Editor: Janine Hansen
Vol. 37 No. 7. Email version
Questions We Should Ask the Congressional Candidates
Most of the time the questions we ask candidates, especially federal candidates, are the issues we’ve heard discussed in the media, but the issues we should be concerned about go far beyond media hype. Just reading the extensive questionnaire from National Eagle Forum is an education in and of itself. It contains comprehensive questions on the far reaching issues of our day…most of which are rarely discussed.
Nevada Families/Eagle Forum has sent the following questionnaire to all the candidates for Nevada’s Special Congressional Election. We will be posting candidate responses on our website by mid-August. Questions B-6 and C-6 have been updated and appear at the end of the questionnaire. When you attend an event where you can question the candidates, take a copy of the questionnaire with you and ask the candidates the hard questions.
National Eagle Forum: Congressional Candidate Questionnaire
YES NO A. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING
_ _ 1. Will you vote NO on all tax increases?
_ _ 2. Will you vote to make the 2001, 2002 and 2003 tax cuts permanent?
_ _ 3. Will you vote to reduce the marriage penalty for both one-earner and two-earner couples?
_ _ 4. Will you vote to abolish the death tax without passing a new tax (called “carryover basis”) on
the sale of inherited property?
_ _ 5. Will you vote against all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts?
_ _ 6. Will you vote to defund the Legal Services Corporation?
_ _ 7. Will you vote to defund the Violence Against Women Act, widely known as “feminist pork”?
_ _ 8. Will you oppose all funding for ACORN and its affiliated organizations?
YES NO B. NATIONAL SECURITY, FOREIGN POLICY, AND SOVEREIGNTY
_ _ 1. Will you vote to fund a National Missile Defense system (long-range and short-range)?
_ _ 2. Will you vote against using taxpayer funds for UN “peacekeeping” missions where U.S.
national security is not threatened?
_ _ 3. Will you oppose any effort to put U.S. troops under foreign commanders?
_ _ 4. Will you oppose efforts to extend or make permanent policies that place female soldiers in or
embedded with direct ground combat units that attack the enemy, such as the infantry, or in Special
Operations Forces and submarines.
_ _ 5. Will you vote to preserve separate training for male and female Marines, and to restore it in the Army?
_ _ 6. Will you support the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.),
and oppose any legislative, judicial, or administrative effort to repeal or invalidate that law?
_ _ 7. Will you oppose the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Law of the Sea?
_ _ 8. Will you actively oppose all UN attempts to impose taxes, such as on international transactions?
_ _ 9. Will you vote against any treaty or legislation that requires the United States to reduce its energy
consumption, such as a Global Warming Treaty or Cap and Trade legislation?
_ _ 10. Will you oppose the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Rights of the Child?
_ _ 11. Will you oppose the UN Convention (Treaty) on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) (an “Equal Rights Amendment” enforced by the UN)?
_ _ 12. Will you vote to prohibit funding for any activities associated with the Security and Prosperity
Partnership or its successor (which Obama attended in August 2009)?
YES NO C. BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION
_ _ 1. Will you vote against any form of amnesty for illegal aliens?
_ _ 2. Will you vote against any guest-worker program (which is amnesty in disguise)?
_ _ 3. Will you vote to repeal Ted Kennedy’s Diversity Visa Lottery, which admits 50,000 aliens per
year, mostly from non-Western countries including countries that sponsor terrorism?
_ _ 4. Will you vote to close our borders to illegal aliens and illegal drugs by whatever means
necessary, including physical and electronic fences and National Guard troops?
_ _ 5. Will you vote to require employers to verify the Social Security numbers of their employees?
_ _ 6. Will you vote to prohibit Mexican trucks access to all U.S. highways and roads?
_ _ 7. Will you oppose the State Department’s “totalization agreement” with Mexico which allows illegal
aliens to count unlawful U.S. work towards qualifying for Social Security benefits?
_ _ 8. Will you vote to limit the federal requirement that hospital emergency rooms give free medical care
to illegal aliens (an unfunded mandate bankrupting hospitals) and authorize returning illegal aliens to
their own country?
_ _ 9. Will you vote to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens who betray their oath of U.S.
citizenship by claiming “dual citizenship” with their native country?
_ _ 10. Will you vote to stop giving U.S. citizenship to babies (“anchor babies”) born to illegal aliens?
_ 11. Will you vote to impose financial penalties on states that: (check all that apply)
_ issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens?
_ accept foreign-issued cards, such as the matricula consular, as acceptable IDs?
