Survey of 2004 U.S. House of Representatives' campaign websites


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Abortion     Lynn Westmoreland: Pro-life and protect traditional values.     Melissa Bean: Reproductive choice must remain a legal option for women.     Mike Sodrel: Support the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act.     Virginia Foxx: Support parental consent and oppose partial birth abortions.     Dennis Kucinich: All men & women have right to make difficult moral decisions.     Dennis Kucinich: Supreme Court nominees must agree to uphold Roe v. Wade.     Dennis Kucinich: Journey in 2002 from pro-life to pro-choice.     Dennis Kucinich: Women can’t be free unless they have the right to choose.     Dennis Kucinich: Prevention, education, & health care, to minimize abortions.

Budget & Economy     Connie Mack IV: Stop wasteful government spending.

Civil Rights     Bob Inglis: Oppose civil unions and gay marriage.     Gwen Moore: Opposed Cuts to Kindergarten Program for 4 Year-Olds.     Jeff Fortenberry: No judge can redefine marriage between a man and a woman.     John Barrow: Keeping our nation safe doesn’t mean sacrificing our freedom.     Mike Conaway: Support a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.     Patrick McHenry: Protect marriage, our most sacred institution.     Dennis Kucinich: Must challenge rationale of USA PATRIOT Act.     Dennis Kucinich: Same sex couples deserve equal domestic benefits.     Dennis Kucinich: Affirmative action is necessary & right & must be preserved.

Corporations     Miriam Masullo: Moratorium on the exportation of skilled-labor jobs.

Crime     Dan Lungren: Led the passage of the Effective Death Penalty Act.     Dan Lungren: Supported and defended Three Strikes.

Drugs     Dennis Kucinich: War on Drugs benefits only the prison-industrial complex.     Dennis Kucinich: Racial bias in drug enforcement is pervasive.     Dennis Kucinich: Addiction is a medical and moral problem.

Education     Billy Tauzin III: Support merit pay for our best and brightest educators.     Dan Lipinski: Fully fund NCLB if we expect students to meet the goals.     Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Provide public education to help our children succeed.     Emmanuel Cleaver: Adequately fund educational measures in Congress.     G.K. Butterfield: Close the gap and help our smaller school districts.     Geoff Davis: Greater flexibility and control for local school districts.     Jim Costa: Co-authored a class size reduction law.     John Salazar: Fully fund the No Child Left Behind education reforms.     Thelma Drake: Local school systems must accept greater accountability.     Tom Price: Give individual states the autonomy to improve their schools.     Miriam Masullo: School choice and charter schools work for our children.     Miriam Masullo: Eliminate the federal Department of Education.     Dennis Kucinich: Establish universal pre-kindergarten programs.

Energy & Oil     Allyson Schwartz: Change our energy policy and become oil independent.     Mike Conaway: Support drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.     Dennis Kucinich: Nuclear waste poses grave danger to US.     Dennis Kucinich: Auto-dependent sprawl causes runoff pollution.     Dennis Kucinich: Would sign Kyoto climate change treaty.

Environment     Bob Inglis: Environmentalists see equivalency between a child and a tree.     Joe Schwarz: Oppose to drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.     John Salazar: Renewable energy resources are a part of the energy solution.     John Salazar: Make protecting Colorado’s water a top priority.     Melissa Bean: Supports strong EPA air and water quality regulations.     Dennis Kucinich: Water should forever be in the public domain.     Dennis Kucinich: Bush’s wetland rules would increase flooding.     Dennis Kucinich: Clean, safe water is a human right.     Dennis Kucinich: A clean environment is not a luxury.

Families & Children     Dennis Kucinich: Dept. of Peace should address all forms of violence.

Foreign Policy     Dennis Kucinich: Promote international treaties but reject global corporatism.     Dennis Kucinich: Lead world to sustainable energy production.

Free Trade     Billy Tauzin III: Give fishermen and farmers a fair chance to compete.     Brian Higgins: Oppose the Central American Free Trade Act.     Dan Lipinski: Undermining original trade standards is a terrible mistake.     Mike Sodrel: Oppose to the trade liberalization agreement with China.     Miriam Masullo: NAFTA and WTO surrenders our national sovereignty.     Dennis Kucinich: Review & modify all treaties not respecting human rights.     Dennis Kucinich: No NAFTA, No WTO, No Fast Track.     Dennis Kucinich: Don’t sacrifice our rights to global corporate ethic.

