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Federal Candidate Survey - Full text of questions
Nebraska State Legislature & Governor 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 for General Election, Nov. 2002
Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives
Full Text of Questions:
Abortion
What is your position on amending the United States Constitution in a way that would protect the right to life of prenatal human beings (Human Life Amendment)?
What is your position on the use of taxpayer funds for abortion?
Agriculture
What is your position on amending current food and agricultural policies to target support to small and medium-sized, family-owned-and-operated farms and ranches through program payment limitations and other measures?
Arms Control/Disarmament
What is your position on making additional cuts in nuclear weapons beyond those called for in the new nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia?
Capital Punishment
What is your position on abolishing the death penalty and replacing it with imprisonment for life without possibility of parole?
Education
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 (K-12) schools, including private and religiously-affiliated schools, they deem best-suited for their children’s needs: (e.g. tax relief to offset education costs, education vouchers/scholarships)?
Euthanasia
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?
Faith-Based Initiative
What is your position on making it easier for churches and religiously affiliated institutions to participate in government-funded programs that address social problems related to poverty?
Foreign Policy
What is your position on linking U.S. foreign policy regarding trade preferences, favored-nation status, or military aid to a country’s performance on human rights?
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?
Health Care
What is your position on legislation that would assure universal and genuine access to affordable health care coverage through use of mandates, e.g. employer, individual?
Human Life
What is your position on using taxpayer funds to subsidize research that involves destroying live human embryos to obtain their cells for experimentation (embryonic stem cell research)?
What is your position on legislation to ban use of cloning to create human embryos for any reason?
Immigration/Refugee Policy
What is your position on legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for an extended period of time, and who have worked, paid taxes and not committed serious crimes during such period?
Minimum Wage
What is your position on legislation that would raise the minimum wage by at least $1.50 per hour (from $5.15 to $6.65) by January 2005?
Welfare Policy
What is your position on providing the resources necessary to ensure that essential work supports, such as medical assistance, childcare, and food stamps, are adequately available for families leaving welfare and transitioning to self-sufficiency?
Candidate Survey for General Election, Nov. 2002
Nebraska State Legislature
and Governor CandidatesFull Text of Questions:
Abortion
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)?
Agriculture/Rural Life
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?
Capital Punishment
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?
Education
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?
Environment
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?
Euthanasia
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?
Gambling
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?
Health Care
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?
Human Life
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?
Human Services
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?
Marriage/Family Life
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?
Welfare Policy
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?
