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| Issue #1: How do you feel about federal funding for Stem Cell Research? |
Later today, the president will veto a bill passed by Congress to support stem cell research. I co-chair the Alzheimer's Caucus in the Senate. I've worked on helping to boost funding for research to look for cures and a way to prevent so many devastating diseases. And we know that stem cell research holds the key to our understanding more about what we can do. When I am president, I will lift the ban on stem cell research. This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science.
http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=322282&keyword=&phrase=stem+cells&contain= |
| Issue #2: What do you think should be done to help the environment? |
| Proposes a biofuels, and more. Clinton describes it as "an Apollo Project-like program dedicated to achieving energy independence." http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/08/09/clinton_factsheet/ |
| Issue #3: What would be best to help boost the economy? |
While I was heartened to hear the President acknowledge the need for immediate actions to jumpstart our economy, it will take more than tax rebates to fix our economic crisis and rebuild our economy for the future. We need immediate relief for people who are losing their jobs and facing skyrocketing home heating costs. And we need a comprehensive solution to the housing crisis. Every housing proposal the President made tonight, I made several months--and hundreds of thousands of foreclosure notices--ago. For example, I have proposed to enable the Federal Housing Administration to function as an alternative to the subprime market; and I have proposed to empower state housing finance agencies to help families refinance unworkable mortgages. But more is needed. So I have also called on the mortgage industry to observe a 90-day foreclosure moratorium on subprime mortgages and a 5-year freeze in rates on subprime loans.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Budget_+_Economy.htm |
| Issue #4: What do you think should happen with the Abortion issue? |
Hillary will sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify Roe v. Wade and send a renewed signal to the courts that the will of Congress and the President is to keep abortion legal. Senator Clinton is a co-sponsor of the FOCA.
http://thepublicsquare.blogspot.com/2008/01/freedom-of-choice-act-foca.html |
| Issue #5: What do you feel should be done about Healthcare in this country? |
If you don't start out trying to get universal health care, we know--and our members of Congress know--you'll never get there. If a Democrat doesn't stand for universal health care that includes every single American, you can see the consequences of what that will mean. It is imperative that we have plans, as both John and I do, that from the very beginning say, "You know what? Everybody has got to be covered." There's only three ways of doing it. You can have a single-payer system, you can require employers, or you can have individual responsibility. My plan combines employers and individual responsibility, while maintaining Medicare and Medicaid. The whole idea of universal health care is such a core Democratic principle that I am willing to go to the mat for it. I've been there before. I will be there again. I am not giving in; I am not giving up; and I'm not going to start out leaving 15 million Americans out of health care.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Health_Care.htm |
| Issue #6: What should be done with No Child Left Behind? |
"We can all agree that we do need measures," she told the New York State United Teachers' annual convention in the nation's capital. "We do need accountability. But not the kind of accountability that the NCLB law has imposed on people. Not only has it been funded at less than has been promised, it's been administered with a heavy and arbitrary hand." "It's time we had a president who cares more about learning than about memorizing," Sen. Clinton added. "The tests have become the curriculum instead of the other way around."
http://www.elladvocates.org/media/NCLB/EdWeek27apr07.html |
| Issue #7: What do you think should be done about same-sex marriages? |
"I believe in full equality of benefits, nothing left out," she said. "From my perspective there is a greater likelihood of us getting to that point in civil unions or domestic partnerships and that is my very considered assessment." But Clinton did add a caveat that upset some in attendance: "If you go the next step and say, 'But I want what is called marriage,' you're going to have a problem."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52647 |
| Issue #8: How do you feel about the different Acts for Homeland Security? |
"There is no better way to combat anti-Americanism than to do our best to demonstrate that America is invested in lifting up people around the world." Believes the U.S. must "renew those alliances around the world, around a common set of goals including combating genocide, expanding human rights, promoting reconciliation through diplomacy, stopping nuclear proliferation, and addressing global warming." Believes most significant threat to national security is nuclear proliferation.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.homelandsecurity.html |
| Issue #9: What do you think should be done to fix Social Security? |
Following two and a half years of study, members of Bill's Advisory Co until on Social Security offered proposals for investing a portion of Social Security retirement funds in the stock market. Hillary reacted emphatically to the report, telling her husband, "We mustn't let Social Security be privatized."
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Social_Security.htm |
| Issue #10: What do you think of the North American Free Trade Agreement? |
In 2005, for example, she voted against the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and she told Time in 2007 that "I believe in the general principles [NAFTA] represented, but what we have learned is that we have to drive a tougher bargain."
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm |
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| Issue #1: How do you feel about federal funding for Stem Cell Research? |
Obama supports relaxing federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. He voted for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which was vetoed by President Bush. The bill would have allowed federal funding to be used for research on stem cell lines obtained from discarded human embryos originally created for fertility treatments.
