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Strongly Opposes topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (-5 points on Social scale)	Federal crime to harm fetus during an assault: Opposes topic 1 Protect the sanctity of life: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Defund Planned Parenthood: they harvest organs of the unborn: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Reinforce Mexico City policy: defund overseas abortions: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Eliminate abortion on demand at 20 weeks: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion: Opposes topic 1 Prohibit federal funding for abortion: Strongly Opposes topic 1 Voted YES to protect infant survivors of abortion: Opposes topic 1 Strict Constitutionalist, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 1 Anti-Planned Parenthood, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 1 Pro-parental notification, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 1
No opinion on topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (0 points on Economic scale)	Supported removal of battle flag following shooting: Favors topic 2 Rated 11% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy: Favors topic 2
Strongly Opposes topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (-5 points on Social scale)	Support the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Respect Supreme Court decision & fight for religious liberty: Neutral on topic 3 Supreme Court decided gay marriage; it's the law of the land: Favors topic 3 Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights stance: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Amend Constitution to define traditional marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 3 Anti-transgender bathrooms, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (-5 points on Social scale)	Before the 60s, we were able to say a prayer in school: Strongly Favors topic 4 Sex education about abstinence, not contraception: Favors topic 4 Support traditional families & right to pray: Strongly Favors topic 4 Fund welfare via religious & community-based NPOs: Strongly Favors topic 4 Let schools display the words "God Bless America": Strongly Favors topic 4 Supports anti-flag desecration amendment: Favors topic 4 Supports requiring schools to allow prayer: Favors topic 4 Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition: a pro-Family-Value voting record: Strongly Favors topic 4 Sponsored $110M per year to teach abstinence in public schools: Favors topic 4 Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer: Strongly Favors topic 4
Strongly Opposes topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale)	Let ObamaCare show itself as a continuing debacle: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Opposed ObamaCare from day one: Strongly Opposes topic 5 ObamaCare takes money from some & gives free care to others: Strongly Opposes topic 5 COVID: no one attacked Wilson when he got Spanish flu: Strongly Opposes topic 5 I am not going to vote to extend the ACA subsidies: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Rated 12% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 5 Expand medical savings accounts for employers & individuals: Opposes topic 5 Establishment of Office of Health Care Fraud Prevention: Opposes topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Half of seniors would be in poverty without Soc.Sec. check: Strongly Opposes topic 6 I don't want a lecture about Soc.Sec,; I want to save it: Opposes topic 6 Link size of cost of living increases to income: Opposes topic 6 Create personal retirement accounts within Social Security: Strongly Favors topic 6 Rated 20% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record: Strongly Favors topic 6 Rated 9% by ARA, indicating a pro-privatization stance: 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)	States were bribed and coerced into adopting Common Core: Favors topic 7 States were bribed & coerced into adopting Common Core: Favors topic 7 I made homeschool graduates eligible for military service: Strongly Favors topic 7 Rated 27% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes: Strongly Favors topic 7 Sponsored denouncing the Common Core State Standards: Strongly Favors topic 7
Favors topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (-3 points on Social scale)	Manage forest underbrush better, to avoid raging wildfires: Opposes topic 8 Rated 5% by the LCV, indicating anti-environment votes: Strongly Favors topic 8 Allow longer than 10 years to rebuild depleted fisheries: Favors topic 8 Regulatory relief for smaller banks stimulates growth: Favors topic 8 Loosen restrictions on predator control in Alaska: Strongly Favors topic 8
Strongly Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-5 points on Social scale)	Capital punishment for child rapists: Strongly Favors topic 9 I believe in reform but cops need our support more than ever: Favors topic 9 Pardoning attackers of police sends the wrong signal : Strongly Favors topic 9 Rated 30% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes: Strongly Favors topic 9 Facilitate recovering crime victim restitution fees: Strongly Favors topic 9 Rated 55% by the NAPO, indicating a moderate stance on police issues: Neutral on topic 9 Support law enforcement, according to CC survey: Favors topic 9 Let ex-cons apply freely, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 9 More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty: Favors topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Rated A by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record: Strongly Favors topic 10 National cross-state standard for concealed carry: Strongly Favors topic 10 Reciprocity across state lines for concealed carry: Strongly Favors topic 10 Ban gun registration & trigger lock law in Washington DC: Strongly Favors topic 10 Allow firearms in National Parks: Strongly Favors topic 10 Apply concealed carry permit to all other states where legal: Strongly Favors topic 10 Dangerousness, not mental incompetence, limits gun rights: Strongly Favors topic 10 Limit gun rights, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 10
