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Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-3 points on Social scale)	Immediately cease public funding for abortion providers: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written: Opposes topic 1 Defeat al Qaeda; contain N.Korea, Russia, China, & Pakistan: Strongly Favors topic 1 Most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion: Opposes topic 1 $500 tax credit for adoption: Opposes topic 1 Supports the Pro-life Presidential Leadership Pledge: Strongly Opposes topic 1
Strongly Opposes topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (+5 points on Economic scale)	Helped oust Iowa justices who approved same-sex marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Foreign opinion irrelevant to US affirmative action policy: Opposes topic 2 Discontinue affirmative action programs: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Shocked by legal segregation in 1960s Georgia: Favors topic 2 Individual rights trump group rights: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Affirmative action OK individually, but not by group: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Women not suitable for combat due to infections: Opposes topic 2 Abolish tax deferral for media sales to minorities: Strongly Opposes topic 2 GOP can no longer be the party of the country club: Favors topic 2 Affirmative opportunity instead of affirmative action: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Equality of opportunity, not equality of result: Strongly Opposes topic 2
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (-5 points on Social scale)	I helped author DOMA; if it fails, amend Constitution: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Army & Marines wanted Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious organizations: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Foreign opinion has no relevance to US same-sex marriage: Opposes topic 3 OpEd: refused to pay child support, but supports DOMA: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Half-sister, a lesbian lobbyist: "Newt promotes tolerance": Favors topic 3 Families are not anything other than heterosexual couples: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-5 points on Social scale)	Critical Katrina recovery by energetic church volunteers: Strongly Favors topic 4 When free welfare is provided, people choose not to work: Opposes topic 4 Five justices banned school prayer against American majority: Strongly Favors topic 4 Culture of irresponsibility began in 1965: Favors topic 4 Eight steps to improve opportunity for poor: Favors topic 4 Error at core of welfare state is its dehumanization: Favors topic 4 Welfare vouchers allow choice & reduce bureaucracy: Strongly Favors topic 4 Reference to God in Pledge of Allegiance is not ceremonial: Strongly Favors topic 4 End judicial supremacy; preserve our Godly heritage: Favors topic 4 Americans want public officials to live a Christian life: Strongly Favors topic 4 Declaration assumes God created man: Strongly Favors topic 4 Freedom OF religion; not freedom FROM religion: Strongly Favors topic 4 Judeo-Christian traditions and rules work: Strongly Favors topic 4 School prayer ban shows secular socialists oppose God: Strongly Favors topic 4 Don't ban Bibles from public schools: Strongly Favors topic 4 Re-center America on the Creator: Strongly Favors topic 4 Constitutional amendment to protect right to school prayer: Favors topic 4 Voluntary school prayer creates bond between you and Creator: Strongly Favors topic 4 1963 Supreme Court school prayer ban was just wrong: Strongly Favors topic 4 Voluntary school prayer really does matter: Strongly Favors topic 4 1984: All-night Congressional vigil on school prayer vote: Strongly Favors topic 4 Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer: Strongly Favors topic 4 YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer: Strongly Favors topic 4
Strongly Opposes topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale)	Double funding for NIH research: Strongly Favors topic 5 Government healthcare looks into abyss & moves to tyranny: Strongly Opposes topic 5 1993: I am for an individual health insurance requirement: Strongly Favors topic 5 HillaryCare mandate ok; ObamaCare mandate unconstitutional: Opposes topic 5 No mandatory premium support model; give people choices: Opposes topic 5 If you mandate healthcare, you mandate everything in life: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Repeal ObamaCare; sign tort reform instead: Strongly Opposes topic 5 $151B wasted annually to avoid malpractice lawsuits: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Market competition yields more health choice at lower prices: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Decentralizing power will reduce health costs: Opposes topic 5 Replace expensive, red-tape-ridden, litigious system: Opposes topic 5 Medicare opt-in to private health savings accounts: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Focus 21st Century Intelligent Health System on individuals: Opposes topic 5 Socialized medicine designed to seize control of system: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Strongly Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+5 points on Economic scale)	Establish Social Security savings accounts, like Chile: Strongly Favors topic 6 Get social security out of budget; make personal accounts: Favors topic 6 Invest 50% of payroll taxes in personal accounts: Strongly Favors topic 6 Move retirement plans to personal savings plans: Strongly Favors topic 6 Modernize via personal social security savings accounts: Strongly Favors topic 6 Transform Social Security into personal savings accounts: Strongly Favors topic 6 Convert to IRA-based system: Strongly Favors topic 6 Change how we pay for retirement but don't abolish system: Strongly Favors topic 6 Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings: Favors topic 6
