The Conservative Caucus invites you to use our Constitutional Government Candidate Questionnaire to help you determine whether your candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate share your principles and have the courage to assert them. Print this for convenient use and reference. Please also see our State Legislative Candidate Questionnaire |
1. As a member of Congress, would you co-sponsor and vote for a resolution declaring the personhood of every human being from the moment of conception? YES NO UNDECIDED
2. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all Presidential Executive Orders which seek to change public policy, thereby infringing on the legislative authority which is exclusively within the domain of the Congress of the United States? YES NO UNDECIDED
3. As a member of Congress, would you support the enactment of a 25% revenue tariff in the context of a return to excises, imposts, duties, and apportionment among the states as the means for financing the legitimate Constitutional activities of the Federal government, in place of reliance on the income tax? YES NO UNDECIDED
4. As a member of Congress, would you vote to eliminate the income tax, abolish the IRS, and repeal the 16th Amendment? YES NO UNDECIDED
5. As a member of Congress, would you vote to transform Social Security from a government program into a privately owned, voluntary retirement program? YES NO UNDECIDED
6. As a member of Congress, would you vote to privatize Medicare? YES NO UNDECIDED
7. As a member of Congress, would you vote to withdraw the United States from NAFTA and the World Trade Organization? YES NO UNDECIDED
8. As a member of Congress, would you oppose all trade agreements such as CAFTA, NAFTA, WTO, and FTAA, each of which conflicts with the provisions of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, stipulating that “Congress shall…regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”? YES NO UNDECIDED
9. As a member of Congress, would you vote against granting "fast track" authority to the President of the United States in the context of the Constitutional stipulation that Congress shall regulate commerce with foreign nations? YES NO UNDECIDED
10. As a member of Congress, would you vote to revoke most-favored-nation status for Communist China? YES NO UNDECIDED
11. As a member of Congress, would you vote to revoke most-favored-nation status for Communist Vietnam? YES NO UNDECIDED
12. As a member of Congress, would you vote to withdraw U.S. troops from Bosnia and Kosovo? YES NO UNDECIDED
13. As a member of Congress, would you vote to withdraw the United States from membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? YES NO UNDECIDED
14. As a member of Congress, would you vote to increase non-Iraq-related defense spending to at least 30 percent of total Federal outlays? YES NO UNDECIDED
15. As a member of Congress, would you vote for the immediate full deployment of a strategic defense for the United States? YES NO UNDECIDED
16. As a member of Congress, would you vote to completely end Federal regulation and subsidy of medical care? YES NO UNDECIDED
17. As a member of Congress, would you vote to abolish the Federal Election Commission and repeal the Federal Election Law Amendments of 1974 and McCain-Feingold, removing all ceilings on individual contributions to political campaigns? YES NO UNDECIDED
18. As a member of Congress, would you vote to assure that the First Amendment rights of media corporations are protected, but that they are no greater than the First Amendment rights of non-media corporations and of individual American citizens with respect to political advocacy, expression, and participation? YES NO UNDECIDED
19. As a member of Congress, would you vote to support term limits on Federal broadcast licenses? YES NO UNDECIDED
20. As a member of Congress, would you vote to terminate the jurisdiction of the Federal judiciary with respect to appeals relating to alleged violations of the Bill of Rights by state and local government? YES NO UNDECIDED
21. As a member of Congress, would you vote to assure that the right of states and local communities to apprehend criminal suspects, bring them to trial, determine guilt or innocence, and apply penalties shall not be abridged or retarded by the intervention of the Federal government so long as due process rights are assured? YES NO UNDECIDED
22. As a member of Congress, would you vote to restore the Constitutional requirement that “Congress shall have Power…To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”? YES NO UNDECIDED
23. As a member of Congress, would you vote to require the President of the United States to negotiate the restoration of all U.S. bases and facilities at the isthmus of Panama and levels of troop presence which prevailed on January 20, 1989? YES NO UNDECIDED
24. As a member of Congress, would you vote to restore single-sex training and housing in the U.S. armed forces and to exclude females from areas which may become combat zones? YES NO UNDECIDED
25. As a member of Congress, would you vote to restore the single-sex status of West Point, the Air Force Academy, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard Academy? YES NO UNDECIDED
26. As a member of Congress, would you vote to eliminate all Federal quota and affirmative action programs and requirements? YES NO UNDECIDED
27. As a member of Congress, would you vote to repeal the Brady Bill, the assault weapons ban, and all other legislative enactments which infringe on the Constitutionally guaranteed right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms? YES NO UNDECIDED
28. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any action by the Federal government which exceeds the delegated, enumerated functions assigned to the Federal government under the Constitution of the United States? YES NO UNDECIDED
29. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions, or loan or credit authorizations which include funding for grants which might be awarded to Planned Parenthood and other "family planning" or "population control" organizations? YES NO UNDECIDED
30. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for "AIDS education and prevention"? YES NO UNDECIDED
31. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)? YES NO UNDECIDED
32. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)? YES NO UNDECIDED
33. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC)? YES NO UNDECIDED
34. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? YES NO UNDECIDED
35. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the World Bank? YES NO UNDECIDED
36. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development? YES NO UNDECIDED
37. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the Asian Development Bank? YES NO UNDECIDED
38. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the Inter-American Development Bank? YES NO UNDECIDED
39. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the African Development Bank? YES NO UNDECIDED
40. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation? YES NO UNDECIDED
41. As a member of Congress, would you vote against any and all authorizations, appropriations, and continuing resolutions or loan or credit authorizations which provide funding for the U.S. Export-Import Bank? YES NO UNDECIDED
42. As a member of Congress, would you oppose all U.S. payments to the United Nations and vote to withdraw from the U.N.? YES NO UNDECIDED
43. As a member of Congress, would you vote to repeal all taxes on Social Security benefits? YES NO UNDECIDED
44. As a member of Congress, would you vote to terminate the jurisdiction of the Federal judiciary with respect to appeals relating to alleged violations of the First Amendment by state and local government? YES NO UNDECIDED
ACTION ITEM: Please send this to all candidates in your district/state, asking that they return it to you. You can email it to their campaigns, mail it via the post office, fax it, etc.
When you get a response, please forward a copy to our office. Thank you!
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