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale)	Increase revenues to reduce national debt: Strongly Favors topic 11 Phaseout the death tax: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Rated 81% by NTU, indicating a "Taxpayer's Friend" on tax votes: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Member of the Congressional Flat Tax Caucus: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Taxpayer Protection Pledge: no new taxes: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Reduce corporate tax rates from 35% to 21% to create jobs: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Pro-tax cuts, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 11 End the Death Tax, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes 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)	Secure border now in place with comprehensive immigration: Favors topic 12 New amnesty is tough and ends incoming illegals: Strongly Favors topic 12 Streamline and quicken deportations: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Need comprehensive reform, not partial executive action: Opposes topic 12 Driving out 11 million illegals impractical; fix the system: Favors topic 12 Legal status for undocumented workers: Strongly Favors topic 12 LEGISLATIVE path to citizenship, NOT via executive action: Favors topic 12 We can't deport 11M illegals, but we can start: Opposes topic 12 Increase legal immigration because we need workers: Favors topic 12 Those who stay will have to learn our language: Opposes topic 12 Sanctuary cities are symptom of a broken system: Favors topic 12 If we declare war on Islamic faith, we're all going to lose: Strongly Favors topic 12 Change asylum law to not apply to illegal border crossers: Strongly Opposes topic 12 No northern border wall, yet there's no illegal Canadians: Opposes topic 12 DACA recipients came here at age; this is their home: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Congress needs to appropriate money for more ICE agents: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Introduced bill to end birthright citizenship years ago: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Sponsored comprehensive immigration reform, without amnesty: Strongly Favors topic 12 Rated 27% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance: Strongly Favors topic 12 Support national emergency at the Southern border: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Pro-border security, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 12 Declared English the official language of the US: Opposes topic 12
Opposes topic 13: Support & expand free trade (-3 points on Economic scale)	NAFTA drained away textile trade from Upstate SC: Opposes topic 13 Make currency manipulation a key issue in trade negotiations: Opposes topic 13 China has more to lose in trade war than US: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Protect the American steel industry from Chinese dumping: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Rated 17% by CATO, indicating a pro-fair trade voting record: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Free trade with post-Orange Revolution Ukraine: Favors topic 13 Declare Turkish rebar subject to anti-dumping duties: Strongly Opposes topic 13 Voted FOR reauthorizing Ex-Im Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Implement USMCA for improved North American trade: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 88% by the USAE, indicating support for trade engagement: Strongly Favors topic 13
Favors topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (+2 points on Economic scale)	America is the glue that holds the free world together: Strongly Favors topic 14 Without American leadership the world disintegrates rapidly: Strongly Favors topic 14 Let China choose: clenched fist or open hand: Favors topic 14 More vetting from failed stats ok, but no Muslim ban: Opposes topic 14 Educating kids damages radical Islam more than any bomb: Strongly Opposes topic 14 State Department budget means "soft power" abroad: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Russia's Putin is disrupting democracy everywhere: Opposes topic 14 Recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel: Strongly Favors topic 14 Prohibit torture of terrorists in US custody: Opposes topic 14 Oppose the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty: Favors topic 14 Disallow Palestine from joining ICC to threaten Israel: Favors topic 14 No transfers of Gitmo prisoners to US or abroad: Strongly Favors topic 14 Two-state solution despite Israeli settlements on West Bank: Favors topic 14
Strongly Favors topic 15: Peace through Strength (-5 points on Social scale)	Cuts to military systems will leave us with a hollow force: Strongly Favors topic 15 More budget & more than 440,000 troops against North Korea: Strongly Favors topic 15 Fill Guantanamo with more terrorists instead of closing it: Favors topic 15 Restore defense cuts made automatically by sequestration: Strongly Favors topic 15 Give military leaders anything they need: Strongly Favors topic 15 Problems in V.A. are real; threats to homeland are real: Strongly Favors topic 15 America is already great; make America strong again: Strongly Favors topic 15 Rated 0% by SANE, indicating a pro-military voting record: Strongly Favors topic 15 Sponsored bill for Iraq budget to be part of defense budget: Opposes topic 15 Extend reserve retirement pay parity back to 9/11: Favors topic 15 Set minimum spending on defense at 4% of GDP: Strongly Favors topic 15 Secure the grid, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 15 No US troops under UN command; more defense spending: Favors topic 15
Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+2 points on Social scale)	Increase campaign contribution limits; but no foreigners: Strongly Opposes topic 16 Constitutional amendment to limit spending by super PACs: Favors topic 16 Third term for Trump: Trump 2028; I hope this never ends: Strongly Opposes topic 16 Require Internet disclosure of all earmarks: Favors topic 16 Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements: Favors topic 16 Signed term limit pledge: 6 years House; 12 years Senate: Favors topic 16 Restrict campaign donations from foreigners or 3rd parties: Favors topic 16
