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Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+2 points on Social scale)	Joined Democrats to fund Planned Parenthood: Strongly Favors topic 1 Rated 83% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record: Strongly Favors topic 1 Expand embryonic stem cell research: Favors topic 1 Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance: Strongly Favors topic 1 Voted YES to protect infant survivors of abortion: Opposes topic 1 Ensure access to and funding for contraception: Favors topic 1 Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus emergency contraception: Favors topic 1 Strict Constitutionalist, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 1 Pro-Planned Parenthood, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 1 Anti-parental notification, according to CC survey: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	For Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act: Strongly Favors topic 2 Maintain role of women in armed forces in Iraq: Favors topic 2 Rated 57% by NAACP, indicating a mixed record on affirmative-action: Neutral on topic 2 Increase funding for occupational & physical therapy: Favors topic 2 More funding & services for victims of domestic violence: Strongly Favors topic 2 Afghan laws violate women's human rights on sex & divorce: Favors topic 2 Sponsored bill for ratifying Equal Rights Amendment: Strongly Favors topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Support transgender and LGBTQ+ rights (+5 points on Social scale)	Co-sponsored Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA): Strongly Favors topic 3 More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes: Strongly Favors topic 3 Rated 78% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance: Strongly Favors topic 3 ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays: Favors topic 3
Favors topic 4: America was founded on Christian values (-3 points on Social scale)	Allow foreign religious workers to stay in the U.S.: Strongly Favors topic 4 Block grants for state and local flexibility in welfare: Favors topic 4 Supports anti-flag desecration amendment: Favors topic 4 Rated 66% by the Christian Coalition: mixed voting record on Family Values: Neutral on topic 4 Constitutionally prohibit flag desecration: Favors topic 4
Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-3 points on Economic scale)	End unfair copays charged to veterans for contraception: Strongly Favors topic 5 Helped pass law lowering drug prices, speeding generics: Favors topic 5 Improve advance transparency on medical billing: Favors topic 5 Authored law letting pharmacists help patients save money: Neutral on topic 5 Strong supporter of home care: Favors topic 5 Extend ACA tax credits, but also need some reforms: Favors topic 5 Tax credits for those without employee health insurance: Strongly Favors topic 5 $350 billion for prescriptions for poor seniors: Favors topic 5 Rated 38% by APHA, indicating a mixed record on public health issues: Neutral on topic 5 Let states make bulk Rx purchases, and other innovations: Favors topic 5 Merge Alzheimers diagnosis and care benefit: Favors topic 5 Religious exemption from ObamaCare individual mandate: Opposes topic 5 Provide for treatment of autism under TRICARE: Favors topic 5 Expand health services for women veterans: Favors topic 5
Favors topic 6: Privatize Social Security (+2 points on Economic scale)	Foundation of retirement income for most Americans: Opposes topic 6 Rated 0% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record: Strongly Favors topic 6 Rated 41% by ARA, indicating a mixed record on senior issues: Neutral on topic 6 Supports individual savings accounts and work incentives: Favors topic 6
Favors topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (+2 points on Economic scale)	Support Ed-Flex: more flexibility if more accountable: Favors topic 7 Rated 55% by the NEA, indicating a mixed record on public education: Neutral on topic 7
Opposes topic 8: Businesses have a right to pollute (+2 points on Social scale)	End commercial whaling and illegal trade in whale meat: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Supports grants for brownfields remediation: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Rated 68% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 EPA must do better on mercury clean-up: Opposes topic 8 Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements: Opposes topic 8 Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs: Opposes topic 8 Prohibit invasive research on great apes: Strongly Opposes topic 8 No EPA permits required for forest road runoff: Strongly Favors topic 8 Regulatory relief for smaller banks stimulates growth: Favors topic 8 Loosen restrictions on predator control in Alaska: Strongly Favors topic 8 Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Fund studies of invasive species and algal blooms: Opposes topic 8
Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+2 points on Social scale)	Rated 25% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes: Strongly Favors topic 9 Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing: Opposes topic 9 Require DNA testing for all federal executions: Opposes topic 9 Increase funding for "COPS ON THE BEAT" program: Opposes topic 9 Reduce recidivism by giving offenders a Second Chance: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Facilitate recovering crime victim restitution fees: Strongly Favors topic 9 First step: reduce recidivism & mass incarceration: Opposes topic 9 Rated 64% by the NAPO, indicating a moderate stance on police issues: Neutral on topic 9 Support law enforcement, according to CC survey: Favors topic 9
Strongly Favors topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (+5 points on Economic scale)	Rated B+ by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record: Strongly Favors topic 10 Limit gun rights, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 10
Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Rated 64% by NTU, indicating "Satisfactory" on tax votes: Neutral on topic 11 Rated 20% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Reduce corporate tax rates from 35% to 21% to create jobs: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Pro-tax cuts, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Keep inheritance tax, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 11 Implement socially fair, broad-based tax cuts: Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+2 points on Social scale)	Co-sponsored bill for path to citizenship for DREAMers: Favors topic 12 English immersion over bilingual education: Opposes topic 12 Cover child resident aliens under Medicaid and SCHIP: Favors topic 12 Rated 25% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance: Strongly Favors topic 12 Increase limitations for H-1B, H-2B, and L-visas: Favors topic 12 Terminate national emergency at the Southern border: Favors topic 12 Increase both high-skill and family-based visa caps: Favors topic 12 Pro-border security, according to CC survey: Strongly Opposes topic 12
Strongly Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+5 points on Economic scale)	Voted with Democrats to undo tariffs on Canadian goods: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 67% by CATO, indicating a pro-free trade voting record: Strongly Favors topic 13 Promote the Andean Free Trade Agreement: Strongly Favors topic 13 Free trade with post-Orange Revolution Ukraine: Favors topic 13 Impose tariffs against countries which manipulate currency: Opposes topic 13 Voted FOR reauthorizing Ex-Im Bank: Strongly Favors topic 13 Implement USMCA for improved North American trade: Strongly Favors topic 13 Rated 75% by the USAE, indicating support for trade engagement: Strongly Favors topic 13 Ban imports from Xinjiang made by Uyghur forced labor: Opposes topic 13
Favors topic 14: Stay away from the UN & Globalism (+2 points on Economic scale)	Prohibit torture of terrorists in US custody: Opposes topic 14 Oppose the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty: Favors topic 14 Disallow Palestine from joining ICC to threaten Israel: Favors topic 14 Two-state solution despite Israeli settlements on West Bank: Favors topic 14 Allow travel between the United States and Cuba: Opposes topic 14
Favors topic 15: Peace through Strength (-3 points on Social scale)	Cuts in defense are very troubling to me personally: Strongly Favors topic 15 Supports $48 billion in new spending for anti-terrorism: Favors topic 15 Rated 0% by SANE, indicating a pro-military voting record: Strongly Favors topic 15 Sponsored bill for Iraq budget to be part of defense budget: Opposes topic 15 Extend reserve retirement pay parity back to 9/11: Favors topic 15 Improve mental health care benefits for returning veterans: Favors topic 15 $515B for military plus $89B off sequester for wars: Favors topic 15 Secure the grid, according to CC survey: Strongly Favors topic 15 Reduce federal government size & scope, including military: Opposes topic 15
Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+2 points on Social scale)	Reform public financing system to get more opt-in: Strongly Opposes topic 16 Reform campaign finance (after fighting massive warchests): Strongly Favors topic 16 Subject independent 527s to rules for political committees: Strongly Favors topic 16 Require Internet disclosure of all earmarks: Favors topic 16 Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge: Strongly Favors topic 16 Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements: Favors topic 16 Public financing of federal campaigns by voter vouchers: Favors topic 16
Opposes topic 17: Stay out of foreign wars (-3 points on Social scale)	Iranian nuclear weapons: prevention instead of containment: Strongly Opposes topic 17 Sponsored shutting down Iranian foreign reserves: Opposes topic 17 Iran must accept long-term intrusive nuke inspection: Opposes topic 17 Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program: Opposes topic 17 Pro-Israel, according to CC survey: Opposes topic 17 No military force against Iran without Congress approval: Strongly Favors topic 17 Sponsored resolution to repeal 2002 AUMF against Iraq: Strongly Favors topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	Make EPA into a Cabinet department: Strongly Favors topic 18 Keep efficient air conditioner rule to conserve energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Rated 67% by CAF, indicating a mixed record on energy independence: Neutral on topic 18 Sign on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: Strongly Favors topic 18 Let states define stricter-than-federal emission standards: Strongly Favors topic 18 Sponsored bill to assist rural electric renewable energy: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supports immediate reductions in greenhouse gases: Strongly Favors topic 18
Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+2 points on Social scale)	Provide prison inmates with drug addiction treatment: Opposes topic 19 Declines to take sides in marijuana legalization petition: Neutral on topic 19 Medical marijuana ok; but no marijuana banking: Favors topic 19 Rated B- by NORML, indicating a pro-drug-reform stance: Strongly Opposes topic 19 Require chemical resellers to certify against meth use: Favors topic 19
Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-3 points on Economic scale)	Multi-year increase for NIH funding for biomedical research: Strongly Favors topic 20 Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business: Favors topic 20 Rated 14% by UFCW, indicating a pro-management voting record: Opposes topic 20 Audit the Federal Reserve & its actions on mortgage loans: Opposes topic 20 Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package: Favors topic 20

Susan Collins is a Moderate Libertarian Liberal
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