_ give lower in-state tuition to illegal aliens (in violation of current federal law)?
_ refuse to cooperate with immigration officials in identifying illegal aliens?
_ _ 12. Will you vote to overturn Clinton’s Executive Order 13166, which compels recipients of tax
dollars (such as doctors and hospitals) to offer services in foreign languages?
_ _ 13. Will you support federal legislation to clean up voter registration lists and require proper voter
ID in federal elections?
_ _ 14. Since only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote, will you support legislation requiring that aliens
counted in the 2010 census may not be used for purposes of apportionment or redistricting?
_ _ 15. Will you support making English our official language (as 30 states have done)?
YES NO D. LIFE
_ _ 1. Do you oppose the judge-invented notion that abortion is a constitutional right?
_ _ 2. Do you support legislation to restore legal protection to unborn babies?
_ _ 3. Will you support the confirmation of judges only if they respect the sanctity of human life at all
stages?
_ _ 4. Will you support a human life amendment to the Constitution?
_ _ 5. Will you vote to prohibit taxpayer funding of all abortions?
_ _ 6. Will you vote to continue prohibitions of abortion services on military bases?
_ _ 7. Will you vote to cut off federal funds for Planned Parenthood and any other organization that
performs abortions, both in the U.S. and abroad (even if they use money from other sources)?
_ _ 8. Will you vote to require parental consent before a minor can receive services at federallyfunded
Title X family planning clinics?
_ _ 9. Will you support legislation that prohibits research that involves killing human embryos?
_ _ 10. Will you support legislation to completely ban all forms of human cloning?
_ _ 11. Will you oppose the use of federal funds to distribute abortion-causing drugs, such as RU-486?
_ _ 12. Will you oppose any change in the pro-life plank in the Republican Platform, which has been
virtually unchanged since 1984, namely: “The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life
which cannot be infringed.”
YES NO E. EDUCATION AND PARENTAL RIGHTS
_ _ 1. Will you oppose national testing, national standards, and federal control of curriculum?
_ _ 2. Will you vote against funding for universal mental health screening in public schools?
_ _ 3. Will you vote for federal school appropriations to require informed, written parental consent for
curricula, surveys, classes or books that may be privacy-invading or offensive to religion or conscience?
_ _ 4. Will you support the right of all fit parents to the care, custody, and control of the upbringing
of their children, even if parents are divorced?
_ _ 5. Will you support federal funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?
_ _ 6. Will you vote to end federal funding of bilingual education (the voters of CA, AZ, and MA have
rejected it and recent tests prove that immigrant children benefit by its elimination)?
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_ _ 7. Will you vote to deny federal funds to schools that force children to use psychotropic drugs?
_ _ 8. Will you vote to deny federal funds to schools that require students to be vaccinated for HPV?
YES NO F. HEALTH CARE, FAMILY, AND WELFARE
_ _ 1. Will you oppose expansion or creation of government-run health-care programs?
_ _ 2. Will you support 100% tax deductibility for the purchase or payment of health insurance by
individuals (just as employers have for company-paid insurance)?
_ _ 3. Will you vote to prohibit persons who receive benefits from vaccine manufacturers from serving
on government panels that approve vaccines?
_ _ 4. Will you vote to require states and health care providers to prohibit euthanasia and assisted
suicide as a condition of participation in Medicaid and Medicare programs?
_ _ 5. Will you vote to continue the prohibition of a Federal “unique health care identifier”?
_ _ 6. Recognizing that family care is best for children and the nation, will you oppose any plan for
federal financing or regulation of child care?
YES NO G. CONSTITUTIONAL AND PRIVACY
_ _ 1. Will you oppose any effort to revive the Equal Rights Amendment and any legislation that
implies that the ERA, which expired in 1982, is still viable?
_ _ 2. Will you oppose a national Constitutional Convention for any purpose?
_ _ 3. Will you support legislation for Congress to use its Article III power vote to deny jurisdiction to the
federal courts over areas where we don’t trust them, namely, the definition of marriage, the Pledge of
Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, the Cross on veterans’ memorials, and the Boy Scouts?
_ _ 4. Will you vote to prohibit the federal courts from hearing challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage
Act (DOMA) or similar state laws and constitutional amendments (such as California’s Proposition 8)?
_ _ 5. Will you oppose any effort to expand federal hate crimes laws?
_ _ 6. Will you vote to prohibit the expansion or creation of federal databases that monitor the activities of
law-abiding Americans, such as bank deposits, cell phone usage, health care, immunization records,
travel, schoolchildren, and lawful gun purchases? (Databases of felons, terrorists, and aliens are OK.)
