Here's what I found:
Topic
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Obama
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Romney
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Higher
Education
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· Has doubled
Pell grants
· For student
loan reform
· Created
American Opportunity Tax Credit for college education
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· Against
student loan reform
· Will
drastically reduce the number of Pell grants.
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Healthcare
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· "Obamacare"
· Affordable
health care act
· Calls for
transparency in medical insurance
· Children up
to age 26 can be on parents insurance
· Pre-existing
conditions not reason for denial of coverage
· Illness not
reason to cancel coverage
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· Will work to
repeal Obamacare
·
Cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice
lawsuits (in other words, you can't get punitive damages)
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Empower individuals and small businesses to form
purchasing pools
·
Prevent discrimination against individuals with
pre-existing conditions who maintain continuous coverage (if you change jobs,
you lose your coverage)
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Facilitate IT interoperability (universal
medical records so your medical records follow you.)
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Medicare
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· Strengthened
Medicare:
· 47 million
Medicare beneficiaries now have access to free health services to help detect
and treat medical conditions early.
o
an annual wellness visit,
o
mammograms, and
o
other health screenings
· Working to
close the donut hole
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· Will phase
out Medicare for those currently 55 and younger (Dismantle it.)
· Will work
for a "medical savings plan" for those people.
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Medicaid
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· Will work to
simplify application process
· Will work to
simplify Medicaid medical reports/claims.
· Will work to
improve coordinated care (have your doctors all work together)
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· Will defund
and dismantle Medicaid
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Social
Security
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· Working to
strengthen social security
· Cracking
down on fraud
· Against privatization
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· Wants it
privatized
· Will raise
eligibility age,
· Will lower
benefits
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Military
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· Wants to expand
and improve benefits:
· Healthcare
§ fully fund
the VA
§ make mental
health a priority
§ speed up
claims process
§ improve
access for vets in rural areas
· Education
and training
· Job
assistance (Veterans Job Corp initiative)
· Returning
Heroes and Wounded Warrior tax credits
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· Will
increase federal spending on military
· Will
increase number of military weapons
· Will
increase number of active military
· Wants to
privatize the VA
· Wants to
raise Tricare premiums
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Israel
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· Has raised US
security assistance to Israel to unprecedented levels.
· Recognizes
Israel as a Jewish state and homeland.
· Working to
resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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· Against a
Palestinian State
· Will support
Israel to his fullest ability
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Iraq
war
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· Is ending
the war in Iraq while working to ensure the safety of our troops.
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· Wants to get
out of Iraq immediately.
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Women's
body/rights
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· Signed Lily
Ledbetter equal pay act
· Established
the Equal Pay Task Force supports the
Paycheck Fairness Act
· Created the
White House Council on Women and Girls
· Increased
funding to enforce the Violence Against Women
· Supports
birth control coverage
· Supports low
cost and free health care for women
· Supports
ending gender discrimination against women for medical insurance
·
Passing the Affordable Care Act, helping to
improve access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans and
ensure that being a woman is no longer considered a pre-existing condition
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· Supports the
Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions.
· Wants to
defund Planned Parenthood
· Supports Blunt
amendment, a bill that was introduced to restrict access to birth control by
allowing any employer the right to deny health insurance coverage for any
benefit based on a “moral” conviction.
· Will support
a state's right to ban contraception
· Supports
equal pay for equal work.
· Believes
poor women should be required to work to receive federal assistance.
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Abortion
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· Pro-choice ,
although he says he’s not pro-abortion.
· He believes
in a women’s right to choose and
· in Roe vs.
Wade.
· Supports
Planned Parenthood
· Reversed the
global gag rule, ending the ban on government aid for international groups
that provide abortion information
· Fought
against Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood
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· Pro-Life
· Will work to
overturn Roe v Wade
· Condemns
China's 1 child policy
· Life begins
at conception
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LGBT
issues
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· For gay
marriage
·
Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” so that gay men
and women can serve openly and honestly in the military
·
Passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act—adding the words “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender” to the federal register for the first time in American history
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Declaring the so-called “Defense of Marriage
Act” an unconstitutional and unfair burden on America’s LGBT families
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Implementing our first national HIV/AIDS
strategy
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· Against gay
marriage
· Will work to
pass Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution defining marriage as
between one man and one woman.
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Gun Rights
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· agrees to an
individual's right to bear arms, in principle, but does not take it as an
absolute right and considers it as a negotiable subject
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· Will expand
rights of gun owners
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Education
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· Passed the
Recovery Act to save 300,000 education jobs,
· Offers
assistance to school districts in need.
· Worked to
raise grade school standards.
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· Supports no
child left behind
· Wants to get
rid of Dept of Ed.
· For vouchers
for private schools
· For abstinence
only sex ed.
· For
evolution taught, not intelligent design
· For prayer
in school
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Taxes
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· Tax cuts for
families with income less than $250,000/year.
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· Raise tax
rates for middle class. Lower tax rates for corporations
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Energy
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· Lowered our
reliance on foreign oil
· Supports
use/growth of alternative energy
· Supports
fuel efficiency goals
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· Will lesson
regulation and will support nuclear energy growth.
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Stem
cell research
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· Passed Wall
Street Reform
· Passed
Consumer Protection Act
· Passed
Credit Card Bill of Rights
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· Will work to
ban stem cell research
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Welfare
programs
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· Trying to
strengthen welfare
· In favor of
welfare to work; however, would allow for waivers.
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· Welfare to
work only.
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Banks
and Wall-street
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· Will hold
Banks and Wall Street responsible
· Enacted
Credit Card Bill of Rights for consumer protection
· Enacted
Consumer Protection Act
· Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau
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· Will work to
deregulate both.
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Climate
Change
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· Will reduce
the federal government's greenhouse gas emissions from direct sources such as
building energy use and fuel consumption by 28 percent by 2020.
· He also
directed Federal agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from
indirect sources, such as those from employee commuting, by 13 percent by
2020.
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· Denies it
exists
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