Jeff Bell's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Jeff Bell has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.
Issue Positions
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- "Abortion is one of the saddest facts of modern America. There are over one million abortions per year, and a total of 53 million since Roe v. Wade enabled abortion on demand in 1973. In New Jersey, the abortion rate is 26 percent, among the highest in the nation. Rather than seek to reduce the number of abortions, the Democratic Party has promoted a culture that misrepresents abortion as consequence-free and morally neutral. In 2012, a Democrat committee co-chaired by Cory Booker removed the word "rare" from the phrase "safe, legal, and rare" coined by President Clinton that had been in the party platform.Abortion is not only tragic on its own terms: it violates the founding principle in the Declaration of Independence of a right to life. The need to apply this self-evident truth to the unborn has become much more apparent in the last four decades because of discoveries in the field of DNA and advances in the technology of the sonogram.Even the Supreme Court of 40 years ago in Roe acknowledged that if it were factually established that an unborn baby is a "person," pro-life legislation would have to be upheld by the courts. I believe this simple fact has been conclusively established by science, and if elected I will support legislation introduced by Sen. Rand Paul recognizing the unborn as persons entitled to the right to life under the terms of the 14th amendment.I will also vote in the Senate for legislation that seeks to reduce the number of abortions. Two examples are the House-passed ban on abortions after 20 weeks and the proposed ban on abortions for the purpose of sex selection." (votesmart.org)
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- "Education will be at the top of my list of areas from which the federal government needs to withdraw." (votesmart.org)
- "Finishing the Keystone pipeline is also critical to our nation's long-term energy plan. It will allow us to efficiently import oil from Canada and use our refineries to bring that oil to market. Not only will this help reduce gas prices, it will decrease our oil imports from Venezuelan and other unstable countries. Transporting oil by pipeline is also much safer than by railcar, as the devastating train crash in Quebec showed. President Obama has continued to delay approval of this project in order to placate environmental interest groups. Cory Booker has lined up with his friends in Silicon Valley in opposing the pipeline. While I support Congressional Republicans' effort to expedite Keystone XL through the Northern Route Approval Act, the best course is for the Administration to immediately approve TransCanada's permit for this $7 billion project that will create tens of thousands of jobs." (votesmart.org)
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- "As the Supreme Court has ruled, the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own firearms, including for self-defense. It is dismaying that some state legislatures, particularly in New Jersey, have steered away from this principle and imposed a flurry of regulations that will impinge on lawful gun owners rather than reduce gun crime. Gov. Christie made the common-sense decision to veto many of these bills." (votesmart.org)
- "We should repeal Obamacare and redirect its subsidies into a refundable tax credit generous enough to enable everyone to afford catastrophic health insurance -- the kind that ensures no one is confronted with a financially devastating hospital bill." (votesmart.org)
- "We should provide an earned path to legalization and citizenship for the roughly 11 million people here illegally, with fines and payment of back taxes a requirement for obtaining legal status." (votesmart.org)
- "It is dismaying that religious freedom is under attack by government. Whether it's Obamacare's HHS mandate or judges overruling voters on the definition of marriage, it has become harder than ever to be a person of faith in this country without the government abrogating those beliefs.The institution of marriage in particular has been subject to this trend. Marriage began as a religious concept, but now the courts, including in New Jersey, have decided that its definition is up to them rather than the people. If this trend continues, how long will it be before our churches can no longer act according to their beliefs on marriage? Cory Booker implied that those who believe in traditional marriage are akin to the segregationists who tried to keep Jackie Robinson from playing baseball. Is that what it has come to in New Jersey -- a U.S. Senator who compares believing in traditional marriage with racism?" (votesmart.org)
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