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Bernie Sanders on Abortion
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OR background on Abortion.
- Appoint only justices who support Roe & Planned Parenthood. (Feb 2020)
- Get the government off the backs of women on abortion. (Nov 2019)
- Totally absurd for U.S. to limit birth control abroad. (Sep 2019)
- Medicare-for-All will protect women's constitutional right. (Jun 2019)
- Right to abortion applies to low income women as well. (Jun 2019)
- No anti-choice appointments to Supreme Court. (May 2019)
- Few or no government limits on abortion. (Feb 2019)
- Support pro-life Dems if they replace pro-life Republicans. (Apr 2017)
- Lifetime pro-choice record, plus funding for family planning. (Sep 2015)
- Advocate for family planning and funding for contraceptives. (Sep 2015)
- Women have the right to choose, regardless of income. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- Voted for spending bills with Hyde Amendment, but pro-choice. (Jun 2019)
- Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
- Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals. (Sep 2006)
- Provide emergency contraception at military facilities. (Apr 2007)
- Require pharmacies to fulfill contraceptive prescriptions. (Jul 2011)
- Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services. (Nov 2013)
- Access safe, legal abortion without restrictions. (Jan 2015)
- Keep federal funding for family planning clinics. (Mar 2017)
- CC:Publicly fund abortions. (Jul 2018)
- CC:No parental notification for abortions by minors. (Jul 2018)
- Protect the reproductive rights of women. (Jan 1993)
- Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)
- Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception. (Jan 2009)
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Bernie Sanders on Budget & Economy
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- FactCheck, yes, 3 top people wealthier than half of America. (Dec 2019)
- $21T increase in wealth to top 1%. (Jun 2019)
- US "hottest economy" only applies to the wealthy. (Feb 2019)
- Restructure debt so Puerto Rico can rebuild. (Nov 2018)
- People are sick and tired of growth of wealth inequality. (May 2018)
- Undermining unions led to 40-year decline in middle class. (Aug 2017)
- 2008 Crash's foreclosures brought about by deregulation. (Nov 2016)
- Income inequality is not moral and is not acceptable. (Jul 2016)
- 2016 election is about ending decline of the middle class. (Jul 2016)
- Should top 1/10 of 1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%? (Mar 2016)
- Yes, limit size of government, but address inequality. (Feb 2016)
- 2012: Supported fiscal cliff compromise package on taxes. (Feb 2016)
- I led the effort against deregulation, but we lost. (Feb 2016)
- We need a 21st-century Glass-Steagall legislation. (Feb 2016)
- The greed of the billionaire class is destroying our economy. (Dec 2015)
- Almost all new wealth goes to the top 1%. (Oct 2015)
- Economic justice: Address root causes of economic inequality. (Sep 2015)
- Economic issues take a larger toll on minority groups. (Jun 2015)
- Break up large banks; add fees for high-risk investments. (Apr 2015)
- We've transferred trillions from middle class to the top 1%. (Apr 2015)
- Comprehensive 12-step agenda for moving America forward. (Jan 2015)
- Dairy price fluctuations help no one but speculators. (Oct 2012)
- Why did we bail out South Korea? (Dec 2010)
- Middle class spending $2,200 each to bail out Wall Street. (Oct 2008)
Voting Record
- Voted against bailout, because wealthiest didn't pay for it. (Mar 2020)
- CC:No Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment. (Jul 2018)
- More enforcement of mortgage fraud and TARP fraud. (May 2009)
- Ban abusive credit practices & enhance consumer disclosure. (Feb 2009)
- Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package. (Dec 2020)
- $1.9 trillion ARPA bill for COVID relief. (Mar 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Civil Rights
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- Even prisoners should still have right to vote. (Apr 2019)
- Congressional representation for D.C. residents. (Feb 2019)
- Invest in distressed communities as "reparations". (Feb 2019)
- Women's March: never again second-class citizens. (Jan 2017)
- DOMA was homophobic even in 1996. (Nov 2016)
- Empower Native Americans to make up for abrogated treaties. (Nov 2016)
- Vermont implemented ENDA 22 years ago; so should feds. (Sep 2015)
- Right to love each other, regardless of sexual orientation. (Jul 2015)
- Voter ID laws marginalize communities of color. (Jun 2015)
- Remove Confederate flag from State Houses. (Jun 2015)
- Equal pay for equal work by women. (Mar 2015)
- Bush’s tracking citizens’ phone call patterns is illegal. (Jun 2006)
- Never accept racism, sexism, nor homophobia. (Jun 1997)
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- End all forms of racial & sex discrimination in this country. (Feb 2020)
- We have a racist society from top to bottom. (Feb 2020)
- Supports commission investigating reparations for slavery. (Apr 2019)
- Deal with racial issues as part of health care reform. (Apr 2019)
- Supports reparations, but targeted to distressed communities. (Mar 2019)
- No ambiguity in condemning white supremacists. (Sep 2017)
- 1960s U. Chicago Congress of Racial Equality member. (Nov 2016)
- What kind of response would happen if Flint MI were white? (Feb 2016)
- Combat institutional racism and reform justice system. (Oct 2015)
- Black Lives Matter: deal with institutional racism. (Jul 2015)
- 1964: civil rights activist in Congress on Racial Equality. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- 1983: Approved "Gay Rights Day" in Burlington Vermont. (Feb 2019)
- Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender. (Mar 2001)
- Rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
- Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
- Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)
- Recognize Juneteenth as historical end of slavery. (Jun 2008)
- ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays. (Jun 2009)
- Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools. (Mar 2011)
- Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights. (Aug 2012)
- Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender. (Jan 2013)
- Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools. (Jun 2013)
- Let states recognize same sex marriage. (Jan 2015)
- Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment. (Mar 2007)
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Bernie Sanders on Corporations
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- Workers should have 45% of board seats, 20% of stock. (Nov 2019)
- Corporate America doesn't give one damn about workers. (Jul 2019)
- Nothing will change if we don't have the guts to fight. (Jun 2019)
- Democratic socialism means working for everyone, not just 1%. (Jun 2019)
- Workers should have more say on what goes on in the economy. (Jun 2019)
- Top 1% income inequity makes no sense. (Apr 2019)
- Defend farmers & consumers from corporate middlemen. (Mar 2019)
- 1976: Relocating businesses must pay; for public ownership. (Mar 2019)
- Economy is great, for those who get corporate stock buybacks. (Feb 2019)
- Americans in red OR blue states oppose enriching the top 1%. (Jul 2018)
- Middle class needs tax breaks; top 1% does not. (Jan 2018)
- 45% estate tax only for estates over $3.5 million. (Aug 2017)
- Only the top 2/10 of 1% pay the estate tax. (Feb 2017)
- Rigged economy makes America like a Banana Republic. (Nov 2016)
- End corporate tax dodging by shifting profits overseas. (Nov 2016)
- Reform credit-rating agencies by separating from Wall Street. (Nov 2016)
- Disallow stashing corporate profits overseas to avoid taxes. (Jul 2016)
- Let's create America that works for all, not handful on top. (Dec 2015)
- Fix estate tax so mega-rich pay their fair share. (Sep 2015)
- Americans want change: corporations get rich & people don't. (Sep 2014)
- Corporations do not have First Amendment rights. (Dec 2011)
- Greed is addictive; their sickness hurts country terribly. (Dec 2010)
- Small banks did just fine during financial crisis. (Dec 2010)
- Deregulation led to incredible greed of $39B in CEO bonuses. (Oct 2008)
- Cap deductions for CEO pay; count perks as profit. (Jun 1997)
- In 1980s, wealthiest 1% got 2/3 of all wealth increases. (Jun 1997)
- The needs of the rich & large corporations are never ignored. (Jun 1997)
Banking Reform
- Nothing personal against billionaires, but enough is enough. (Mar 2020)
- Billionaires & corporations have to pay fair share of taxes. (Jul 2019)
- 1976: I favor the public ownership of utilities & banks. (Mar 2019)
- Majority want tax on wealthy and regulation of Wall Street. (Feb 2019)
- Regulate derivatives like the high-stakes wagers they are. (Aug 2017)
- Great Recession caused by Wall Street greed & recklessness. (Jul 2016)
- The auto industry bill was really a bailout for Wall Street. (Mar 2016)
- If we don't break up banks, we'll be bailing them out again. (Feb 2016)
- Corporate America & Wall Street won't like President Sanders. (Dec 2015)
- Wall Street will not be in my Cabinet; their model is fraud. (Nov 2015)
- I'm not part of casino capitalism that wrecked our economy. (Oct 2015)
- Fraud is the business model of Wall Street. (Oct 2015)
- Make Wall Street bail out Wall Street; but middle class did. (Oct 2015)
- Wall Street business model is a fraud & led us to recession. (Aug 2015)
- Casino-type capitalism causes devastating problems. (Jul 2015)
- Break up major Wall Street firms. (Mar 2015)
- Break up the Wall Street giants; they can't be reformed. (Jan 2015)
- Crooks on Wall Street started Great Recession & got richer. (Nov 2012)
Monopolies
- Stand up against healthcare companies' billions in profits. (Jun 2019)
- Break up big agriculture corporations. (Apr 2019)
- 1970s: State should take over utilities without compensation. (Mar 2019)
- It is time to break up largest financial institutions. (Nov 2016)
- Too-Big-to-Fail means taxpayers insure megabanks. (Nov 2016)
- Corporate Media threatens our democracy. (Nov 2016)
- A few giant corporations own the media. (Nov 2016)
- If Teddy Roosevelt saw modern banks he'd say "break them up". (Nov 2015)
- If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. (May 2015)
- Worker-owned cooperatives instead of corporate tax breaks. (Mar 2015)
- Bank bailout was socialism for the rich. (Feb 2015)
- Investigate huge dairy processors for anti-trust violations. (Oct 2012)
- Launch anti-trust investigation of Dean Foods. (Oct 2012)
Voting Record
- Regrets vote to deregulate swaps and derivatives. (Apr 2016)
- Stop $31M Pentagon payments for corporate mergers. (Jun 1997)
- Require Code of Conduct for US corporations abroad. (Aug 2001)
- Rated 14% by the US COC, indicating an anti-business voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business. (Mar 2012)
- Rated 86% by UFCW, indicating an anti-management/pro-labor record. (May 2012)
- Corporate political spending is not free speech. (Mar 2013)
- Deregulating banks encourages discriminatory practices. (Mar 2018)
- Reducing tax rates balloons federal deficit & cuts programs. (Dec 2017)
- Restrict corporate use of consumer mandatory arbitration. (Aug 2016)
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Bernie Sanders on Crime
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- End cash bail; unfair to poor. (Feb 2020)
- Felons should be allowed to vote while incarcerated. (Jul 2019)
- Eliminate private prisons. (Jul 2019)
- OpEd: Ambiguous record on 1994 crime bill. (Jun 2019)
- Bail reform: 65% of county & city inmates are "unconvicted". (May 2018)
- End the death penalty, like all other advanced countries. (Nov 2016)
- End mass incarceration & reform criminal justice. (Jul 2016)
- By 2020, I pledge to have fewer people in jail than China. (Feb 2016)
- Government should not be part of the death penalty. (Feb 2016)
- Create criminal records for corrupt white collar criminals. (Feb 2016)
- Jobs and education, not jails and incarceration. (Dec 2015)
- America has more people in jail than any country on earth. (Oct 2015)
- Reinstate voting rights to address school-to-prison pipeline. (Sep 2015)
Police Reform
- I support police reform; not "defunding the police". (Jul 2023)
- Police forces should reflect diversity of their communities. (Aug 2017)
- How justice system treats blacks is a national disgrace. (Nov 2016)
- Black Lives Matter points out police brutality. (Nov 2016)
- Real criminal justice/police reform also combats racism. (Nov 2016)
- New model for police training de-escalating lethal force. (Nov 2016)
- 1990s "super-predator" was racist term and everybody knew it. (Apr 2016)
- We need fundamental police reform. (Feb 2016)
- Whites & blacks smoke pot equally, but blacks go to jail. (Feb 2016)
- Involve U.S. Justice Dept. in every police killing. (Jan 2016)
- Police officers should not be shooting unarmed people. (Dec 2015)
- Blacks are disproportionately imprisoned & killed by police. (Sep 2015)
Voting Record
- Crime bill had good parts (VAWA) & bad parts (death penalty). (Mar 2016)
- Rated 78% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
- More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001)
- Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)
- Increase funding for "COPS ON THE BEAT" program. (Jan 2007)
- Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance. (Mar 2007)
- First step: reduce recidivism & mass incarceration. (Dec 2018)
- Rated 73% by the NAPO, indicating a moderate stance on police issues. (Dec 2014)
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Bernie Sanders on Drugs
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OR background on Drugs.
