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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	Planned Parenthood provides essential services: Strongly Favors topic 1 A woman's rights shouldn't depend on her zip code or state: Strongly Favors topic 1 Endorsed Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women: Favors topic 1 Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Expand contraceptive services for low-income women: Favors topic 1 Emergency contraception for rape victims at all hospitals: Favors topic 1 Provide emergency contraception at military facilities: Favors topic 1 Let military perform abortions in cases of rape or incest: Favors topic 1 Supports public abortion funding: Strongly Favors topic 1 Supports churches providing birth control: Strongly Favors topic 1 Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services: Strongly Favors topic 1 Access safe, legal abortion without restrictions: Strongly Favors topic 1 Keep federal funding for family planning clinics: Strongly Favors topic 1 Born-Alive Survivors bill tries to illegalize abortion: Favors topic 1 Ensure access to and funding for contraception: Favors topic 1 Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception: Favors topic 1 Teach teens about both abstinence & contraception: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Urges funding to help at-risk students' access to education: Favors topic 2 Address racial disparities in health care system: Strongly Favors topic 2 Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender: Strongly Favors topic 2 Establish a national holiday honoring Native Americans: Strongly Favors topic 2 Issue a commemorative postage stamp of Rosa Parks: Favors topic 2 Rated 100% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Favors topic 2 Constitutional Amendment for women's equal rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy: Favors topic 2 Ratify CEDAW (Discrimination Against Women): Strongly Favors topic 2 Endorsed by The Feminist Majority indicating a pro-women's rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 2 More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2 Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender: Strongly Favors topic 2 Recruit women & minorities for STEM teaching: Strongly Favors topic 2 Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2 Ban discriminatory compensation; allow 2 years to sue: Favors topic 2 Stronger enforcement against gender-based pay discrimination: Favors topic 2 Afghan laws violate women's human rights on sex & divorce: Favors topic 2 Supported funding for women's and disadvantaged businesses: Favors topic 2 Supports ERA and comparable work pay rules for women: Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+5 points on Social scale)	Legal gay marriage is victory for fairness & equality: Strongly Favors topic 3 More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes: Strongly Favors topic 3 Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 3 ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3 Repeal Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, and reinstate discharged gays: Favors topic 3 Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Opposes defining traditional marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools: Strongly Favors topic 3 Apply copyright inheritance to same-sex couples: Strongly Favors topic 3 Let states recognize same sex marriage: Favors topic 3 Maintain LGBT health info on federal websites: Strongly Favors topic 3 Provide benefits to domestic partners of Federal employees: Strongly Favors topic 3 Sponsored bill for Federal domestic partnership benefits: Strongly Favors topic 3 Recognize the 40th anniversary of Stonewall: Strongly Favors topic 3
Strongly Opposes topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (+5 points on Social scale)	Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-Family-Value voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 4 Sex Ed including both abstinence and contraception: Opposes topic 4 Opposes banning funding of offensive art: Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Supports single payer, public option, and Medicare for all: Strongly Favors topic 5 Take repeal off the table & work to improve ObamaCare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Good health care for all, especially the most vulnerable: Favors topic 5 We need to build upon the Affordable Care Act: Strongly Favors topic 5 MEDS Plan: Cover senior Rx under Medicare: Favors topic 5 Limit anti-trust lawsuits on health plans and insurers: Opposes topic 5 Rated 100% by APHA, indicating a pro-public health record: Strongly Favors topic 5 Establish a National Diabetes Coordinator: Favors topic 5 Require insurers to cover breast cancer treatment: Strongly Favors topic 5 Establish a public insurance option via healthcare Exchanges: Strongly Favors topic 5 Opposes repealing ObamaCare: Strongly Favors topic 5 Religious exemption from ObamaCare individual mandate: Opposes topic 5 Make health care a right, not a privilege: Strongly Favors topic 5 Supported funding women's health needs: Neutral on topic 5
Strongly Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-5 points on Economic scale)	Long opposed to privatization: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Extend solvency of Social Security by lifting income cap: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women: Opposes topic 6 Rated 100% by the ARA, indicating a pro-senior voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance: Strongly Opposes topic 6 Supported pension reform and tax credits for long-term care: Neutral on topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	Opposes giving taxpayer dollars to private schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Reduce class size to 18 children in grades 1 to 3: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Rated 92% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Opposes school vouchers: Opposes topic 7 Sponsored extending subsidized federal student loan rates until 2015: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (+5 points on Social scale)	Restore full EPA funding & oppose new cuts: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Community projects to clean up the Mississippi River: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Prohibits commercial logging on Federal public lands: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Rated 100% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements: Opposes topic 8 Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs: Opposes topic 8 Deregulating banks encourages discriminatory practices: Opposes topic 8 Keep restrictive rules for predator control in Alaska: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Sponsored bill funding international crane conservation: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Strongly Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+5 points on Social scale)	Criminal justice system needs review to ensure fairness: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Rated 80% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing: Opposes topic 9 Require DNA testing for all federal executions: Opposes topic 9 First step: reduce recidivism & mass incarceration: Opposes topic 9 Rated 73% by the NAPO, indicating a moderate stance on police issues: Neutral on topic 9
Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-3 points on Economic scale)	Ban bump stocks & high-capacity magazines: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Rated F by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun control voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Supports restricting the Second Amendment: Strongly Opposes topic 10 Co-sponsored background check for every firearm sale: Strongly Favors topic 10 Sponsored bill for background checks for private transfers: Strongly Favors topic 10
