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Strongly Favors
topic 1:Abortion is a woman's right
(10 points on Social scale) | Abortions should always be legal: Strongly Favors topic 1 Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women: Favors topic 1 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 2:Require companies to hire more women & minorities
(0 points on Economic scale) | Provide capital job development in minority communities: Favors topic 2 Take the "men only" sign off the White House door: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds: Strongly Favors topic 2 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on prohibiting same-sex basic training: Favors topic 2 YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women: Favors topic 2 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 3:Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws
(10 points on Social scale) | Continue to fight for gay rights: Favors topic 3 GLBT right to privacy includes consensual gay sex: Strongly Favors topic 3 NO on prohibiting same-sex marriage: Strongly Favors topic 3 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 4:Permit prayer in public schools
(10 points on Social scale) | NO on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer: Opposes topic 4 NO on $75M for abstinence education: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
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Strongly Favors
topic 5:More federal funding for health coverage
(0 points on Economic scale) | Private & public healthcare are not reconcilable: Strongly Favors topic 5 Pay for universal care with money already in system: Strongly Favors topic 5 Replace patchwork system with Medicare-modeled system: Strongly Favors topic 5 YES on medical savings acounts: Favors topic 5 NO on Medicare means-testing: Favors topic 5 |
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Opposes
topic 6:Privatize Social Security
(2 points on Economic scale) | NO on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes: Opposes topic 6 YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees: Favors topic 6 NO on allowing personal retirement accounts: Opposes topic 6 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 7:Parents choose schools via vouchers
(0 points on Social scale) | More federal funds to rebuild our crumbling schools: Opposes topic 7 NO on school vouchers in DC: Strongly Opposes topic 7 NO on education savings accounts: Opposes topic 7 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 8:Death Penalty
(10 points on Social scale) | Executions are a revenge response: impose moratoriums: Strongly Opposes topic 8 NO on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 NO on limiting death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 9:Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws
(10 points on Social scale) | Job skill program and drug treatment for inmates: Opposes topic 9 NO on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 10:Absolute right to gun ownership
(0 points on Social scale) | Ban semi-automatics; more background checks & enforcement: Strongly Opposes topic 10 NO on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks: Strongly Opposes topic 10 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 11:Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy
(0 points on Economic scale) | Trickle-down shrinks middle class & entrenches wealth: Opposes topic 11 Roll back the tax cut to create peace and prosperity: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on FY99 tax cuts: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on requiring super-majority for raising taxes: Opposes topic 11 |
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Favors
topic 12:Immigration helps our economy-encourage it
(7 points on Economic scale) | Need to reform immigration policy to welcome them: Strongly Favors topic 12 More federal aid and services for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on limit welfare for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on visas for skilled workers: Opposes topic 12 NO on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work: Opposes topic 12 |
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Opposes
topic 13:Support & expand free trade
(2 points on Economic scale) | Free trade must be fair trade: Opposes topic 13 NO on Unknown roll call for 1997-292: Opposes topic 13 NO on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority: Opposes topic 13 |
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Favors
topic 14:Link human rights to trade with China
(2 points on Social scale) | Human rights record should affect trading status: Favors topic 14 |
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Opposes
topic 15:More spending on armed forces
(7 points on Economic scale) | Iraq war costs too much when Americans are suffering: Strongly Opposes topic 15 NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations: Opposes topic 15 YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects: Strongly Favors topic 15 |
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Favors
topic 16:Reduce spending on missile defense (Star Wars)
(2 points on Economic scale) | NO on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty: Favors topic 16 NO on deploying missile defense as soon as possible: Favors topic 16 |
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Favors
topic 17:Seek UN approval for military action
(2 points on Economic scale) | NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech: Favors topic 17 YES on $17.9 billion to IMF: Favors topic 17 |
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Favors
topic 18:Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy
(2 points on Economic scale) | Lessen our dependence on fossil fuels: Strongly Favors topic 18 Advance a worldwide environmental agenda: Favors topic 18 YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline: Opposes topic 18 YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests: Favors topic 18 |
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Strongly Opposes
topic 19:Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it
(10 points on Social scale) | Decriminalize minor marijuana possession & medical marijuana: Strongly Opposes topic 19 NO on spending international development funds on drug control: Strongly Opposes topic 19 |
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Opposes
topic 20:Allow churches to provide welfare services
(7 points on Social scale) | NO on welfare overhaul: Opposes topic 20 NO on allowing state welfare waivers: Opposes topic 20 YES on eliminating block grants for food stamps: Opposes topic 20 NO on welfare block grants: Opposes topic 20 |
