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ON ABORTION

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad science.

Appoint strict constructionist judges.

Has never been pro-choice despite 1994 news reports.

Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions.

Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions.

Voted YES on banning human cloning.

 

ON BUDGET AND ECONOMY

Voted YES on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts.

Voted NO on 1998 GOP budget.

Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment.

 

ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes.

Voted NO on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping.

Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

Voted NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women.

Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business.

Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation.

Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag burning.

Voted NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds.

 

ON CORPORATIONS

Commerce clause does not mean Feds can regulate everything.

Voted YES on restricting rules on personal bankruptcy.

 

ON DRUGS

Voted YES on increasing penalties for drug offenses.

Voted YES on spending international development funds on drug control.

 

ON EDUCATION

Voted NO on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors.

Voted NO on funding student testing instead of private tutors.

Voted NO on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction.

Voted YES on Educational Savings Accounts.

Voted YES on allowing more flexibility in federal school rules.

Voted YES on education savings accounts.

Voted YES on school vouchers in DC.

Voted YES on $75M for abstinence education.

 

ON ENERGY AND OIL

Solar system is warming, not earth.

Voted YES on drilling ANWR on national security grounds.

Voted YES on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months.

Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling.

Voted NO on ending discussion of CAFE fuel efficiency standards.

Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy.

Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository.

 

ON ENVIRONMENT

Voted YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior.

Voted YES on more funding for forest roads and fish habitat.

Voted YES on transportation demo projects.

Voted YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests.

 

ON FAMILY AND CHILDREN

Voted YES on killing restrictions on violent videos to minors.

 

ON FOREIGN POLICY

Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe.

Voted NO on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons.

Voted YES on cap foreign aid at only $12.7 billion.

Voted YES on limiting the President's power to impose economic sanctions.

Voted NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech.

Voted NO on $17.9 billion to IMF.

Voted YES on Strengthening of the trade embargo against Cuba.

 

ON FREE TRADE

Market does more for freedom & prosperity than planners.

Protectionist trade policies are defensive & defeatist.

Markets do more for freedom than any central planner.

Protectionist trade policies are defensive & defeatist.

Voted YES on extending free trade to Andean nations.

Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam.

Voted NO on removing common goods from national security export rules.

Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China.

Voted YES on expanding trade to the third world.

Voted YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority.

Voted YES on imposing trade sanctions on Japan for closed market.

 

ON GOVERNMENT REFORM

Passionate supporter of states rights.

Term limits counter professionalization of politics.

Voted YES on banning "soft money" contributions and restricting issue ads.

Voted YES on require photo ID (not just signature) for voter registration.

Voted YES on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations.

Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts.

Voted YES on favoring 1997 McCain-Feingold overhaul of campaign finance.

Voted YES on Approving the presidential line-item veto.

Voted NO on banning more types of Congressional gifts.

 

ON GUN CONTROL

Allowing concealed carry could have limited VA Tech massacre.

Voted NO on background checks at gun shows.

Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations.

Voted YES on loosening license & background checks at gun shows.

Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks.

 

ON HEALTH CARE

Voted NO on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada.

Voted NO on allowing patients to sue HMOs & collect punitive damages.

Voted YES on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Voted NO on including prescription drugs under Medicare.

Voted YES on limiting self-employment health deduction.

Voted NO on increasing tobacco restrictions.

Voted YES on Medicare means-testing.

Voted NO on medical savings acounts.

 

ON HOMELAND SECURITY

Europe mothballs its fleet, when all should build military.

Voted NO on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Voted YES on allowing another round of military base closures.

Voted YES on cutting nuclear weapons below START levels.

Voted YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP.

Voted YES on military pay raise of 4.8%.

Voted NO on prohibiting same-sex basic training.

Voted YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects.

Voted NO on banning chemical weapons.

Voted YES on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty.

Voted YES on 1996 Defense Appropriations

 

ON IMMIGRATION

Opposes amnesty in any form.

Nation loses sovereignty if it cannot secure its own borders.

Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work.

Voted YES on visas for skilled workers.

Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants.

 

ON JOBS

Voted YES on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress.

Voted YES on killing an increase in the minimum wage.

Voted YES on allowing workers to choose between overtime & comp-time.

Voted YES on replacing farm price supports.

 

ON PRINCIPLES AND VALUES

Reveals he suffers from cancer, but it won't affect campaign.

Religious affiliation: Protestant.

 

ON SOCIAL SECURITY

Social Security & Medicare are generational wealth transfers.

Voted YES on Social Security Lockbox & limiting national debt.

Voted YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees.

Voted YES on allowing personal retirement accounts.

Voted YES on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes.

 

ON TAX REFORM

Progressive tax redistributes wealth without helping economy.

Taxes burden production; keep rates as low as possible.

Tax cuts stimulate the economy.

Voted NO on reducing marriage penalty instead of cutting top tax rates.

Voted NO on increasing tax deductions for college tuition.

Voted YES on eliminating the 'marriage penalty'.

Voted YES on across-the-board spending cut.

Voted YES on requiring super-majority for raising taxes.

 

ON TECHNOLOGY

Voted YES on Internet sales tax moratorium.

Voted YES on telecomm deregulation.

 

ON WAR AND PEACE

I would do essentially what the president's doing in Iraq.

Take any chance to not get run out of Iraq.

Internationalizing war effort will not win the war.

President must decide on war based on unclear evidence.

Prophets of doom are wrong--we can't cut-and-run.

Goal of Iraqi enemies is to demoralize us.

Serious & painful international sanctions on nuclear Iran.

Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq.

Voted YES on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo.

Voted NO on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo.

Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo.

Condemns anti-Muslim bigotry in name of anti-terrorism.

Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

 

ON WELFARE AND POVERTY

Voted YES on welfare block grants.

Voted NO on eliminating block grants for food stamps.

Voted YES on allowing state welfare waivers.

Voted YES on welfare overhaul.

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