VoteMatch Responses
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No opinion on
topic 1: Abortion is a woman's right
(5 points on Social scale)
| (No votes on which to base response) |
Strongly Favors
topic 2: Require companies to hire more women & minorities
(0 points on Economic scale)
| NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds: Strongly Favors topic 2 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 2 NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business: Strongly Favors topic 2 |
No opinion on
topic 3: Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws
(5 points on Social scale)
| YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage: Strongly Opposes topic 3 YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation: Strongly Favors topic 3 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 4: Permit prayer in public schools
(10 points on Social scale)
| NO on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer: Opposes topic 4 NO on $75M for abstinence education: Strongly Opposes topic 4 |
No opinion on
topic 5: More federal funding for health coverage
(5 points on Economic scale)
| YES on medical savings acounts: Favors topic 5 YES on Medicare means-testing: Opposes topic 5 |
Opposes
topic 6: Privatize Social Security
(2 points on Economic scale)
| NO on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes: Opposes topic 6 NO on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees: Opposes topic 6 NO on allowing personal retirement accounts: Opposes topic 6 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 7: Parents choose schools via vouchers
(0 points on Social scale)
| NO on school vouchers in DC: Strongly Opposes topic 7 NO on education savings accounts: Opposes topic 7 |
Opposes
topic 8: Death Penalty
(7 points on Social scale)
| NO on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 NO on limiting death penalty appeals: Opposes topic 8 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 9: Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws
(10 points on Social scale)
| NO on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms: Strongly Opposes topic 9 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership
(0 points on Social scale)
| NO on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks: Strongly Opposes topic 10 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 11: Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy
(0 points on Economic scale)
| NO on FY99 tax cuts: Strongly Opposes topic 11 NO on requiring super-majority for raising taxes: Opposes topic 11 |
No opinion on
topic 12: Immigration helps our economy-encourage it
(5 points on Economic scale)
| NO on limit welfare for immigrants: Strongly Favors topic 12 NO on visas for skilled workers: Opposes topic 12 NO on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work: Opposes topic 12 |
Favors
topic 13: Support & expand free trade
(7 points on Economic scale)
| YES on Unknown roll call for 1997-292: Favors topic 13 YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority: Favors topic 13 |
No opinion on
topic 14: Link human rights to trade with China
(5 points on Social scale)
| (No votes on which to base response) |
Favors
topic 15: More spending on armed forces
(2 points on Economic scale)
| NO on 1996 Defense Appropriations: Opposes topic 15 YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects: Strongly Favors topic 15 |
Favors
topic 16: Reduce spending on missile defense (Star Wars)
(2 points on Economic scale)
| NO on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty: Favors topic 16 NO on deploying missile defense as soon as possible: Favors topic 16 |
Favors
topic 17: Seek UN approval for military action
(2 points on Economic scale)
| NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech: Favors topic 17 YES on $17.9 billion to IMF: Favors topic 17 |
No opinion on
topic 18: Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy
(5 points on Economic scale)
| YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline: Opposes topic 18 YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests: Favors topic 18 |
Strongly Opposes
topic 19: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it
(10 points on Social scale)
| NO on spending international development funds on drug control: Strongly Opposes topic 19 |
Opposes
topic 20: Allow churches to provide welfare services
(7 points on Social scale)
| YES on welfare overhaul: Favors topic 20 NO on allowing state welfare waivers: Opposes topic 20 YES on eliminating block grants for food stamps: Opposes topic 20 NO on welfare block grants: Opposes topic 20 |