Strongly Favors topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (+5 points on Economic scale)	Responsibility for child's education resides with parents: Favors topic 7 Dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education: Strongly Favors topic 7 I liked charter school programs in Obama's Race to the Top: Favors topic 7 Let parents choose public, private, parochial, or homeschool: Strongly Favors topic 7 More learning options: community college-run charter schools: Favors topic 7 Offer coupons to send kids to schools that work best: Strongly Favors topic 7 Support charters; insist on change for failing schools: Favors topic 7 Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools: Strongly Favors topic 7 Voucherize inner-city programs from schools to groceries: Strongly Favors topic 7 Introduce competition among schools and teachers: Strongly Favors topic 7 Encourage private sector in math and science education: Favors topic 7
Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+2 points on Social scale)	Every green tax credit is a tax loophole: Strongly Favors topic 8 Correct use of DDT doesn't harm humans nor environment: Strongly Favors topic 8 Encourage public-private partnerships like Land Trusts: Opposes topic 8 Finance world biodiversity hot spots via foreign aid: Strongly Opposes topic 8 1995: Entrepreneurial scientific approach to environment: Favors topic 8 Early 1980s: co-sponsored Endangered Species Act: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Regulating 15 more contaminants under Clean Water Act: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Strongly Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-5 points on Social scale)	On Ferguson: stop when a policeman tells you to stop: Favors topic 9 3-strike laws are constitutional; enforce courts compliance: Favors topic 9 Prisoners should work and study; not have gyms: Favors topic 9 Lock up violent criminals until they're too old for violence: Strongly Favors topic 9 Space mirrors could uncover criminals lurking in darkness: Favors topic 9 No more endless appeals; make death penalty credible: Strongly Favors topic 9 Fewer appeals; more prisons; victim restitution: Strongly Favors topic 9 More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty: Favors topic 9 NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment: Strongly Favors topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms: Favors topic 10 Gun rights to opposing oppression; not for hunting: Strongly Favors topic 10
Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Death tax is a direct assault on civil society: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Match the Chinese and have zero capital gains tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Voted against Reagan tax increases & Bush tax increases: Opposes topic 11 Flat tax proposal criticized for losing popular tax breaks: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Opposing taxes is a key conservative value: Strongly Favors topic 11 Input of public judgement for any major tax reform: Strongly Favors topic 11 Adopt a single-rate tax system: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Make employee educational assistance tax-deductible: Favors topic 11 Repeal marriage tax; cut middle class taxes: Opposes topic 11
Opposes topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (-3 points on Social scale)	By 2014, finish job of constructing a double border fence: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Use American Express & Visa to verify immigration laws: Opposes topic 12 Review all illegal aliens & if you have no ties, go home: Strongly Favors topic 12 Illegal aliens born in the US should not be deported: Favors topic 12 Sue the federal government for every cent spent on illegals: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Citizen Boards to decide which immigrants stay and go: Favors topic 12 Use National Guard on US-Mexican border: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Deport 55,000 illegal aliens with multiple arrest records: Favors topic 12 Elite immigration solution incompatible with American values: Opposes topic 12 Lax border security lets in terrorists: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Immigrants must learn key values of American history: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Make it harder to sneak in, but easier for guest workers: Favors topic 12 1989: Let Tiananmen students overstay visas: Favors topic 12 No welfare for non-citizens: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Strongly Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+5 points on Economic scale)	Supported NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and MFN: Strongly Favors topic 13 Protectionism helps China & India challenge US supremacy: Strongly Favors topic 13 Mutual trade: neither free trade nor protectionism: Opposes topic 13 Compete in world market because we can't retreat from it: Strongly Favors topic 13 Supported NAFTA & GATT in common with Clinton administration: Strongly Favors topic 13
