Phil Roe MyOcracy topics and responses

Civil Rights

Abortion rights: Ban all abortions

• 01/03/2013: Life and human rights begin at fertilization or cloning
• 12/01/2011: Ban abortions for sex selection or race selection
• 05/04/2011: Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion
• 01/07/2011: Congress shall protect life beginning with fertilization
• 11/04/2008: Life begins at conception

  Ban abortions except in limited cases

• 01/04/2013: No family planning assistance that includes abortion
• 05/05/2011: Prohibit federal funding for abortion
• 01/07/2011: Prohibit federal funding to groups like Planned Parenthood
• 07/29/2010: Bar funding for abortion under federal Obamacare plans

  Support for gun rights

• 09/02/2011: Recognize heritage of hunting & shooting on federal lands
• 01/25/2011: Allow veterans to register unlicensed guns acquired abroad
• 04/30/2009: Allow reloading spent military small arms ammunition

  Support marriage rights between a man and a woman only

• 09/19/2013: Protect anti-same-sex marriage opinions as free speech
• 04/02/2009: Voted NO on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes
• 11/04/2008: Philosophically and morally opposed to gay marriage

Economic Issues

Support a balanced federal budget by constitutional amendment

• 01/05/2011: Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution
• 01/06/2009: Balanced Budget Amendment with 3/5 vote to override

  Reduce taxes for all tax payers

• 01/01/2012: Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
• 08/12/2010: Taxpayer Protection Pledge: no new taxes

  Implement a flat tax

• 01/06/2009: Replace income tax & employment tax with FairTax
• 10/09/2008: Fan of the fair tax; and fan of the flat tax

  Taxes for large corporations: Decrease

• 05/11/2010: No European-style VAT (value-added tax)

  Increase taxes for all tax payers

• 01/06/2009: Repeal the Death Tax

  Taxes for wealthier tax payers: Less

• 01/03/2013: Repeal the death tax, immediately and with no expiration

Education Issues

Support school vouchers

• 03/30/2011: Voted YES on reauthorizing the DC opportunity scholarship program
• 01/05/2011: Constitutionally guarantee parent's right to educate kids
• 10/09/2008: Supports school choice; federal government out of education

Environmental Issues

Oppose cap-and-trade programs to address industrial emissions

• 06/26/2009: Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution
• 01/09/2009: Bar greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act rules

  Support off-shore drilling to tap new oil sources

• 05/12/2011: Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling

Healthcare Issues

Reduce government involvement in the provision of health insurance for taxpayers

• 04/15/2011: Voted YES on the Ryan Budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts
• 07/04/2010: Repeal any federal health care takeover

  Lower eligibility age for Medicare to increase coverage of older taxpayers

• 06/30/2008: Freeze Medicare cuts; they`re devastating for seniors

Immigration

Oppose amnesty for undocumented individuals

• 11/04/2008: Secure the border or we`ll never solve the problem

  Improve enforcement of existing immigration laws

• 01/03/2013: No birthright citizenship unless one parent is an American