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Rob Maness' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Rob Maness has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2016.

  • "I support life from conception on, but it is especially heartbreaking that we cannot all agree that terminating an unborn pain-capable child should not be allowed. I will support and advocate for Senator Mike Lee's Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would prohibit any procedure that would end the life of a child over 20 weeks old, except where the mother's life is endangered by continuing the pregnancy." (votesmart.org)
  • Signed a pledge stating, "ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates." (votesmart.org)
  • "Increase access to jobs by freeing able-bodied workers from criminal records consisting of non-violent youthful offenses as minors." (votesmart.org)
  • "We must balance the budget and make real cuts, not cuts in future growth rates." (votesmart.org)
  • "Create permanent tax deductions for small businesses for purchasing new equipment and property to create more jobs, until there is a tax code overhaul that creates a drastically flatter and fairer system." (votesmart.org)
  • "I will introduce legislation like the Head Start Improvement Act that Sen. Mike Lee introduce during the current Congress to empower local governments and parents with the flexibility needed to improve the Head Start Program so that we can achieve the goal of better education for all." (votesmart.org)
  • "We must ensure curriculum control remains at the local level and where Common Core standards developed by State or Federal Government supported non-governmental organizations have been adopted, defund them and return control to parents and local school boards." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from developing unnecessary regulations and becoming the Economic Punishment Agency." (votesmart.org)
  • Rated 86% by National Rifle Association (votesmart.org)
  • "The right to keep and bear arms predates our Constitution and was considered so important that our Founding Fathers listed it second, right after religious freedom and freedom of speech. The 2nd Amendment is the right that ensures all others, and therefore must be protected at all costs." (votesmart.org)
  • "Repeal the Obama/Landrieu Government Healthcare Takeover" (votesmart.org)
  • "I support traditional marriage. Marriage is defined as one man and one woman." (votesmart.org)
  • "We must always maintain a level of defense capability necessary to effectively identify and defeat National and International security threats like the current Islamic-Fascism we face wherever they are around the globe." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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