Basic Information

• Republican Party
  
• Adviser
  
• 59 years old
  
• from Richmond, Va.
  
• Methodist

• Republican Party
  
• Representative from Colorado
  
• 63 years old
  
• from Broomfield, CO
  
• Evangelical Presbyterian

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1977
• University of Virginia, 1971
• John Randolph Tucker High School

• University of Northern Colorado, B.A., 1968
• Holy Family High School

Abortion

• Supports informed consent, 24-hour waiting periods before abortions.
  
  
• Believes in a right to abortion during the first 8-12 weeks of pregnancy.
  
  
• Has said it will be a good day for America if Roe v. Wade is repealed; that it was wrongly decided.
  
  
• Opposes embryonic stem-cell research.
  
  

• Has said it would be the “greatest day in this country’s history” when Roe v. Wade is overturned.
  
  
• Opposed federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research because it is “morally reprehensible.”
  
  
• Supported restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions.
  
  
• Supported making it a criminal offense to harm a fetus in the commission of another crime.
  
  
• Supported the ban on partial-birth abortion except to save the mother’s life.
  
  

Civil Rights

• Opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions.
  
  

• Co-sponsored legislation that would ban same-sex marriage nationwide.
  
  
• Voted in favor of a constitutional ban on flag desecration.
  
  
• Voted in favor of making the PATRIOT Act permanent.
  
  

Economic

• Advocates altering or cutting the alternative minimum tax.
  
  
• Believes spending must be controlled, or higher taxes are inevitable.
  
  
• Has studied the Fair Tax and Flat Tax plans, but remains undecided on the best approach to tax reform.
  
  

• Has stated that the national debt and its interest are “absolutely a problem,” and advocates paying it down by cutting all programs he sees as outside the scope of the Constitution.
  
  
• Supports the Fair Tax and the repeal of the 16th amendment.
  
  
• Voted in favor of extending tax cuts on capital gains and dividends.
  
  
• Voted in favor of making the Bush tax cuts permanent.
  
  

Immigration

• Opposes providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
  
  

• Supported strict House immigration reform legislation which did not provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
  
  
• Voted in favor of constructing a 700-mile fence along the southern border.
  
  
• Supports denying citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants.
  
  

War and Peace

• Has said that we should join with other nations in sanctions against Iran to dissuade it from seeking nuclear weaponry.
  
  
• Has said that we must fight the War on Terror as we did the Cold War: “on the moral high ground.”
  
  
• Believes we should not set a “date certain” for withdrawal from Iraq.
  
  
• Supports the troop level "surge" in Iraq.
  
  

• Has opposed the troop surge, but pledges support for the troops while the Iraqi government gains greater control.
  
  
• Has said that Muslim terrorists “are trying to kill us because it’s a dictate of their religion.”
  
  
• Believes that our troops in Iraq should function as “a supporting force for the Iraqi government” and not a “constabulary force.”
  
  
• Has said that if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon and “there is a threat to the existence of Israel,” that we should respond militarily.
  
  
• Voted in favor of the Iraq war authorization resolution.