Government Reform     Dave Reichert: Rid frivolous malpractice lawsuits for affordable healthcare.     Dennis Kucinich: Public financing for elections.     Dennis Kucinich: Register on election day; more voting rights enhancements.     Dennis Kucinich: Give DC residents proper representation.     Dennis Kucinich: Debate reform opens the door to new candidates.     Dennis Kucinich: Implement Instant Runoff Voting in US.     Dennis Kucinich: Will not accept corporate PAC money.     Dennis Kucinich: Private campaign financing leads to private control of gov’t.

Gun Control     Dan Boren: Will never vote to weaken your 2nd Amendment rights.     Joe Schwarz: Voted against the concealed weapons law.     Ted Poe: Staunchly support the 2nd Amendment.     Virginia Foxx: Co-sponsored concealed weapon laws.     Miriam Masullo: Never forfeit right to own and carry a firearm.

Health Care     Allyson Schwartz: Lower Drug Prices For All Families.     Charles Boustany: Support health care tax breaks and health saving accounts.     Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Extend health care to every uninsured child and young adult.     Emmanuel Cleaver: Provide health care for the employees of small businesses.     G.K. Butterfield: Insurance costs are forcing small businesses to lay off.     Jim Costa: Helped enact low cost health care insurance for children.     John Barrow: Include prescription drug coverage for all seniors now.     John Salazar: Give small businesses tax breaks for the cost of health care.     Russ Carnahan: Expand health care and support stem cell research.     Tom Price: More Medical Savings Accounts; less medical malpractice.     Miriam Masullo: Universal coverage by bypassing interests of HMOs.     Dennis Kucinich: Insurance companies do not heal people; practitioners do.     Dennis Kucinich: Seniors forced to choose between medicine and food.     Dennis Kucinich: Prescription for America: ceiling on drug company profits.     Dennis Kucinich: Regulate prescription drug prices like utility rates.     Dennis Kucinich: Medicare for All: universal single-payer national system.

Homeland Security     Charles Boustany: Minimize the appeal of Islamic extremists who promote evil.     Henry Cuellar: Help improve veterans’ and military personnel’s benefits.     John Barrow: Pursue and root out terrorists and their supporters.     John Barrow: Supports increased federal funding for community safety.     John Barrow: Giving food stamps to our troops is scandalous.     John Barrow: End the Disabled Veterans Tax and preserve VA benefits.     John Salazar: Fight to preserve veteran’s benefits.     Lynn Westmoreland: Strengthen the security around waterways, borders, airports.     Patrick McHenry: Sponsored legislation to increase first responders funding.     Dennis Kucinich: End the ban on gays in military.     Dennis Kucinich: Terminating ABM treaty was unconstitutional.     Dennis Kucinich: Violence and war are not inevitable.     Dennis Kucinich: Confront the bloat and waste in Pentagon budget.     Dennis Kucinich: Hometown Security: social spending instead of military.     Dennis Kucinich: Abide by Non-Proliferation, ABM, and Test Ban Treaties.

Immigration     Russ Carnahan: Welcome new Americans like past generations of US immigrants.     Ted Poe: Blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants is not appropriate.     Miriam Masullo: Enforce immigration laws.

Jobs     Randy Kuhl: Worker Retraining is important for success in new economy.     Dennis Kucinich: Shift USDA funds from agribusiness to family farmers.     Dennis Kucinich: Labor defends workers when corporations attack.     Dennis Kucinich: Right to a job and to decent wages.     Dennis Kucinich: Labor protections; not binding employer arbitration.     Dennis Kucinich: Repeal portions of Taft-Hartley Act; enhance right to strike.     Dennis Kucinich: Genetically-engineered food is an issue of freedom of choice.     Dennis Kucinich: Address plight of small farmer by canceling NAFTA & WTO.     Dennis Kucinich: Break apart monopolistic agribusiness companies.     Dennis Kucinich: National ban on packer ownership of livestock.     Dennis Kucinich: Farm worker safety by fining employers.     Dennis Kucinich: Invest in rural America.