- Rated A+ by NORML: 1st to call to end marijuana prohibition. (Aug 2024)
- Opioid manufacturers profited & knew their products killed. (Oct 2019)
- Remove cocaine sentencing disparities. (Jul 2019)
- Marijuana Justice Act: decriminalize pot & expunge records. (May 2019)
- Co-sponsored federal legalization of marijuana. (Apr 2019)
- Why is marijuana treated legally equal to heroin? (May 2018)
- Racist & failed war on drugs targets people of color. (Aug 2017)
- We must end the "War on drugs". (Nov 2016)
- Opioid treatment instead of locking them up. (Nov 2016)
- Pharmaceutical companies are responsible for opioid epidemic. (Jan 2016)
- Why police records for marijuana but not white collar crime? (Jan 2016)
- Take marijuana out of the controlled substances list. (Dec 2015)
- Treat addiction as a disease, not a crime. (Dec 2015)
- I would vote for recreational marijuana, to reduce jailings. (Oct 2015)
- War on drugs is a failed policy; treatment over punishment. (Sep 2015)
- Decriminalize marijuana and study recreational legalization. (Sep 2015)
- Legalize medical marijuana. (Jul 2001)
- Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana. (Aug 2012)
- Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws. (Mar 2013)
- Rated A+ by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance. (Nov 2016)
- Immunity for banks offering services to marijuana businesses. (Oct 2015)
- Criminalize imports of opioid precursors. (Feb 2017)
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Bernie Sanders on Education
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OR background on Education.
- Loan forgiveness helps working families & low-income people. (Aug 2022)
- Pay for free tuition with tax on Wall Street speculation. (Feb 2020)
- School-to-prison pipeline is a horror show. (Feb 2020)
- Freeze private charter schools; they have no accountability. (Feb 2020)
- Make HBCUs debt-free, and cancel all student debt. (Sep 2019)
- Save millennials by cancelling student debt. (Jul 2019)
- Universal free meals in schools. (Jul 2019)
- Rejected from Harvard in 1950s due to Jewish quota. (Jul 2019)
- Busing an option, but integrated community schools are best. (Jun 2019)
- Forgive student loans for both higher ed and trade school. (Jun 2019)
- Crucial to invest in pre-K education for our future. (Feb 2019)
- Education is the great equalizer on path to middle class. (Aug 2017)
- Revolution needed in child-care and preschool jobs. (Nov 2016)
- No privatization; no vouchers; charters only with standards. (Nov 2016)
- Low income kids deserve free education, including college. (Feb 2016)
- Replace NCLB standardized testing with holistic approach. (Sep 2015)
- Ok to include mandates and incentives in Common Core. (Sep 2015)
- Vouchers redirect public education dollar to private schools. (Sep 2015)
- Charter schools ok if held to public school standards. (Sep 2015)
- Taught low-income preschoolers through Head Start program. (Sep 2015)
- Do away with fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests. (May 2015)
- Education begins before age 4 or 5. (May 2015)
- Quality affordable education, from child care to higher ed. (Mar 2015)
- 170,000 high school grads annually have no funds for college. (Dec 2010)
- 1976: produced educational filmstrips on New England history. (Jun 1997)
College Costs
- Free public college; support for historically black schools. (Apr 2019)
- College for All: $2 federal match for every state $1. (Nov 2016)
- Free tuition at public colleges for most students. (Jul 2016)
- Student debt is crushing young graduates. (Feb 2016)
- Tax Wall Street and make public universities free. (Dec 2015)
- $70B to make public colleges & universities tuition-free. (Nov 2015)
- Look at college degree like high school diploma 50 years ago. (Nov 2015)
- 1950s "high school for all" is now "free college for all". (Oct 2015)
- Free public university tuition, like we had 50 years ago. (Sep 2015)
- Other countries recognize benefits of free college. (May 2015)
- $18B to fund two years free tuition at state colleges. (Apr 2015)
- College loan repayment is regressive; refinance & forgive. (Apr 2015)
- Make college affordable for everyone. (Jan 2015)
Voting Record
- Fix No-Child-Left-Behind with Every-Student-Succeeds-Act. (Dec 2015)
- Cutting education cuts off our noses to spite our face. (Dec 2010)
- Reduce class size to 18 children in grades 1 to 3. (Mar 2001)
- Rated 83% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes. (Dec 2003)
- $25B to renovate or repair elementary schools. (Sep 2011)
- Sponsored extending subsidized federal student loan rates until 2015. (Apr 2013)
- Make employee educational assistance tax-deductible. (Jan 1993)
- Don't count combat pay against free school lunch. (Mar 2009)
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Bernie Sanders on Energy & Oil
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OR background on Energy & Oil.
- Fossil fuel profit is a moral issue. (Feb 2020)
- Would reinstate LED lightbulb rule & encourage use. (Sep 2019)
- Scientists say "12 years before damage is irreversible". (Jun 2019)
- Keep US in Paris Climate Agreement & increase targets. (Apr 2019)
- No more debate on climate change; it's here & costs $100Bs. (Nov 2018)
- Rising oceans creating world's first "climate refugees". (Aug 2017)
- Pushed energy efficiency block grants. (Nov 2016)
- Inexpensive Venezuelan oil donated to low-income Vermonters. (Nov 2016)
- 2015 & 2016 were hottest years on record: debate is over. (Nov 2016)
- Need revolution to move away from coal and oil. (Mar 2016)
- I oppose fracking; anyone who says it is safe is wrong. (Mar 2016)
- Climate change partly causes rise of terrorist groups. (Nov 2015)
- Address climate change so we can leave planet to our kids. (Oct 2015)
- Climate change is a moral issue: tax on carbon. (Oct 2015)
- Opposed Keystone Pipeline from day one. (Oct 2015)
- Combat climate skeptics with overwhelming evidence. (Sep 2015)
- Keystone pipeline transports the dirtiest fossil fuel. (Sep 2015)
- Charge companies for carbon emissions; then fund renewables. (Apr 2015)
- Transform to sustainable system & away from fossil fuels. (Mar 2015)
- Weatherize millions of homes and buildings. (Jan 2015)
- Gas tax increases are regressive. (Jun 1997)
Green New Deal
- Transform our energy system, as quickly as we humanly can. (Mar 2020)
- Government loans to help people erect solar panels. (Sep 2019)
- Need to be fervent if we care about our children. (Jul 2019)
- Not enough to beat Trump; must beat fossil fuel industry. (May 2019)
- End fossil fuel; move toward wind and solar. (Apr 2019)
- Co-sponsor of Green New Deal. (Apr 2019)
- Transform our energy system away from fossil fuel. (Feb 2019)
- We have 12 years to transform to sustainable energy. (Feb 2019)
- Climate change is issue for entire international community. (Sep 2017)
- Cut carbon 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. (Nov 2016)
- Job training for transition to green energy. (Nov 2016)
- Massive and sustained investment in sustainable energy. (Nov 2016)
- Tax carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gases. (Jul 2016)
Voting Record
- Perfect score on "350 Action's 2020 Climate Test". (Mar 2019)
- End fracking in the US. (Mar 2016)
- Regulate wholesale electricity & gas prices. (Mar 2001)
- Preserve Alaska's ANWR instead of drilling it. (Feb 2001)
- Establish greenhouse gas tradeable allowances. (Feb 2005)
- Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence. (Dec 2006)
- Sign on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (Jan 2007)
- Green New Deal: 10-year national mobilization. (Feb 2019)
- Designate sensitive ANWR area as protected wilderness. (Nov 2007)
- Set goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025. (Jan 2007)
- Let states define stricter-than-federal emission standards. (Jan 2008)
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Bernie Sanders on Environment
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OR background on Environment.
- Single-use plastic is a crisis among many pollution crises. (Feb 2020)
- Deal with existing nuclear waste before creating any more. (Sep 2019)
- Reform FEMA to stop rebuilding in same place after storms. (Sep 2019)
- Opposes new nuclear power plant development. (Apr 2019)
- Leave a planet to our kids that is healthy & habitable. (Apr 2018)
- Climate change will lead to international security crises. (Nov 2015)
- Advocate of animal welfare and humane treatment. (Sep 2015)
- Protect important watersheds and wildlife areas. (Sep 2015)
- GMOs are ok, but only with required labeling. (Sep 2015)
- Our kids will ask why we made planet less habitable. (Oct 2013)
- Sophisticated equipment transformed farms to overproduction. (Oct 2012)
- Very large farms raise questions about animal cruelty. (Oct 2012)
- Cut subsidies of wealthy farmers; increase grazing fees. (Jun 1997)
- City residents often frozen out of development decisions. (Jun 1997)
- Prohibits commercial logging on Federal public lands. (Apr 2001)
- Rated 90% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
- Promote conservation of rare felids & canids. (Mar 2007)
- Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements. (Mar 2009)
- Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs. (Feb 2011)
- Prohibit invasive research on great apes. (Apr 2011)
- Prohibits breeding or possessing Big Cat species. (Sep 2012)
- Rated 100% by HSLF, indicating a pro-animal welfare voting record. (Jan 2012)
- Require labeling genetically engineered food. (Apr 2013)
- Keep restrictive rules for predator control in Alaska. (Mar 2017)
- Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting. (Jan 2007)
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Bernie Sanders on Families & Children
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OR background on Families & Children.
- Half of Americans are women; and half my Cabinet will be. (Mar 2020)
- Guaranteed child care: Age 0 to 4 are most important years. (Jan 2020)
- Trump threw 32M families off healthcare, socialism not issue. (Jun 2019)
- Workers need paid family leave and paid sick leave. (Aug 2017)
- Real family values: time with newborn and sick relatives. (Nov 2016)
- American workers need a vacation. (Nov 2016)
- Affordable housing underlies jobs, and child development. (Nov 2016)
- $1.61 a week for paid family & medical leave. (Dec 2015)
- Increase payroll tax to guarantee paid family leave. (Oct 2015)
- We're the only major country without paid family leave. (Oct 2015)
- LGBTQ values are family values. (Sep 2015)
- Provide affordable childcare & early pre-K education. (Sep 2015)
- Violence Against Women Act applies to men and gays, too. (Sep 2015)
- Real family values means paid family leave & sick time. (Jun 2015)
- 1972: wrote fictional "satire" about men oppressing women. (May 2015)
- Parents worry more about kids than themselves, economically. (Dec 2010)
Green New Deal
- My priority is working class families, not the rich. (Feb 2020)
- Member of the Missing & Exploited Children's Caucus. (Jan 2001)
- Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-Family-Value voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Ban high lead levels in children's toys. (Nov 2005)
- More funding & services for victims of domestic violence. (Jan 2013)
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Bernie Sanders on Foreign Policy
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OR background on Foreign Policy.
- Russia has been clear about keeping Ukraine out of NATO. (Feb 2022)
- Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories. (Jul 2020)
- China is authoritarian but eliminated extreme poverty. (Mar 2020)
- Cuba: Teaching people to read and write is a good thing. (Feb 2020)
- Support for Israel & peace doesn't include racist government. (Feb 2020)
- Address root causes to end these endless wars. (Dec 2019)
- Venezuela's Madura is a vicious tyrant. (Sep 2019)
- Talk to adversaries but we need more than photo ops. (Jun 2019)
- Address source of problem with Mexico & Northern Triangle. (Jun 2019)
- Even-handed Mideast policy; open to moving Jerusalem embassy. (May 2019)
- Must support human rights, even with trading partners. (May 2019)
- Promote democracy, but don't use military for regime change. (Feb 2019)
- Binding referendum on Guam's political status. (Nov 2018)
- Binding referendum on Puerto Rico statehood vs. independence. (Nov 2018)
- Gaza is humanitarian disaster; Israelis shouldn't over-react. (Apr 2018)
- Foreign policy is directly related to military policy. (Sep 2017)
- UN is bureaucratic, but does enormously important work. (Sep 2017)
- Development aid isn't charity; it avoids military later. (Sep 2017)
- Opposed Monroe Doctrine interventionism in Latin America. (Mar 2016)
- Ending embargo with Cuba is right step. (Mar 2016)
- Vulture capitalists responsible for Puerto Rican debt. (Mar 2016)
- America stands for hope; we should take Syrian refugees. (Feb 2016)
- Won't take advice from Henry Kissinger; he assisted genocide. (Feb 2016)
- Beef up NATO against Russian aggression. (Feb 2016)
- Key doctrine: We can't do it alone; must work in coalition. (Feb 2016)
- North Korea is run by nuclear-armed paranoid dictator. (Feb 2016)
- I worry about Putin in Crimea but worry more about N. Korea. (Feb 2016)
- Lean on China to deal with North Korea. (Jan 2016)
- Putin regrets invading Crimea & the Ukraine. (Oct 2015)
- Normalize relations with Cuba; & respect their independence. (Sep 2015)
- Begrudgingly supports NATO, but no eastward expansion. (Sep 2015)
- Promote democracy in China, but not at expense of US workers. (Sep 2015)
- US should be more selective about using drone strikes. (Aug 2015)
- War is a local issue because local youngsters fight and die. (Jun 1997)
Mideast
- Turkey is not a US ally when they invade & mass slaughter. (Oct 2019)
- Supports Israel's right to exist, not Netanyahu. (Apr 2019)
- 1991: We give $7B to feudalistic dictatorships in Mideast. (Sep 2017)
- Need to look at consequences of removing dictators. (Feb 2016)
- We should try and talk to enemies, even Iran. (Feb 2016)
- Encourage Saudis and Iran to work together, despite distrust. (Feb 2016)
- Move forward with Iran with relations the long-term goal. (Feb 2016)
- Normalize relations with Iran even though we disagree. (Jan 2016)
- Think about what happens AFTER we get rid of dictators. (Dec 2015)
- Not policeman of the world; focus on ISIS first. (Dec 2015)
- I do not believe in unilateral action against terrorism. (Dec 2015)
- Easy to overthrow a dictator but hard to control aftermath. (Dec 2015)
- Moral responsibility to reach out to Syrian refugees. (Nov 2015)
- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar should take charge in Syria. (Oct 2015)
- Address humanitarian crisis in Syria with allies in region. (Sep 2015)
- Two-state solution for Israel & Palestine. (Sep 2015)
- We have to negotiate with others, even Iran. (Aug 2015)
Voting Record
- Focus on domestic needs instead of international conflict. (Apr 2015)
- Allow Americans to travel to Cuba. (May 2000)
- Member of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. (Jan 2001)
- Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine. (Apr 2001)
- Urge China to respect religious freedom. (Mar 2001)
- Impose sanctions and an import ban on Burma. (Oct 2007)
- Remove African National Congress from terrorist list. (May 2008)
- Implement Darfur Peace Agreement with UN peacekeeping force. (Feb 2008)
- Seeds of Peace: promote coexistence in regions of conflict. (Apr 2008)
- Rated +2 by AAI, indicating pro-Arab pro-Palestine voting record. (May 2012)
- CC:Keep alliance with Israel. (Jul 2018)
- Condemn violence by Chinese government in Tibet. (Apr 2008)
- Allow travel between the United States and Cuba. (Feb 2009)
- Ban imports from Xinjiang made by Uyghur forced labor. (Jun 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Free Trade
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OR background on Free Trade.
