State of Missouri -- District 1
Party: Democrat
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[X] a) Abortions should always be legally available.
[X] b) Abortions should be legal in all circumstances as long as the
procedure is completed within the first trimester of pregnancy.
[ ] c) Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from
incest or rape or when the life of the woman is endangered.
[ ] d) Abortions should be legal only when the life of the woman is
endangered.
[ ] e) Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification
requirements as decided by each state government.
[ ] f) Abortions should always be illegal.
[ ] g) Other
[X] a) The federal government should consider preferences to minority-owned
businesses in granting government contracts.
[X] b) The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in
the public sector.
[X] c) The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in
the private sector.
[ ] d) The federal government should provide affirmative actions programs
as long as such programs do not include quotas.
[ ] e) The federal government should not provide any affirmative action
programs.
[ ] f) Other
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided
a) AIDS Programs -- Greatly Increase b) Arts funding -- Maintain Status c) Education (K-12) -- Greatly Increase d) Environmental programs -- Slightly Increase e) Housing projects -- Slightly Increase f) Job training programs -- Greatly Increase g) Law enforcement -- Maintain Status h) Medicaid -- Didn't Answer -- i) Medicare -- Didn't Answer -- j) NASA -- Maintain Status k) Student loan programs -- Greatly Increase l) Welfare (AFDC) -- Slightly Increase m) Other n) Other o) Other2) Do you support the use of block grants given to states, rather than federal spending, in the following areas?
a) Agriculture [ ] yes [ ] no [X] UNDECIDED b) Education [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided c) Farm subsidies [ ] yes [ ] no [X] UNDECIDED d) Food stamps [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided e) Law enforcement [ ] yes [ ] no [X] UNDECIDED f) Medicaid [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided g) Medicare [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided h) School lunches [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided i) Welfare [ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided j) Other [ ] yes [ ] no
[ ] a) Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to
candidates for federal office.
[ ] b) Establish spending limits on congressional campaigns and provide
public funding for complying candidates.
[ ] c) Support legislation that would increase the federal limits on
individual contributions.
[X] d) Pass legislation that would encourage full and timely disclosure of
campaign finance information.
[ ] e) Remove all legislative limits on campaign financing.
[ ] f) Other
[ ] a) Broaden use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
[ ] b) Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
[ ] c) Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve
full sentences with no chance of parole.
[ ] d) Support the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for adult
first-time felons.
[ ] e) Limit the number of appeals allowed to inmates on death row.
[X] f) Fund programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and
job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
[X] g) Expand funding for community policing programs.
[X] h) Increase penalties for the possession of any illegal firearms.
[ ] i) Prosecute youths accused of murder as adults.
[X] j) Increase funding for local Boys & Girls Clubs and other independent
organizations in communities with at-risk youth.
[X] k) Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
[ ] l) Deport all permanent resident aliens convicted of a felony.
[ ] m) Other
1) CIA appropriations -- Greatly Decrease 2) Defense plant conversion -- Slightly Increase 3) Military hardware -- Maintain Status 4) Military space shuttle missions -- Slightly Decrease 5) Pay for active duty personnel -- Maintain Status 6) Development of new weapons -- Greatly Decrease 7) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- Eliminate 8) Armed Forces personnel training -- Maintain Status 9) Other
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided2) Do you support funding the National Service Program (Ameri-Corps) in which young people receive money from the federal government for college in return for performing community service?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided3) Indicate which principles you support concerning education.
[X] a) Maintain the national standards and goals set forth in "Goals 2000".
[ ] b) Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any publicly
funded school.
[ ] c) Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any
participating school: public, private or religious.
[ ] d) Implement charter schools where teachers and professionals receive
authorization and funding to establish new schools.
[ ] e) Eliminate the Department of Education, thereby giving state and
local government greater control over educational issues.
[ ] f) Other
[ ] a) Transfer public lands, such as federal forests and range lands, to
the jurisdiction of state and local governments.
[ ] b) Require the federal government to reimburse citizens when
environmental regulations limit use of privately owned lands.
[X] c) Strengthen the Clean Water Act.
[ ] d) Change the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to limit the number of
habitats eligible to be designated as endangered.
[ ] e) Utilize cost-benefit analysis to determine economic impacts of
proposed environmental protection and cleanup legislation.
[X] f) Increase fees charged to ranchers who graze cattle on federal lands.
[X] g) Revise the 1872 mining law to increase the amounts charged to mining
companies using federal lands.
[X] h) Encourage development of alternative fuels and electric cars to
reduce pollution.
