2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Homeland Security

Mark Udall: No missile defense until proven technically & politically

• Udall indicated support for federal funding levels as follows:
• Slightly Increase Funding for Armed Forces personnel training
• Slightly Decrease Funding for Covert intelligence operations
• Maintain Funding Status for Defense plant conversion
• Slightly Decrease Funding for Military hardware
• Slightly Decrease Funding for Military space shuttle missions
• Slightly Increase Funding for Pay for active duty personnel
• Greatly Decrease Funding for National Missile Defense Program
• Maintain Funding Status for Modernization of weaponry and equipment
• Slightly Increase Funding for Programs to improve military retention rates
• Maintain Funding Status for Research and development of new weapons
• Slightly Increase Funding for Troop and equipment readiness
• Udall adds, “I do not support deployment of a NMD system if it hasn’t been demonstrated to work or if it threatens to undermine our security by provoking arms race.” Source: Congressional 2000 National Political Awareness Test Nov 1, 2000

  Scott Howell: Increase funding for military hardware & personnel

  Q: Indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following categories. Armed Forces personnel training?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Covert intelligence operations?

  A: Maintain Funding Status.

  Q: Defense plant conversion?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Military hardware?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Military space shuttle missions?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Pay for active duty personnel?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: National Missile Defense Program?

  A: Maintain Funding Status.

  Q: Modernization of weaponry and equipment?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Programs to improve military retention rates?

  A: Greatly Increase Funding.

  Q: Research and development of new weapons?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding.

  Q: Troop and equipment readiness?

  A: Slightly Increase Funding

Jon Corzine: Opposes spending on Missile Defense (“Star Wars”)

Harry Browne: Fund SDI, pay, & readiness; cut CIA & everything else

Greatly Increase
• National Missile Defense Program

Maintain Status
• Pay for active duty personnel
• Troop & equipment readiness

Slightly Decrease
• Modernization of weaponry & equipment
• Programs to improve military retention rates
• Research & development of new weapons

Greatly Decrease
• Military hardware

Eliminate
• Covert intelligence operations
• Defense plant conversion
• Military space shuttle missions

Harry Browne: Deploy SDI; no need to fight spread of nukes

Browne supports the following principles concerning defense issues:
• End the cooperative threat reduction programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to unfriendly nations
• Modify the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to deploy the National Missile Defense System

John Hagelin: Maintain nuclear non-proliferation and maintain ABM Treaty

Hagelin supports the following statements regarding nuclear weapons issues:
• Supports the cooperative threat reduction programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to unfriendly nations
• Does not support modifying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to deploy the National Missile Defense System.

Orrin Hatch: Increase defense spending greatly

Hatch supports the following defense funding adjustments:
• Greatly Increase Funding
  • Armed Forces personnel training
  • Pay for active duty personnel
  • National Missile Defense Program
  • Modernization of weaponry and equipment
  • Programs to improve military retention rates
  • Research and development of new weapons
  • Troop and equipment readiness
• Slightly Increase Funding
  • Military hardware
• Maintain Funding Status
  • Covert intelligence operations
  • Military space shuttle missions
• Greatly Decrease Funding
  • Defense plant conversion

Steve Forbes: Act unilaterally, without UN command or involvement

Forbes supports the following principles regarding defense:
• The US should take unilateral military action if Iraq does not comply with all accepted United Nations resolutions
• The US should continue to play a prominent leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Authority
• The US should not commit military troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions
• Forbes says “the US should never put American soldiers under UN command.”

Lincoln Chafee: Decrease funding for missile defense

Indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following categories.
• Slightly Increase Funding for Armed Forces personnel training
• Maintain Funding Status for Covert intelligence operations
• Maintain Funding Status for Defense plant conversion
• Maintain Funding Status for Military hardware
• Slightly Decrease Funding for Military space shuttle missions
• Slightly Increase Funding for Pay for active duty personnel
• Slightly Decrease Funding for National Missile Defense Program
• Slightly Increase Funding for Modernization of weaponry and equipment
• Slightly Increase Funding for Programs to improve military retention rates
• Maintain Funding Status for Research and development of new weapons
• Slightly Increase Funding for Troop and equipment readiness