- Not one word in USMCA that deals with climate change. (Feb 2020)
- Need trade deal that includes stakeholders, not just CEOs. (Jan 2020)
- USMCA agreement does not prevent outsourcing or talk climate. (Dec 2019)
- Trade policies should focus on U.S. jobs & lifting the poor. (Jun 2019)
- FactCheck: NAFTA displaced 851,700; but net loss 15,000/year. (Feb 2019)
- Real problem with trade is jobs shipped overseas. (Feb 2019)
- Expand "Buy American" and "Buy Local" as government policy. (Aug 2017)
- Corporate greed drives business abroad. (Nov 2016)
- American jobs must no longer be our number one export. (Nov 2016)
- Don't believe that unfettered trade creates U.S. jobs. (Feb 2016)
- I will take on corporations that take their jobs to China. (Feb 2016)
- I strongly opposed NAFTA and DOMA from their inception. (Oct 2015)
- Priority of trade deals should be helping American workers. (Sep 2015)
- Base trade policy on working families, not multinationals. (Jun 2015)
- Wrong, wrong, wrong that trade deals create jobs here. (Apr 2015)
- 48,000 US factories shut down under Bush due to trade. (Dec 2010)
- Disastrous trade policies lead to collapse of middle class. (Dec 2010)
- US trade policies represent interests of corporate America. (Jun 1997)
- Agreed with Ross Perot's critique of trade policy. (Jun 1997)
- NAFTA was a sellout to corporate America. (Jun 1997)
Pacific Trade
- Americans have to compete with people making pennies an hour. (Mar 2020)
- Trump's actions on trade destabilizing world economy. (Aug 2019)
- I disagree with Obama on TPP, but he's done a great job. (Feb 2016)
- China trade has led to loss of 3M American jobs so far. (Sep 2015)
- End disastrous NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR with China. (Mar 2015)
- Stop TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (Jan 2015)
- How can we compete against people who make 23 cents an hour? (Dec 2010)
- NAFTA, GATT, and MFN for China must be repealed. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- Does not support ANY free trade agreements. (Oct 2015)
- Rated 33% by CATO, indicating a mixed record on trade issues. (Dec 2002)
- Extend trade restrictions on Burma to promote democracy. (Jun 2007)
- Review free trade agreements biennially for rights violation. (Jun 2009)
- Impose tariffs against countries which manipulate currency. (Feb 2011)
- Fight Chinese predatory trade practices on car tires. (Sep 2014)
- Voted FOR reauthorizing Ex-Im Bank. (Oct 2015)
- Oppose USMCA until more environmental & job protections. (Jan 2020)
- Rated 13% by the USAE, indicating support for trade sanctions. (Dec 2012)
- No MFN for China; condition trade on human rights. (Nov 1999)
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Bernie Sanders on Government Reform
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OR background on Government Reform.
- Independent of Our Revolution, group Sanders launched. (Feb 2020)
- Power to the people, not the billionaires. (Sep 2019)
- Keep filibuster and use other ways to pass laws. (Sep 2019)
- Keep filibuster and use other ways to pass laws. (Sep 2019)
- We need major filibuster reform, but don't abolish it. (Sep 2019)
- Hard to defend the Electoral College. (Jul 2019)
- Rotate judges on Supreme Court, like term limits. (Jun 2019)
- Mainstream media focuses on gossip, lies, & personality. (Nov 2018)
- Wall Street regulates Congress; do it the other way around. (Nov 2016)
- Allow Post Offices to offer banking services. (Nov 2016)
- End private prisons; end profit of incarceration. (Nov 2016)
- Dept. of Defense is only agency never to have been audited. (Feb 2016)
- Best dairy policy is USDA board's supply management. (Oct 2012)
- Introduced Federal Reserve Transparency Act with Ron Paul. (Sep 2010)
- Competitive bidding saves government money. (Jun 1997)
Campaign Finance Reform
- Political contributors control policy. (Mar 2020)
- Wealthy donors turn their backs on working families. (Feb 2020)
- Citizens United is most disastrous decisions in history. (Apr 2019)
- Require disclosure of campaign expenditures over $10,000. (Feb 2019)
- SuperPACs: manifestation of everything wrong with politics. (Nov 2016)
- It's oligarchy when billionaires buy elections. (Mar 2016)
- Campaign financing is corrupt; no Super PAC for me. (Feb 2016)
- Establishment candidates are beholden to big money. (Feb 2016)
- Congress represents the wealthy; they donate to ensure that. (Feb 2016)
- Litmus test for Supreme Court on Citizens United. (Feb 2016)
- Overturn Citizens United: America is one person, one vote. (Feb 2016)
- Presidency isn't winnable with public financing. (Feb 2016)
- Citizens United means billionaires donate for THEIR interest. (Oct 2015)
- Super-PACs pervert the democratic process. (Sep 2015)
- Public funding of elections to promote even playing field. (Sep 2015)
- We now have government of, by, and for the billionaires. (Sep 2015)
- Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizen United ruling. (Apr 2015)
- Citizens United opens up the road to oligarchy. (Sep 2014)
- America struggles between organized people & organized money. (Nov 2012)
- Rich people use wealth to elect people to make them richer. (Dec 2010)
- Receives more contributions, but fewer dollars, than GOP. (Jun 1997)
- Accepts PAC money, but not from special interests. (Jun 1997)
- Publicly fund elections, or small individual contributions. (Jun 1997)
Right to Vote
- Enforce simple rule: every over 18 has the right to vote. (Nov 2019)
- Mandate paper ballots. (Jul 2019)
- End voter suppression; make it easier to vote. (Apr 2019)
- Sovereign rights & voting rights for Native Americans. (Nov 2018)
- Unity Reform Commission: reduce power of superdelegates. (Aug 2018)
- Russian cyber-attacks threaten integrity of US elections. (Jul 2018)
- Ruling class wants a lack of political consciousness. (Nov 2016)
- Participation in politics as easy and convenient as possible. (Nov 2016)
- Automatic voter registration at age 18. (Nov 2016)
- Automatic voter registration; holiday for Election Day. (Jul 2016)
- GOP loves voter suppression because it lets them win. (Feb 2016)
- Reinforce voting rights to end voter suppression. (Sep 2015)
- Underclass see the political deck stacked; and don't vote. (Mar 2014)
- Low-income workers don't vote because it's irrelevant. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- Same-day automatic voter registration & 3-day voting. (Jun 1997)
- Proportional IRV voting for Electoral College. (Mar 2001)
- Criminalize false or deceptive info about elections. (Nov 2005)
- Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures. (Jul 2012)
- Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements. (Apr 2013)
- Statehood for the District of Columbia. (May 2017)
- Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers. (Feb 2015)
- Automatic voter registration for all citizens. (Jun 2017)
- CC:Oppose strict Constitutionalist judges. (Jul 2018)
- Sponsored bill to expand voter registration and voter access. (Mar 2021)
- Remove President Trump from office for inciting insurrection. (Jan 2021)
- Sponsored bill for statehood for Washington D.C. (Jan 2021)
- Sponsored "Protecting Our Democracy" to restrict president. (Sep 2021)
- Voted YES on two articles of impeachment against Trump. (Feb 2020)
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Bernie Sanders on Gun Control
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OR background on Gun Control.
- Changed views on gun control due to epidemic of gun violence. (Feb 2020)
- For background checks, and closing loopholes. (Jul 2019)
- 2013: state decisions on guns; 2019: federal legislation. (Jun 2019)
- Buy back assault weapons, and ban their sale. (Jun 2019)
- Applaud students taking action to prevent school shootings. (Feb 2018)
- Intervene with mental illness, to prevent mass shootings. (Nov 2016)
- Ok to sue gun manufacturers if they sell for misuse. (Apr 2016)
- Deal federally with straw-man gun purchasers. (Oct 2015)
- Common sense, incremental gun control plan. (Oct 2015)
- Instant background checks: no guns for criminals or unstable. (Jul 2015)
- Guns in Vermont are for hunting; but in L.A. are for killing. (Jul 2015)
- Gun legislation must work for both rural & urban Americans. (Jun 2015)
- Mixed approach to gun control vs. gun rights. (Apr 2015)
- I'm pro-hunting, but no one needs an AK-47 to hunt. (Jun 1997)
National Rifle Association
- 2005: Allow suing gun manufacturers for negligence. (Feb 2020)
- Ban assault weapons; automatic background checks. (Feb 2019)
- To pass gun controls, Congress needs guts to stand up to NRA. (May 2018)
- We aren't divided on guns: just sick & tired of gun violence. (Mar 2018)
- FactCheck: No, never supported by National Rifle Association. (Apr 2016)
- I have shown courage against NRA on gun issues. (Dec 2015)
- People have the right to buy guns, with sensible regulations. (Dec 2015)
- Do more than reverse gun manufacturer immunity. (Nov 2015)
- I want to shield gun shops from lawsuits, not manufacturers. (Oct 2015)
- Bring together rural states & urban states with common sense. (Oct 2015)
- 1988: NRA opposed Congressional opponents more than him. (Sep 2015)
- Ban semiautomatic guns & gun show loophole. (Aug 2015)
Voting Record
- OpEd: pro-gun votes in line with VT's political norms. (Jun 2015)
- Rated F by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun control voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Restrict right to bear arms, according to CC survey. (Jul 2018)
- Sponsored bill for background checks for private transfers. (Mar 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Health Care
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OR background on Health Care.
