Representative Government

Promote an open governmental system that is representative, accountable and responsive.

International Relations

Promote peace in an interdependent world by working cooperatively with other nations and strengthening international organizations.

Natural Resources

Promote an environment beneficial to life through the protection and wise management of natural resources in the public interest.

Social Policy

Secure equal rights and equal opportunity for all. Promote social and economic justice and the health and safety of all Americans.

Agriculture Policy
Air Quality
Apportionment
Arms Control
Campaign Finance
Child Care
Citizen's Right to Know / Citizen Participation
Citizen's Right to Vote
Congress
DC Self-Government and Full Voting Representation
Early Intervention for Children at Risk
Education, Employment and Housing
Energy
Equal Rights
Federal Deficit
Funding of Entitlements
Gun Control
Health Care
Housing Supply
Income Assistance

Individual Liberties
Land Use
Military Policy and Defense Spending
Natural Resources
Nuclear Issues
Public Participation
Public Policy on Reproductive Choices
Resource Management
Selection of the President
Support Services
Tax Policy
The Presidency
Trade
U.S. Relations with Developing Countries
United Nations
Urban Policy
Violence Prevention
Waste Management
Water Resources

International Relations

Reduce the risk of war through support of arms control measures.

Work to limit reliance on military force. Examine defense spending in the context of total national needs.

Support U.S. trade policies that reduce trade barriers expand international trade and advance the achievement of humanitarian, environmental and social goals.

Promote U.S. policies that meet long-term social and economic needs of developing countries.

Support a strong, effective United Nations to promote international peace and security and to address the social, economic and humanitarian needs of all people.

Natural Resources

Promote adequate supplies of food and fiber at reasonable prices to consumers and support economically viable farms, environmentally sound farm practices and increased reliance on the free market.

Environmental Protection and Pollution Control

Promote measures to reduce pollution from mobile and stationary sources. Energy. Support environmentally sound policies that reduce energy growth rates, emphasize energy conservation and encourage the use of renewable resources.

Support environmentally sound policies that reduce energy growth rates, emphasize energy conservation and encourage the use of renewable resources.

Promote policies that manage land as a finite resource and that incorporate principles of stewardship.

Promote the maximum protection of public health and safety and the environment.

Promote policies to reduce the generation and promote the reuse and recycling of solid and hazardous wastes.

Support measures to reduce pollution in order to protect surface water, groundwater and drinking water.

Promote the management of natural resources as interrelated parts of life-supporting ecosystems.

Promote public understanding and participation in decision making as essential elements of responsible and responsive management of our natural resources.

Promote resource conservation, stewardship and long-range planning, with the responsibility for managing natural resources shared by all levels of government.

Representative Government

Citizen Rights

Protect the citizen's right to know and facilitate citizen participation in government decision making.

Oppose major threats to basic constitutional rights.

Protect the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.

Congress and the Presidency

Support responsive legislative processes characterized by accountability, representativeness, decision-making capability and effective performance.

Promote a dynamic balance of power between the executive and legislative branches within the framework set by the Constitution.

Election Process

Support apportionment of congressional districts and elected legislative bodies at all levels of government based substantially on population.

Improve methods of financing political campaigns in order to ensure the public's right to know, combat corruption and undue influence, enable candidates to compete more equitably for public office and promote citizen participation in the political process.

Promote the election of the President and Vice-President by direct-popular-vote and work to abolish the Electoral College. Support uniform national voting qualifications and procedures for presidential elections. Support efforts to provide voters with sufficient information about candidates.

Voting Rights

Protect the right of all citizens to vote; encourage all citizens to vote.

Secure for the citizens of the District of Columbia the rights of self-government and full voting representation in both houses of Congress.

Social Policy

Support programs and policies to expand the supply of affordable, quality child care for all who need it.

Support policies and programs that promote the well-being, development and safety of all children.

Equality of Opportunity

Support equal access to education, employment and housing.

Support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and efforts to bring laws into compliance with the goals of the ERA.

Fiscal Policy

Promote responsible deficit policies.

Support a federal role in providing mandatory, universal, old-age, survivors, disability and health insurance.

Support adequate and flexible funding of federal government programs through an equitable tax system that is progressive overall and that relies primarily on a broad-based income tax.

Protect the health and safety of citizens through limiting the accessibility and regulating the ownership of handguns and semi-automatic weapons. Support regulation of firearms for consumer safety.

Promote a health care system for the United States that provides access to a basic level of quality care for all U.S. residents and controls health care costs.

Meeting Basic Human Needs

Support policies to provide a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.

Support income assistance programs, based on need, that provide decent, adequate standards for food, clothing and shelter.

Provide for essential support services.

Promote the economic health of cities and improve the quality of urban life.

Support violence prevention programs in communities.