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Stem_Cell_Research |
| Issue #2: What do you think should be done to help the environment? |
Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists to avoid calamitous impacts. [Obama will require carbon emissions to be "80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050" through cap & trade (with 100% allowance auction!) starting with a mandate "of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020."]
http://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/10/obamas-energy-proposal.html |
| Issue #3: What would be best to help boost the economy? |
Obama has proposed a 75 billion-dollar plan which includes giving an immediate 250 dollar tax cut for workers and their families; a 250 dollar bonus to senior citizens in their Social Security checks; an additional 250 dollars to both workers and Social Security recipients if the economy continues to worsen; aid to states hit hardest by the housing downturn and extending and expanding unemployment benefits.
http://www.zibb.com/article/2617322/Roundup+Clinton+Obama+clash+over+economy+Iraq+War |
| Issue #4: What do you think should happen with the Abortion issue? |
"Throughout my career, I've been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. When South Dakota passed a law banning all abortions in a direct effort to have Roe overruled, I was the only candidate for President to raise money to help the citizens of South Dakota repeal that law. When anti-choice protesters blocked the opening of an Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic in a community where affordable health care is in short supply, I was the only candidate for President who spoke out against it. And I will continue to defend this right by passing the Freedom of Choice Act as president.
http://thepublicsquare.blogspot.com/2008/01/freedom-of-choice-act-foca.html |
| Issue #5: What do you feel should be done about Healthcare in this country? |
I do provide universal health care. The only difference between Clinton's plan and mine is that she thinks the problem for people without health care is that nobody has mandated, forced them to get health care. What I see are people who would love to have health care & can't afford it. My plan that makes sure that it is affordable to get health care as good as the health care that I have as a member of Congress. That's what the American people are looking for & what I intend to provide as president.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barack_Obama_Health_Care.htm |
| Issue #6: What should be done with No Child Left Behind? |
The Democratic presidential candidate said that, over the next few weeks, he will unveil his plan to reform the country's education system. He promised to increase teachers' wages and further compensate those that mentor children and teach tough subjects like science or math. "In the face of a global economy where too many children start behind and stay behind, this country doesn't need more blame or inaction or half-measures on education," Obama said. "What we need is a historic commitment to America's teachers, and that's the kind of commitment I intend to make as President."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/05/obama-slams-bushs-no-child-left-behind/ |
| Issue #7: What do you think should be done about same-sex marriages? |
Obama says that he believes "marriage is between a man and a woman" but he wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he remains "open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided ... I may have been infected with society's prejudices and predilections and attributed them to God." He supports granting civil unions for gay couples and opposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. In March 2007, Obama initially dodged questions about the morality of homosexuality. He later went on to say on national television that he did not believe homosexuals are immoral.
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Gay_Marriage |
| Issue #8: How do you feel about the different Acts for Homeland Security? |
| Will implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations. Provide greater technical assistance to local and state first responders and increase funding for reliable, interoperable communications systems. Develop a meaningful critical infrastructure protection plan. Will secure chemical plants and ensure safe, secure disposal of nuclear waste. Will improve U.S. intelligence system by creating a senior position to coordinate domestic intelligence gathering; establishing a grant program to support thousands more state and local level intelligence analysts and increase U.S. capacity to share intelligence across all levels of government. Voted to reauthorize Patriot Act in 2006, but would revise it. Would update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide greater oversight and accountability to the congressional Intelligence Committees to prevent future threats to the rule of law.http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.homelandsecurity.html |
| Issue #9: What do you think should be done to fix Social Security? |
I think that lifting the cap is probably going to be the best option. Now we've got to have a process [like the one] back in 1983. We need another one. And I think I've said before everything should be on the table. My personal view is that lifting the cap is much preferable to the other options that are available. But what's critical is to recognize that there is a potential problem: young people who don't think Social Security is going to be there for them. We should be willing to do anything that will strengthen the system, to make sure that that we are being true to those who are already retired, as well as young people in the future. And we should reject things that will weaken the system, including privatization, which essentially is going to put people's retirement at the whim of the stock market.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Economic/Barack_Obama_Social_Security.htm |
| Issue #10: What do you think of the North American Free Trade Agreement? |
| At the last Democratic debate regarding NAFTA where he said "I will make sure we renegotiate. I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced," |
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| Issue #1: How do you feel about federal funding for Stem Cell Research? |
McCain opposes embryonic stem cell research that uses cloned human embryos, but supports research using human embryos left over from fertility treatments. In 2006, McCain supported a trio of Senate bills designed to increase federal funding for adult stem cell research, ban the creation of embryos for research and offer federal support for research using embryos slated for destruction by fertility clinics.
