Ben Sasse in 2020 NE Senatorial race
On Corporations:
Give all employers an opportunity to grow within America
With one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, and tax codes stacked against small businesses, we need to give all employers an opportunity to grow within America.
This will help to create jobs and allow everyone in our country to experience the American dream.
Source: Vote-USA.org on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 24, 2014
On Abortion:
Stop taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood
Stop forced taxpayer funding of abortion: When President Obama was selling ObamaCare in 2009, one of the many false promises he made was that taxpayers would not be forced to pay for abortions under the law. But now, for the first time in American
history, Uncle Sam is in the abortion business. The law contains a loophole that is forcing taxpayers to pay for ending innocent life. The law must be fully repealed, but in the meantime, that loophole must be closed.Stop government donations to
Planned Parenthood: As the largest abortion provider in America, Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million dollars per year in federal funding. It is wrong that people of faith should be required to subsidize the killing of unborn children by
Planned Parenthood. At a time when our national debt surpasses $17 trillion, the federal government has no business giving handouts to the abortion industry.
Source: Vote-USA.org on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 24, 2014
On Budget & Economy:
OpEd: Criticized for giving up seat on Agriculture Committee
Having the group's support also could help Sasse respond to criticism over his decision to give up a seat on the Senate Agriculture Committee and instead serve on the Judiciary Committee. That move temporarily left the farm-focused panel without a
Nebraskan for the first time in nearly 50 years. [Senate opponent] Chris Janicek highlighted that issue in a statement and suggested that it shows the Farm Bureau is out of touch with its members.
Source: Omaha World-Herald on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Dec 9, 2019
On Crime:
Rip up Epstein plea deal; pursue co-conspirators
Sasse wrote a letter urging Attorney General William Barr to "rip up" Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 sweetheart plea agreement, saying that even after his death, the disgraced billionaire's non-prosecution agreement still effectively shielded his
co-conspirators from prosecution [for repeated sex offenses]. "Too many of Epstein's secrets have gone to the grave with him, and the Department must not allow his death to be one last sweetheart deal for his co-conspirators," Sasse wrote.
Source: LawAndCrime.com on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Aug 13, 2019
On Environment:
Fight any expansion of the Clean Water Act
[Sasse supports] fighting any expansion of the Clean Water Act. Ben knows that the government does not create jobs--businesses and local communities create jobs. The way to get a real economic growth agenda is by rolling back the regulatory state and
letting job creators go to work.One area where over-regulation has been most obvious is the energy sector. The Keystone XL pipeline should have been approved years ago. Ben believes that we need an all-of-the-above energy policy.
This approach would lower energy prices, create as many as three million jobs, and reduce our dependence on the Middle East.
When government gets out of the way, America can compete--and win--in any industry.
We've got the people; we've got the talent; and most of all we have the work ethic: the will to create something lasting for our families and our neighbors--if we can just get the federal government out of the way, and let our people build.
Source: Vote-USA.org on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 24, 2014
On Foreign Policy:
Unstinting advocate for American engagement in the world
I am an unstinting advocate for American engagement in the world, and I think the impulse to withdraw from America's important, longstanding commitments is a very bad thing.
U.S. global leadership is indispensable, not only for the security of America's friends and partners, but for protecting America's own interests.
When hell breaks loose on the other side of the world, it inevitably boomerangs home. When the United States doesn't lead, chaos inevitably follows.
If America continues to drift toward global disengagement, it will be sucked into all sorts of troubles that it can't envision right now.
Source: Texas National Security Review on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Nov 30, 2018
On Foreign Policy:
Putin leads a thugocracy; runs disinformation everywhere
Putin presides over a thugocracy, and the only reason he can keep his people down is by trying to keep the other kleptocrats satisfied and in power in their horrible agreement they have against the Russian people. And so, Russia runs disinformation
campaigns everywhere. The American electorate is going to need to learn, and the tech companies and the US intelligence community is going to need to do a better job of making clear to the American people how much disinformation is out there.
Source: Remarks at National Press Club on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 30, 2018
On Free Trade:
Supports presidential Trade Promotion Authority
Access to international markets and fair treatment of the products raised by Nebraska farmers and ranchers is essential to our agricultural economy, as well as the well-being of people around the world. The United States currently has free trade
agreements with 20 countries, which account for $4.1 billion (55%) of Nebraska's exports: and exports from Nebraska to these markets grew by over 200% during the past decade. Just as in the golden rule, our trading partners will do to us as we
have done to them. One of the ways that Congress can demonstrate their leadership is the grant the President Trade Promotion Authority. Now that this Administration has finally asked for TPA, after being the first since
FDR to not have or to not have asked for TPA, we need to rally bipartisan support in Congress for its passage to send a message to the world that we mean business about trade.
Source: Vote-USA.org on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 24, 2014
On Gun Control:
Second Amendment rights pre-date government
The Second Amendment affirms the rights of Americans to protect their families and property. This right pre-dates Government and is inviolable. Ben will fight to protect this and our other most basic freedoms.The Second Amendment unambiguously states
that citizens have a fundamental right to "keep and bear arms" and that this right "shall not be infringed."
As an integral part of our Constitution and American heritage, law-abiding citizens have the right to keep and bear arms without
interference from Government.
As horrific as some of our recent national tragedies have been, they are not the fault of responsible gun owners. None of the new policies being pushed by President Obama would have prevented them from happening.
Stricter gun legislation will not deter criminals determined to break the law.
Furthermore, President Obama does not have the authority to sign Executive orders and thus circumvent the Constitutional process necessary to change the Second Amendment.
Source: Vote-USA.org on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 24, 2014
On Immigration:
Emergencies Act too broad; except Trump's border policies
Sasse is fond of talking about the importance of Congress as a check on runaway executive power but declined to play his part in stopping such a power grab. "We have an obvious crisis at the border," he said, defending Trump's authority to use the
National Emergencies Act to address it. "I think that law is overly broad and I want to fix it, but Nancy Pelosi doesn't," Sasse said. "As a constitutional conservative, I believe that the NEA currently on the books should be narrowed considerably."
Source: Reason Magazine on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Mar 14, 2019
On Technology:
Digital consumption is rewiring parts of teenagers' brains
One of the things we're realizing is that when teens are constantly saturated and bathed in digital content, it's rewiring parts of their frontal lobe. The frontal lobe, for females, isn't done until multiple years past puberty now. And arguably, the
male frontal lobe is never completed [laughter]. Some neurologists think it's probably a late-20s proposition. What we're learning about the brain is the rewiring of the brain with digital addictions is fast and it's not good for us.
Source: Remarks at National Press Club on 2020 Nebraska Senate race
Oct 30, 2018
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