Principles & Values     Connie Mack IV: For the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited every day.     Dennis Kucinich: Sacrificed political career to save city utility ownership.

Social Security     Brian Higgins: Bush raided the Social Security trust fund for tax cuts.     Dan Boren: Oppose raising retirement age and any privatization plan.     John Barrow: Stop raiding the Social Security Trust Fund.     Melissa Bean: Opposes attempts to privatize Social Security or Medicare.     Dennis Kucinich: Restore retirement age to 65.     Dennis Kucinich: Safe retirement is part of American Dream.     Dennis Kucinich: Double standard between employers & employees must end.

Tax Reform     Bobby Jindal: Make the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permanent.     Dave Reichert: Make Bush’s tax cuts permanent.     Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Targeted tax cuts for small businesses and working families.     Geoff Davis: Make Bush’s tax cuts permanent.     Jeff Fortenberry: Eliminate the Marriage Tax and the Death Tax.     Lynn Westmoreland: Keep the “tax man” out of your pocket.     Randy Kuhl: Tax cuts and deregulations are pro-growth and pro-jobs.     Miriam Masullo: Replace federal graduated income tax with Fair Tax.

Technology     Henry Cuellar: Push for more funding for all the highway projects.     Thelma Drake: Direct federal resources to transportation infrastructure.     Dennis Kucinich: Americans need more info about genetic alterations in food.     Dennis Kucinich: Subsidize farmer losses due to genetic modifications.

War & Peace     Bobby Jindal: Prevent the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.     Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The Iraq war diverted our efforts in fighting terrorism.     John Salazar: Need to move forward from today in Iraq.     Dennis Kucinich: Supports Palestinian security and Israeli security.     Dennis Kucinich: War in Iraq was wrong, and isolated the US.

Welfare & Poverty     Gwen Moore: Raise the minimum wage and protect overtime pay.     Dennis Kucinich: Public sector has moral responsibility to provide jobs.     Dennis Kucinich: Education is only solution to alleviate poverty.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Allyson Schwartz Pennsylvania Democratic Challenger Billy Tauzin III Former GOP Challenger (2004) U.S. Rep Louisiana-3 Bob Inglis Republican (until 2010) U.S. Rep South Carolina-4 Bobby Jindal Louisiana Republican 2016 Presidential candidate Brian Higgins Democrat U.S. Rep New York-26 Charles Boustany Louisiana U.S. Trade Representative Connie Mack IV Republican Challenger Florida Dan Boren Democratic Governor Challenger U.S. Rep Oklahoma-2 Dan Lipinski Democrat U.S. Rep Illinois-3 Dan Lungren Republican U.S. Rep California-3 Dave Reichert Republican (Governor run 2012) U.S. Rep Washington-8 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democrat U.S. Rep Florida-23 Dennis Kucinich Ohio Democratic candidate for Governor Emmanuel Cleaver Democrat U.S. Rep Missouri-5 G.K. Butterfield Democrat U.S. Rep North Carolina-1 Geoff Davis Republican (Retiring 2012) U.S. Rep Kentucky-4 Gwen Moore Democrat U.S. Rep Wisconsin-4 Henry Cuellar Democrat U.S. Rep Texas-28 Jeff Fortenberry Republican U.S. Rep Nebraska-1 Jim Costa Democrat U.S. Rep California-16 Joe Schwarz Republican U.S. Rep Michigan-7 John Barrow Democratic Senate candidate Georgia John Salazar Democrat (Unseated 2010) U.S. Rep Colorado-3 Lynn Westmoreland Republican U.S. Rep Georgia-3 Melissa Bean Democrat (Unseated 2010) U.S. Rep Illinois-8 Mike Conaway Republican U.S. Rep Texas-11 Mike Sodrel Republican U.S. Rep Indiana-9 Miriam Masullo 2004 former Republican challenger Connecticut Patrick McHenry Republican U.S. Rep North Carolina-10 Randy Kuhl Republican (Unseated 2008) U.S. Rep New York-29 Russ Carnahan Democrat U.S. Rep Missouri-3 Ted Poe Republican U.S. Rep Texas-2 Thelma Drake Republican (Unseated 2008) U.S. Rep Virginia-2 Tom Price Georgia Health and Human Services Virginia Foxx Republican U.S. Rep North Carolina-5