| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Michael Baumgartner: Life begins at conception; no exceptions except pragmatism.
Patty Murray: Nethercutt’s voted against expanding stem-cell research.
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Budget & Economy
Jay Inslee: New world economy is emerging from Great Recession.
Dino Rossi: Big government is cause of current crisis, not its solution.
Patty Murray: Government action needed to fix damage done by Wall Street.
Patty Murray: Bush policy is tax cuts & wars without paying for them.
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Civil Rights
Jay Inslee: Marriage equality represents best of who we are as a state.
Michael Baumgartner: Opposes gay marriage.
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Drugs
Michael Baumgartner: Advised counternarcotics team in Afghanistan.
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Energy & Oil
Jay Inslee: I cannot consciously accept the dangers of climate change.
Maria Cantwell: Climate change is happening but unclear if manmade.
Michael Baumgartner: One-cent gas tax to pay for veterans' services.
Michael Baumgartner: Climate change is happening but unclear if manmade.
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Environment
Patty Murray: Federally fund Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup.
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Families & Children
Michael Baumgartner: No unfettered teen access to emergency contraceptive Plan B.
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Foreign Policy
Michael Baumgartner: Served as lead strategic-policy coordinator in Baghdad.
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Government Reform
Jay Inslee: Lean management: bring disruptive change to Olympia.
Dino Rossi: Call to halt earmarks; that's what's wrong with D.C.
Patty Murray: Halting earmarks shortchanges important state projects.
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Health Care
Dino Rossi: ObamaCare will require hordes of IRS agents to administer.
Patty Murray: ObamaCare provides money to train future family physicians.
Dino Rossi: Healthcare overhaul moves down a path that is very dangerous.
Patty Murray: Pre-ObamaCare worked for insurance companies but no one else.
Dino Rossi: ObamaCare will siphon money & could bankrupt America.
Patty Murray: Yes, I read ObamaCare; I helped write it!
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Homeland Security
Dino Rossi: Wait for a study to decide on don't-ask-don't-tell.
Patty Murray: Toss out don't-ask-don't-tell.
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Immigration
Michael Baumgartner: Opposes DREAM Act; reform guest worker criteria.
Dino Rossi: Secure the border, then decide on kids of illegal immigrants.
Patty Murray: Give kids of illegal immigrants a chance to be citizens.
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Jobs
Jay Inslee: Focus on job growth in high tech and military.
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Principles & Values
Jay Inslee: Met wife Trudi in high school; 3 kids & 2 grandkids.
Dino Rossi: Lost 2004 race for governor by 133 votes.
Patty Murray: This state is my family and my family is hurting.
Dino Rossi: Murray is shortchanging voters with 2 debates instead of 6.
Patty Murray: Long history of limiting debates with her challengers.
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Social Security
Dino Rossi: No comment on raising retirement age or other changes, yet.
Patty Murray: No comment on raising retirement age or other changes, yet.
Dino Rossi: Massive debt could destabilize Social Security.
George Nethercutt: Save Social Security by decreasing government spending.
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Tax Reform
Dino Rossi: Repealing Bush tax cut is biggest tax increase in US history.
Patty Murray: Bush tax cut for top 2% costs us $2 trillion.
Dino Rossi: Extend Bush tax cuts; allow entrepreneurs to be successful.
Patty Murray: Extending Bush tax cuts reduces social & health programs.
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Technology
Jay Inslee: Tradable R&D tax credit.
Jay Inslee: Transportation package: creativity as important as concrete.
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War & Peace
Maria Cantwell: Leave Afghanistan in 2014 as planned.
Michael Baumgartner: Leave Afghanistan now & use funds domestically.
Michael Baumgartner: We're wasting resources on democracy-building in Afghanistan.
Dino Rossi: Setting deadline for Afghan withdrawal would aid terrorists.
Patty Murray: Set timetable for Afghan withdrawal.
Patty Murray: Voted against the war because we didn’t have a clear mission.
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