- Vermont forced to repeal single-payer healthcare system. (Apr 2023)
- Debt forgiveness for doctors & nurses in under-served areas. (Feb 2020)
- Will increase health benefits for all, in unions or not. (Feb 2020)
- Medicare for All is already a compromise. (Feb 2020)
- Bring America together:end international shame of healthcare. (Feb 2020)
- Bring America together:end international shame of healthcare. (Feb 2020)
- Help insurance industry employees transition to new jobs. (Jan 2020)
- Current system is not only cruel, it's dysfunctional. (Nov 2019)
- Job-based insurance forces people to change providers. (Jul 2019)
- Medicare for All: higher taxes but lower healthcare costs. (Jul 2019)
- Legalization of assisted suicide should be left to states. (Jun 2019)
- 1970s: For socialized medicine, public drug companies owned. (Mar 2019)
- Elective procedures can be covered by private insurance. (Feb 2019)
- Don't let Republicans do away with preexisting protection. (Oct 2018)
- Impose Medicaid requirements on states. (Oct 2018)
- Employer-based insurance burdens employers & stifles workers. (Aug 2017)
- Mental illness system is in tatters; treat like any illness. (Aug 2017)
- ObamaCare alternatives need patient protections. (Jan 2017)
- Lack of affordable dental care is part of healthcare crisis. (Nov 2016)
- Mental Health: people need more affordable treatments. (Nov 2016)
- Mental health coverage would stop suicides AND homicides. (Oct 2015)
- Move toward a single-payer system. (Mar 2015)
- 1972: Pushed for dental care for low-income children. (Jun 1997)
Pandemics
- Wrong to give company exclusive rights to drug treatment. (Mar 2020)
- Cover all costs for coronavirus testing and treatment. (Mar 2020)
- We don't have a healthcare system; only thousands of plans. (Mar 2020)
- International cooperation on coronavirus, and full funding. (Feb 2020)
- More money into research for pandemics like coronavirus. (Feb 2020)
- Vaccinations work; electing not to vaccinate is dangerous. (Sep 2015)
Prescription Drugs
- Health care industry last year made $100 billion in profit. (Feb 2020)
- End the absurdity of co-payments and $600B corporate costs. (Jan 2020)
- No deductibles or co-payments; $200 a year for prescriptions. (Sep 2019)
- Cap annual costs for prescription drugs at $200. (Aug 2019)
- Took diabetics to Canada for insulin at 1/10th price. (Jul 2019)
- Pharma companies should justify high drug prices. (Feb 2019)
- Negotiate Medicare prices stop outrageous pharma ripoffs. (May 2018)
- Medicare should negotiate prices with pharma industry. (Feb 2017)
- 1999: Took Vermonters to Canada for low-cost Rx drugs. (Nov 2016)
- Focus healthcare on health instead of profits. (Nov 2016)
- Don't ignore prescription drug affordability. (Nov 2016)
- No country except USA lets drug companies charge any price. (Oct 2016)
- Combat Big Pharma's greed on drug prices. (Jul 2016)
Universal Coverage
- Push for "Medicare for All" in context of coronavirus. (Apr 2020)
- We need a simple system, which exists in Canada. (Mar 2020)
- Medicare-for-All will save Americans $450B per year. (Feb 2020)
- FactCheck: US pays twice OECD average, but not every country. (Feb 2020)
- Every president since FDR has tried to fix healthcare. (Feb 2020)
- Medicare-for-All saves money to offset raising taxes. (Jan 2020)
- Medicare-for-all costs average family $1200 instead of $12K. (Dec 2019)
- Taxes will go up with Medicare for All, most will pay less. (Oct 2019)
- We lose 30,000 people a year due to not going to the doctor. (Sep 2019)
- Get rid of all for-profit health insurance companies. (Jul 2019)
- Comprehensive care including dental, hearing aids, & eyecare. (Jul 2019)
- This is not radical; virtually every other country does it. (Jul 2019)
- Healthcare as a human right includes immigrants. (Jul 2019)
- People will spend less money on Medicare for All. (Jun 2019)
- Canada has figured out single-payer, at half the cost of US. (Jun 2019)
- Medicare is most popular health insurance so let's expand it. (Jun 2019)
- Medicare-for-All will lead to stability, not disruption. (May 2019)
- Single payer will transform health care for the better. (Apr 2019)
- Medicare-for-all: no more private insurance plans. (Apr 2019)
- State-by-state Medicaid expansion is a major step. (Apr 2019)
- ObamaCare requires insurers to cover you, even at a loss. (Feb 2017)
- ObamaCare insured 20 million, but didn't go far enough. (Jan 2017)
- Real issue is healthcare at all, for rural poor. (Nov 2016)
- Federally-run single-payer program with mental/dental. (Nov 2016)
- $12B more for Federally Qualified Health Centers. (Feb 2016)
- For $500 more taxes, everyone gets $5,000 more healthcare. (Feb 2016)
- US is the only major country without universal health care. (Feb 2016)
- Other countries cover everyone; why can't we? (Feb 2016)
- Health care for 29 million more uninsured. (Feb 2016)
- Medicare for All: insure 29M people beyond ObamaCare. (Jan 2016)
- Single payer: Increased taxes offset by insurance cuts. (Jan 2016)
- I helped write ObamaCare; extend it to 29M more uninsured. (Jan 2016)
- The middle class will pay less with single payer health plan. (Dec 2015)
- We spend more on care than countries with single-payer. (Dec 2015)
- Healthcare is a fundamental right in a civilized society. (Sep 2015)
- Medicare for all: healthcare is a human right. (Sep 2015)
- U.S. is only major country without guaranteed healthcare. (Apr 2015)
- Civilized societies provide healthcare for the poor. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- Voted for ObamaCare; but prefers single-payer system. (Apr 2015)
- MEDS Plan: Cover senior Rx under Medicare. (Jan 2001)
- Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record. (Dec 2003)
- Improve services for people with autism & their families. (Apr 2007)
- Establish a national childhood cancer database. (Mar 2007)
- Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy. (Apr 2011)
- Keep healthcare mandate, according to CC survey. (Jul 2018)
- Preserve access to Medicaid & SCHIP during economic downturn. (Apr 2008)
- Provide for treatment of autism under TRICARE. (Jun 2009)
- Sponsored bill expanding the National Health Service Corps. (Mar 2009)
- Collect data on birth defects and present to the public. (Apr 1998)
- Make health care a right, not a privilege. (Nov 1999)
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Bernie Sanders on Homeland Security
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OR background on Homeland Security.
- Cuba is in US sphere of influence; Ukraine is in Russia's. (Feb 2022)
- Use National Guard for coronavirus; but focus on funding. (Mar 2020)
- FactCheck: $1.8 trillion on all military, not just weapons. (Feb 2020)
- Violent white nationalists should be treated as terrorists. (Aug 2019)
- CIA torture policy means US service members get tortured too. (May 2018)
- Global War on Terror has undermined our moral standards. (Sep 2017)
- CIA activities in Iran and Chile led to dictatorships. (Feb 2016)
- It does us no good to NOT talk to adversaries. (Feb 2016)
- I opposed Vietnam as conscientious objector. (Oct 2015)
- Shut down the NSA surveillance program. (Oct 2015)
- Snowden showed us our civil rights are being undermined. (Oct 2015)
- PATRIOT Act was 99-1, and I was the one. (Oct 2015)
- Continue using drones and special forces. (Oct 2015)
- NSA is unconstitutionally out of control. (Sep 2015)
- Worried about invasion of privacy from NSA corporate America. (May 2015)
- F-35 fighter planes OK at Burlington Airport. (Oct 2012)
Mideast
- Too much spent on Cold War; and too little spent on ISIS. (Jan 2016)
- Rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS. (Nov 2015)
- Don't let released terrorists get back onto the battlefield. (Jun 2014)
- War in Iraq will cost us $3 trillion including veteran care. (Dec 2010)
- Pentagon lied about Iraq; expect same for future wars. (Jun 1997)
Miitary Spending
- We spend $1.8T on collective military; spend it on climate. (Feb 2020)
- We spend $750B on military & don't know who our enemy is. (Sep 2019)
- Cut military spending to pay for fixing climate change. (Sep 2019)
- Undertake comprehensive audit of Department of Defense. (Apr 2018)
- Don't privatize the Veterans Administration. (Apr 2018)
- Spending on military means fewer resources for people. (Nov 2016)
- Care for our veterans, even if we disagree about wars. (Nov 2016)
- Strengthen the V.A.; don't privatize the V.A. (Feb 2016)
- Promise to never privatize V.A. (Feb 2016)
- We spend billions on nuclear weapons & only 10% on terrorism. (Nov 2015)
- I pushed bill for $15B for veterans' healthcare services. (Oct 2015)
- Reduce nuclear budget by $100B; end proliferation worldwide. (Sep 2015)
- Costs of endless war detract from citizens' well-being. (Sep 2015)
- Cut defense by $18B to pay for 55% of all college tuition. (Apr 2015)
- We need a strong military, but stop wasting tens of billions. (Apr 2015)
- V.A. doesn't have resources to accommodate 2 million vets. (May 2014)
- End nuclear weapons and B-2 bomber production. (Jun 1997)
- 1991: Billions should improve human life, not destroy it. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- 2009: Voted against closing Gitmo; 2015: supports closing it. (Sep 2015)
- Oppose outrageous boost in military expenditures. (Jun 1997)
- End the use of anti-personnel mines. (Mar 2001)
- Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Extend reserve retirement pay parity back to 9/11. (Dec 2007)
- Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays. (Mar 2010)
- Non-proliferation includes disposing of nuclear materials. (Aug 2014)
- Restrict domestic monitoring of phone calls. (Jul 2014)
- Funding wars separately is gimmick against sequestration. (Oct 2015)
- Exempt Veterans Affairs from federal hiring freeze. (Jan 2017)
- Address abuses of electronic monitoring in the workplace. (Apr 1993)
- Restore habeas corpus for detainees in the War on Terror. (Jun 2007)
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Bernie Sanders on Immigration
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- End ICE raids; they terrify kids of immigrants. (Mar 2020)
- Restore legal status of those eligible under DACA. (Feb 2020)
- I'll stand with 11M undocumented immigrants in this country. (Nov 2019)
- Xenophobia demonizes immigrants; refugees aren't criminals. (Jul 2019)
- Comprehensive immigration reform; stop attacking allies. (Jun 2019)
- We need humane immigration policy, not demonization. (Jun 2019)
- Real national emergency is creating path to citizenship. (Feb 2019)
- Restructure ICE; don't necessarily abolish it. (Feb 2019)
- Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens. (Feb 2019)
- Comprehensive reform instead of an emergency wall. (Feb 2019)
- The Great Wall was ok in 1600s; not so smart today. (Jan 2018)
- Give undocumented workers legal protections. (Aug 2017)
- Refugee vetting mechanisms we have now are very, very strong. (Feb 2017)
- I do not support the Minutemen anti-immigrant vigilantes. (Mar 2016)
- Base policy on uniting families, not dividing families. (Mar 2016)
- 2007 immigration bill was a bad bill, opposed by many. (Mar 2016)
- I support children entering for asylum from war-torn areas. (Mar 2016)
- Supports path to citizenship for illegals. (Feb 2016)
- 2007: No comprehensive reform: guest workers are semi-slaves. (Oct 2015)
- Comprehensive reform with no border fence & no guest workers. (Sep 2015)
- Secure borders without building a fence. (Sep 2015)
- Open borders for guest workers pushes down U.S. worker wages. (Jul 2015)
- Since NAFTA, Mexican undocumented immigration up 185%. (Jun 2015)
- Disgraceful to shunt our workers into the shadows. (Jun 2015)
- Climate change lays groundwork for mass migration. (Oct 2013)
- Immigrant labor should be treated as valuable, but are not. (Oct 2012)
- Include dairy in H2A visas (temporary agricultural workers). (Oct 2012)
- English-Only, based in xenophobia, hurts legal immigrants. (Jun 1997)
DREAMers
- Day one: legalize millions of DACA. (Mar 2020)
- Provide legal status to the 1.8 million DREAMers. (May 2018)
- Wall is stupid, but ok as part of deal on DACA. (Mar 2018)
- Support Obama's reforms on DAPA and DACA. (Mar 2016)
- Offer path to citizenship; waive deportation for DREAMers. (Apr 2015)
Voting Record
- 2007: I voted against slavery-like guest worker programs. (Feb 2016)
- Rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration. (Dec 2003)
- Rated 8% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance. (Dec 2006)
- Provide lawyers and evidence for children being deported. (Feb 2016)
- Opposes more border security, according to CC survey. (Jul 2018)
- Terminate national emergency at the Southern border. (Mar 2019)
- Sponsored bill to disallow religion-based immigration ban. (May 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Jobs
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- Create jobs with infrastructure repair & Green New Deal. (Oct 2019)
- Help transition for miners: income for 5 years, & education. (Sep 2019)
- Ain't nobody in Congress more pro-worker than I am. (Jul 2019)
- Tax companies for public benefits used by workers. (Apr 2019)
- End racism in hiring, redlining, & disparate pay. (Apr 2019)
- Equal pay for equal work: anything else unacceptable. (Apr 2019)
- FactCheck: Unemployment under Trump is lowest in decades. (Feb 2019)
- Women still earn only 80% of men; minorities earn 63%. (Aug 2017)
- A job is more than income; it's how we relate to the world. (Nov 2016)
- Middle-class wages have been in a 40-year decline. (Nov 2016)
- Establish worker-owned cooperatives to counter corporations. (Nov 2016)
- I investigated undocumented farm workers in FL. (Mar 2016)
- Minority youth more underemployed than others. (Mar 2016)
- Obama rebuilt jobs; but middle class is disappearing. (Oct 2015)
- Corporate opposition makes union organizing difficult. (Mar 2015)
- Create worker-owned cooperatives & grow unions. (Jan 2015)
- Real unemployment is 16%; official unemployment only 9%. (Nov 2012)
- Extend unemployment benefits whenever jobless rate over 7.2%. (Dec 2010)
- 1950s manufacturing job created middle class, but not now. (Dec 2010)
- Unions are freedom of association; but gets you fired. (Jun 2007)
Minimum Wage
- Tax CEOs making more than 50 times median worker pay. (Nov 2019)
- Make minimum wage a living wage. (Feb 2019)
- Real wages for working class in 2019 are lower than in 1973. (Feb 2019)
- Accompany minimum wage increase with pay equity for women. (Nov 2018)
- Helped raise minimum wage at Amazon to $15 per hour. (Oct 2018)
- Minimum wage increase helps economy because workers spend it. (Aug 2017)
- Current $7.25/hr and $2.13/hr is starvation wage. (Aug 2017)
- Fight for $15: worker wages so low they need food stamps!. (Apr 2017)
- $15 minimum wage, plus pay equity for women. (Nov 2016)
- Minimum wage increase most helps minority workers. (Nov 2016)
- $15/hour minimum wage indexed to inflation. (Jul 2016)
- $15 minimum wage might lose some jobs, but it helps many. (Nov 2015)
Voting Record
- Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. (Mar 2015)
- Member of the Congressional Rural Caucus. (Jan 2001)
- Require full disclosure of outsourced employees. (Feb 2001)
- Rated 100% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Allow an Air Traffic Controller's Union. (Jan 2006)
- Form unions by card-check instead of secret ballot. (Mar 2009)
- Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016. (Jan 2014)
- Let Senate cafeteria workers organize their own union. (Nov 2015)
