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Daniel David's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Daniel David has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2018.

  • Rated 100% by Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates (votesmart.org)
  • "Planned Parenthood is PAs largest provider of family planning. Why #IstandWithPP." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "A strong national defense is necessary to protect our vital national interests at home and abroad. Congress must ensure that our nation’s defense and national security programs are both cost effective and efficient in protecting Americans and offering every tactical advantage to our troops in the field." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • "There are too many millionaire politicians in Congress that are completely out of touch with reality. We need to get money out of politics..." (maryjoforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Businesses need certainty on tax rates, healthcare costs, and fair access to credit in order to successfully compete. To create sustainable job opportunities for all Americans we must remove job killing regulations that hit small businesses particularly hard." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • "We will work to amend NCLB to allow more local input into curriculum decisions, while insuring students and teachers will be equipped to succeed in today’s global economy." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • "Too often, 'green' energy spending has benefited a handful of politically connected companies and wealthy individuals. Regulations that result in sending high paying manufacturing jobs to less regulated countries are not helping our environment." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We can not allow one more machine gun to take any more American lives. The current administration believes that allowing for greater access to machine guns at the expense of our children and families is good public safety policy, while the past ten years have proved that it is not. I will work diligently across party lines to enact common sense gun legislation." (maryjoforcongress.com)
  • "We will uphold the right of individuals to keep and bear arms and support the protection of such individual rights recognized in recent Supreme Court decisions (Heller & McDonald). We believe that universal background checks and banning bump stocks do not infringe on our 2nd Amendment protections." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Any national immigration policy should put the interests of our country and citizens first. We support securing borders and oppose any attempts to make either Montgomery or Berks a sanctuary county. While being a "sanctuary" sounds compassionate, we should realize this violates Federal law and comes at the cost of legal immigrants and American citizens paying more for less social services. We cannot pick and choose which laws we decide to follow – either we change the law or follow it." (dandavidforcongress.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "It is crucial that we continue to identify and understand the nature and gravity of the threat the United States still faces from foreign and homegrown terrorists. With multiple affiliate networks around the world targeting the U.S. Homeland and our interests, we must remain as vigilant as ever." (dandavidforcongress.com)

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