Graham: I am proudly pro-life. I'm sponsoring a bill that would eliminate abortion on-demand at 20 weeks. We're one of seven nations in the entire world to allow a baby to be aborted at 20 weeks, the fifth month in pregnancy, and my opponent opposes that. This a radical Democratic Party we're dealing with.
Graham: I think we should allow our parents to make a decision about what's best for their children. And if a teacher doesn't want to go back to the classroom, I won't make them. But the one thing we're not going to do if I'm your Senator is shut the country down. We're going to open up safely. We're now getting back to business here in South Carolina.
Graham: I do not believe that our police are systematically racist. I do believe in police reform. I think the cops need our support now more than ever. I've never known it this difficult to be a police officer. Cops are under siege. They're being assassinated. I will never ever defund the police. If you need more money for social programs, I'll work with you. But cutting the cops budget puts poor people at risk.
Harrison: I think the Green New Deal is too expensive. It's become too partisan. We've got to figure a way, though, because we have to dramatically reduce carbon emissions. That is something that all of the scientists have said.
Graham: I oppose the Green New Deal, because it's crazy. You're trying to eliminate all carbon fuels by 2035. It's multiple trillions of dollars. You're going to do away with cars. You're going to do away with cows in the name of saving the environment. You're going to destroy the economy. Climate change is real. I do believe in private sector solutions. I believe in the government working with the private sector. My solution to the environment is not to destroy the economy.
Graham: President Wilson got the Spanish flu right after World War I, and we live in such unusual times I doubt if anybody yet attacked him. All I can say is that the virus is a problem that came out of China, not Trump Tower. The one thing I want people to know is that the virus is serious, but we have to move on as a nation. When a military member gets infected, you don't shut down the whole unit.
Graham reintroduced the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act. The bill seeks to correct the massive 16:1 funding disparity, which occurred under the Obama Administration, between contraceptive-centered vs. abstinence-centered sex education within current sex education policy.
Graham co-sponsored the Religious Liberties Restoration Act, which would recognize the states' authority to decide whether to display the Ten Commandments in buildings owned or administered by that state.
In an effort to require the Architect of the Capitol to permit the acknowledgment of God on flag certificates, Graham co-sponsored the Andrew Larochelle God, Family, and Country Act of 2007 (S.2198, 110th Congress), a bill introduced by former Senator Jim DeMint.
Graham was an original co-sponsor of a resolution that stated people ought to retain the right to pray and recognize their religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public property, including schools.<
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