunities for at-risk urban youth.
- X

11. Other
- No Answer

Illegal Drugs

1. Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
- X

2. Support mandatory drug testing for federal employees.
- No Answer

3. Expand efforts to stop the illegal flow of drugs to the United States from other countries.
- No Answer

4. Expand federal support for education and drug treatment programs.
- X

5. Maintain current federal laws.
- X

6. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs.
- No Answer

7. Other
- No Answer

Health Care

1. Implement a government-financed, single-payer national health care system similar to Canada's.
- No Answer

2. Support President Clinton's position for a "comprehensive health care plan for all Americans."
- No Answer

3. Support a managed competition health care plan to contain costs and improve access that does not include mandated health alliances, government cost control powers, or employer/employee mandates.
- X

4. Provide tax incentives for small businesses to help provide health care to their employees.
- X

5. Allow middle and low income families to deduct yearly health care costs from their taxable income.
- X

6. Create a voucher system for the working poor so they can buy into a health care plan.
- X

7. Place limits on the amount of damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

8. Allow Americans to set up a tax-free medical savings account, which would be taxed if used for any purpose other than medical costs.
- No Answer

9. Deregulate the private health care industry.
- No Answer

10. Privatize Medicare and Medicaid.
- No Answer

11. Other
- No Answer

Welfare

1. Strengthen child support collection procedures and increase penalties for parents who do not pay.
- X

2. Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- X

3. Require welfare recipients to accept some form of government-sponsored job after two years if unable to find work in the private sector.
- X

4. Require unwed teenage mothers to live with a parent or guardian (if possible) to receive benefits.
- X

5. Limit the benefits given to single women if they have additional children.
- No Answer

6. Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X

7. Increase spending on programs that help homeless people find shelter and employment.
- X

8. Make no substantial changes at this time.
- No Answer

9. Eliminate the current American welfare system.
- No Answer

10. Other
- No Answer

Unemployment

1. Invest federal dollars in "investment tax credits" for companies who invest in worker training, purchase new equipment, and invest in research and development.
- X

2. Increase funding for federal and state job-training programs.
- No Answer

3. Create "enterprise zones" in urban areas with high unemployment by providing tax credits for new and expanding businesses.
- X

4. Create "empowerment zones" in urban areas with high unemployment by providing government grants and federal assistance, in addition to tax credits, to new and expanding businesses.
- X

5. Eliminate government regulations to encourage investment and economic expansion of the private sector.
- No Answer

6. Allow the natural cycle of the market economy to create jobs without government intervention.
- No Answer

7. Support an overhaul of the current unemployment system by combining current job-training programs within a new comprehensive "re-employment" system.
- X

8. Other
- No Answer

International Trade

1. The United States should grant "most favored nation" trading status based on the human rights record of each individual nation.
- No Answer

2. The United States should raise tariffs on nations whose trade policies discourage the importation of American products.
- X

3. The United States should eliminate tax breaks for companies who move American jobs to low-wage countries.
- X

4. The United States should expand NAFTA into Latin America.
- No Answer

5. The United States should pursue policies that will help open markets on the Pacific Rim.
- X

6. The United States should stay out of international trade.
- No Answer

7. Other
- No Answer

Environment

1. Tax high-level energy users (businesses and individuals) to discourage excessive energy use and pay for environmental cleanup.
- No Answer

2. Pass stronger clean water and clean air legislation.
- No Answer

3. Phase in a prohibition of pollution causing products such as gas powered autos and lawn mowers.
- No Answer

4. Consider further increasing federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels.
- No Answer

5. Consider further increasing fees charged to mining companies who mine on public lands.
- X

6. Consider further increasing fees charged to livestock owners who graze on federal lands.
- X

7. Require the federal government to reimburse citizens who are required to limit the use of their privately owned lands due to environmental regulation.
- No Answer

8. Encourage further market based strategies to clean up the environment such as pollution credits.
- X

9. Amend the Endangered Species Act to allow for increased logging.
- No Answer

10. Other
- X

Education

1. Establish a nationwide competency test for teachers and encourage states to adopt it.
- No Answer

2. Establish "National Standards" for K-12 schools and encourage states to adopt them.
- No Answer

3. Advocate school choice programs so that parents receive vouchers that can be used to send their children to participating schools.
- No Answer

