Micah Edmond's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Due to a later filing deadline, a lack of contact information, or other circumstances delaying entry into our database, Micah Edmond was not directly invited to take the 2014 Political Courage Test. Micah Edmond is still welcome to submit the test at any time.
Issue Positions
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- "While I recognize the Supreme Court Decision of Roe v. Wade (1973), I support legislation that adds some federal restrictions on abortion such as the annual Hyde Amendment language restricting federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or matters of the survival of either a mother or child during child birth. I also support legislation restricting late term abortion past 20 weeks. As someone who was adopted, my pro-life advocacy focuses on promoting a culture of life by promoting assistance for adoptions, foster care, and women and infant programs." (votesmart.org)
- "Tax relief that cuts personal and small business rates from 35% to 25%." (votesmart.org)
- "I support a template for a balanced economic plan like Simpson-Bowles that represents a bi-partisan roadmap to grow our economy and create jobs. It encompasses tax relief, tax reform, spending controls and entitlement reform...Create a public-private partnership that invests in job-retraining skill sets that move people from welfare and unemployment to higher paying private sector jobs." (votesmart.org)
- "I want to give parents more school choice options by expanding the DC School Choice Incentive Program. This provides greater options for low-income children by allowing states to "opt-in" to a similar system. While we need to continue our investment in public schools, they must innovate and compete for talent.I support the creation of public-private partnerships that increase investment in public school STEM programs that focus on higher retention rates for minority and female students." (votesmart.org)
- "I support the immediate approval of XL Key Stone Pipeline because it will have a minimal impact on the environment while bringing well-paid jobs to America." (votesmart.org)
- "Experience in Europe has shown that cap-and-trade taxes are not reversing climate change. In California, cap-and-trade taxes are set to increase gas prices, hurting families in minority and low-income neighborhoods that have high levels of unemployment. Instead of the polarizing rhetoric coming from Washington, DC, and the mixed messages from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we should be building bipartisan support in America to improve understanding about how the climate works, how it is impacted by different natural and man-made phenomena, and what practical steps can be taken to limit its negative impacts in the future." (votesmart.org)
- "I support the Second Amendment that Congress shall make no law that infringes upon the right to keep and bear arms because people have a basic right to protect and defend themselves. I also support the Supreme Court Decisions of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010). This doesnt mean that we cant improve the system some limited, bi-partisan reforms could improve our current background check system." (votesmart.org)
- "I support real bi-partisan solutions that preserve the best provisions of the Affordable Healthcare Act but repeal others particularly those that dont adequately control costs, promote competition and make the system more portable." (votesmart.org)
- "I support policies focused on enabling undocumented workers who have no criminal record to purchase a work visa through some combination of fines that give them the right to work only, not the grant of citizenship and the right to vote." (votesmart.org)
- "The definition of marriage should not be under the purview of the federal government and should be left to the states and religious institutions. All unions between two adults should enjoy equal federal tax and benefits rules." (votesmart.org)
- "I believe America's interests are global so we should be more, not less, engaged internationally. This means setting strategic goals and actively managing foreign policy objectives with a full spectrum of tools rather than reacting to crisis too little too late with very limited options. For America to manage her interests through the projection of power and influence abroad, Congress must fund a balanced spectrum of national security options that include developmental economic assistance, diplomacy and defense. While we must ensure we have a defense capability to project military force around the world as needed, we should also ensure that we have invested appropriately in other areas of national security to ensure the defense tool is not always our only option" (votesmart.org)
- "We need entitlement reform that maintains benefits for retirement and healthcare (Social Security and Medicare) and tax relief for family care-givers for long term care cost for the elderly or disabled." (votesmart.org)
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