Candidate Name: | James Buchal |
Office Candidate is running for: | Third Congressional District of Oregon |
Campaign Website: | www.buchal.com |
# | ISSUE | ANSWER |
CANDIDATE COMPARISON QUESTIONS | ||
Please answer "yes" or "no" to the following questions. The optional explanations will be included in your Individual Candidate Guide. | ||
1 | Do you support drilling for oil and natural gas on public lands and waters? | Yes |
2 | Do you support the EPA conducting aerial surveillance on agricultural operations? | No |
There would have to be sufficient cause to get a warrant to do so. | ||
3 | Do you support the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act allowing the U.S. Military to arrest and detain ANY "suspected" terrorist without trial, legal counsel, or accusation of wrongdoing? | No |
4 | Do you subscribe to the theory that human activity has a significant impact on climate? | No |
Evidence of significance remains inconclusive. | ||
5 | Do you support a public audit of the Federal Reserve System? | Yes |
6 | Do you support the IRS demanding group membership lists? | No |
7 | Do you support the FCC monitoring newsrooms and the internet? | No |
8 | Do you support closing Guantanamo Bay? | No |
Cuba should be a free country. | ||
9 | Do you support increasing taxes for higher income families? | No |
10 | Does the federal government have constitutional authority to regulate schools? | No |
11 | Do you support federal secret service agents being assigned to local schools? | No |
Have seen no evidence that this is happening. | ||
12 | Do you support dismantling the U.S. Department of Education? | Yes |
13 | Do you support Common Core State Standards? | No |
14 | Do you support a constitutional amendment to enumerate the already existing natural rights of parents? | No |
The 9th and 10th Amendments are clear; the problem is with the judges, not the Constitution. | ||
15 | Do you support restrictions on the ownership of guns by law abiding citizens? | No |
16 | Do you support the direct election of the president by popular vote? | No |
17 | Should the federal government return to the states land it owns for the purposes not authorized by the Constitution? | Yes |
18 | Do you support free trade agreements with foreign nations? | Decline |
This depends on the country. | ||
19 | Do you support requiring all employers to verify employee eligibility to work in the United States? | No |
No. We need to get control of borders, not burden employers further. | ||
20 | Do you support securing the borders before any form of amnesty is legalized? | Yes |
21 | Do you support spending public funds to benefit illegal immigrants? | No |
I oppose any expenditure of federal funds on this, but states and localities can make up their own minds. | ||
22 | Do you support automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. when both parents are not legal residents? | No |
23 | Do you support the Federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Obamacare)? | No |
24 | Do you support paying for the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" by cutting Medicare services and reimbursements? | No |
25 | Do you support subsidizing insurers for lack of enrollees in the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"? | No |
26 | Do you support legalizing genetically altered marijuana? | Yes |
Not sure what "genetically altered" means. People are not government cows. If they want to make themselves stupid, so be it. | ||
27 | Do you support the First Amendment right of business owners to run their business in accordance with their religious beliefs? | Yes |
28 | Do you support spending public funds on abortion services? | No |
29 | Do you support repealing the Supreme Court decision in Roe versus Wade? | Yes |
It should be "overturned"; repeal is the wrong word here. | ||
30 | Do you support the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research? | No |
31 | Do you support the Humane Society of the U.S. and the U.N. to make all animal cruelty laws a felony? | No |
32 | Do you support adding the Oregon Spotted Frog to the endangered species list affecting Oregon ranchers and farmers and recreational areas? | No |
33 | Do you support preserving Israel's existing borders including occupied territories? | Decline |
I don't know enough about the precise borders to answer. | ||
34 | Do you support U.S. aid to Israel to ensure it can defeat its enemies? | No |
Israel is an ally, but a wealthy one, and not the burden of federal taxpayers to defend. | ||
35 | Do you support laws that exempt government officials from laws that apply to private citizens? | No |
36 | Do you support replacing Social Security gradually rolling over to private retirement plans for future beneficiaries? | Decline |
Not sure what to do about this. | ||
37 | Do you support raising the Medicare eligibility age? | Yes |
38 | Do you support enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? | Yes |
39 | Do you support the use of presidential executive orders that changes law? | No |
NARRATIVE QUESTIONS | ||
The following questions will not appear in the Candidate Comparison Guide, but will be included in your Individual Candidate Guide. | ||
40 | How would you ensure the land-use rights of rural Oregon and how would you protect their ability to farm and ranch? | |
By cutting funding for federal bureaucrats opposed to such rights, and amending environmental laws to focus on issues of real importance. | ||
41 | How would you propose to strengthen the checks and balances of the federal system? | |
We need to appoint better judges and work harder to defeat the apologists for executive and administrative powers. |