US Senate & Congressional Candidate Questionnaire and Responses
A. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING
1. Will you vote NO on all tax increases? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you support across-the-board income tax cuts? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you vote to make the 2001, 2002 and 2003 tax cuts permanent? Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you vote to eliminate the marriage penalty for both one-earner and two-earner couples? Yes _____ No _____
5. Will you vote to abolish the death tax without passing a new tax (called "carryover basis") on the sale of inherited property? Yes _____ No _____
6. Will you vote to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts? Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you vote to end funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities? Yes _____ No _____
8. Will you vote to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Yes _____ No _____
9. Will you vote to defund the Legal Services Corporation? Yes _____ No _____
10. Will you vote to defund the Violence Against Women Act, widely known as "feminist pork"? 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)? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you vote against using taxpayer funds for UN "peacekeeping" missions where U.S. national security is not threatened? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you oppose any effort to put U.S. troops under foreign commanders? Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you oppose efforts to extend or make permanent policies assigning women to military combat, positions that face an "inherent risk of capture," or support units that "collocate" with ground combat units? Yes _____ No _____
5. Will you vote to stop coed basic training in the Army, Navy, and Air Force? Yes _____ No _____
6. Will you oppose the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Law of the Sea? Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you actively oppose all UN attempts to impose taxes, such as on international transactions? Yes _____ No _____
8. Will you vote against any treaty that requires the United States to reduce its energy consumption, such as the Global Warming Treaty (Kyoto Protocol)? Yes _____ No _____
9. Will you oppose the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Rights of the Child? Yes _____ No _____
10. 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)? Yes _____ No _____
11. Will you vote against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement, which would integrate the U.S. with the corruption and socialism of our hemispheric neighbors? Yes _____ No _____
C. BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION
1. Will you vote against any form of amnesty for illegal aliens? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you vote against any guest-worker program (which is amnesty in disguise)? Yes _____ No _____
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? Yes _____ No _____
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? Yes _____ No _____
5. Will you vote to require employers to verify the Social Security numbers of their employees and require the federal government to provide an efficient process? Yes _____ No _____
6. Will you vote to require visual inspections of the contents of at least 50% of trucks coming across our the border (instead of the current 1% to 2%) in order to stop drug and human smuggling? Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you oppose the State Department’s "totalization agreement" with Mexico that would give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens? Yes _____ No _____
8. Will you vote to repeal the federal requirement that hospital emergency rooms must give free medical care to illegal aliens (which is an unfunded mandate bankrupting hospitals)? Yes _____ No _____
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? Yes _____ No _____
10. Will you vote to stop giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens? Yes _____ No _____
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? Yes _____ No _____
13. Will you vote against extending the provision of the Voting Rights Act (which expires in 2007) which requires states to provide foreign language ballots (since the ability to speak, read, and write basic English is a requirement to become a naturalized citizen)? Yes _____ No _____
14. Will you support federal legislation to clean up voter registration lists and require proper voter ID in federal elections? Yes _____ No _____
15. Will you vote to require that aliens counted in the census may not be used for apportionment or redistricting?
Yes _____ No _____
16. Will you join the House or Senate Immigration Reform Caucus (which has over 90 Members)? Yes _____ No _____
D. LIFE
1. Do you oppose the judge-invented notion that abortion is a constitutional right? Yes _____ No _____
2. Do you support legislation to restore legal protection to unborn babies? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you support the confirmation of judges only if they respect the sanctity of human life at all stages? Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you support a human life amendment to the Constitution? Yes _____ No _____
5. Will you vote to prohibit taxpayer funding of all abortions? Yes _____ No _____
6. 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)? Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you vote to require parental consent before a minor can receive services at federally funded Title X family planning clinics? Yes _____ No _____
8. Will you support legislation that prohibits research that involves killing human embryos? Yes _____ No _____
9. Will you support legislation to completely ban all forms of human cloning? Yes _____ No _____
10. Will you oppose the use of federal funds to distribute abortion-causing drugs, such as RU-486?
Yes _____ No _____
11. Will you support retention of the pro-life plank in the Republican platform? Yes _____ No _____
12. Complete the sentence by checking the applicable boxes (you can check more than one).
Abortion should be:
___
Banned throughout a woman’s entire pregnancy.___Legal in the first trimester.
___Legal in cases of rape or incest.
___Legal in the second trimester.
___Legal to save the life of the mother.
___Legal in the third trimester.
___Legal if the baby is handicapped.
___Legal if the baby has a genetic defect.
Other:
__________________________________________________________E. EDUCATION AND PARENTAL RIGHTS
1. Will you oppose national testing, national standards, and federal control of curriculum? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you vote against universal mental health screening in public schools? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you support the right of parents to opt out their children from curricula, books, classes, or surveys, which parents consider privacy-invading or offensive to their religion or conscience? Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you support the right of all fit parents to the care, custody, and control of the upbringing of their children?
