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    HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More

    Asked 7 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

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    Over withhold on your taxes & you can get an interest free refund and that's like giving the government an interest free loan. Why, if you under withhold, pay up any balance due when you file on time-- you will still be charged interest on the amount under withheld? Note, Maryland's interest rate is about twice that of the IRS rate-- why? More

    Asked 10 weeks 3 days ago of U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
    by Voter from Tracys Landing, MD

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    People finding it hard to keep gas in their cars to get to work and keep food and a roof over their family head. Government’s more concerned with property owner keeping up properties. Taking them to court if they can't keep it up to their standards people have been working job that have been on short time not week or month but years. More

    Asked 13 weeks 8 hours ago of All U.S. Representatives
    by candycain325 from Calhoun, GA

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    If I go into a coma and am put on life support, with no living immediate family and no one with medical directive authority, who decides if I live or die? More

    Asked 3 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Anna Gardiner from Falls Church, VA

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    If I go into a coma and am put on life support, with no living immediate family and no one with medical directive authority, who decides if I live or die? More

    Asked 3 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Anna Gardiner from Falls Church, VA

  • 79
    votes

    HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More

    Asked 7 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

  • 24
    votes

    Over withhold on your taxes & you can get an interest free refund and that's like giving the government an interest free loan. Why, if you under withhold, pay up any balance due when you file on time-- you will still be charged interest on the amount under withheld? Note, Maryland's interest rate is about twice that of the IRS rate-- why? More

    Asked 10 weeks 3 days ago of U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
    by Voter from Tracys Landing, MD

  • 12
    votes

    People finding it hard to keep gas in their cars to get to work and keep food and a roof over their family head. Government’s more concerned with property owner keeping up properties. Taking them to court if they can't keep it up to their standards people have been working job that have been on short time not week or month but years. More

    Asked 13 weeks 8 hours ago of All U.S. Representatives
    by candycain325 from Calhoun, GA

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    Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits?

    Asked by: john chappell from Willoughby, OH. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Ethics · Money & Politics. Tags: broken promises · campaign promises · congressional distrust · Elections · ethics · politics · promises.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)

    Well, term limits was part of the ‘Contract With America’, we had a vote on the floor that would have made federal term limits to 12 years, 6 terms, because there was a court case out in California that indicated that the state referendums like in Ohio were unconstitutional. It failed and as a result we don’t have federal term limits. And now that I’ve been here for a little bit I see that my opinion, two opinions, I think term limits has ruined the state legislature in Ohio and given us a lot of bad government.

    Answered on Jul 28th, 2008 More

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    How would you encourage peers to be honest and admit they know nothing about a subject they're being asked about beyond rehearsed lines crafted to feign awareness, appease the most amount of voters and stave criticism?

    Asked by: michael perigard from Seattle, WA. Received 10 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Ethics. Tags: ethics · honesty · parties · scope · talking points.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO)

    Well that’s one of those questions “whether have you stopped beating your wife yet?” type of questions. I think most people that I serve with in Congress are fairly straightforward and try to answer things as honestly and straightforward way as they can. Obviously, people have their own political opinions and biases that shapes the kinds of answers that they give. You know there are all kinds of people in the world. Some of them that really want to be smartest – just kills them to say “I don’t know” and there are other ones like me who were never good in school.

    Answered on Jul 28th, 2008 More

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    When will the federal government begin to get honest with the American people about the issue of peak oil?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 33 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Campaign 2008 · Economy · Energy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Technology. Tags: energy crises · peak oil.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE)

    The discussion about whether we hit peak oil I think drives some of the discussion about whether or how quickly we move away from oil as the major use of our energy. It’s kind of like global warming was a few years ago. People talk about peak oil, but there’s no evidence that we’ve hit peak oil, some people think it’s right now. So it’s part of their discussions.

    Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More

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    Do you support voluntary public funding of all federal elections to reduce the influence big money has on our democracy? You'd be able to spend more time serving your country and less time dialing for campaign contributions.

    Asked by: Matt Stempeck from Washington, DC. Received 18 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Ethics · Money & Politics. Tags: 2008 · campaign finance · lobbyists · public funding.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)

    First of all, I’m opposed to public funding of political campaigns – first and foremost because most of the public is as well. It’s not a very popular system. Second, it doesn’t remove money from campaigns; it just removes it from candidates. And you see it spent through all sorts of special interest groups and organizations with every point of view. So I would much prefer that my tax dollars go to fund government, and that I contribute to candidates I support as opposed to a portion of the money that I pay to the government being diverted to people I may or may not support.

    Answered on Apr 18th, 2008 More

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    How do legislators justify proposing over 500 bills with no force of law (expressing opinions and naming post offices) when there isn't enough time to pass individual budgets this year, resulting in more earmarks on huge consolidated omnibus bills?

    Asked by: michael perigard from Seattle, WA. Received 24 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Ethics · Money & Politics. Tags: budget · campaign finance · Congress · ethics · government · house · legislature · partisan politics · senate · spending.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA)

    I completely agree. I think we should pass all twelve of these appropriations bills. That’s been my constant message to our leadership—let’s pass our bills and get our work done. I want to bring up mine first. I want to go first with the interior and environment appropriations bill.

    Answered on Apr 4th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    What will you do to limit the powers of the presidency to those described in the Constitution? In other words, how will you uphold the oath of office concerning defense of the Constitution when it comes to limits on presidential power?

    Asked by: Josie Tolton from Richmond, IN. Received 68 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Ethics · Homeland Security · President Bush. Tags: balance of powers · constitution · imperial presidency · presidency · president.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)

    I used to be for six years the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution, so it’s something that I take very seriously. Probably one particular area that Congress should always focus attention on is that the presidency, the executive branch, doesn’t overstep its bounds. The War Power Act is something that was passed some years ago to make sure that when a president is going to commit our troops militarily, overseas, that Congress has a role to play.

    Answered on Mar 13th, 2008 More

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    Independent studies show both parties receive huge amounts of money from the lobby groups and the winners allegiance will be to multinational corporations. How can the public benefit from an election if the lobbyists are not eliminated?

    Asked by: Ernest Paviour from . Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Economy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Globalization · Immigration · Money & Politics · Regulation · Taxes. Tags: All impacted by lobby groups.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

    Well, I think that we do need to reduce the influence of lobbyist on the electoral process and on the hill, in terms of increasing transparency, prohibiting lobbyist from winning and dining members of Congress, reducing travel. Common Cause, Public Interest, other groups, other public watch dog groups, hailed it as a landmark piece of legislation. It dramatically limits the influence of lobbyist in terms of their winning and dining of legislators, no traveling with lobbyist. It sets up some very important firewalls in the process.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Do you think it is right that presidential hopefuls are also active politicians. For example John McCain has missed around half of the votes in the Senate?

    Asked by: Career Journalist from Washington, DC. Received 9 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Ethics. Tags: politicing · presidential election · primaries.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Jon L. Kyl (R-AZ)

    Most of the votes – because he is very careful about this – that the Senator has missed, are not those kind of critical, his vote – in fact I don’t think his vote makes a difference on anything, has made the difference on anything that anyone would consider substantial. [editor's note: Sen. Kyl is referring to colleague Sen. John McCain.]

    Answered on Jan 24th, 2008 More

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