- Extend unemployment compensation during recession. (Jan 2008)
- Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue. (Jan 2009)
- Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination. (Jan 2009)
- Sponsored bill for strengthening union organizing. (Feb 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Principles & Values
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- I'd feel awful if America lost our 250 year old democracy. (Jul 2024)
- Progressives deserve important seats in Biden administration. (Dec 2020)
- Jewish identity means end racism & white nationalism. (Feb 2020)
- Confederate monuments belong in museums not town greens. (Feb 2020)
- Disowns vicious internet trolls. (Feb 2020)
- US has an immoral distribution of wealth. (Feb 2020)
- I do not believe in online bullying, end of discussion. (Feb 2020)
- Trump acquittal will lead to more abuse of power. (Feb 2020)
- Trump has documentedly lied thousands of times as President. (Dec 2019)
- Trump think he is above the law, but nobody is. (Nov 2019)
- I hold major rallies despite age & health. (Oct 2019)
- Trump a corrupt president, worthy of impeachment. (Oct 2019)
- End divisiveness; unite people with progressive agenda. (Oct 2019)
- 2019 OpEd: Bernie is best chance to beat Biden. (May 2019)
- Mueller Report: Russia bought pro-Bernie social media ads. (Apr 2019)
- Government should address income inequality, not support it. (Apr 2019)
- Mainstream media prefers "realistic" candidates over Bernie. (Jan 2019)
- All real change comes from grassroots activism. (Nov 2018)
- Learn from Gingrich in 1994: propose bold Democratic agenda. (Nov 2018)
- Support progressives running nationally and locally. (Feb 2017)
- 2016 campaign moved a generation of Millennials to the left. (Nov 2016)
- Greatness about how we treat most vulnerable, not wealth. (Nov 2016)
- Our political revolution must continue. (Nov 2016)
- Our revolution will transform America. (Jul 2016)
- It is not unrealistic to fight for middle class. (Feb 2016)
- I walk the walk of progressivism, with no Super PAC. (Feb 2016)
- Too late for establishment politics: we need a revolution. (Feb 2016)
- Progressives don't have SuperPACs with $15M from Wall Street. (Feb 2016)
- Agrees with Hillary, but more fervently, on many issues. (Jan 2016)
- Political revolution: millions of people vs.few billionaires. (Oct 2015)
- I do not have a Super PAC nor raise money from billionaires. (Oct 2015)
- Social change cannot occur without mass participation. (Oct 2015)
- Abortion & gay marriage secondary to addressing inequality. (Sep 2015)
- Corporate interests fund the Tea Party. (Mar 2014)
- Revolution will not start at "progressive bastion" Harvard. (Jun 1997)
- GOP convinces middle class to vote for interests of the rich. (Jun 1997)
- Progressive movement fights for social justice. (Jun 1997)
Democratic Socialism
- it's fairness for working class, not communism. (Feb 2020)
- Does not advocate communism, but fairness for working class. (Feb 2020)
- Democratic socialism means like Canada, not Venezuela. (Sep 2019)
- Americans want "extreme" Democratic-Socialist solutions. (Jul 2019)
- College member of Young People's Socialist League. (Jul 2019)
- Economic rights are human rights: that's FDR's "socialism". (Jun 2019)
- Democratic socialism opposes concentration of wealth & power. (Jun 2019)
- 1990s: Nominated as "Socialist" for Profile in Courage award. (Feb 2019)
- Change direction of Democrats to grassroots & bottom-up. (Apr 2017)
- I am longest serving Independent but caucus with Dems. (Feb 2016)
- I'm not a capitalist; I'm a democratic socialist. (Oct 2015)
- What's wrong with modeling U.S. on socialist Scandinavia? (May 2015)
- Registered Independent; calls himself a democratic socialist. (Apr 2015)
- My form of democratic socialism is not Communism. (Mar 2014)
Past Campaigns
- Ran for Governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976. (Jul 2019)
- 1981: elected as independent mayor of Burlington. (Nov 2016)
- DNC tilted primary in favor of Hillary Clinton. (Jul 2016)
- 8 million contributions to his campaign, averaging $27. (Jul 2016)
- 2011: Primary challenge keeps Obama from moving to the right. (Feb 2016)
- American people are tired of hearing about Hillary's email. (Oct 2015)
- Lost campaigns in 1972, 1974 & 1988 before winning in 1990. (Mar 2014)
- Current administration has numbed American outrage. (Jun 2005)
- 1971: Ran for Vermont Senate seat under Liberty Union Party. (Jun 1997)
- First Independent elected to Congress in 40 years. (Jun 1997)
Personal Background
- Three uncles perished in Holocaust in Poland in WWII. (Jul 2019)
- Celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1954 in Brooklyn. (Jul 2019)
- Brother elected in England as Green Party member. (Nov 2016)
- I am very proud to be Jewish; it is much of what I am. (Mar 2016)
- My spirituality: we are all in this together. (Feb 2016)
- High school athlete: basketball and long-distance runner. (Jan 2016)
- Father immigrated to Brooklyn at 17, penniless & no English. (Jan 2016)
- Family immigrated from Poland in WWII, escaping Holocaust. (Sep 2015)
Voting Record
- Voted with Democratic Party 94.1% of 324 votes. (Sep 2007)
- Religious affiliation: Jewish. (Nov 2000)
- Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (Oct 2001)
- Profiled in "Jews in American Politics". (Jan 2001)
- Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (Nov 2007)
- Question Trump on Emoluments clause. (May 2017)
- Religious freedom means no religious registry. (Jan 2017)
- Certify 2020 Presidential election as fully & fairly counted. (Jan 2021)
- Create Commission to investigate Jan. 6 Capitol riots. (Jun 2021)
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Bernie Sanders on Social Security
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- Incremental adjustments ok, but no Social Security cuts. (Mar 2020)
- Apply payroll-tax to income over $250,000. (Jul 2019)
- 2013: Expand benefits and create $2.8 trillion surplus. (Jul 2019)
- 2000: Fought IBM pension cuts; workers regained $320M. (Jul 2019)
- I helped create the Social Security Caucus. (Nov 2016)
- We have to do better on both SSDI and elder poverty. (Nov 2016)
- Lift cap on wealthy: at $250,000 program lasts 58 years. (Feb 2016)
- Criminal to not have COLA increases for seniors. (Oct 2015)
- Defend against chained CPI, and expand Social Security. (Oct 2015)
- No cuts; no privatization; even to deal with deficit. (Sep 2015)
- Raise the Social Security cap on taxable income. (Aug 2015)
- Strengthen the social safety net, instead of weakening it. (Mar 2015)
- We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it. (Jan 2015)
- Chairman of the Defend Social Security Caucus. (Jun 2012)
- Payroll tax holiday diverts revenue from Trust Fund. (Dec 2010)
- Most successful Federal program in history of our country. (Dec 2010)
- Despite GOP rhetoric, Social Security is NOT going bankrupt. (Sep 2006)
- It's regressive to increase taxable Social Security income. (Jun 1997)
- Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women. (May 2001)
- Reject proposals for private saving accounts. (May 2002)
- Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Reject privatization; don't raise the retirement age. (Aug 2010)
- Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower "Chained CPI". (Apr 2013)
- Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)
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Bernie Sanders on Tax Reform
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- Medicare-for-All raises taxes on middle class, but net gain. (Jun 2019)
- Supports progressive taxation; closing loopholes for wealthy. (Apr 2019)
- Replace carried-interest loophole with progressive taxation. (Aug 2017)
- Raise funds in a progressive way, for ObamaCare & everything. (Feb 2017)
- 1980s: progressive property tax, plus Meals & Rooms tax. (Nov 2016)
- Tax code is rigged to favor top 2% of billionaires. (Nov 2016)
- Tax increases may affect more than top 1%. (Oct 2015)
- We need a progressive tax system based on ability to pay. (Mar 2015)
- Filibustered against Obama-Republican tax deal. (Dec 2010)
- Cap the home mortgage interest deduction at $300,000. (Jun 1997)
- Property taxes are highly regressive & hurt poor & seniors. (Jun 1997)
- 1% room-and-meal tax instead of property tax. (Jun 1997)
Progressive Taxation
- Wealth tax of 8% on fortunes over $10 billion. (Nov 2019)
- Top rate of 77% for estates over $1 billion. (Apr 2019)
- 1974: 100% tax over $1 million. (Mar 2019)
- Close loopholes that let wealthy avoid taxes. (Feb 2019)
- Raise income tax & fix estate tax: hardly Marxist ideas. (Feb 2019)
- 0.1% tax on Wall Street speculation. (Nov 2016)
- End loophole that allows zero taxes via Cayman Islands. (Feb 2016)
- Wealthiest will pay more but not as much as under Eisenhower. (Nov 2015)
- Increase tax on wealthy; close loopholes for corporations. (Sep 2015)
- Raise top marginal income tax rate from 39% to over 50%. (Sep 2015)
- Increase estate tax rates on inheritances over $3.5M. (Jun 2015)
- Double the capital gains tax for the wealthiest 2%. (Apr 2015)
- Real tax reform based on ability to pay. (Jan 2015)
- Capital gains & dividend tax cuts are giveaways to the rich. (Jun 2006)
Voting Record
- Lower cutoff for estate tax from $5.4M to $3.5M. (Sep 2015)
- American People's Dividend: Give $300 to every person. (Feb 2001)
- Rated 28% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes. (Dec 2003)
- Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating support of progressive taxation. (Dec 2006)
- Minimum tax rate of 30% for those earning over $1 million. (Mar 2012)
- CC:Reverse federal income tax cuts. (Jul 2018)
- CC:Keep the inhertiance tax. (Jul 2018)
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Bernie Sanders on Technology
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- Facebook is anti-competitive, should be broken up. (Dec 2020)
- Our infrastructure is crumbling because of endless wars. (Jan 2020)
- Break up tech giants like Facebook, Google, & Amazon. (Jul 2019)
- Fix our nation's infrastructure; don't privatize it. (Feb 2019)
- Fake news comes from multinational media conglomerates. (Feb 2017)
- 13 million jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. (Jan 2017)
- We have significantly underfunded Infrastructure. (Nov 2016)
- Drinking water infrastructure coming to end of useful life. (Nov 2016)
- Tax wealth stashed in Caymans to rebuild our infrastructure. (Feb 2016)
- Net Neutrality: no preferential treatment for corporations. (Sep 2015)
- I support funding NASA, but our planet has to come first. (Sep 2015)
- Stop bailing out Wall Street & start repairing Main Street. (Mar 2015)
- $1 trillion investment in infrastructure. (Jan 2015)
- Invest in infrastructure: My water system is 150 years old. (Dec 2010)
- Infrastructure does not get better if you ignore it. (Dec 2010)
- US invests 2.4% on infrastructure; Europe 5% and China 9%. (Dec 2010)
- Sued cable TV company to pay city for damaging streets. (Jun 1997)
Voting Record
- 2000s: Voted NO on Online Freedom of Speech Act. (Jul 2019)
- Promote internet via Congressional Internet Caucus. (Jan 2001)
- Facilitate nationwide 2-1-1 phone line for human services. (Jan 2007)
- Support Lifeline program for low-income broadband. (Feb 2017)
- Ensure net neutrality: no corporate-tiered Internet. (Jan 2007)
- Overturn FCC approval of media consolidation. (Mar 2008)
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Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
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- Invading Ukraine is wrong, but no need to "get tough". (Feb 2022)
- Killing bad leaders leads to international anarchy. (Feb 2020)
- Great disasters of our time--Vietnam & Iraq--based on lies. (Jan 2020)
- Endless war in Iraq cost us trillions and 4,500 troops. (Jan 2020)
- Rethink War on Terror and make deal with Taliban. (Nov 2019)
- Used War Powers Act to get US out of Saudi-Yemen war. (Jun 2019)
- No support of Saudis against Iran; it's a never-ending war. (Jun 2019)
- Iran not an emergency; no military action without Congress. (Jun 2019)
- US shouldn't favor Saudis or Iran; broker diplomatic answer. (Jun 2019)
- Led bipartisan War Powers resolution against Yemen war. (Apr 2019)
- Cut military spending, except F-35 at Vermont air base. (Mar 2019)
- End Syrian conflict; pull out U.S. troops. (Feb 2019)
- Our Saudi allies give US-made weapons to Al Qaeda in Yemen. (Feb 2019)
- Withdraw US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen. (Nov 2018)
- 1990s Iraq invasion laid groundwork for more wars in region. (Sep 2017)
- Iraq War discredited vision of benevolent global hegemony. (Sep 2017)
- Protect Iranian nuke deal; without it, Iran is unlimited. (Sep 2017)
- Why would anyone trust US if we abrogated Iran nuke treaty? (Sep 2017)
- 1990: Tried to stop Bush's driving Saddam out of Kuwait. (Nov 2016)
- Iraq War: worst foreign policy blunder in modern history. (Nov 2016)
- Economic sanctions could have driven Saddam out of Kuwait. (Nov 2016)
- End perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East. (Dec 2015)
- Diplomacy and coalition-building before unilateral action. (Oct 2015)
- Keep U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan. (Oct 2015)
- Syria is a quagmire within a quagmire; don't get involved. (Oct 2015)
- Support force only when we are threatened & have coalition. (Oct 2015)
- Iraq war destabilized Mideast; stay out of Mideast quagmire. (Sep 2015)
- Iran nuke deal is victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling. (Sep 2015)
- 1983 war against Nicaragua was illegal and immoral. (Jun 1997)
- 1990: Opposed authorizing all-out war in Kuwait with Iraq. (Jun 1997)
- 1991: instead of Persian Gulf War, spend on America. (Jun 1997)
Terrorism
- I listened about Iraq; they were lying thru their teeth. (Feb 2020)
- More terrorists after spending trillions on War on Terror. (Jul 2019)
- Iraq war led to ISIS creation, as I predicted would happen. (Feb 2016)
- Qatar is wealthy; needs to get skin in game against ISIS. (Jan 2016)
- Work with Russia & Iran to get rid of Assad in Syria. (Jan 2016)
- Tell Qatar and Saudi Arabia that they must fight ISIS. (Dec 2015)
- Invasion of Iraq led to ISIS; Hillary voted to invade. (Nov 2015)
- Form Muslim-led coalition to defeat ISIS. (Nov 2015)
- Stop ISIS, but only with an international & Arab coalition. (Sep 2015)
- Middle Eastern countries must contribute to fight ISIS. (Aug 2015)
- Get Saudis & regional powers involved with fighting ISIS. (Oct 2014)
- Arm the Peshmerga against ISIS, as international effort. (Oct 2014)
Voting Record
- Passed bipartisan War Powers Act to stop Yemen war. (Jan 2020)
- I was wrong on my vote for Afghan War; remove all troops. (Dec 2019)
- I never made the huge mistake of voting for Iraq AUMF. (Sep 2019)
- I voted against 1st Gulf War, which led to 2nd Gulf War. (Dec 2015)
- Voted for Afghan War, to capture Osama bin Laden. (Sep 2015)
- Condemns anti-Muslim bigotry in name of anti-terrorism. (Oct 2001)
- Require Congress' approval before military action in Iran. (Oct 2007)
- No military force against Iran without Congress approval. (Feb 2020)
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Bernie Sanders on Welfare & Poverty
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- National rent control an appropriate tool. (Feb 2020)
- No time limit for welfare, but guaranteed job program. (Feb 2020)
- Whites should not do so much better than blacks. (Feb 2020)