Yes _____ No _____
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? Yes _____ No _____
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)? Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you vote to deny federal funds to schools that force children to use psychotropic drugs? Yes _____ No _____
F. HEALTH CARE, FAMILY, AND WELFARE
1. Will you support 100% tax deductibility for the purchase or payment of health insurance by individuals (just as employers have for company-paid insurance)? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you vote to prohibit persons who receive benefits from vaccine manufacturers from serving on government panels that approve vaccines? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you vote to require states and health care providers to prohibit euthanasia and assisted suicide as a condition of participation in the Medicaid and Medicare programs? Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you vote to forbid the Federal Government's use of "unique health care identifiers"? Yes _____ No _____
5. 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 the ERA, which expired in 1982, is still viable? Yes _____ No _____
2. Will you oppose a national Constitutional Convention for any purpose? Yes _____ No _____
3. Will you vote to define the jurisdiction of courts to exclude lawsuits claiming that acknowledgment of God violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment? (to safeguard the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and the Boy Scouts) Yes _____ No _____
4. Will you vote to define the jurisdiction of courts over challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or similar state laws as a violation of the 14th
amendment? Yes _____ No _____5. Will you oppose any effort to expand federal hate crimes laws? Yes _____ No _____
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.) Yes _____ No _____
7. Will you vote against any bill that preempts stronger state privacy laws? Yes _____ No _____
Key
Y=Yes N=No U=Undecided 0=not answered *=Comments
(*Due to space limitations comments have not been included, but are on file in our office)
"Did Not Respond" means candidate failed to answer and return the above questionnaire. In most cases they were contacted at least twice.
There
are many candidates who failed to respond.
Nevada Families encourages you to call them and ask them the questions
from the questionnaire.
U.S.
Senate
Jack Carter – D
– Did Not Respond
John Ensign – R –
“Does not answer questionnaires – gets too many.”
David Schumann – IAP –
Note: #12 Legal in cases of rape or incest
Legal
to save the life of the mother
Brendan
Trainor – Lib –
A.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y
B.
1N 2Y 3Y 4N 5N 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11U
C.
1N 2N 3N 4N 5N 6N 7Y 8Y 9N 10Y 11 a0 b0 c0 d0 12Y 13Y 14Y 15N 16N
D.
1N 2N 3N 4N 5Y 6Y 7N 8N 9N 10N 11N 12*
Note:
#12 Legal in the third trimester
E.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y
F.
1Y 2U 3N 4U 5Y
G.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4N 5Y 6Y 7Y
Shelley Berkley – D
– Did Not Respond
Darnell Roberts – IAP
– Did Not Respond
Ken Wegner – R
–
A
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8N 90 10Y
B.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y 8N 9N 10N 11Y
C.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11 aY bY cY dY 12Y 13Y 14Y 15Y 16Y
D.
1Y 2N 3N 4N 5Y 6N 7N 8N 9N 10Y 110 12*
Note:
#12 Legal in the first trimester
Legal in cases of rape or incest
Legal to save the life of the mother
No
partial-birth abortions ever
E.
1Y 2Y 3N 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y
F.
1Y 2Y 3N 4Y 5Y
G.
1Y 20 3Y 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y
Bruce Westcott –
Reform Party – Did Not Respond
Jill Derby – D – Did
Not Respond
Dean Heller – R –
Did Not Respond
James
Kroshus – IAP –
A.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y
B.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11Y
C.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11 aY bY cY dY 12Y 130 14Y 15Y 16Y
D.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y 80 9Y 10Y 11Y 12*
Note:
#12 Legal in cases of rape or incest
Legal to save the life of the mother
E.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y
F.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y
G.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6Y 7Y
Daniel
Rosen – Independent Candidate – Did respond but not to the questionnaire.
His proposal is for Nevada Vote Direct, where the congressman votes according to
the vote of the people on issues.
Tessa Hafen – D
– Did Not Respond
Joshua
Hansen – IAP –
A.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y
B.
1* 2Y 3Y 4N 5Y 6Y 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11Y
C.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5N 6N 7Y 8Y 9Y 10Y 11 aY bY cY dY 12Y 13Y 14N 15Y 16Y
D.
1Y 2* 3Y 4N 5Y 6Y 7Y 8N 9N 10Y 11N 12*
Note:
#12 Legal first trimester
Legal in cases of rape or incest
Legal to save the life of the mother
E.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5N 6Y 7Y
F.
1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y
G.
1Y 2Y 3N 4N 5Y 6Y 7Y
Jon Porter – R
– Did Not Respond
Joseph Silvestri – Lib
– Did Not Respond