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Jeanne Shaheen
DWon the General, 2020 New Hampshire U.S. Senate
New Hampshire U.S. Senate, Sr (? - Present)
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1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Explain your two main priorities if elected Governor.
- No Answer
2. Should your priorities require additional government funding, please explain how you intend to obtain this additional funding.
- No Answer
3. Abortion
- Very Important
4. Affirmative Action
- Somewhat Important
5. Balanced Budget Amendment
- Somewhat Important
6. Campaign Finance Reform
- Very Important
7. Crime
- Very Important
8. Economic Development
- Very Important
9. Education
- Very Important
10. Environment
- Very Important
11. Family and Child Issues
- Very Important
12. Gun Issues
- Somewhat Important
13. Health Care
- Very Important
14. Illegal Drugs
- Very Important
15. Moral and Ethical Decline
- Very Important
16. Poverty and Homelessness
- Somewhat Important
17. Taxes
- Very Important
18. Term Limits
- Somewhat Important
19. Welfare
- Very Important
1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- X
2. Abortions should be legal in all circumstances when the procedure is completed within the first trimester of the pregnancy.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape or when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal only when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and parental notification requirements as decided by each state government.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
1. The state government should consider preferences to minority-owned businesses in granting government contracts.
- No Answer
2. The state government should consider preferences to minority students applying for college admission.
- No Answer
3. The state government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector.
- X
4. The state government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.
- X
5. The state government should provide affirmative action programs as long as such programs do not include quotas.
- No Answer
6. The state government should provide no affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
8. Do you believe that sexual orientation should be included in any non-discrimination laws and programs that are provided by your state?
- Yes
Do you support amending the US Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget?
- No Answer
1. AIDS Programs
- Maintain Status
2. Arts funding
- Maintain Status
3. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
4. Environmental programs
- Maintain Status
5. Higher Education
- Slightly Increase
6. Housing projects
- Maintain Status
7. Job training programs
- Maintain Status
8. Law enforcement
- No Answer
9. Medicaid
- No Answer
10. Student loan programs
- Maintain Status
11. Transportation
- Maintain Status
12. Welfare (AFDC)
- Maintain Status
13. Other
- No Answer
14. Agriculture
- No Answer
15. Education
- No Answer
16. Environment
- No Answer
17. Farm subsidies
- No Answer
18. Food stamps
- No Answer
19. Housing
- No Answer
20. School lunches
- No Answer
21. Welfare
- No Answer
1. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for state office.
- No Answer
2. Provide public subsidizing of political campaigns.
- No Answer
3. Require legislation that would increase the limits on individual contributions.
- No Answer
4. Pass legislation that would encourage complete disclosure of campaign finance information.
- X
5. Remove all legislative limits on campaign financing.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Broaden use of the death penalty for serious crimes.
- X
2. Increase spending to build more state prisons.
- No Answer
3. Require "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X
4. Require the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for adult first-time felons.
- X
5. Limit the number of appeals allowed to inmates on death row.
- No Answer
6. Implement and encourage drug and alcohol treatment centers and other alternative, community-based options for non-violent convicts.
- X
7. Expand funding for community policing programs.
- No Answer
8. Increase funding for hiring of police officers.
- No Answer
9. Prosecute youths, accused of murder, as adults.
- X
10. Increase funding for local Boys & Girls Clubs and other independent organizations in communities with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
11. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- No Answer
12. Require mandatory life sentences for third-time violent felons.
- No Answer
13. Other
- No Answer
1. Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries into the state.
- No Answer
2. Increase state funding for job-training programs.
- No Answer
3. Increase state funding for public works projects such as the repair of roads, bridges and telecommunications.
- No Answer
4. Eliminate government regulations of the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
5. Establish enterprise zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed.
- No Answer
6. Overhaul the current unemployment system by focusing on training and education in skills needed for certain industries.
- X
7. Eliminate any government programs designed to promote the state economy.
- No Answer
8. Reform the current workers' compensation insurance system.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Maintain the national standards and goals set forth in "Goals 2000".
- X
2. Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any participating school: public, private, religious or technical.
- No Answer
4. Implement charter schools where teachers and professionals receive state authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- No Answer
5. Require allowing voluntary prayer or a moment of silence in public schools.
- No Answer
6. Increase funding for student loan programs available for college students.
- No Answer
7. Increase funding for programs designed to reduce class sizes for elementary and secondary schools.
- No Answer
8. Support a pay raise for public school teachers.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
10. In the space provided, describe your proposals to reform the funding of public schools.
- No Answer
1. Transfer public lands, such as federal forests and range lands, to the jurisdiction of state and local governments.
- No Answer
2. Require the state to reimburse citizens when environmental regulations limit use of privately-owned lands.
- No Answer
3. Increase state funding to expand recreational spaces such as parks, forests and other open spaces.
- No Answer
4. Change the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to limit the number of habitats eligible to be designated as endangered.