- Deal with 500,000 people sleeping on streets, AND Trump. (Nov 2019)
- U.S. is wealthy, but have highest child poverty rate. (Sep 2019)
- Focus big time on rebuilding distressed communities. (Jul 2019)
- 1963: College volunteer at Israeli kibbutz. (Jul 2019)
- 1980s USSR housing worse than U.S.'s, but they pay only 5%. (May 2019)
- Would sign reparations bill; wants investment in poor areas. (Apr 2019)
- Every American is entitled to minimum standard of living. (Apr 2019)
- 2014: Every American entitled to minimum standard of living. (Apr 2019)
- Sanders supports economic help for blacks, not reparations. (Mar 2019)
- Puerto Rico nearly bankrupt after Great Recession. (Oct 2017)
- Welfare to low-wage workers subsidizes profitable companies. (Aug 2017)
- Burlington Community Land Trust for affordable housing. (Nov 2016)
- Grotesque inequality is unsustainable and immoral. (Nov 2016)
- Senior poverty AND childhood poverty are increasing. (Nov 2016)
- We should not lead the world in childhood poverty. (Oct 2015)
- Economic inequality & institutional racism exist in parallel. (Sep 2015)
- Advocate for social benefits of public assistance programs. (Sep 2015)
- 3.5 million Americans homeless is unacceptable. (Sep 2015)
- All religions call usury immoral: apply that to credit cards. (Dec 2010)
- Predatory lending practices caused 2008 recession. (Oct 2008)
- Economic insecurity is pivotal in how one lives one's life. (Jun 1997)
- Land Trust: affordable housing by resale below market rates. (Jun 1997)
- Opposed cutting food stamps. (Jun 1997)
- U.S. has highest income inequality in industrialized world. (Jun 1997)
- Increase the earned income tax credit. (Jan 1993)
- Fully fund Head Start; Job Corps; and WIC food program. (Apr 1993)
- Support school breakfast for low-income children. (Mar 2009)
- Reduce the concentration of wealth & wage inequality. (Nov 1999)
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Strongly Favors
topic 1:Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right
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| Women have the right to choose, regardless of income: Strongly Favors topic 1 Lifetime pro-choice record, plus funding for family planning: Strongly Favors topic 1 Advocate for family planning and funding for contraceptives: Favors topic 1 Support pro-life Dems if they replace pro-life Republicans: Favors topic 1 Few or no government limits on abortion: Strongly Favors topic 1 No anti-choice appointments to Supreme Court: Strongly Favors topic 1 Medicare-for-All will protect women's constitutional right: Strongly Favors topic 1 Right to abortion applies to low income women as well: Strongly Favors topic 1 Voted for spending bills with Hyde Amendment, but pro-choice: Favors topic 1 Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals: Favors topic 1 Provide emergency contraception at military facilities: Favors topic 1 Require pharmacies to fulfill contraceptive prescriptions: Favors topic 1 Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services: Strongly Favors topic 1 Access safe, legal abortion without restrictions: Strongly Favors topic 1 Keep federal funding for family planning clinics: Strongly Favors topic 1 CC:Oppose strict Constitutionalist judges: Favors topic 1 CC:Publicly fund abortions: Strongly Favors topic 1 CC:No parental notification for abortions by minors: Favors topic 1 Protect the reproductive rights of women: Strongly Favors topic 1 Ensure access to and funding for contraception: Favors topic 1 Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception: Favors topic 1 |
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topic 2:Legally require hiring women & minorities
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| Economic issues take a larger toll on minority groups: Favors topic 2 Equal pay for equal work by women: Strongly Favors topic 2 1964: civil rights activist in Congress on Racial Equality: Strongly Favors topic 2 Black Lives Matter: deal with institutional racism: Favors topic 2 Remove Confederate flag from State Houses: Strongly Favors topic 2 Women's March: never again second-class citizens: Strongly Favors topic 2 1960s U. Chicago Congress of Racial Equality member: Strongly Favors topic 2 Empower Native Americans to make up for abrogated treaties: Strongly Favors topic 2 No ambiguity in condemning white supremacists: Strongly Favors topic 2 Supports commission investigating reparations for slavery: Favors topic 2 Invest in distressed communities as "reparations": Favors topic 2 Supports reparations, but targeted to distressed communities: Strongly Favors topic 2 Busing an option, but integrated community schools are best: Strongly Favors topic 2 1972: wrote fictional "satire" about men oppressing women: Strongly Opposes topic 2 We're the only major country without paid family leave: Strongly Favors topic 2 Accompany minimum wage increase with pay equity for women: Strongly Favors topic 2 Women still earn only 80% of men; minorities earn 63%: Strongly Favors topic 2 End racism in hiring, redlining, & disparate pay: Strongly Favors topic 2 Equal pay for equal work: anything else unacceptable: Strongly Favors topic 2 Sanders supports economic help for blacks, not reparations: Favors topic 2 Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender: Strongly Favors topic 2 Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Favors topic 2 Recognize Juneteenth as historical end of slavery: Strongly Favors topic 2 Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy: Favors topic 2 Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2 Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender: Strongly Favors topic 2 Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2 Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue: Favors topic 2 Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination: Favors topic 2 |
Strongly Favors
topic 3:Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Never accept racism, sexism, nor homophobia: Strongly Favors topic 3 Vermont implemented ENDA 22 years ago; so should feds: Strongly Favors topic 3 Right to love each other, regardless of sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3 DOMA was homophobic even in 1996: Strongly Favors topic 3 1983: Approved "Gay Rights Day" in Burlington Vermont: Strongly Favors topic 3 LGBTQ values are family values: Strongly Favors topic 3 More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes: Strongly Favors topic 3 Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 3 ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3 Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays: Favors topic 3 Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Let states recognize same sex marriage: Favors topic 3 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 4:America was founded on Christian values
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-Family-Value voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 4 Religious freedom means no religious registry: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
Strongly Favors
topic 5:Expand ObamaCare
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Deal with racial issues as part of health care reform: Strongly Favors topic 5 Stand up against healthcare companies' billions in profits: Favors topic 5 Move toward a single-payer system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Voted for ObamaCare; but prefers single-payer system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Civilized societies provide healthcare for the poor: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare for all: healthcare is a human right: Strongly Favors topic 5 U.S. is only major country without guaranteed healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Healthcare is a fundamental right in a civilized society: Strongly Favors topic 5 We spend more on care than countries with single-payer: Favors topic 5 I helped write ObamaCare; extend it to 29M more uninsured: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare for All: insure 29M people beyond ObamaCare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Single payer: Increased taxes offset by insurance cuts: Favors topic 5 For $500 more taxes, everyone gets $5,000 more healthcare: Strongly Favors topic 5 ObamaCare alternatives need patient protections: Strongly Favors topic 5 ObamaCare requires insurers to cover you, even at a loss: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare should negotiate prices with pharma industry: Favors topic 5 1999: Took Vermonters to Canada for low-cost Rx drugs: Favors topic 5 Real issue is healthcare at all, for rural poor: Strongly Favors topic 5 Don't ignore prescription drug affordability: Favors topic 5 Lack of affordable dental care is part of healthcare crisis: Favors topic 5 Federally-run single-payer program with mental/dental: Strongly Favors topic 5 Mental Health: people need more affordable treatments: Favors topic 5 Don't let Republicans do away with preexisting protection: Strongly Favors topic 5 Negotiate Medicare prices stop outrageous pharma ripoffs: Strongly Favors topic 5 Pharma companies should justify high drug prices: Favors topic 5 Combat Big Pharma's greed on drug prices: Strongly Favors topic 5 Employer-based insurance burdens employers & stifles workers: Strongly Favors topic 5 Mental illness system is in tatters; treat like any illness: Favors topic 5 Medicare-for-all: no more private insurance plans: Strongly Favors topic 5 Single payer will transform health care for the better: Strongly Favors topic 5 Elective procedures can be covered by private insurance: Strongly Favors topic 5 1970s: For socialized medicine, public drug companies owned: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare-for-All will lead to stability, not disruption: Strongly Favors topic 5 Canada has figured out single-payer, at half the cost of US: Favors topic 5 Job-based insurance forces people to change providers: Strongly Favors topic 5 People will spend less money on Medicare for All: Strongly Favors topic 5 Medicare for All: higher taxes but lower healthcare costs: Strongly Favors topic 5 Cap annual costs for prescription drugs at $200: Strongly Favors topic 5 We need a simple system, which exists in Canada: Strongly Favors topic 5 Don't privatize the Veterans Administration: Strongly Favors topic 5 MEDS Plan: Cover senior Rx under Medicare: Favors topic 5 Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record: Strongly Favors topic 5 Keep healthcare mandate, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 5 Preserve access to Medicaid & SCHIP during economic downturn: Strongly Favors topic 5 Provide for treatment of autism under TRICARE: Favors topic 5 Sponsored bill expanding the National Health Service Corps: Strongly Favors topic 5 Make health care a right, not a privilege: Strongly Favors topic 5 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 6:Privatize Social Security
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Despite GOP rhetoric, Social Security is NOT going bankrupt: Opposes topic 6 We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Strengthen the social safety net, instead of weakening it: Strongly Opposes topic 6 No cuts; no privatization; even to deal with deficit: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Defend against chained CPI, and expand Social Security: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Payroll tax holiday diverts revenue from Trust Fund: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Most successful Federal program in history of our country: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Chairman of the Defend Social Security Caucus: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Lift cap on wealthy: at $250,000 program lasts 58 years: Strongly Opposes topic 6 I helped create the Social Security Caucus: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Apply payroll-tax to income over $250,000: Favors topic 6 Senior poverty AND childhood poverty are increasing: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women: Opposes topic 6 Reject proposals for private saving accounts: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Reject privatization; don't raise the retirement age: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower "Chained CPI": Strongly Opposes topic 6 Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance: Strongly Opposes topic 6 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 7:Vouchers for school choice
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Quality affordable education, from child care to higher ed: Opposes topic 7 Replace NCLB standardized testing with holistic approach: Opposes topic 7 Vouchers redirect public education dollar to private schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Charter schools ok if held to public school standards: Favors topic 7 Do away with fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests: Opposes topic 7 Education begins before age 4 or 5: Opposes topic 7 Cutting education cuts off our noses to spite our face: Opposes topic 7 Revolution needed in child-care and preschool jobs: Opposes topic 7 No privatization; no vouchers; charters only with standards: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Crucial to invest in pre-K education for our future: Strongly Favors topic 7 Universal free meals in schools: Opposes topic 7 Forgive student loans for both higher ed and trade school: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Save millennials by cancelling student debt: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Pay for free tuition with tax on Wall Street speculation: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Reduce class size to 18 children in grades 1 to 3: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Rated 83% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes: Strongly Opposes topic 7 $25B to renovate or repair elementary schools: Opposes topic 7 Sponsored extending subsidized federal student loan rates until 2015: Opposes topic 7 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 8:Businesses have a right to pollute
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Transform our energy system away from fossil fuel: Strongly Favors topic 8 Advocate of animal welfare and humane treatment: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Protect important watersheds and wildlife areas: Strongly Opposes topic 8 GMOs are ok, but only with required labeling: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Very large farms raise questions about animal cruelty: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Our kids will ask why we made planet less habitable: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Leave a planet to our kids that is healthy & habitable: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Opposes new nuclear power plant development: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Prohibits commercial logging on Federal public lands: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Rated 90% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Promote conservation of rare felids & canids: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements: Opposes topic 8 Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs: Opposes topic 8 Prohibit invasive research on great apes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Prohibits breeding or possessing Big Cat species: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Require labeling genetically engineered food: Opposes topic 8 Rated Deregulating banks encourages discriminatory practices: Opposes topic 8 Rated Keep restrictive rules for predator control in Alaska: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting: Strongly Opposes topic 8 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 9:Stricter punishment reduces crime