Strongly Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+5 points on Economic scale)	America is Continent of Hope, with special responsibility: Strongly Favors topic 14 Threats to civilization are real, & fight needs leadership: Strongly Favors topic 14
Strongly Favors topic 15: Expand the military (-5 points on Social scale)	It's nonsense to disarm America to balance the budget: Strongly Favors topic 15 Defense as percentage of GDP is lowest since WWII: Strongly Favors topic 15 Be prepared in a very militant and aggressive way: Strongly Favors topic 15 Gingrich-plus-up: $1B increase in 1990s Pentagon funding: Strongly Favors topic 15 1980s: Supported squadron of 132 B-2 stealth bombers: Strongly Favors topic 15 Defend America & allies from those who would destroy us: Strongly Favors topic 15 Downsize the Pentagon to a triangle; decentralize decisions: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Peace through strength, to lead the world: Strongly Favors topic 15 As an army brat, I know how exciting military life can be: Strongly Favors topic 15 No US troops under UN command; more defense spending: Favors topic 15
Opposes topic 16: Make voter registration easier (-3 points on Social scale)	Real change needed for lobbying reform, not just piecemeal: Favors topic 16 Allow unlimited campaign contributions to anybody: Strongly Opposes topic 16 Supported Citizens United; opposed McCain Feingold: Strongly Opposes topic 16 CFR protects incumbents by limiting free speech: Favors topic 16 Increase federal limits on individual campaign contributions: Strongly Opposes topic 16
Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-3 points on Social scale)	Threat of militant Islam is comparable to pre-WWII Nazis: Strongly Opposes topic 17 No US conventional forces in Libya: Favors topic 17 Get out of Arab region rapidly; make new strategy: Strongly Favors topic 17 Goal was to liberate Iraq from Saddam, not to occupy: Favors topic 17 Date for withdrawal means terrorists exalt & follow us home: Strongly Opposes topic 17 War on terror is transformational, and will take many years: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Critical of how Iraq war has been fought: Favors topic 17 US in Long War with irreconcilable wing of Islam: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Iraq policy is a mess: Strongly Favors topic 17 Use air power against every position everywhere: Strongly Opposes topic 17
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+5 points on Economic scale)	2008 petition drive: Drill here, Drill now, Pay less: Strongly Opposes topic 18 2008 book: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Billion-dollar prize for first mass-produced hydrogen car: Strongly Favors topic 18 Kyoto treaty is bad for the environment and bad for America: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Focus on incentives for conservation & renewable resources: Favors topic 18 Stop scare tactics about drilling in Alaska: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Combine healthy environment and a healthy economy: Opposes topic 18 Gas tax sounds OK in DC, but not outside Beltway: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low: Opposes topic 18
Strongly Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-5 points on Social scale)	Marijuana legalization would tear America apart: Strongly Favors topic 19 Narcotics trafficking funds terrorism and corruption: Favors topic 19 Increase penalties for illegal drugs: Strongly Favors topic 19 Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand: Strongly Favors topic 19 No sympathy for addicts; no legalization: Strongly Favors topic 19 Permissive attitudes lead to considering legalizing drugs: Strongly Favors topic 19 I used marijuana at a party once; it had no effect: Opposes topic 19 Mandatory minimum for drug & gun crimes: Strongly Favors topic 19
Strongly Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+5 points on Economic scale)	Bigger government lead to more food stamps, not more jobs: Opposes topic 20 Put people back to work to raise revenues without taxes: Opposes topic 20 Jobs & Prosperity Plan: cut business taxes & regulations: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Obama's "balanced approach" is code for raise taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Jobs plan: lower taxes; lower spending; domestic energy: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Tax hikes retard growth and depress revenues: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Change tax policies to make US companies competitive abroad: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Echoed Bush's "Thousand Points of Light": Strongly Favors topic 20 Limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate: Strongly Opposes topic 20

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