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Budget & Economy
Heidi Heitkamp: Quit playing blame game & pass Balanced Budget Amendment.
Rick Berg: We need a budget that comes to closure, and reins in deficit.
Duane Sand: Wouldn't have voted to raise the debt ceiling.
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Civil Rights
Heidi Heitkamp: AdWatch: Featured in DSCC ad: "Elect more women to Senate".
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Corporations
Heidi Heitkamp: Fought attempt to weaken ND bank privacy laws.
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Education
Heidi Heitkamp: No on Measure 2: Don't centralizes control over education.
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Energy & Oil
Heidi Heitkamp: Right thing for country is to permit Keystone pipeline.
Heidi Heitkamp: Permit Keystone pipeline; "drill, baby, drill".
Duane Sand: Build 20 nuclear power plants in 20 years.
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Environment
Heidi Heitkamp: Farm bill is needed and is blocked by partisanship.
Rick Berg: We will getwt the Farm Bill by year's end.
Rick Berg: Bring checks and balances to the EPA.
Heidi Heitkamp: Protect North Dakota farm subsidies from Washington insiders.
Heidi Heitkamp: Make responsible cuts in farm bill, except crop insurance.
Rick Berg: Crop insurance is the No. 1 priority for our farm program.
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Health Care
Heidi Heitkamp: No Medicare vouchers; they'd make system insolvent.
Heidi Heitkamp: $716B cut from Medicare is biggest fib of 2012 campaign.
Heidi Heitkamp: Retain the ObamaCare "frontier states" amendment.
Rick Berg: Give Americans an option to choose a better Medicare policy.
Rick Berg: Repeal ObamaCare; it creates a cloud of uncertainty.
Heidi Heitkamp: N.D. needs a state health care exchange, ObamaCAre or not.
Rick Berg: Replace ObamaCare piecemeal; it hurts middle America.
Heidi Heitkamp: Changes are needed to ObamaCare, but not repeal.
Rick Berg: ObamaCare is an expensive government takeover.
Heidi Heitkamp: Extremely supportive of Critical Access Hospitals.
Rick Berg: ObamaCare takes power away from our elected officials.
Heidi Heitkamp: 2010: enthusiastic support for ObamaCare; less so now.
Heidi Heitkamp: Federal mandate is serious problem; ObamaCare is not perfect.
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Principles & Values
Rick Berg: Declined to debate GOP opponent at two Tea Party debates.
Rick Berg: To get country back on track, change the Senate.
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Social Security
Rick Berg: 2005: Supported Bush's privatization plan as state rep.
Heidi Heitkamp: Balance budget with limited effect on Social Security.
Duane Sand: Raise retirement age; raise cap; apply means-testing.
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Tax Reform
Heidi Heitkamp: Never eliminate home mortgage deduction.
Heidi Heitkamp: We need to have a discussion on specific tax breaks.
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