Former Democratic Representative (IN-9):
Lee Hamilton on
the Issues
Lee Hamilton on
Abortion
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Budget & Economy
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Civil Rights
- Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
Lee Hamilton on
Corporations
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Crime
- Voted NO on maintaining right of habeus corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
- Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
- Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
Lee Hamilton on
Drugs
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Education
- Voted NO on allowing vouchers in DC schools. (Aug 1998)
- Voted NO on vouchers for private & parochial schools. (Nov 1997)
- Voted NO on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer. (Mar 1994)
Lee Hamilton on
Energy & Oil
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Environment
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Families & Children
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Foreign Policy
- Make a long-term commitment to supporting Pakistan. (Jul 2004)
- Expand Saudi relations from oil to anti-extremism. (Jul 2004)
- Multilateral coalition for Muslim youth outreach. (Jul 2004)
Lee Hamilton on
Free Trade
- Voted YES on 'Fast Track' authority for trade agreements. (Sep 1998)
Lee Hamilton on
Government Reform
- Replace CIA director with new National Intelligence Czar. (Jul 2004)
- End secrecy about national intelligence appropriations. (Jul 2004)
- Replace "need-to-know" culture with "need-to-share". (Jul 2004)
- Congressional oversight for intelligence is dysfunctional. (Jul 2004)
- No new domestic intelligence agency-use FBI. (Jul 2004)
Lee Hamilton on
Gun Control
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Health Care
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Homeland Security
- Focus on potential terrorist sanctuaries like Saudi Arabia. (Jul 2004)
- US majority support among Muslims on 9-11 collapsed by 2003. (Jul 2004)
- Must defeat ideology of terrorism, not Muslim people. (Jul 2004)
- Support "Cooperative Threat Reduction" on Soviet nukes. (Jul 2004)
- Continue targeting terrorist financing; add terrorist travel. (Jul 2004)
- Screen for individual terrorists at borders, no profiling. (Jul 2004)
- Guidelines, supervision, & oversight of new security powers. (Jul 2004)
- Fund better communications between emergency responders. (Jul 2004)
- Improve human intel with racial and linguistic diversity. (Jul 2004)
- Several missed opportunities to disrupt 9/11 hijackers. (Jul 2004)
- Most important failure on 9/11 was one of imagination. (Jul 2004)
Lee Hamilton on
Immigration
- Voted YES on more immigrant visas for skilled workers. (Sep 1998)
Lee Hamilton on
Jobs
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Principles & Values
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Social Security
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Tax Reform
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
War & Peace
No stance on record.
Lee Hamilton on
Welfare & Poverty
No stance on record.
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