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What is your position on the use of taxpayer funds in support of abortion (e.g. paying for abortion, promoting abortion, subsidizing organizations that provide or refer for abortion)?

In 2000, the Nebraska Legislature passed the Agricultural Opportunities and Value-Added Partnerships Act to strengthen value-added production and to create employment opportunities in the value-added agricultural production industry. After initial competitive grants under the Act, state funding was withdrawn in 2002 as a budget-cutting measure. The Act itself will terminate on January 1, 2004 unless reauthorized. Would you support or oppose legislation proposing to reauthorize the Agricultural Opportunities and Value-Added Partnerships Act, as a public-policy endorsement of value-added production and so that it may be considered for future funding during improved fiscal conditions?

Would you support or oppose legislation proposing to repeal the death penalty and replace it with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life without possibility of parole?

What is your position on providing state tax credits or vouchers to parents and guardians to financially assist them in choosing the elementary and/or secondary schools—whether public or private, including religiously affiliated—that are best suited for their children?

What legislation or other public-policy initiatives, if any, would you advocate and pursue to deal with environmental concerns (e.g. swine waste management) associated with large-scale livestock confinement operations?

Proposals have been made to make it legal for doctors to administer lethal injections or give lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who request that their death be caused in this manner. What is your position on changing Nebraska law to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia?

What is your position on amending the Nebraska Constitution to allow for an expansion of legalized gambling activity? If support, what form(s) and under what stipulations?

In your view, what legislation and/or other public-policy initiatives should be pursued, if any, to make adequate health care coverage more accessible and more affordable for all Nebraskans, regardless of economic or social status?

Would you support or oppose legislation to prohibit embryonic stem-cell research; that is, research that uses stems cells from human embryos, which (embryos) are destroyed for this purpose?

Would you support or oppose legislation to prohibit the cloning of human embryos for the purpose of research or live birth?

What is your position on seeing to it that, as a matter of legislation in Nebraska, newly arrived immigrant families have access to human services, including education, housing, transportation, justice system, health care, and compensation for work-related injuries?

In your view, what public-policy changes and/or initiatives should be pursued, if any, to address the high social and public costs of failed marriages and the State’s interest in promoting stable marriages, especially for the sake of children?

What is your position on providing adequate funding for job training, childcare, transportation and medical care (e.g. transitional benefits) for individuals striving to become self-sufficient by following the State’s track from welfare to work?

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Federal Candidate Survey - Full text of questions

Nebraska State Legislature Candidate Survey - Full text of questions

U.S. Senate Candidate Responses (with truncated questions)

U.S. House of Representatives Candidate Responses - 1st District  (truncated questions)

U.S. House of Representatives Candidate Responses - 2nd District (truncated questions)

U.S. House of Representatives Candidate Responses - 3rd District  (truncated questions)

State Candidate Responses, Districts 1-25

State Candidate Responses, Districts 26-49

Candidate Survey-General Election, Nov. 7, 2000 

Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives

What is your position on amending the U.S. Constitution in a way that would protect the right to life of unborn children (Human Life Amendment)?

What is your position on the use of taxpayer funds for abortion?

What is your position on amending or repealing current agricultural policies in favor of programs that are more beneficial to small-to-moderate-sized, family-owned-and-operated farms and ranches, including a "safety net" in times of low prices and natural disasters?

What is your position on federal efforts to extend the use of the death penalty?

What is your position on providing tax relief to low-income, working families with children, to keep them above the poverty line (e.g. refundable children’s tax credit and/or earned-income tax credit?

What is your position on making federal financial support available to all parents to enable them to exercise their right to choose the elementary and/or secondary schools, including religiously affiliated schools, they deem best-suited for their children: Tax relief to offset educational expenditures? Education vouchers?

What is your position on legislation that would further regulate and reduce pollution?

What is your position on making it legal for physicians to administer or prescribe lethal injections or lethal dosages of drugs for terminally ill patients who request that their death be caused in this manner?

What is your position on funding substantial and rapid debt reduction for all heavily indebted poor countries that commit to using the benefits of debt reduction to relieve poverty?

What is your position on making the defense of human rights, including religious liberty, a central concern of U.S. foreign policy by linking other policies, (e.g. trade preferences or military aid) to a nation’s performance on human rights?

In your view, what role should the Federal Government have in seeing to it that all persons in the U.S. have genuine access to affordable, quality health care?

What is your position on using federal taxpayer dollars to support:

What is your position on legislation that would ease current restrictions that deny people at U.S. ports of entry the ability to seek political asylum in the United States?

In your view, what federal policy changes and/or initiatives should be pursued, if any, to curb the level of violence that affects our nation?

What three public-policy issues would you most like to address if (re-) elected to the U.S. Senate/House of Representatives?

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Candidate Survey-General Election, Nov. 7, 2000 

Nebraska State Legislature

If Roe v. Wade was overturned and states could once again prohibit abortion, to what extent should abortion be prohibited in Nebraska?

What is your position on the use of taxpayer funds for abortion (e.g. paying for abortion, promoting abortion, subsidizing organizations that provide abortion)?

Would you support or oppose legislation to prohibit the use of fetal tissue obtained from induced abortions in biomedical research and treatment?

What policy changes and/or initiatives should be pursued, if any, to bring about greater economic development in Nebraska’s rural communities that depend on agricultural production?

Article XII, Section 8 of the Nebraska Constitution (Initiative 300) restricts non-family-

farm corporations from owning Nebraska farm/ranch land and engaging in farming/ranching in this state. Should this provision be: Left Alone? Modified (in what way)? Repealed?

What is your position on repealing the death penalty and replacing it with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life without possibility of parole?

What is your position on providing state tax credits or vouchers to financially assist parents in choosing the elementary and/or secondary schools, including religiously affiliated schools, that area best-suited for their children:

What are your views regarding the continued existence of public schools in small, rural communities?

What is your position on authorizing public school districts to facilitate school-based or school-linked health clinics that could:

What legislation or public-policy initiatives, if any, would you pursue to deal with environmental concerns (e.g. swine waste management) associated with large-scale livestock confinement operations?

Proposals have been made in Nebraska to make it legal for doctors to give lethal injections or lethal drugs to terminally-ill patients who request that their death be caused in this manner. What is your position on changing Nebraska law to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia?

In your view, what legislation and/or other public-policy initiatives should be pursued, if any, to make adequate health care coverage more accessible and more affordable for all Nebraskans, regardless of economic or social status?

Would you support or oppose legislation to prohibit the destruction of live human embryos for purposes of obtaining their cells for experimentation (embryonic stem-cell research)?

What is your position on seeing to it that, as a matter of legislation in Nebraska, newly arrived immigrant families have access to human services, including education, housing, transportation, justice system, health care, and compensation for work-related injuries?

In your view, what public-policy changes and/or initiatives should be pursued to address the high social and public costs of failed marriages and the State’s interest in promoting stable marriages, especially for the sake of children?

What is your position on full preserving tax-exempt status for property owned by religious, educational and charitable organizations and used for religious, educational and charitable purposes?

What is your position on providing adequate funding for job training, childcare, transportation and medical care (e.g. transitional benefits) for individuals striving to become self-sufficient by following the State’s track from welfare to work?

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