[X] i) Strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or diesel powered
engines, including cars and trucks.
[ ] j) Increase federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels to promote
conservation and alternative fuel development.
[X] k) Require that a percentage of purchases made by federal agencies
include recycled components.
[ ] l) Promote the selling of pollution credits to encourage industries to
decrease amount of pollution.
[ ] m) Other
1) Border security -- Federal 2) Civil rights enforcement -- Federal 3) Education -- State 4) Environmental cleanup -- Federal 5) Job training -- Federal 6) Law enforcement -- Local 7) Low-income housing -- Federal 8) Medicaid -- Federal 9) Medicare -- Federal 10) Welfare (AFDC) -- Federal 11) Other
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided2) Should the US have diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided3) Should the US recognize and extend full diplomatic relations to Taiwan?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided4) Should the US continue funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided5) Should the US continue funding for Radio Marti and TV Marti?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided6) Should the US continue funding for Radio Free Asia?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided7) Do you support the deployment of US troops to the former Yugoslavia?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided8) Indicate your position concerning economic aid to Russia and the former Soviet republics.
[ ] a) Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be increased
to facilitate democracy and market reforms.
[X] b) Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be continued
unless Russia exports nuclear weapons or related technology.
[ ] c) Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be decreased
and/or eliminated.
[ ] d) Other
9) Indicate which principles you support regarding US economic aid to
foreign countries.
[ ] a) Foreign aid should only be given when extraordinary circumstances
and disaster threaten the lives of civilian populations.
[ ] b) Foreign aid should be given to countries only when it is in the
security interests of the United States.
[ ] c) Foreign aid should be eliminated from any nation with documented
human rights abuses.
[X] d) Foreign aid should be maintained at current levels.
[ ] e) Other
10) Indicate which principles you support regarding the United States -
United Nations relationship.
[ ] a) The US should contribute more funding and troops to United Nations
peacekeeping missions.
[ ] b) The US should participate in UN peacekeeping missions only when
vital US interests are directly threatened.
[X] c) The US should use military force only when the US border or
territories are attacked or American citizens are in danger.
[X] d) The US should pay the money it owes to the United Nations.
[ ] e) The US should withdraw from the UN completely.
[ ] f) Other
[X] a) Expand the nationwide ban on the sale or transfer of assault weapons
to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
[X] b) Increase restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
[X] c) Maintain all federal registration procedures and restrictions on
possessing firearms.
[ ] d) Ease procedures on the purchase and registration of firearms.
[ ] e) Repeal all bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from
owning legally-obtained firearms.
[ ] f) Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms that are
legally owned and registered.
[ ] g) Other
[X] a) Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to
all Americans regardless of income.
[X] b) Provide vouchers to the working poor so they can buy into a private
health care plan.
[X] c) Implement a government-financed, single-payer national health care
system similar to that of Canada.
[ ] d) Support a "managed competition" health care plan to contain costs
and improve access that does not include mandated health alliances,
government cost control powers, or employer/employee mandates.
[ ] e) Provide tax incentives for small businesses to help provide health
care to their employees.
[X] f) Allow middle and low income families to deduct yearly health care
costs from their taxable income.
[ ] g) Establish limits on the amount of damages awarded in medical
malpractice lawsuits.
[ ] h) Encourage tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if
used for any purpose other than medical costs.
[ ] i) The federal government has no responsibility in providing health
care.
[ ] j) Other
[ ] a) Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
[ ] b) Impose mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
[ ] c) Impose capital punishment for convicted international drug
traffickers.
[ ] d) Require drug testing for federal employees in sensitive positions
(Air Traffic Control, National Park Police, Secret Service, etc.).
[ ] e) Strengthen current laws dealing with non-controlled substances,
including inhalants and commercially available pills.
[X] f) Increase funding of federally-sponsored drug education and drug
treatment programs.
[ ] g) Decriminalize the possession and private use of marijuana.
[ ] h) Other
[ ] a) Further limit the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
[X] b) Prohibit states from passing laws that deny human services (medical
care, education) to illegal immigrants or their children.
[ ] c) Ease citizenship requirements in order to make it easier for
immigrants to become United States citizens.
[ ] d) Establish English as the official and recognized language of the
United States.
[ ] e) Provide extra federal aid to states with higher numbers of
immigrants for necessary medical and social services.
[ ] f) Restrict the eligibility of legal immigrants for certain social
programs (i.e. AFDC, HUD housing, food stamps, etc.).
[ ] g) Children of illegal immigrants, born in the United States, should
not automatically receive US citizenship.
