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Civil Rights     Cory Booker: Recognize Native Americans but no Indigenous Peoples' Day.     Kamala Harris: Rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day.     Mike Huckabee: Don't force children to accept transgender choice by others.     Rand Paul: I don't believe in rights based on your behavior.     Cory Booker: Officiated same-sex marriage at first moment legally allowed.

Crime     Sally Yates: Seeking justice means seeking a proportional sentence.     Marcia Fudge: Violent Ferguson police like response to foreign uprisings.

Drugs     Sally Yates: Mandatory minimum sentences not needed in drug cases.     Bobby Jindal: No legalization; but focus on rehabilitation for addicts.

Education     Jeb Bush: Common Core is the right thing to do for our country.

Energy & Oil     Joe Walsh: No more partisanship on climate change, it's real.

Environment     Steve Bullock: Passionate about protecting public land access for all.

Families & Children     Bobby Jindal: Entered into "covenant marriage" with his wife.

Foreign Policy     Mike Pence: Don't have paranoid delusions about one world government.

Government Reform     Steve Bullock: Unlimited corporate spending has impacted our elections.     Steve Bullock: Signed the Montana Disclose Act into law.     Jeanne Shaheen: Introduced legislation to put a woman on the $20 bill.

Gun Control     Seth Magaziner: Stop credit card companies from processing ghost gun charges.     Steve Bullock: Supports background checks & semi-automatic ban.

Health Care     Steve Bullock: Got Medicaid expansion through a GOP-dominated legislature.

Immigration     Ketanji Brown Jackson: Trump administration set asylum seeking standards too high.     John Kerry: Committed to increasing number of refugees that we take.     Kathy Hochul: 2007: No drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.     Zephyr Teachout: Honor the dignity of all immigrants.     Jeb Bush: Immigrants are committed to family, even if illegally here.

Jobs     Ketanji Brown Jackson: Reversed narrowing of federal collective bargaining rules.

Principles & Values     Joe Walsh: The "Age of Trump" woke him up to racism of past comments.     Sally Yates: Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds.     Xavier Becerra: We know true value of diversity; will fight for our beliefs.     Catherine Cortez Masto: Offensive to criticize Mexican-American for no Spanish.     Evan McMullin: Attended Brigham Young U; will contest Trump in Utah.     Evan McMullin: Received MBA from Wharton in 2011; unmarried.     Andrew Cuomo: OpEd: Primary challenge doubles the campaign donation limit.     Jeb Bush: GOP isn't about orthodoxy & disallowing disagreement.     Paul Ryan: Tea Party & libertarians bring "creative tension" to GOP.     Rick Santorum: Obama's worldview: secular socialistic culture like Europe.

War & Peace     Sally Yates: Not intervening against Assad was the right choice.     Donald Trump: FactCheck: Supported Iraq invasion in 2002; opposed in 2003.

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