4. Allow low and middle income families to deduct college costs from their taxable income.
- No Answer

5. Provide communities with increased federal aid and low interest loans for public school improvements.
- X

6. Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
- No Answer

7. Make no substantial changes at this time.
- No Answer

8. Other
- X

Abortion

1. Abortions should be legal in all circumstances as long as the procedure is completed within the first trimester of the pregnancy.
- X

2. Abortions should be legal only when the life of the mother is endangered.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy results from incest or rape, or when the life of the mother is endangered.
- No Answer

4. A woman under the age of 18 should be required to notify a parent or guardian before having an abortion.
- No Answer

5. A woman should be required to notify her spouse before having an abortion.
- No Answer

6. States should be allowed to impose mandatory waiting periods before abortions are performed.
- No Answer

7. Congress should eliminate federal funding for clinics and medical facilities that provide abortion services.
- No Answer

8. Congress should eliminate abortion services from any federally funded health care plan.
- No Answer

9. Congress should leave legislation on this issue to the states.
- No Answer

10. Other
- No Answer

Defense Policy / Foreign Policy

1. Congress should support defense conversion by funding job-placement and job-training programs for displaced military personnel and defense technology workers.
- X

2. Congress should completely lift the ban on homosexuals in the military.
- X

3. The United States should use military force only in cooperation with the United Nations unless threatened by a foreign power.
- No Answer

4. The United States should lift the trade embargo against Cuba.
- No Answer

5. Congress should increase foreign aid to the former republics of the Soviet Union to help in democratization and economic reform.
- No Answer

6. Congress should impose strict sanctions against any nation selling technology or products that aid in the construction of nuclear weapons.
- X

7. Congress should impose strict sanctions against any new nation attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
- X

8. Congress should invest federal funds in the research and development of new defense technologies.
- X

9. Other
- No Answer

Campaign Finance

1. Should the federal government adopt a policy of limiting or banning Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to federal candidates?
- No

Congressional Reform

Do you support the principle of limiting the number of terms U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives can serve in Congress?
- Yes

Balanced Budget Amendment

Do you support the principle of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution?
- Undecided

Line-Item Veto

Do you support the principle of a Line-Item Veto for the President?
- No

Minimum Wage

If elected to Congress, will you support an increase in the minimum wage?
- Undecided

Spending Priorities

1. National Defense
- Maintain Status

2. Law Enforcement
- Greatly Increase

3. International Drug Interdiction
- Maintain Status

4. Federal Health Care Programs
- Maintain Status

5. AIDS Research
- Slightly Increase

6. Job Re-training Programs
- Maintain Status

7. Infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.)
- Slightly Increase

8. Public Education
- Maintain Status

9. Foreign Aid
- Slightly Decrease

10. Environmental Clean Up and Enforcement
- Maintain Status

11. Other
- No Answer

Taxes

1. Capital Gains Taxes
- Slightly Decrease

2. Cigarette Taxes
- Greatly Increase

3. Alcohol Taxes
- Greatly Increase

4. Taxes on Social Security Benefits Received by Retirees Earning More than $40,000
- Maintain Status

5. Income Taxes on Families Earning Less than $140,000
- Maintain Status

6. Income Taxes on Families Earning $140,000 or More
- Maintain Status

7. Value-Added Taxes on U.S. Businesses
- Maintain Status

8. Taxes on Foreign Companies in the United States
- Maintain Status

9. Other
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

Most of my priorities can be pursued without raising new taxes; Most are revenue neutral.
- a) I will continue to fight for funding for more police, more prisons, and tougher sentences for repeat violent criminals; I will fight to establish boot camps for young offenders. b) To create jobs in Southern California through Job Creation, Tax Credit, Profit Sharing incentives, a targeted capital gains tax cut, and support of scientific research at the University of California.

2019

Abortion

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

Budget

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

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?
- Yes

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

Education

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

Energy & Environment

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

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No

Immigration

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

Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes

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?
- Unknown Position

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No