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Budget & Economy
Dennis Kucinich: Steel, automotive, and shipping are critical to US economy.
Dick Gephardt: I led 1990s boom-I can get economy moving again.
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Civil Rights
Carol Moseley-Braun: “Sticky floor” pay gap for women still persists.
Dick Gephardt: We’re all in it together.
Howard Dean: Profiling doesn’t work.
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Corporations
Dennis Kucinich: Iraq: no more Halliburton sweetheart deals.
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Education
John Edwards: Two school systems: one for the have’s, one for have-not’s.
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Energy & Oil
Carol Moseley-Braun: Invest in environmental technology.
Dick Gephardt: Apollo 2: Make US independent of foreign oil.
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Families & Children
John Kerry: Fund Head Start to leave no child behind.
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Foreign Policy
Carol Moseley-Braun: Reach out to our hemisphere instead of pandering to fear.
Dick Gephardt: Bush broke up alliances built over 70 years.
John Edwards: Need multilateral solutions for world’s problems.
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Free Trade
Dennis Kucinich: First act as president will be to cancel NAFTA.
Dennis Kucinich: Need specific worker rights written into trade agreements.
Dennis Kucinich: Companies profit from trade based on Third World misery.
Dick Gephardt: Race to the bottom if we have no trade standards.
Howard Dean: Free trade based on labor and environmental standards.
John Edwards: National venture capital fund for those hurt by trade.
John Kerry: FTAA needs more labor and environmental standards.
John Kerry: Fix NAFTA-canceling it would be disastrous.
Joseph Lieberman: Bush Recession will become Dean Depression.
Joseph Lieberman: I’m for fair trade for the Americas.
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Health Care
Bob Graham: Step-by-step common sense will reduce uninsured.
Carol Moseley-Braun: Single payer is only way to universal coverage.
Carol Moseley-Braun: Replace profit-driven system with rationalized quality care.
Carol Moseley-Braun: We can fund health care with no tax increase.
Dennis Kucinich: Health is a right, not a privilege.
Dennis Kucinich: Take profit motive out of health care.
Howard Dean: Join every other industrialized country on health care.
John Edwards: Children First: insure every child, by law.
John Edwards: Cover 3m Hispanic kids & have National Translation Center.
Joseph Lieberman: Too large health programs will force tax increases.
Joseph Lieberman: Medi-Kids: guaranteed care until age 25.
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Homeland Security
John Kerry: No new generation of nuclear weapons.
John Kerry: Automatic citizenship to immigrants who serves in army.
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Immigration
Bob Graham: Earned Amnesty for undocumented workers.
Carol Moseley-Braun: Amnesty & driver’s licenses for undocumented workers.
Dennis Kucinich: Extend our arms to world-immigrant amnesty and more.
Dick Gephardt: Legalize all immigrants who’ve been productive for 5 years.
Dick Gephardt: Bush tax plan is a failure-return to Clinton tax plan.
Howard Dean: The Americas are more important than War on Terror.
John Edwards: Hard working immigrants earn right to citizenship.
John Kerry: Amnesty to anyone here over 5 or 6 years.
Joseph Lieberman: Unacceptable to allow Mexicans to die trying to immigrate.
Joseph Lieberman: Bush uses 9/11 as an excuse to avoid immigration reform.
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Jobs
Bob Graham: Repeal Bush tax cuts that went to top earners.
Bob Graham: Need national program to rebuild infrastructure.
Carol Moseley-Braun: Rebuild schools, roads, & bridges.
Dennis Kucinich: Rebuild infrastructure with a program like FDR’s WPA.
Howard Dean: We’re exporting jobs if we trade with no labor standards.
Howard Dean: Invest in small businesses & renewable energy.
John Kerry: Jump start jobs at home via energy independence.
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Tax Reform
Bob Graham: Repeal Bush tax cuts that went to top earners.
Howard Dean: People would rather health care than a tax cut.
John Edwards: Tax cuts to working people-stop Bush’s War On Work.
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War & Peace
Bob Graham: We must support US troops in Iraq.
Bob Graham: Iraq is wrong war & wrong enemy: focus on terror instead.
Bob Graham: Must rebuild alliances to extricate US from Iraq.
Carol Moseley-Braun: Need to exit Iraq & focus on bin Laden.
Dennis Kucinich: End Bush’s blunder: Bring US troops home & bring UN in.
Dick Gephardt: We can’t cut and run in Iraq - but use UN.
Howard Dean: Iraq: Admit we humiliated our allies and get UN help.
Howard Dean: Iraq: Bush lied about al Qaeda, about nukes, and about WMDs.
Howard Dean: Bring US troops home.
John Edwards: Problems in Iraq are because Bush has not led.
John Kerry: Don’t miss 3rd opportunity in Iraq to bring in UN.
John Kerry: Don’t send more US troops to Iraq-share power & share burden.
Joseph Lieberman: Not an inch of difference from Bush on Iraq.
Joseph Lieberman: Purpose of war is to let Iraqis control Iraq.
Joseph Lieberman: Send more US troops to Iraq, with UN force.
Joseph Lieberman: Iraq was a heroic struggle against enemies of civilization.
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