_ _ 7. Will you oppose all efforts to repeal the federal ban on internet gambling?
_ _ 8. Will you vote against any legislation to help Puerto Rico to become a state?
_ _ 9. Will you vote against any legislation to pretend that the District of Columbia is a state and entitled to a
state’s representation in Congress?
YES NO Replacement Question for B-6: Would you vote to support DOMA (fed. Defense of Marriage Act) and prohibit federal funding that violates DOMA, such as, performing same sex marriages on military bases?
YES NO Replacement Question for C-6: Will you vote to hold hearings and to repeal Obama’s Executive Order to allow Mexican trucks access to all U.S. highways and roads?
Continued “Exclusive: United Nations”: At the first tax design meeting in Mexico City last April 28-29, I was told that approval for my attendance was a "fluke" and that I should not have been credentialed to attend. Nonetheless before departing Mexico, I was assured that I would be invited to follow-up meetings.
When I did not receive an emailed invitation, I asked a U.S. Congressman to intercede. His chief of staff called the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany and was told the only entry was through one of the UN's nine "constituency focal points," so I next contacted them. Not even the U.S. Departments of State or Treasury could penetrate the UN's bureaucratic morass.
Typically I attend UN meetings with press credentials, but because the press was banned from the Committee meeting, I petitioned the UN's women and gender constituency. They initially told me they had space, then withdrew their invitation stating, "I find it quite audacious [for you] to try to go on our ticket, given the positions you have." Eagle Forum indeed opposes a global tax and the UN's radical feminist positions that would not even be discussed at the tax design meeting.
The UN's tax scheme must be derailed because it is only the opening salvo in an all-out war on the U.S. economy and national sovereignty. The U.S. Congress should cut ALL funding to the UN until it backs away from its global tax scheme! -end-
Exclusive: The United Nations Bans Opposition to Its Global Tax Design Meeting
by Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum International Issues Chairman, cathieadams@me.com www.eagleforum.org
When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his plan "to fundamentally transform the global economy — based on low-carbon, clean energy resources," few realized he was calling for a new global tax to be designed without public scrutiny, but that is exactly what he meant. To thwart it, the UN's flawed process and its tax design scheme must be exposed.
The UN's one nation, one vote system has been used since its founding to render the U.S. impotent, regardless of the fact that we are its major financial donor. It is credulous to think that UN reforms could fix its flawed process. Banning the press and global tax opponents from its July 13-14 tax design meeting in Tokyo, Japan, for example, is anathema to a democratic process, but the UN is not a democracy. Rather, its unelected bureaucrats use a "collaborative decision-making process" to reach "consensus" with no debate or expressed opposition. The UN calls it "global governance" and Ban Ki-moon describes how it works: "While we are all in the same boat, not all have a say in how to steer it."
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The tax saga began in earnest last December in Cancun, Mexico when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1992, created a Transitional Committee charged with designing a new Green Climate Fund. The Committee is to design the Fund to amass a minimum of $100 billion a year, which is to be approved at the next major meeting of the UNFCCC in Durban, South Africa this December.
The Committee consists of representatives from 40 nations, including the U.S., who are considering taxes on carbon, international aviation and shipping, international financial transactions and a wire tax for producing electricity. The UN is also pushing for removal of fossil fuel subsidies and redirecting them to its international green agenda, which would cause the U.S. to be even more dependent on foreign oil.
The purpose of the Fund is to enable the UN to implement its global blueprint for sustainable development called Agenda 21. This green agenda is the new Marxism that requires government ensured economic equity and environmental neutrality. Agenda 21 is not a treaty, but a plan of action produced by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In the U.S., federal and state legislatures were bypassed when then-President Clinton signed an executive order to create the President's Council on Sustainable Development to implement Agenda 21. Federal grants continue to flow to local governments to carry out the UN's green agenda across America.
Granting the UN the right to tax would be like giving it a blank check for future use. Taxpayers can be assured of perpetual demand because it has no idea what it will cost to "go green." Two years ago, it estimated the cost at $600 billion annually for the next decade, but today its estimate is at least $1.9 trillion annually for the next 40 years or $76 trillion!
Political manipulation of climate change is key to global taxation and the fundamental transformation of the global economy. Since the 1997 UNFCCC meeting in Kyoto, Japan, I have watched the UN agitate class warfare to create a demand for a global tax to "green" third world economies. (Continued inside)
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