[ ] h) Other
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided
[X] a) Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless
people who want to work.
[X] b) Increase funding of homeless shelters and low income housing
projects.
[X] c) Increase funding of programs that help alcoholics and drug addicts
recover and find steady work.
[X] d) Increase the minimum wage.
[X] e) Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to
supplement the cost of an apartment.
[X] f) Provide government jobs for those who wish to work and cannot find a
job in the private sector.
[ ] g) Increase the income tax deduction on individual contributions made
to charities that help the poor and homeless.
[X] h) Implement enterprise zones in communities with high unemployment.
[ ] i) Other
Income Taxes a) Retiree income over $40,000 -- Maintain Status b) Family income less than $25,000 -- Greatly Decrease c) Family income $25-75,000 -- Slightly Decrease d) Family income $75-150,000 -- Maintain Status e) Family income over $150,000 -- Slightly Increase Other Tax Issues f) Alcohol taxes -- Maintain Status g) Capital gains taxes -- Maintain Status h) Charitable deductions -- Maintain Status i) Cigarette taxes -- Maintain Status j) Corporate income taxes -- Slightly Increase k) Earned income tax credit -- Maintain Status l) Estate taxes -- Maintain Status m) Medical expense deductions -- Slightly Increase n) Mortgage deductions -- Maintain Status o) Other2) Do you support replacing the US income tax structure with a flat income tax?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided3) Do you support replacing the US income tax structure with a broad-based consumption tax?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided2) If you support term limits, how many years should each serve?
Senator (years) Representatives (years)
[ ] a) Relax current guidelines that forbid the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) from investigating terrorist groups when there is a
"reasonable indication" of terrorist activities.
[ ] b) Relax wiretapping restrictions to give the FBI broader authority to
investigate terrorist suspects.
[X] c) Require that chemical tracing agents be added to commercially-sold
products that can be used to produce explosives.
[X] d) Implement tighter restrictions on firearm sales in an effort to
hinder terrorist groups from stockpiling weapon arsenals.
[ ] e) Grant broader authority to the US Immigration and Naturalization
Service to deny entrance visas to terrorist suspects.
[ ] f) Maintain limits on the authority of federal agencies investigating
suspected terrorists.
[ ] g) Restrict the investigative authority of the FBI and other
governmental agencies.
[ ] h) Other
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided2) Do you support broadening NAFTA to include other countries?
[ ] yes [X] NO [ ] undecided3) Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
[ ] yes [ ] no [X] UNDECIDED4) Do you support the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
[ ] yes [ ] no [X] UNDECIDED5) Do you support lifting the trade embargo imposed against Cuba?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided6) Do you support imposing tariffs on products imported from nations that maintain restrictive trade barriers on American products?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided7) Should a nation's human rights record affect its "most favored nation" trading status with the United States?
[X] YES [ ] no [ ] undecided
[X] a) Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries
into areas with high unemployment.
[X] b) Increase funding for national job-training programs.
[X] c) Increase funding for public works projects such as the repair of
roads and bridges.
[ ] d) Eliminate government regulations of the private sector in order to
encourage investment and economic expansion.
[X] e) Establish enterprise zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed
people.
[X] f) Overhaul the current unemployment system by focusing on training and
education in skills needed in certain industries.
[ ] g) Eliminate any governmental programs designed to reduce unemployment.
[ ] h) Other
[X] a) Strengthen child support collection procedures and increase
penalties for parents who do not pay child support.
[ ] b) Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are
able to work.
[ ] c) Require welfare recipients to accept some form of
government-sponsored job after two years if unemployed in the private
sector.
[X] d) Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian
(if possible) and attend school to receive benefits.
[ ] e) Limit the benefits given to single women if they have additional
children while receiving welfare benefits.
[X] f) Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend
school.
[X] g) Provide rent or housing supplement vouchers for low-income families.
[ ] h) Make no substantial changes at this time.
[X] i) Increase funding of programs that prevent teen pregnancy and family
break-up.
[X] j) Support programs that give incentives for employers to hire and
train welfare recipients.
[ ] k) Other
"I will work to make education our nation's first priority and to uphold the rights of workers. We have the best colleges and universities in the world, yet less than 30% of Americans finish college. I support more school loan programs and more job training programs. I will work to ensure that American workers are empowered to address fundamental employment issues such as fair wages, job security, worker retraining, health care portability and pension security."2) Should your priorities require additional government funding, please explain how you intend to obtain the additional funding.
"No additional government funding is necessary, just a reordering of budget priorities and a restructuring of federal programs."
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