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Stem_Cell_Research |
| Issue #2: What do you think should be done to help the environment? |
Believes the U.S. should embrace nuclear power as a way to generate energy without directly producing greenhouse-gas emissions. His 2007 Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act would take some of the money raised from auctioning emission allowances and make it available for loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants and R&D into new types of nuclear plants. An analysis by U.S. PIRG and Public Citizen [PDF] says that could amount to more than $3.7 billion in federal subsidies for new nuclear power plants. Wants to "find a way to use our coal resources without emitting excessive greenhouse gases," and supports public-private partnerships to develop high-tech systems for coal gasification and carbon capture and storage.
http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/10/01/mccain_factsheet/ |
| Issue #3: What would be best to help boost the economy? |
A lower corporate tax rate is essential to U.S. competitiveness. America was once a low-tax business environment, but as our trade partners lowered their rates, America failed to keep pace, leaving us with the second-highest rate among the world's advanced economies.[1]
Cutting the corporate tax will expand the U.S. economy, creating jobs and opportunities for prosperity. A recent analysis of tax policy options estimated that a cut less than half this size could increase long-term growth by 0.5 percent, or $100 billion in a single year.[2]
Lower corporate taxes leads to higher wages. Recent studies have shown that corporate taxes are in large part passed on to labor through lower wages. One study noted that a one percent hike in the corporate tax results in a 0.8 percent decrease in manufacturing wages.[3] Accordingly, cutting corporate taxes can increase wages for American workers.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/1a8640f0-b2e3-4edb-b2a9-236df79d2579.htm |
| Issue #4: What do you think should happen with the Abortion issue? |
McCain supports overturning Roe v. Wade and banning abortion except in cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother. He has an anti-abortion voting record, and has promised, if elected, to appoint justices who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench."
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Abortion |
| Issue #5: What do you feel should be done about Healthcare in this country? |
Allowing people to buy health insurance nationwide instead of limiting them to in-state companies, and permitting people to buy insurance through any organization or association they choose as well as through their employers or directly from an insurance company.
Providing tax credits of $2,500 to individuals and $5,000 to families as an incentive to help them buy insurance. All people would get the tax credit even if they get insurance through work or buy it on their own.
Supporting different methods of delivering care, including walk-in clinics in retail outlets across the country, and developing routes for cheaper generic versions of drugs to enter the U.S. market, including allowing for safe importation of drugs.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/11/mccain.healthcare.ap/index.html |
| Issue #6: What should be done with No Child Left Behind? |
"Senator McCain generally supports No Child Left Behind," said Matt David, spokesman for the John McCain (R-Ariz.) campaign, "but he thinks there should be a stronger emphasis on science and math."
However, David indicated that McCain might withhold support in the future.
"His support for reauthorization will depend on what amendments are made to the bill," David said, "not only what's added to it but also what could be taken away."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/2008-and-counting-watching-clinton-obama-squirm-on-troop-funding-2007-03-21.html |
| Issue #7: What do you think should be done about same-sex marriages? |
McCain says marriage should be between a man and a woman and that states should regulate marriage law. He opposed a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, but endorsed an Arizona ballot initiative to limit marriage to a man and a woman. He also supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which banned federal recognition of gay marriage and domestic partnerships.
http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Gay_Marriage |
| Issue #8: How do you feel about the different Acts for Homeland Security? |
Voted for the Patriot Act in 2001 and for its reauthorization in 2006. Was not present for vote on amending FISA in August 2006. Would revitalize U.S. public diplomacy and work to recreate an independent agency with the sole purpose of getting America's message to the world. Would set up a new civil-military agency patterned after the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Said: "The State Department and other agencies need to enhance their ability to send more experts to rebuild war-torn lands -- or, better still, bolster peaceful development to reduce the chances of war breaking out in the first place." Would create an Army Adviser Corps with 20,000 soldiers who would work with friendly militaries abroad. Would increase the number of personnel in information operations, Special Forces, civil affairs, military policing, military intelligence and other disciplines. Would increase numbers in Army and Marines and spend more on defense budget.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.homelandsecurity.html |
| Issue #9: What do you think should be done to fix Social Security? |
When asked about Social Security during a GOP debate, he stated: "Every man, woman and child in America needs to know it's going broke, and we've got to do the hard things. We've got to fix it for the future generations of Americans ... It's got to be bipartisan. And you have to go to the American people and say we won't raise your taxes. We need personal savings accounts, but we [have] to fix this system."
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.socialsecurity.html |
| Issue #10: What do you think of the North American Free Trade Agreement? |
McCain in Iowa: "I know NAFTA was a good idea." McCain said to the Des Moines Register leading up to the Iowa caucuses: "I know NAFTA was a good idea. It has created millions of jobs and it has helped the economies of all three of these nations. All you have to do is go to Detroit and see the trucks lined up every day or go to our southern border. There have been winners and losers. And that's the problem. But free trade is something that I think is vital to America."
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain_trade.cfm |
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