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Blacks are disproportionately imprisoned & killed by police: Opposes topic 9 Reinstate voting rights to address school-to-prison pipeline: Strongly Opposes topic 9 America has more people in jail than any country on earth: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Police officers should not be shooting unarmed people: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Jobs and education, not jails and incarceration: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Involve U.S. Justice Dept. in every police killing: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Government should not be part of the death penalty: Strongly Opposes topic 9 By 2020, I pledge to have fewer people in jail than China: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Crime bill had good parts (VAWA) & bad parts (death penalty): Opposes topic 9 How justice system treats blacks is a national disgrace: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Black Lives Matter points out police brutality: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Real criminal justice/police reform also combats racism: Strongly Opposes topic 9 New model for police training de-escalating lethal force: Strongly Opposes topic 9 End the death penalty, like all other advanced countries: Strongly Opposes topic 9 End mass incarceration & reform criminal justice: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Bail reform: 65% of county & city inmates are "unconvicted": Opposes topic 9 Police forces should reflect diversity of their communities: Strongly Opposes topic 9 OpEd: Ambiguous record on 1994 crime bill: Favors topic 9 Eliminate private prisons: Strongly Opposes topic 9 I support police reform; not "defunding the police": Opposes topic 9 Violent white nationalists should be treated as terrorists: Favors topic 9 Rated 78% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Require DNA testing for all federal executions: Opposes topic 9 Increase funding for "COPS ON THE BEAT" program: Opposes topic 9 Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance: Strongly Opposes topic 9 First step: reduce recidivism & mass incarceration: Opposes topic 9 Rated 73% by the NAPO, indicating a moderate stance on police issues: Neutral on topic 9 |
Opposes
topic 10:Absolute right to gun ownership
(-3 points on Economic scale)
| Mixed approach to gun control vs. gun rights: Opposes topic 10 I'm pro-hunting, but no one needs an AK-47 to hunt: Favors topic 10 Instant background checks: no guns for criminals or unstable: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Ban semiautomatic guns & gun show loophole: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Deal federally with straw-man gun purchasers: Favors topic 10 Do more than reverse gun manufacturer immunity: Strongly Opposes topic 10 OpEd: pro-gun votes in line with VT's political norms: Favors topic 10 Common sense, incremental gun control plan: Opposes topic 10 I have shown courage against NRA on gun issues: Opposes topic 10 People have the right to buy guns, with sensible regulations: Opposes topic 10 Gun legislation must work for both rural & urban Americans: Neutral on topic 10 Ok to sue gun manufacturers if they sell for misuse: Opposes topic 10 Intervene with mental illness, to prevent mass shootings: Opposes topic 10 To pass gun controls, Congress needs guts to stand up to NRA: Strongly Opposes topic 10 We aren't divided on guns: just sick & tired of gun violence: Strongly Favors topic 10 Ban assault weapons; automatic background checks: Strongly Favors topic 10 Applaud students taking action to prevent school shootings: Strongly Opposes topic 10 2013: state decisions on guns; 2019: federal legislation: Favors topic 10 Buy back assault weapons, and ban their sale: Opposes topic 10 Rated F by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun control voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Restrict right to bear arms, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 10 Sponsored bill for background checks for private transfers: Strongly Favors topic 10 |
Strongly Favors
topic 11:Higher taxes on the wealthy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| People are sick and tired of growth of wealth inequality: Strongly Favors topic 11 Income inequality is not moral and is not acceptable: Strongly Favors topic 11 Fix estate tax so mega-rich pay their fair share: Strongly Favors topic 11 Only the top 2/10 of 1% pay the estate tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Middle class needs tax breaks; top 1% does not: Strongly Favors topic 11 Disallow stashing corporate profits overseas to avoid taxes: Strongly Favors topic 11 45% estate tax only for estates over $3.5 million: Strongly Favors topic 11 Democratic socialism means working for everyone, not just 1%: Strongly Favors topic 11 Tax CEOs making more than 50 times median worker pay: Strongly Favors topic 11 Government should address income inequality, not support it: Strongly Favors topic 11 Real tax reform based on ability to pay: Strongly Favors topic 11 We need a progressive tax system based on ability to pay: Strongly Favors topic 11 Double the capital gains tax for the wealthiest 2%: Strongly Favors topic 11 Raise top marginal income tax rate from 39% to over 50%: Strongly Favors topic 11 Lower cutoff for estate tax from $5.4M to $3.5M: Strongly Favors topic 11 Wealthiest will pay more but not as much as under Eisenhower: Strongly Favors topic 11 Increase tax on wealthy; close loopholes for corporations: Strongly Favors topic 11 Tax increases may affect more than top 1%: Strongly Favors topic 11 Increase estate tax rates on inheritances over $3.5M: Strongly Favors topic 11 End loophole that allows zero taxes via Cayman Islands: Strongly Favors topic 11 Raise funds in a progressive way, for ObamaCare & everything: Strongly Favors topic 11 1980s: progressive property tax, plus Meals & Rooms tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Tax code is rigged to favor top 2% of billionaires: Strongly Favors topic 11 0.1% tax on Wall Street speculation: Strongly Favors topic 11 Replace carried-interest loophole with progressive taxation: Strongly Favors topic 11 Raise income tax & fix estate tax: hardly Marxist ideas: Strongly Favors topic 11 Close loopholes that let wealthy avoid taxes: Strongly Favors topic 11 Top rate of 77% for estates over $1 billion: Strongly Favors topic 11 1974: 100% tax over $1 million: Strongly Favors topic 11 Medicare-for-All raises taxes on middle class, but net gain: Strongly Favors topic 11 Wealth tax of 8% on fortunes over $10 billion: Strongly Favors topic 11 American People's Dividend: Give $300 to every person: Favors topic 11 Rated 28% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes: Strongly Favors topic 11 Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating support of progressive taxation: Strongly Favors topic 11 Minimum tax rate of 30% for those earning over $1 million: Strongly Favors topic 11 Rated Reducing tax rates balloons federal deficit & cuts programs: Favors topic 11 CC:Reverse federal income tax cuts: Favors topic 11 CC:Keep the inhertiance tax: Strongly Favors topic 11 Make employee educational assistance tax-deductible: Favors topic 11 Reduce the concentration of wealth & wage inequality: Favors topic 11 |
Strongly Favors
topic 12:Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Healthcare as a human right includes immigrants: Favors topic 12 Offer path to citizenship; waive deportation for DREAMers: Strongly Favors topic 12 English-Only, based in xenophobia, hurts legal immigrants: Favors topic 12 Comprehensive reform with no border fence & no guest workers: Strongly Favors topic 12 Secure borders without building a fence: Strongly Opposes topic 12 2007: No comprehensive reform: guest workers are semi-slaves: Opposes topic 12 Immigrant labor should be treated as valuable, but are not: Favors topic 12 Open borders for guest workers pushes down U.S. worker wages: Neutral on topic 12 Disgraceful to shunt our workers into the shadows: Strongly Favors topic 12 Base policy on uniting families, not dividing families: Favors topic 12 2007 immigration bill was a bad bill, opposed by many: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Support Obama's reforms on DAPA and DACA: Favors topic 12 I support children entering for asylum from war-torn areas: Strongly Favors topic 12 Include dairy in H2A visas (temporary agricultural workers): Favors topic 12 Provide legal status to the 1.8 million DREAMers: Strongly Favors topic 12 The Great Wall was ok in 1600s; not so smart today: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens: Favors topic 12 Comprehensive reform instead of an emergency wall: Strongly Favors topic 12 Wall is stupid, but ok as part of deal on DACA: Strongly Favors topic 12 Restructure ICE; don't necessarily abolish it: Strongly Favors topic 12 Give undocumented workers legal protections: Favors topic 12 Real national emergency is creating path to citizenship: Strongly Favors topic 12 Comprehensive immigration reform; stop attacking allies: Strongly Favors topic 12 We need humane immigration policy, not demonization: Strongly Favors topic 12 Rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration: Strongly Favors topic 12 Rated 8% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance: Strongly Favors topic 12 Provide lawyers and evidence for children being deported: Favors topic 12 Opposes more border security, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 12 Terminate national emergency at the Southern border: Favors topic 12 Sponsored bill to disallow religion-based immigration ban: Strongly Favors topic 12 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 13:Support & expand free trade
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Promote democracy in China, but not at expense of US workers: Opposes topic 13 Stop TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Strongly Opposes topic 13 End disastrous NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR with China: Strongly Opposes topic 13 NAFTA was a sellout to corporate America: Strongly Opposes topic 13 NAFTA, GATT, and MFN for China must be repealed: Strongly Opposes topic 13 China trade has led to loss of 3M American jobs so far: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Priority of trade deals should be helping American workers: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Wrong, wrong, wrong that trade deals create jobs here: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Does not support ANY free trade agreements: Strongly Opposes topic 13 How can we compete against people who make 23 cents an hour?: Strongly Opposes topic 13 48,000 US factories shut down under Bush due to trade: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Don't believe that unfettered trade creates U.S. jobs: Strongly Opposes topic 13 I will take on corporations that take their jobs to China: Opposes topic 13 I strongly opposed NAFTA and DOMA from their inception: Strongly Opposes topic 13 American jobs must no longer be our number one export: Opposes topic 13 Real problem with trade is jobs shipped overseas: Opposes topic 13 Expand "Buy American" and "Buy Local" as government policy: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Trade policies should focus on U.S. jobs & lifting the poor: Opposes topic 13 Trump's actions on trade destabilizing world economy: Favors topic 13 Americans have to compete with people making pennies an hour: Opposes topic 13 Best dairy policy is USDA board's supply management: Opposes topic 13 Since NAFTA, Mexican undocumented immigration up 185%: Opposes topic 13 Rated 33% by CATO, indicating a mixed record on trade issues: Neutral on topic 13 Review free trade agreements biennially for rights violation: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Impose tariffs against countries which manipulate currency: Opposes topic 13 Fight Chinese predatory trade practices on car tires: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Rated Voted FOR reauthorizing Ex-Im Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated Oppose USMCA until more environmental & job protections: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Rated 13% by the USAE, indicating support for trade sanctions: Opposes topic 13 Ban imports from Xinjiang made by Uyghur forced labor: Opposes topic 13 No MFN for China; condition trade on human rights: Neutral on topic 13 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 14:Stay away from the UN & Globalism
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| War is a local issue because local youngsters fight and die: Opposes topic 14 Not policeman of the world; focus on ISIS first: Strongly Opposes topic 14 I do not believe in unilateral action against terrorism: Strongly Opposes topic 14 US should be more selective about using drone strikes: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Key doctrine: We can't do it alone; must work in coalition: Strongly Opposes topic 14 America stands for hope; we should take Syrian refugees: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Need to look at consequences of removing dictators: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Beef up NATO against Russian aggression: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Ending embargo with Cuba is right step: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Gaza is humanitarian disaster; Israelis shouldn't over-react: Strongly Opposes topic 14 1991: We give $7B to feudalistic dictatorships in Mideast: Opposes topic 14 UN is bureaucratic, but does enormously important work: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Development aid isn't charity; it avoids military later: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Must support human rights, even with trading partners: Favors topic 14 Cuba: Teaching people to read and write is a good thing: Strongly Opposes topic 14 China is authoritarian but eliminated extreme poverty: Strongly Opposes topic 14 It does us no good to NOT talk to adversaries: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Global War on Terror has undermined our moral standards: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Refugee vetting mechanisms we have now are very, very strong: Opposes topic 14 Greatness about how we treat most vulnerable, not wealth: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Our revolution will transform America: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Democratic socialism opposes concentration of wealth & power: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Diplomacy and coalition-building before unilateral action: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Iraq War discredited vision of benevolent global hegemony: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Require Code of Conduct for US corporations abroad: Opposes topic 14 Restore habeas corpus for detainees in the War on Terror: Opposes topic 14 Allow travel between the United States and Cuba: Opposes topic 14 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 15:Peace through Strength