Strongly Opposes topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (-5 points on Social scale)	Create a democratic noose around Putin's Russia: Opposes topic 17 Sanctions against Putin; arm & train the Ukrainians: Opposes topic 17 Destroy Iran's nuclear program, & also its air force & navy: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Congress will not approve Iran nuclear deal: Opposes topic 17 Putin hates democracy and hates coalitions of democracies: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Iran's ayatollah is a religious Nazi who wants purify Islam: Strongly Opposes topic 17 I have legislation that will crush the Russian economy: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Destroy Russian economy if Putin won't end war: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Intervention in Syria to degrade Assad's chemical weapons: Strongly Favors topic 17 Getting Syria wrong leads to Iranian nukes & war with Israel: Strongly Favors topic 17 Support the Syrian rebels against Assad & Iran: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Syria: Assad must go, and small arms won't do it: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Slow Afghan withdrawal, with 15,000 US troops left behind: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Get involved in Syria to protect against al Qaeda and Iran: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Obama "screams loudly & carries no stick," in Russia & Syria: Opposes topic 17 More intervention in Iraq avoids an American city in flames: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Returning from Iraq prematurely was a mistake: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Form regional coalition to enforce no-fly zone in Syria: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Ok to hold off Iranian sanctions but only while negotiating: Favors topic 17 Israel: stay as long as needed in Gaza to deal with Hamas: Opposes topic 17 Arm Ukraine; sanction Russia; more NATO troops to region: Opposes topic 17 U.S. ground troops to fight ISIL in Syria and Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic 17 We should have left 10,000 US troops in Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic 17 2012: Arm the Syrian rebels & fight Assad's air force: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat ISIL: Strongly Opposes topic 17 If we don't destroy ISIL soon, they're coming here: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Destroy radical Islam like Reagan destroyed the Evil Empire: Strongly Favors topic 17 I have a plan to fight ISIL: ground forces in Syria & Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Need substantial boots on the ground against ISIL: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Military commitment of regional troops in Syria is necessary: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Regional, not US, army would keep stability in Syria: Favors topic 17 American troops should partner with regional army: Opposes topic 17 Russia will back down if US provokes it in deposing Assad: Strongly Opposes topic 17 If France invokes Article V, NATO should declare war on ISIS: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Form army--90% them, 10% us--to destroy Caliphate: Strongly Opposes topic 17 10,000 US troops in Iraq; 10,000 in Syria; plus 90,000 Arabs: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Winning in Iraq is more important than safety: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Damage from war with North Korea would be worth it: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Keep 2,000 US troops in Syria so ISIS won't come back: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Iran nuke deal allows a bomb after 15 years: Opposes topic 17 Destroy Assad's air force; create safe zones in Syria: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Keep US troops in Syria so ISIS and Iran can't come back: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Hearings on Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria: Opposes topic 17 Arming Ukrainians against Russia will make things better: Favors topic 17 Sponsored prevention, not containment, for Iranian nukes: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Iran must accept long-term intrusive nuke inspection: Opposes topic 17 No nuclear deal with Iran without Congressional input: Opposes topic 17 Support the completion of the US mission in Iraq: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program: Opposes topic 17 Pro-Israel, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 17 President ok to use military force against Iran: Opposes topic 17
Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Combat climate change without harming the economy: Favors topic 18 I'm no scientist, but 90% of them say climate change is real: Strongly Favors topic 18 Green New Deal is crazy; would destroy economy: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Green diesel regulations cost $367 per truck per year: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Climate change is real, but don't make a religion of it: Opposes topic 18 Rated 17% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence: Opposes topic 18 Open the Outer Continental Shelf for oil & gas leasing: Strongly Opposes topic 18 Gas tax holiday for the summer: Opposes topic 18
Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-3 points on Social scale)	For medical legalization; opposes recreational legalization: Favors topic 19 Enhance interdiction by criminalizing unflagged submarines: Strongly Favors topic 19 Rated B- by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+2 points on Economic scale)	Won't shut country down; getting back to business: Opposes topic 20 Supports the Cut-Cap-and-Balance Pledge: Opposes topic 20 Disapprove of increasing the debt limit: Opposes topic 20 Rated 14% by UFCW, indicating a pro-management voting record: Opposes topic 20 Audit the Federal Reserve & its actions on mortgage loans: Opposes topic 20 Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package: Favors topic 20

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