2020 Illinois Senatorial race: debates and news coverage


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Abortion     Mark Curran: IL Right to Life Action: rated most prolife in Senate race.     Mark Curran: Pro-life, only allow abortion to save life of mother.     Mark Curran: Opposed partial-birth abortion.     Anne Stava-Murray: Progressive and pregnant prochoice champion.     Anne Stava-Murray: OpEd: Supports expanded abortion rights.

Budget & Economy     Mark Curran: Balanced budget via combo of increased revenue & budget cuts.     Mark Curran: Would support and lead on Balanced Budget Amendment.

Civil Rights     Mark Curran: The wrong people moved in, and changed Lake County.

Corporations     Mark Curran: Cut red tape and regulations for private business.     Mark Curran: Oversight of government agencies hostile to business.     Mark Curran: Cut red tape and regulations for private business.     Richard Durbin: Patriot employers: reward companies that supply U.S. jobs.

Crime     Mark Curran: Black Lives Matter addresses police racist conduct.

Drugs     Mark Curran: Training and Narcan will help responders deal with overdoses.     Mark Curran: Training and Narcan will help responders deal with overdoses.     Mark Curran: Key to solving opioid epidemic is border security.     Anne Stava-Murray: End marijuana probation; allow regulation and taxation.     Anne Stava-Murray: Legalize recreational marijuana & include safety provisions.     Richard Durbin: The plague of methamphetamine abuse is growing.

Education     Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice.     Mark Curran: Need localized approach to education and parental choice.     Richard Durbin: Create refundable tax credit for teachers in Title I schools.     Mark Curran: There is no student loan crisis: against "free college".     Anne Stava-Murray: Shift cost of education away from property tax.     Anne Stava-Murray: Decades of disinvestment have hurt Illinois state schools.

Energy & Oil     Mark Curran: Yes to cleaner fuel but some climate ideas are alarmist.     Mark Curran: Yes to cleaner fuel but some climate ideas are alarmist.     Richard Durbin: Empower the EPA to regulate greenhouse emissions.     Mark Curran: Not convinced climate change is current threat to humankind.     Mark Curran: Opposes "far-left radical environmental agenda".     Anne Stava-Murray: Reduce coal-protectionist provisions, increase regulations.

Environment     Mark Curran: Use EPA to prosecute corporate polluters.     Mark Curran: Use EPA to prosecute corporate polluters.     Richard Durbin: Renovate our entire drinking water infrastructure.     Mark Curran: Corporate polluters should be prosecuted and sent to prison.

Families & Children     Anne Stava-Murray: After #MeToo moment, withdrew support for Speaker Madigan.     Richard Durbin: Safe, affordable child care available to more families.

Foreign Policy     Mark Curran: Some Islamic nations not ripe for democracy.

Free Trade     Mark Curran: Tariffs may be necessary; subsidize farmers if required.

Government Reform     Mark Curran: Supports term limits for Congress.     Anne Stava-Murray: Favor legislative term limits.     Anne Stava-Murray: End gerrymandering and voter suppression.

Gun Control     Mark Curran: Absent amendment, many proposed laws unconstitutional.     Mark Curran: Focus on mental health & video games, not guns.     Anne Stava-Murray: We can reduce number of gun-related suicides.     Anne Stava-Murray: Proactive legislation to crack down on reckless gun owners.

Health Care     Mark Curran: Preventative medicine approach, with free market principles.     Richard Durbin: Defend & expand ObamaCare and Medicaid.     Mark Curran: Study ACA to see what's working before deciding to repeal.     Anne Stava-Murray: Supports Medicare-for-All, with immediate transition.

Homeland Security     Mark Curran: Proper funding & resources to fight terror.

Immigration     Mark Curran: For border wall; but path to citizenship for DREAMers.     Mark Curran: Supports Trump on funding for border/ICE agents, border wall.     Mark Curran: Backed bipartisan legislation with path for citizenship.     Mark Curran: Deporting working people with families is absolutely wrong.     Mark Curran: When rights of one are in jeopardy, rights of all are.

Jobs     Anne Stava-Murray: Pass fair scheduling laws to combat on-demand scheduling.

Principles & Values     Mark Curran: Curtailing individual religious freedoms, I find abhorrent.     Mark Curran: Bless us with four more years of Donald Trump.

Social Security     Mark Curran: Face hard truth to properly fund benefit programs.     Mark Curran: Local pensions invest the majority of money in the market.     Anne Stava-Murray: Our state pension debt is underfunded.

Tax Reform     Mark Curran: Simplify tax code; against tax breaks for large corporations.

Technology     Richard Durbin: Fund science to protect food supply, cure disease, and more.

War & Peace     Mark Curran: Sanctions & possible bombing, to stop spread of nuclear arms.

Welfare & Poverty     Mark Curran: Access to food is a right and Congress must safeguard it.     Mark Curran: Access to food is a right and Congress must safeguard it.     Richard Durbin: Educate farmers about federal programs that can help them.

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