| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
|
Abortion
Hillary Clinton: Must safeguard constitutional rights, including choice.
Hillary Clinton: Late term abortion only if life or health are at risk.
Rick Lazio: Partial birth abortion is infanticide.
Rick Lazio: No litmus tests for Supreme Court justices; likes O’Connor.
|
Budget & Economy
Hillary Clinton: Use tax dollars to upgrade infrastructure, not for stadium.
Rick Lazio: Bring Jets and Giants back to NY in new stadium.
|
Civil Rights
Hillary Clinton: Rebuild trust between police and communities.
Hillary Clinton: Apologize for slavery, but concentrate on civil rights now.
Rick Lazio: Work for better future rather than reparations.
Rick Lazio: Racial profiling is not needed to keep NYC streets safe.
|
Drugs
Hillary Clinton: Address drug problem with treatment and special drug courts.
Rick Lazio: Vote helped pass crime bill, drug courts, community police.
|
Education
Hillary Clinton: Vouchers would take money from public schools.
Rick Lazio: Immoral to force kids to stay in bad schools.
|
Energy & Oil
Hillary Clinton: Supports oil reserve release & fund conservation.
Rick Lazio: Develop alternative energy & a new energy policy.
|
Government Reform
Hillary Clinton: Can we trust as a senator someone who broke an agreement?
Rick Lazio: Public financing of elections is welfare for politicians.
|
Health Care
Hillary Clinton: Health goal is affordable coverage for all.
Rick Lazio: Give uninsured employees a deduction to pay for health care.
|
Principles & Values
Hillary Clinton: Experience and choices as a woman will make me good senator.
Hillary Clinton: Get New York a fair share of budget surplus & Medicaid.
Hillary Clinton: New Yorkers are diverse, big dreamers.
Rick Lazio: Contract with America votes led to surplus and opportunity.
Rick Lazio: A majority party senator will be most effective for N.Y.
Rick Lazio: NY is a great melting pot of bottom-line people.
|
Technology
Hillary Clinton: Against charging for e-mail.
Hillary Clinton: Details of “Bill 602P” hoax.
Rick Lazio: Keep the government’s hands off the Internet.
Rick Lazio: Details of “Bill 602P” hoax.
|
War & Peace
Hillary Clinton: US should have vetoed biased anti-Israel UN resolution.
Rick Lazio: No support for Palestinian state.
|