Strongly Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Get rid of loopholes for outsourcing and capital gains: Strongly Favors topic 11 Trump tax cuts overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy: Strongly Favors topic 11 Tax plan that rewards hard work: Opposes topic 11 Trump tax bill only helps rich who don't need the money: Strongly Favors topic 11 American People's Dividend: Give $300 to every person: Favors topic 11 Rated 26% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes: Strongly Favors topic 11 Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating support of progressive taxation: Strongly Favors topic 11 Supports increasing tax rates: Strongly Favors topic 11 Sponsored minimum tax rate of 30% for those earning over $1M: Strongly Favors topic 11 Reducing tax rates balloons federal deficit & cuts programs: Favors topic 11 Reduce the concentration of wealth & wage inequality: Favors topic 11 Tax incentives for child care; eliminate marriage penalty: Neutral on topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	Support DREAMers and earned path to citizenship: Strongly Favors topic 12 Supports immigrants in US and immigration reform: Strongly Favors topic 12 Bipartisan bill would have added 1500 border patrol agents: Opposes topic 12 Rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration: Strongly Favors topic 12 Rated 0% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance: Strongly Favors topic 12 Protect LGBT families from illegal immigrant deportation: Favors topic 12 Terminate national emergency at the Southern border: Favors topic 12 Increase both high-skill and family-based visa caps: Favors topic 12 Sponsored bill to disallow religion-based immigration ban: Strongly Favors topic 12
Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-3 points on Economic scale)	FactCheck: Tried but failed to require US-made ship engines: Opposes topic 13 Tariffs send message to bad actors like China: Opposes topic 13 End economic protectionism: let dairy compacts expire : Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 56% by CATO, indicating a mixed record on trade issues: Neutral on topic 13 Tariffs against countries undervaluing their currency: Opposes topic 13 Review free trade agreements biennially for rights violation: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Impose tariffs against countries which manipulate currency: Opposes topic 13 Fight Chinese predatory trade practices on car tires: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Voted FOR reauthorizing Ex-Im Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 $25B more loans from Export-Import Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Implement USMCA for improved North American trade: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 38% by the USAE, indicating support for trade sanctions: Opposes topic 13 Ban imports from Xinjiang made by Uyghur forced labor: Opposes topic 13 No MFN for China; condition trade on human rights: Neutral on topic 13
Strongly Opposes topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (-5 points on Economic scale)	Restore habeas corpus for detainees in the War on Terror: Opposes topic 14 Allow travel between the United States and Cuba: Opposes topic 14 Sponsored bill to oppose Israeli annexation of West Bank: Strongly Opposes topic 14
Opposes topic 15: Peace through Strength (+2 points on Social scale)	Full federal benefits to National Guard COVID fighters: Favors topic 15 Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Terminate Selective Service: Opposes topic 15 Establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Extend reserve retirement pay parity back to 9/11: Favors topic 15 Free postage for soldiers serving abroad: Favors topic 15 Non-proliferation includes disposing of nuclear materials: Opposes topic 15 Funding wars separately is gimmick against sequestration: Opposes topic 15 Exempt Veterans Affairs from federal hiring freeze: Favors topic 15 Recognize women veterans; assist military families: Neutral on topic 15
Strongly Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+5 points on Social scale)	Partisan gerrymandering is an attack on our democracy: Favors topic 16 Voter photo-ID requirements harm participation: Strongly Favors topic 16 We have seen laws passed to make it harder for some to vote: Strongly Favors topic 16 Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge: Strongly Favors topic 16 Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures: Strongly Favors topic 16 Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements: Favors topic 16 Statehood for the District of Columbia: Favors topic 16 Sponsored bill for election holiday & easier voting access: Strongly Favors topic 16 Sponsored bill to expand voter registration and voter access: Strongly Favors topic 16
Favors topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (+2 points on Social scale)	Keep some hope alive of the two-state solution in the region: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Ukraine is about democracy versus dictatorship: Strongly Opposes topic 17 End the Afghan war & end nation-building: Strongly Favors topic 17 Keep the Iran nuclear treaty: Favors topic 17 Two-state solution for Israel and Palestine: Favors topic 17 Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine: Strongly Favors topic 17 Member of the Out-of-Iraq Congressional Caucus: Strongly Favors topic 17 No military force against Iran without Congress approval: Strongly Favors topic 17 Sponsored resolution to repeal 2002 AUMF against Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Global climate change poses a growing threat: Strongly Favors topic 18 Preserve Alaska's ANWR instead of drilling it: Favors topic 18 Establish greenhouse gas tradeable allowances: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence: Favors topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	Legalize medical marijuana; let states decide: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated A+ by NORML: long-time advocate for cannabis : Strongly Opposes topic 19 Jason's Law: stop over-prescribing opioids at VA hospitals: Favors topic 19 Legalize medical marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated A by VOTE-HEMP, indicating a pro-hemp voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated +20 by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Allow rehabilitated drug convicts get student loans: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Exclude industrial hemp from definition of marijuana: Opposes topic 19 Rated 75% by NORML, indicating a pro-legalization stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Rated B+ by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Criminalize imports of opioid precursors: Favors topic 19 Distribute sterile syringes to reduce AIDS and hepatitis: Opposes topic 19 Let states legalize industrial hemp: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-5 points on Economic scale)	Small businesses are the backbone of our economy: Favors topic 20 Invest in core infrastructure, as federal stimulus: Strongly Favors topic 20 Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business: Favors topic 20 Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016: Favors topic 20 Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package: Favors topic 20 $1.9 trillion ARPA bill for COVID relief: Favors topic 20

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