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Sean Barney's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Sean Barney 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.

  • Rated 100% by Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Delaware (votesmart.org)
  • "I will fight to protect women’s health and reproductive rights, and I will vote to expand access to women’s health care, preserve funding for Planned Parenthood, and repeal the Hyde Amendment." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "Currently, the majority of the income of the top one percent in America is shielded from taxation to support Social Security. That must change." (votesmart.org)
  • "He previously served as policy director to Governor Jack Markell, helping Markell pass legislation [...] ending mandatory consecutive sentencing" (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "Congress should increase direct federal spending to fix our crumbling infrastructure. We should also tap private capital by creating a national infrastructure bank to provide the guarantees, and other instruments, that will attract commercial investors to public projects." (static1.squarespace.com)
  • "In Congress, one of my top priorities will be to work across the aisle to obtain every penny of federal funding possible to expand our port (Port Wilmington)." (static1.squarespace.com)
  • "The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has long enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress because it encourages low and lower-middle class Americans to find jobs and work. Congress should expand the EITC and include young workers and adults without children in this expansion." (static1.squarespace.com)
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  • "Congress should expand and make permanent the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and invest in clean energy technology programs." (static1.squarespace.com)
  • "I will support the continuation of President Obama’s actions to regulate greenhouse gas pollution and to make America the world leader in clean energy innovation." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "I am proud to have helped, as policy director to Governor Markell, pass universal background checks for gun sales in Delaware." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "We must stand up to the NRA and, for the first time ever, make the trafficking of illegal guns into our communities a federal crime." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "In Congress, I will defend these gains against Republican attempts to repeal Obamacare and to take away coverage from millions of our fellow citizens." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "The Affordable Care Act was an historic achievement for our country: 20 million Americans, who did not have insurance before, are now insured, insurance companies can no longer deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and both health care prices and public spending on health care are growing more slowly than before the Act was passed." (votesmart.org)
  • "I support comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship. In Congress, I will fight for humane enforcement of our immigration laws and to enact legislation giving undocumented children who grew up in America the opportunity to contribute to our nation’s prosperity." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)
  • "For too long, America has seen every problem abroad as a nail to be hit with a military hammer. Military force is a necessary tool in our foreign policy arsenal, but America must return to complementing its military power with skilled and persistent diplomacy. America is at its best and its most effective when it is the leader of an international community of free peoples and just societies committed to broadly shared security and opportunity." (votesmart.org)
  • "While Republicans have tried in recent years to cut or privatize Social Security, I believe instead that it is time to strengthen this pillar of middle class economic security." (www.seanbarneyforcongress.com)

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