- No Answer
5. Utilize cost-benefit analysis to determine economic impacts of proposed environmental protection and cleanup legislation.
- X
6. Encourage development of alternative fuels and electric cars to reduce pollution.
- No Answer
7. Phase in a prohibition of pollution-causing products such as gas-powered automobiles.
- No Answer
8. Increase state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels to promote conservation and alternative fuel development.
- No Answer
9. Require that a percentage of purchases made by state agencies include recycled components.
- X
10. Promote the selling of pollution credits to encourage industries to decrease amount of pollution.
- No Answer
11. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for programs designed to reduce teen pregnancy.
- No Answer
2. Implement programs designed to decrease availability of cigarettes to children.
- X
3. Increase funding for programs that enforce and collect delinquent child support payments.
- No Answer
4. Revoke state licenses and permits of parents that are delinquent in paying child support.
- X
5. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Civil rights enforcement
- Federal
2. Education
- Local
3. Environmental cleanup
- Federal
4. Job training
- State
5. Law enforcement
- Local
6. Low-income housing
- Federal
7. Medicaid
- Federal
8. Medicare
- Federal
9. Welfare (AFDC)
- State
10. Other
- No Answer
1. Expand the nationwide ban on the public sale of assault weapons to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
- No Answer
2. Increase restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer
3. Maintain all registration procedures and restrictions on possessing firearms.
- No Answer
4. Ease procedures on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- No Answer
5. Repeal all bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from owning legally obtained firearms.
- No Answer
6. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms that are legally owned and registered.
- No Answer
7. Other
- X
1. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all state residents regardless of income.
- No Answer
2. Provide vouchers to the working poor so they can buy into a private health care plan.
- No Answer
3. Support a "managed competition" health care plan to contain costs and improve access that does not include mandated health alliances, government cost control powers, or employer/employee mandates.
- No Answer
4. Support community health purchasing alliances.
- X
5. Promote programs that assist in child immunizations.
- X
6. Establish limits on the amount of damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
7. Encourage tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for any purpose other than medical costs.
- No Answer
8. Guaranteeing medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of government.
- No Answer
9. Insure health insurance portability for workers who change jobs.
- X
10. Expand Medicaid to provide health care to uninsured working individuals.
- No Answer
11. Other
- No Answer
1. Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
- X
2. Require mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs near schools.
- X
3. Require capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
- X
4. Require drug testing for state employees in sensitive positions (mass transit, state police, etc.).
- No Answer
5. Increase funding of drug education and drug treatment programs.
- No Answer
6. Decriminalize the possession and private use of certain illegal drugs such as marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Other
- No Answer
The American people have consistently mentioned the decline of morals and ethics in America as a major problem facing the country. Explain what you will do Governor to address this concern.
- No Answer
1. Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless people who want to work.
- No Answer
2. Increase state funding of homeless shelters and low-income housing projects.
- No Answer
3. Increase state funding of programs that help alcoholics and drug addicts recover and find steady work.
- No Answer
4. Increase the minimum wage.
- X
5. Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
- No Answer
6. Provide government jobs for those who wish to work and cannot find a job in the private sector.
- No Answer
7. Increase the income tax deduction on individual contributions made to charities that help the poor and homeless.
- No Answer
8. Implement enterprise zones in communities with high unemployment.
- No Answer
9. Other
- No Answer
1. Retiree earning over $40,000
- No Answer
2. Family earning less than $25,000
- No Answer
3. Family earning $25-75,000
- No Answer
4. Family earning $75-150,000
- No Answer
5. Family earning over $150,000
- No Answer
6. Alcohol Taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Capital Gains Taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Charitable deduction
- Maintain Status
9. Cigarette Taxes
- Slightly Increase
10. Corporate income taxes
- Slightly Decrease
11. Earned Income Tax Credit
- No Answer
12. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Mortgage deduction
- Maintain Status
14. Property tax
- Slightly Decrease
15. Sales tax
- No Answer
16. Other
- No Answer
Are you in favor of a limit on the number of terms which the Governor may serve?
- No Answer
1. Require a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- No Answer
2. Require welfare recipients to accept some form of government-sponsored job after two years if unemployed in the private sector.
- No Answer
3. Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian (if possible) and attend school to receive welfare benefits.
- No Answer
4. Limit the welfare benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while receiving welfare benefits.
- No Answer
5. Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X
6. Increase funding of programs that help homeless people find shelter and employment.
- No Answer
7. Provide incentives for employers to hire and train welfare recipients.
- No Answer
8. Require mothers to identify their child(ren)'s father in order to receive welfare benefits.
- No Answer
9. Make no substantial changes at this time.
- No Answer
10. Other
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants?
- Yes
Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- No
1. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act?
- No
1. Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support same-sex marriage?
- Yes
1. Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict?
- Yes
Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- No
