Lincoln Chafee

Candidate's Website, 2010

"Lincoln Chafee is committed to helping immigrants integrate into our society and become US citizens. As U.S. Senator, supported the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (S. 1033), an immigration reform bill that incorporated legalization, guest worker programs, and border enforcement components." (2010 Gubernatorial Campaign Website, no longer online)

Candidate's Website, 2015

Chafee has not shared a clear position on Common Core. On his website he says, "When the mandate to mainstream special education students was enacted in 1973, the federal government promised the pay for 40% of the additional cost to local education districts. Forty-two years later, Congress has only authorized 16% of the cost. ...I would put programs such as Race to the top, common core and charter schools as a lesser priority until the additional billions in federal support to local school districts is in place."

Other, 2012

Signed a bill decriminalizing marijuana in Rhode Island

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

Supports a federal ban on assault weapons. Supports requiring background checks for sales between private citizens at gun shows. Supports a license for gun possession.

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

Supports the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming

Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2015

"I support [Planned Parenthood]. Planned Parenthood has a long record of helping women."

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

Supports a federal minimum wage increase

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

Supports higher taxes on personal income over $150,000, supports slight decrease in capital gains and inheritance taxes, supports increased funding for the environment, education, and homeland security

Other, 2008

Opposes drilling the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, and wrote, "If ANWR is a wildlife refuge, wildlife should find sanctuary there, by definition. Letting in the oil companies while still calling it a refuge struck me as dishonest." ("Against the Tide" by Lincoln Chafee)

Candidate's Website, 2015

"I also strongly support a woman's right to make her own personal reproductive decisions."

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

"Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income."

Other, 2015

Opposes the NSA's bulk collection of data, and said, "Our sacred Constitution requires a warrant before unreasonable searches, which includes our phone records. Let's enforce that and while we're at it, allow Edward Snowden to come home."

Other, 2015

"I am in favor of the Affordable Care Act, and...Rhode Island had one of the best rollouts in the country."

Project Vote Smart Survey, 2006

Does not support a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman

Other, 2011

Signed a bill requiring voter ID

Other, 2015

"I believe the best way to build a good strong economy -- and I had to do it as governor because I came in during the depths of the Great Recession with people losing their jobs and their houses to foreclosure -- the best way to build it back up is the foundation....good pre-K programs, good elementary schools, good high schools. What the government has to do is build infrastructure, make sure we have good roads and bridges, fiber optics, dams, ports. Those are the foundations of a good economy."

Other, 2015

"I'm a big advocate of always voting for the funding for programs, to put the money into our public institutions of higher education. That's what made America great. Access to a good education and not coming out with high student debt."

Other, 2015

Supports the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, and generally supports negotiations with Iran