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Sanders and Clinton on the Major Issues

ISSUE SANDERS CLINTON NOTES

WALL STREET VS. MAIN STREET

TARPWALLST

BAILOUT

Voted against. Voted for. Between 2001 and 2014 Bill Clinton earned more than $5million from UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America,

Deutsche Bank, and Barclays Capital.

Of the nearly $10 million Hillary Clinton earned in lecture fees

in 2013 alone, nearly $1.6 million came from Goldman Sachs,

UBS, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank.

BREAKUPBIGGESTBANKS

For. Against.

REINSTATEMENT OFGLASS- STEAGALL

For. Against.

MINIMUMWAGE Supports raising to $15. Supports raising to $12.

SOCIALSECURITY Wants to expand it byraising amount of income

subject to payroll tax.

Wants to protect it. Clinton says she wants to protect it but has hinted at meanstesting, which Democrats for years have seen as the

beginning of the end of Social Security.

2001 BANKRUPTCY

BILL

Opposed. Voted for. The bill, which did not pass (a similar bill passed in 2005) was

promoted by the credit-card and banking industries and wouldhave made it more difficult for people to get relief from debts

through bankruptcy.

COLLEGETUITION Wants it to be free, paid forby a tax on Wall Stspeculation.

Would provide more federal

aid to states.

Both want the government to no longer make a profit from

student loans.

HEALTH CARE

AFFORDABLECAREACT

Would like to replace it with

a single payer system.

Used to support single

payer, now says its notpossible and that its

irresponsible to discuss it.

Clinton has taken in roughly $13.2 million from the health

sector, including $11.2 million when she was a senator and $2million during the 2016 campaign. Between 2013-2015 she

received $2.8 in speaking fees from the industry.

MARIJUANA Supports right of states tolegalize.

Would reclassify to samelegal category as cocaine.

Drug companies are supporting Clinton more than any othercandidate of either party.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

IRAQWAR Voted against. Voted for.

DEFENSESPENDING Supports reducedspending.

Has not called for spending

cuts.

TRANS-PACIFICPARTNERSHIP

Opposes. Supported until October,

2015.

Clinton advocated for the TPP 45 times as Secretary of State.

LOBBYINGAND

CONFLICTOF

INTEREST

There were at least 13 occasions worth $2.5 millionwhenBill Clinton received a six-figure speaking fee from

corporations or trade groups that were at the t ime engaged in

lobbying at the State Department while Hillary Clinton wasSecretary of State.

ENVIRONMENT

KXLPIPELINE Opposed. Supported as Secretary ofState, came out against inSeptember, 2015.

The Huffington Post reported that Nearly all of the lobbyists

bundling contributions for Democratic presidential candidateHillary Clintons campaign have at one time or another

worked for the fossil fuel industry.

OFFSHOREDRILLING Opposes. Supported until December,2015.

FRACKING Opposes. Supported until January,

2016.

Clinton encouraged fracking around the world as Secretary of

State.

PRICEONCARBON Supports. Opposes.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevronhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers-fossil-fuel_us_55a8335ee4b04740a3df86c5?ts4f5hfr=http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-paid-bill-clinton-millions-they-lobbied-hillary-clinton-1899107http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/hillary-clinton-opposes-tpp/http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/257234-clinton-brings-in-most-big-pharma-money-of-2016-fieldhttp://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-gets-13-million-health-industry-now-says-single-payer-will-neverhttp://www.thomhartmann.com/users/gwiech/blog/2015/10/hillary-saying-shes-going-means-test-social-securityhttp://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/

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NOTES: This was compiled by a supporter of Bernie Sanders (who voted twice for Bill Clinton). That said, Ive tried to make this an honest comparisonof where they stand on the issues where there is disagreement. And honesty, I believe, means reporting on how the Clintons have profited from their

connections to Wall St and the largest corporations, because we need to know who are leaders are serving. For more on that, see this quite remarkable

article by Simon Head in the New York Review of Books.

Christopher Landry, 1/31/16

CIVIL LIBERTIES

PATRIOTACT2001 Voted against. Voted for.

PATRIOTACT2006 Voted against. Voted for.

CLEMENCYFOR

EDWARDSNOWDEN

Supports. Opposes.

DOMESTICSPYING Opposes. Seems to support.

REPRODUCTIVE

RIGHTS

100% rating from Planned

Parenthood.

100% rating from Planned

Parenthood.

Clinton has been a leader in introducing legislation to protect

and expand womens access to reproductive health care.

CIVIL RIGHTS

SAMESEXMARRIAGE Has publicly supportedequal rights since 1970s.

Opposed for many years,

came out in support in 2013.

IMMIGRATION Would expand Obamas

action on immigration.

Supports Obamas action on

immigration

Clinton ignored DREAM Iowa activists while campaigning.

Sanders met with them that day and supported their criticism

of the Obama administration.

RACIALJUSTICE Has hired activists to helpshape policy and won keyendorsements based on

his response to Black LivesMatter.

Has been slower to release

a platform on racial justice.

Both oppose reparations for slavery.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

DEATHPENALTY Opposes. Supports.

GUNS Has voted against Brady

bill several times.

Supports Brady bill. Sanders has changed his position and now opposes immunity

to gun manufacturers and distributors. Both supportbackground checks.

PRIVATELYRUNPRISONS

Opposes. Opposes as of October,

2015.

Under pressure from Black Lives Matter and others, Clinton

cut ties with prison industry and gave their campaign

donations to charity.

OTHER

NETWORTH $330,000 $31.1 million

PACMONEY $0 Approaching $1 billion These are figures for their own PAC fundraising. Thecandidates can do little to stop other Super PACS from

supporting them.

SCANDALS None, but Republicans willcertainly try to make much

of the Socialist label.

Several potential problemsthat make her vulnerable as

a candidate.

Hillary Clinton is in damage control over new informationabout the private email server she used as secretary of state.

CBS News, 1/30/16.

AGE 74 68

WEBSITE www.berniesanders.com www.hillaryclinton.com

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