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Stop $31M Pentagon payments for corporate mergers: Strongly Opposes topic 15 F-35 fighter planes OK at Burlington Airport: Favors topic 15 Cut defense by $18B to pay for 55% of all college tuition: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Oppose outrageous boost in military expenditures: Strongly Opposes topic 15 1991: Billions should improve human life, not destroy it: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Reduce nuclear budget by $100B; end proliferation worldwide: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Costs of endless war detract from citizens' well-being: Strongly Opposes topic 15 We need a strong military, but stop wasting tens of billions: Opposes topic 15 We spend billions on nuclear weapons & only 10% on terrorism: Strongly Opposes topic 15 War in Iraq will cost us $3 trillion including veteran care: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Too much spent on Cold War; and too little spent on ISIS: Neutral on topic 15 Spending on military means fewer resources for people: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Care for our veterans, even if we disagree about wars: Favors topic 15 Undertake comprehensive audit of Department of Defense: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Cut military spending to pay for fixing climate change: Opposes topic 15 Cut military spending, except F-35 at Vermont air base: Strongly Opposes topic 15 More terrorists after spending trillions on War on Terror: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Iran not an emergency; no military action without Congress: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Extend reserve retirement pay parity back to 9/11: Favors topic 15 Non-proliferation includes disposing of nuclear materials: Opposes topic 15 Rated Funding wars separately is gimmick against sequestration: Opposes topic 15 Exempt Veterans Affairs from federal hiring freeze: Favors topic 15 |
Strongly Favors
topic 16:Make voter registration easier
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Voter ID laws marginalize communities of color: Strongly Favors topic 16 Even prisoners should still have right to vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Congressional representation for D.C. residents: Strongly Favors topic 16 Felons should be allowed to vote while incarcerated: Strongly Favors topic 16 Binding referendum on Guam's political status: Strongly Favors topic 16 Binding referendum on Puerto Rico statehood vs. independence: Strongly Favors topic 16 Citizens United opens up the road to oligarchy: Strongly Favors topic 16 Underclass see the political deck stacked; and don't vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizen United ruling: Strongly Favors topic 16 Low-income workers don't vote because it's irrelevant: Strongly Favors topic 16 Same-day automatic voter registration & 3-day voting: Strongly Favors topic 16 Publicly fund elections, or small individual contributions: Strongly Favors topic 16 Public funding of elections to promote even playing field: Strongly Favors topic 16 We now have government of, by, and for the billionaires: Favors topic 16 Reinforce voting rights to end voter suppression: Strongly Favors topic 16 Citizens United means billionaires donate for THEIR interest: Strongly Favors topic 16 America struggles between organized people & organized money: Favors topic 16 Super-PACs pervert the democratic process: Strongly Favors topic 16 Establishment candidates are beholden to big money: Strongly Favors topic 16 GOP loves voter suppression because it lets them win: Strongly Favors topic 16 Campaign financing is corrupt; no Super PAC for me: Favors topic 16 Ruling class wants a lack of political consciousness: Strongly Favors topic 16 SuperPACs: manifestation of everything wrong with politics: Strongly Favors topic 16 Participation in politics as easy and convenient as possible: Strongly Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration at age 18: Strongly Favors topic 16 Russian cyber-attacks threaten integrity of US elections: Strongly Favors topic 16 Sovereign rights & voting rights for Native Americans: Strongly Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration; holiday for Election Day: Strongly Favors topic 16 Unity Reform Commission: reduce power of superdelegates: Favors topic 16 Mainstream media focuses on gossip, lies, & personality: Favors topic 16 End voter suppression; make it easier to vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Hard to defend the Electoral College: Favors topic 16 Mandate paper ballots: Favors topic 16 Enforce simple rule: every over 18 has the right to vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Independent of Our Revolution, group Sanders launched: Favors topic 16 I do not have a Super PAC nor raise money from billionaires: Favors topic 16 Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures: Strongly Favors topic 16 Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements: Favors topic 16 Corporate political spending is not free speech: Strongly Favors topic 16 Statehood for the District of Columbia: Favors topic 16 Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers: Favors topic 16 Automatic voter registration for all citizens: Strongly Favors topic 16 Sponsored bill to expand voter registration and voter access: Strongly Favors topic 16 |
Favors
topic 17:Stay out of foreign wars
(+2 points on Social scale)
| Focus on domestic needs instead of international conflict: Strongly Favors topic 17 Begrudgingly supports NATO, but no eastward expansion: Favors topic 17 We have to negotiate with others, even Iran: Favors topic 17 Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar should take charge in Syria: Favors topic 17 Easy to overthrow a dictator but hard to control aftermath: Opposes topic 17 Move forward with Iran with relations the long-term goal: Favors topic 17 Promote democracy, but don't use military for regime change: Strongly Favors topic 17 Even-handed Mideast policy; open to moving Jerusalem embassy: Opposes topic 17 Address source of problem with Mexico & Northern Triangle: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Talk to adversaries but we need more than photo ops: Opposes topic 17 Support for Israel & peace doesn't include racist government: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS: Opposes topic 17 1983 war against Nicaragua was illegal and immoral: Favors topic 17 1990: Opposed authorizing all-out war in Kuwait with Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17 Stop ISIS, but only with an international & Arab coalition: Opposes topic 17 Iraq war destabilized Mideast; stay out of Mideast quagmire: Strongly Favors topic 17 Iran nuke deal is victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling: Strongly Favors topic 17 Voted for Afghan War, to capture Osama bin Laden: Opposes topic 17 Syria is a quagmire within a quagmire; don't get involved: Strongly Favors topic 17 Invasion of Iraq led to ISIS; Hillary voted to invade: Strongly Favors topic 17 Form Muslim-led coalition to defeat ISIS: Favors topic 17 Keep U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan: Opposes topic 17 End perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East: Strongly Favors topic 17 I voted against 1st Gulf War, which led to 2nd Gulf War: Strongly Favors topic 17 Middle Eastern countries must contribute to fight ISIS: Favors topic 17 Iraq war led to ISIS creation, as I predicted would happen: Strongly Favors topic 17 1990: Tried to stop Bush's driving Saddam out of Kuwait: Strongly Favors topic 17 Iraq War: worst foreign policy blunder in modern history: Strongly Favors topic 17 Economic sanctions could have driven Saddam out of Kuwait: Strongly Favors topic 17 Withdraw US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen: Strongly Favors topic 17 Our Saudi allies give US-made weapons to Al Qaeda in Yemen: Favors topic 17 End Syrian conflict; pull out U.S. troops: Strongly Favors topic 17 1990s Iraq invasion laid groundwork for more wars in region: Strongly Favors topic 17 Protect Iranian nuke deal; without it, Iran is unlimited: Strongly Favors topic 17 Why would anyone trust US if we abrogated Iran nuke treaty?: Strongly Favors topic 17 Used War Powers Act to get US out of Saudi-Yemen war: Strongly Favors topic 17 No support of Saudis against Iran; it's a never-ending war: Favors topic 17 US shouldn't favor Saudis or Iran; broker diplomatic answer: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Led bipartisan War Powers resolution against Yemen war: Strongly Favors topic 17 Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine: Strongly Favors topic 17 CC:Keep alliance with Israel: Opposes topic 17 Require Congress' approval before military action in Iran: Favors topic 17 No military force against Iran without Congress approval: Strongly Favors topic 17 |
Strongly Favors
topic 18:Prioritize green energy
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Weatherize millions of homes and buildings: Strongly Favors topic 18 Transform to sustainable system & away from fossil fuels: Strongly Favors topic 18 Charge companies for carbon emissions; then fund renewables: Strongly Favors topic 18 Gas tax increases are regressive: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Combat climate skeptics with overwhelming evidence: Strongly Favors topic 18 Keystone pipeline transports the dirtiest fossil fuel: Favors topic 18 Climate change is a moral issue: tax on carbon: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change partly causes rise of terrorist groups: Favors topic 18 Opposed Keystone Pipeline from day one: Strongly Favors topic 18 End fracking in the US: Strongly Favors topic 18 I oppose fracking; anyone who says it is safe is wrong: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Pushed energy efficiency block grants: Strongly Favors topic 18 Cut carbon 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050: Strongly Favors topic 18 Job training for transition to green energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Massive and sustained investment in sustainable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 No more debate on climate change; it's here & costs $100Bs: Strongly Favors topic 18 We have 12 years to transform to sustainable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Tax carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gases: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change is issue for entire international community: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rising oceans creating world's first "climate refugees": Strongly Favors topic 18 Perfect score on "350 Action's 2020 Climate Test": Strongly Favors topic 18 End fossil fuel; move toward wind and solar: Strongly Favors topic 18 Co-sponsor of Green New Deal: Strongly Favors topic 18 Not enough to beat Trump; must beat fossil fuel industry: Strongly Favors topic 18 Keep US in Paris Climate Agreement & increase targets: Strongly Favors topic 18 Need to be fervent if we care about our children: Strongly Favors topic 18 Would reinstate LED lightbulb rule, encourage use: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change will lead to international security crises: Strongly Favors topic 18 Climate change lays groundwork for mass migration: Favors topic 18 Ain't nobody in Congress more pro-worker than I am: Strongly Favors topic 18 Preserve Alaska's ANWR instead of drilling it: Favors topic 18 Establish greenhouse gas tradeable allowances: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence: Favors topic 18 Sign on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: Strongly Favors topic 18 Green New Deal: 10-year national mobilization: Favors topic 18 Designate sensitive ANWR area as protected wilderness: Favors topic 18 Set goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025: Strongly Favors topic 18 Let states define stricter-than-federal emission standards: Strongly Favors topic 18 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 19:Marijuana is a gateway drug
(+5 points on Social scale)
| Whites & blacks smoke pot equally, but blacks go to jail: Strongly Opposes topic 19 War on drugs is a failed policy; treatment over punishment: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Decriminalize marijuana and study recreational legalization: Opposes topic 19 Take marijuana out of the controlled substances list: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Treat addiction as a disease, not a crime: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Pharmaceutical companies are responsible for opioid epidemic: Opposes topic 19 We must end the "War on drugs": Opposes topic 19 Opioid treatment instead of locking them up: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Why is marijuana treated legally equal to heroin?: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Racist & failed war on drugs targets people of color: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Marijuana Justice Act: decriminalize pot & expunge records: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Co-sponsored federal legalization of marijuana: Strongly Favors topic 19 Remove cocaine sentencing disparities: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Opioid manufacturers profited & knew their products killed: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated A+ by NORML: 1st to call to end marijuana prohibition: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Legalize medical marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana: Opposes topic 19 Exempt industrial hemp from marijuana laws: Opposes topic 19 Rated A+ by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Immunity for banks offering services to marijuana businesses: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Criminalize imports of opioid precursors: Favors topic 19 |
Strongly Favors
topic 20:Stimulus better than market-led recovery
(-5 points on Economic scale)
| Economic justice: Address root causes of economic inequality: Strongly Favors topic 20 Restructure debt so Puerto Rico can rebuild: Strongly Favors topic 20 Break up the Wall Street giants; they can't be reformed: Strongly Opposes topic 20 If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Defend farmers & consumers from corporate middlemen: Strongly Favors topic 20 Break up big agriculture corporations: Strongly Favors topic 20 1976: Relocating businesses must pay; for public ownership: Strongly Favors topic 20 Wrong to give company exclusive rights to drug treatment: Strongly Favors topic 20 Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour: Strongly Favors topic 20 Obama rebuilt jobs; but middle class is disappearing: Strongly Favors topic 20 Capital gains & dividend tax cuts are giveaways to the rich: Favors topic 20 Puerto Rico nearly bankrupt after Great Recession: Strongly Favors topic 20 Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business: Favors topic 20 Rated 86% by UFCW, indicating an anti-management/pro-labor record: Favors topic 20 Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016: Favors topic 20 CC:No Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment: Favors topic 20 Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package: Favors topic 20 $1.9 trillion ARPA bill for COVID relief: Favors topic 20 |
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