Could you answer both sections
Public Policy Issues
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1: Strongly Agree
2: Generally Agree
3: No Strong Feelings
4: Generally Disagree
5: Strongly Disagree
Education
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Teachers unions are necessary for positive educational reform in U.S. schools.
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Textbooks should be reviewed by parents and interested groups to determine if their content is suitable for young minds.
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Speech codes are needed on college campuses to safeguard against racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual verbal abuses.
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Permitting voluntary prayer in public schools would violate separation of church and state.
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Education vouchers would aid private schools at too great an expense to the public schools.
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High school seniors should be required to pass an American civics class before graduating.
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Diversity of race should be a primary goal of college admissions.
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Homeschooling is a positive alternative option for parents who do not trust the public school system to educate their children.
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Teacher tenure should be abolished.
Elections
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Political Action Committees should be further regulated so they cannot abuse our election process.
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Negative advertising, when actually based on a candidate's record, is a valuable information source to the electorate.
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Financing of political campaigns with public funds is necessary to prevent the corruption of elections by private donors.
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Voters should have to show some form of identification before voting.
Energy / Economics / Government Regulation
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Importation restrictions are an effective tool to protect American jobs and improve the U.S. economy.
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The threat of climate change requires strict government limitations on carbon dioxide emission.
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Free trade is always beneficial to a country's economy, regardless of other nations' tariffs or protectionist policies.
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Universal access to health care is a fundamental right which a government should guarantee for all citizens.
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Further tort reform by the government is needed to cap exorbitant legal fees and to un-clog our judicial system.
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Minimum wage laws contribute to unemployment.
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Judges should base their decisions on the original intent of the Constitution.
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Financial bailouts by the federal government for large companies and financial institutions are justified during an economic recession.
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Congress should balance the federal budget without raising taxes.
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To decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil the federal government should open almost all federal lands for drilling.
Foreign Policy
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A strong Israel is vital to American interests in the Middle East.
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U.S. foreign aid should be tied to the development of political and economic liberty.
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Communism has been sent to the trashcan of history. There is no chance it will resurface as a serious threat to world peace.
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By far the most important immigration issue is for the U.S. to regain control of our borders.
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Economic sanctions are always a bad foreign policy. The United States should never apply them to other countries.
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U.S. armed forces should not be put under United Nations command.
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The Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery program should be ended.
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Build the wall on the U.S. southern border.
National Defense
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A strong American nuclear force remains essential to the preservation of world peace.
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Homosexual activity should be incompatible with service in the U.S. military forces.
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The U.S. should use any appropriate means, including deadly force, to retaliate against sources of international terrorism.
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U.S. troops should be deployed overseas in support of humanitarian foreign policy objectives.
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The U.S. should get approval from the United Nations before engaging in any military action abroad.
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The United States devotes too great a portion of its budget to defense spending.
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Federal funding should be withheld from "sanctuary city" governments that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement agencies.
Right to Work / Organized Labor
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Government workers should have the right to strike.
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If an individual receives benefits from a union-negotiated contract, it is fair for the government to require him/her to pay union dues.
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Employers should be allowed to replace striking workers permanently with new employees.
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No one should be required to pay dues or other fees to a union as a condition of employment.
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Federal workers should be allowed to run for public office, participate in political campaigns, and raise money for partisan candidates.
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Union officials exert too much influence on government decision-making at the federal, state, and local levels.
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If a union wins a majority vote of workers, that union should have the exclusive right to negotiate with the employer for them all.
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Employees should have the right to vote using secret ballots when deciding whether or not to unionize
Social Issues
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Hiring practices and admissions standards should not be based on qualifications alone; members of disadvantaged groups should have preference by law to correct past inequities.
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Since the subject is primarily a question of a woman's control of her own body, she should have the right to an abortion.
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America is a land of many cultures, therefore no mandated preference for one language over another is acceptable.
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The use and possession of small amounts of marijuana should be decriminalized.
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Mandatory registration of handguns is needed to make Americans safer.
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The federal court system in the United States currently enjoys more power than the framers originally intended.
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In general, criminal sentencing in this country is too lenient.
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Marriage should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.
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The Second Amendment was meant to permit members of militias to own guns, it was never meant to allow other citizens to keep and bear arms.
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Since human life begins at conception, unborn life deserves legal protections.
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Because life begins at the moment of conception, all abortion should be illegal. Any procedure required to save the life of a mother must make every effort to also save the life of the child.
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People should be free to use the bathroom of their choice.
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Government funding should be ended for Planned Parenthood.
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Private ownership of dangerous assault weapons should be banned.
Public Policy Identification
Below are a number of organizations involved in the public policy. You may not know all of them, but for those you do know, place:
1) A plus sign (+) for those you agree with most on public policy.
2) A minus sign (-) for those you disagree with most on public policy.
3) A zero (0) in front of those you know but have no strong feelings about.
4) NA for those you do not know
NA + - 0 Hugo Chavez NA + - 0 Senator Tom Coburn NA + - 0 AFL-CIO NA + - 0 Greenpeace NA + - 0 Heritage Foundation NA + - 0 Jesse Jackson NA + - 0 Milton Friedman NA + - 0 National Media Observer NA + - 0 National Review Magazine NA + - 0 Phyllis Schlafly NA + - 0 Planned Parenthood NA + - 0 Rush Limbaugh NA + - 0 The United Nations NA + - 0 American Civil Liberties Union NA + - 0 American Conservative Union NA + - 0 Americans for Tax Reform NA + - 0 National Education Association NA + - 0 National Rifle Association NA + - 0 National Right to Life Committee NA + - 0 National Right to Work Committee NA + - 0 People for the American Way NA + - 0 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals NA + - 0 Americans for Prosperity NA + - 0 Media Matters NA + - 0 Media Research Center NA + - 0 Reason Magazine NA + - 0 Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi NA + - 0 Focus on the Family NA + - 0 Center for American Progress NA + - 0 Tea Party Movement NA + - 0 George Soros NA + - 0 P.T. Bridgeport NA + - 0 Jim DeMint NA + - 0 ACORN NA + - 0 Mark Levin NA + - 0 MoveOn.org NA + - 0 Koch Industries NA + - 0 Sen. Marco Rubio NA + - 0 Sen. Rand Paul NA + - 0 Vice President Mike Pence NA + - 0 Al Sharpton NA + - 0 Antifa NA + - 0 Ben Shapiro NA + - 0 Black Lives Matter organization NA + - 0 Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement NA + - 0 Charles Koch NA + - 0 Congressman Eric Swalwell NA + - 0 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez NA + - 0 Gun Owners of America NA + - 0 Hillary Clinton NA + - 0 House Freedom Caucus NA + - 0 Judicial Watch NA + - 0 National Policy Institute NA + - 0 Senator Elizabeth Warren NA + - 0 Senator Mike Lee NA + - 0 Senator Ted Cruz NA + - 0 Senate Steering Committee NA + - 0 The Wealth of Nations NA + - 0 Vladimir Putin NA + - 0 Senator Lisa Murkowski NA + - 0 Congressman Dan Crenshaw