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Affordable Care Act
Support Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare? |
Yes. Will “work to improve [ACA], not repeal it, so we can make affordable insurance and quality care available to all Americans.” | No. Voted to repeal ACA. “The poorest among us will continue to be fined because they can’t afford Obamacare.” |
Campaign Finance
Limit campaign donations? Require political ads to disclose largest funders? |
Yes. “We must end Citizens United and get secret, dark money out of politics.” | No position found. |
Climate Change
Consider human-caused climate change a serious threat? |
Yes. “Climate change is a major threat to our prosperity and our security,” part of “a broader environmental and ecological crisis.” | No. “The scientific community is not in total agreement” about human cause. Supports Trump withdrawal from Paris Agreement. |
Courts
Pick Ruth Bader Ginsburg replacement now or let November winner choose? |
Supports voting before the November election. “The choice for the future of the Supreme Court is clear, and our nation's founding principles are at stake.” | Wait. “We must let the people speak at the ballot box, and then let the court reflect the will of the newly-elected president and Senate.” |
COVID-19
Support administration’s response to coronavirus pandemic? |
No. Calls the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic “gross incompetence.” | Yes. Trump and Pence are “taking the coronavirus very seriously.” “We’ve done everything we could.” |
Education
Public funding for private or for-profit schools? |
No position found. Focuses on increasing teacher pay and strengthening public schools. | Yes. Supports “school choice,” including charter and private schools. |
Environment
Tighten or loosen environmental regulations? |
Tighten. Will work to reverse Trump “rollbacks of clean air, clean water, and fuel economy standards.” | Mostly loosen. Roll back “stifling Obama-era regulations.” Against reducing waste and emissions. Reduce plastic waste in oceans. |
Financial Regulation
Tighten or loosen regulation of banks and credit card companies? |
Tighten. Seeks more regulation of the banking system, reinstating Glass-Steagall Act. | Loosen. Supports “rollback of federal banking regulations.” Calls Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “rogue agency.” |
Gun Control
Enact more restrictive legislation on guns? |
Yes. Supports universal background checks, red-flag laws, closing gun-show loophole, as well as a ban on assault weapons. | Mixed. “We have ample gun laws on the books;” … should enforce them. Supports some more stringent background checks. |
Immigration
Path to citizenship for DACA participants brought to U.S. as children? Position on expanding border walls and limiting legal immigration? |
Yes. “DREAMers are Americans,” “here to stay.” Supports “path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.” “Strong border security doesn’t require” sacrificing “our moral principles.” | Mixed. Supports Trump proposal for DACA path to citizenship tied to cutbacks in legal immigration and funding for wall. DACA brings “chain migration.” Supported limiting visas to “create a merit-based immigration system.” |
Impeachment
Support calling witnesses and convicting Trump on impeachment charges? |
Yes. “If Trump pressured a foreign power to smear his political opponent … he should be impeached.” | No on both. Called impeachment “a partisan political weapon … aimed at overturning the 2016 election.” |
Iran
Oppose military attacks on Iran without congressional approval? |
No position found, although opposed Trump withdrawal from Iran nuclear treaty. | No. Opposed bill to require approval. Supported 2020 attack; “justice has been served.” |
Labor
Support “right to work” laws, barring unions from mandating dues. |
No position found. Has been endorsed by United Auto Workers. | Yes. Co-sponsored National Right-to-Work Act. |
Legal Abortion
Keep legal or ban? |
Legal. “I will only vote to confirm federal judges who pledge to uphold Roe v. Wade.” | Ban. “Will continue fighting to protect the unborn.” Backed ban on most abortions after six weeks that the courts overturned. |
LGBTQ Rights
Support gay marriage and other LGBTQ rights issues? |
Yes. Supports LGBTQ Rights, and Equality Act against discrimination for gender or orientation. | No. Sees marriage as “between one man and one woman.” In legalizing same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court “overstepped” its role. |
Marijuana
Decriminalize or legalize? |
Yes. “It’s past time to legalize, regulate and tax cannabis.” | Medical yes. Supports access to medical marijuana. As of 2014, opposed recreational. |
Minimum Wage
Raise federal hourly minimum wage above current $7.25? |
Yes. “Fight to make sure the minimum wage is a livable wage.” | No recent position. In 2014 said if “increase the minimum wage, you will kill jobs.” |
Police and Community
Restrict police use of force and increase public oversight? |
Yes. “We urgently need a New Civil Rights Act to establish national standards for use [of] force by American police!” | Mixed. “Do we need police reform? Absolutely. But ... the vast majority of police officers protect us honorably.” |
Planned Parenthood
Support Planned Parenthood’s receiving public funds for non-abortion care? |
Yes. Will defend Planned Parenthood’s “essential preventative and reproductive health care services.” | No. Co-sponsored bill to end any federal funding of Planned Parenthood. |
Saudi Arabia
Support blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia? |
Yes. Reject “regime that executes political dissidents, executes people for their sexuality” and brutally murders journalists. | No. Voted in U.S. Senate against resolution blocking Saudi arms sales. |
Student Financial Aid
Support free or subsidized tuition for lower-income individuals? |
Yes. Supports debt forgiveness and making public college, state school, or trade school education “debt-free.” | No. Promises of free tuition are what “the Soviets did in Russia, the Germans did in ’33,” and what the Cubans and Venezuelans did. |
Taxes
Support administration’s $1.9 trillion (2017) tax cuts? |
No. “We borrow trillions to cut taxes for the wealthy & powerful.” | Yes. “The tax cuts passed by the U.S. Senate … are already having a positive impact across the country.” |
Voting Rights
Strict ID and other rules to combat possible fraud, even if limiting access? |
No. Criticizes “major purges” of voter rolls and “mass disenfranchisement.” Need a new Voting Rights Act. | No position found. On chaotic GA primary, “more than 150 counties didn’t have any problem. In a few we did. … This idea of voter suppression is a lie right out of the pit of hell.” |
