| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
Amy Klobuchar: Cut $2.2 trillion over 10 years, in a balanced approach.
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Corporations
Amy Klobuchar: I helped avoid closing 28 profitable MN car dealerships.
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Drugs
Kurt Bills: Eliminate most funding from DEA's "War on Drugs".
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Education
Kurt Bills: Eliminate the Education Department to reduce budget deficit.
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Energy & Oil
Kurt Bills: Replace subsidies for oil companies with free market.
Kurt Bills: Replace subsidies for oil companies with renewable standards.
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Environment
Kurt Bills: Help small farmers with crop insurance and loan programs.
Kurt Bills: Help small farmers with crop insurance and loan programs.
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Free Trade
Kurt Bills: Help countries with trade instead of aid.
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Government Reform
Kurt Bills: Cut bureaucracy so they won't dream up new regulations.
Kurt Bills: Cut more than $23B from regulatory agencies & help farmers.
Kurt Bills: Cut $23B from farm regulatory agencies in Farm Bill.
Dan Severson: Sunset clause for all federal departments.
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Health Care
Dan Severson: Replace healthcare entitlement with free-market system.
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Jobs
Kurt Bills: Card-carrying union member, but supports Right-to-Work.
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Principles & Values
Kurt Bills: Teaches High School economics; runs home daycare.
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Social Security
Kurt Bills: Increment retirement age; rely on other streams of income.
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Tax Reform
Amy Klobuchar: Extend Bush tax cuts except for those earning over $250K.
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Technology
Kurt Bills: Don't try to pick technology winners and losers.
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War & Peace
Kurt Bills: No point to staying longer in Afghanistan.
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