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3,501 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Confidence in government, especially big government, has been the chief casualty of too many promises made and broken, too many commitments unkept. | no_bias |
3,502 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans support an end to the growth of the federal government and pledge to return the decisionmaking process to the smaller communities of society. | no_bias |
3,503 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to continue and redouble our efforts to return power to the state and local governments. | group_1 |
3,504 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to renew the dispersion of power from the federal government to the states and localities. | group_1 |
3,505 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to extend the process so that power can be transferred as well to non-governmental institutions. | group_1 |
3,506 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to eliminate bureaucratic red tape and reduce government paperwork. | group_1 |
3,507 | 1980 | political | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We recognize that there are dangers inherent in the rapid growth of the federal bureaucracy, especially the arbitrary nature of its discretionary power and the abuses of procedural safeguards. | group_1 |
3,508 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Accordingly, we pledge to work for fundamental changes in the federal Administrative Procedures Act in order to give citizens the same constitutional protections before a government agency that they have in a courtroom. | no_bias |
3,509 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | At the same time we urge the Congress to strengthen its oversight to ensure that the agencies comply with the deadlines, report filing, and other requirements mandated by law. | no_bias |
3,510 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans support public policies that will promote electoral participation without compromising ballot-box security. | group_1 |
3,511 | 1980 | political | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We prefer the present system of having the states and party rules determine the presidential nominating process to the concept of a uniform national primary which would only add to the already high costs of, and excessive federal intrusion into, presidential campaigns. | group_1 |
3,512 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We support the critical roles of competitive political parties in the recruitment of candidates, the conduct of campaigns, and the development of broad-based public policy responsive to the people. | group_1 |
3,513 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We urge Congress and state legislatures to frame their regulations of campaign finance, their nominating systems, and other election laws to strengthen rather than weaken parties. | group_1 |
3,514 | 1980 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | This steady deterioration has not only compounded our economic problems of inflation, recession, and dollar weakness, but even more importantly, it has infected our confidence as a nation. | group_2 |
3,515 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | In commenting on the Carter energy proposals, the Association said, "We cannot accept the notion that our people are best served by a policy based upon the inevitability of energy shortage and the need for government to allocate an ever diminishing supply among competing interests. | no_bias |
3,516 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | They seem to believe not only that we are a nation without resources, but also that we have lost our resourcefulness. | no_bias |
3,517 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | But in the interim, our pressing need for insurance against supply disruption should not be made hostage to the whims of foreign governments, as is presently the case under the Carter Administration. | no_bias |
3,518 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Instead, because of obstructionist actions of the Administration, coal production has increased by only 11 percent to date and future prospects are dim. | no_bias |
3,519 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | The Three Mile Island incident suggests the need for certain reforms, such as in the area of operator training, but illustrates that properly designed and operated nuclear plants do not endanger public health or safety. | no_bias |
3,520 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans will continue to support the development of new technologies to develop liquid, gaseous, and solid hydrocarbons which can be derived from coal, oil shale, and tar sands. | no_bias |
3,521 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Virtually all major environmental legislation in the past decade reflected a bipartisan concern over the need to maintain a clean and healthful environment. | no_bias |
3,522 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | That vigor can only be achieved in an atmosphere of freedomone that encourages individual initiatives and personal resourcefulness. | no_bias |
3,523 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We strongly affirm that environmental protection must not become a cover for a "no-growth" policy and a shrinking economy. | group_2 |
3,524 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to reverse that deplorable trend, through the appointment of women and men who respect and reflect the values of the American people, and whose judicial philosophy is characterized by the highest regard for protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens, and is consistent with [p.28] the belief in the decentralization of the federal government and efforts to return decisionmaking power to state and local elected officials. | no_bias |
3,525 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to reduce it. | no_bias |
3,526 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Not only has the Democratic Congress failed to control spending, but in the last 10 years federal credit assistance programs have soared out of control. | no_bias |
3,527 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | This has crippled living standards, productivity, and our ability to compete in the world. It has led to reduced output, scarcity, and higher prices. | no_bias |
3,528 | 1980 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | The Republican Party believes inflation can be controlled only by fiscal and monetary restraint, combined with sharp reductions in the tax and regulatory disincentives for savings, investment, and productivity. | group_2 |
3,529 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Wage and price controls will only result in shortages, inequities, black markets, and ultimately higher prices. | no_bias |
3,530 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | The threat to the United States and its allies is not only a military one. | no_bias |
3,531 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | These tenets have enabled a commonwealth of free and independent nations to enjoy the benefits and confidence that come from expanding economic interchange in peace and bilateral and multilateral support in time of war. | no_bias |
3,532 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to meet these challenges with confidence and strength. | no_bias |
3,533 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to restore to the United States and its people a government with conviction in our cause, a government that will restore to our great nation its self-respect, its self-confidence, and its national pride. | no_bias |
3,534 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We urge speedy approval of this legislation by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as a means of making clear to the world that the United States has not forgotten that the price of peace is eternal vigilance against tyranny. | group_1 |
3,535 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | An administration that can defend its interest only by threatening the mass extermination of civilians, as Mr. Carter implied in 1979, dooms itself to strategic, and eventually geo-political, paralysis. | no_bias |
3,536 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Of equal importance is the need to bring our stocks of ammunition, spare parts, and suppliesnow at woefully inadequate levelsto a standard that will enable us to sustain our forces in conflict. | no_bias |
3,537 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | In addition to the strategic programs needed for our Air Force, we pledge to restore tactical aircraft development and procurement to economical levels and to speed the achievement of 26 modernized wings of aircraft able to conduct missions at night, in all weather conditions, and against the most sophisticated adversary. | no_bias |
3,538 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to increase substantially our intra- and inter-theater airlift capability and to increase our aerial tanker fleet through procurement and speedy modernization. | no_bias |
3,539 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | He has slowed the Trident submarine and requested only one attack submarine each year in spite of a Soviet three-to-one advantage. | no_bias |
3,540 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to restore a national attitude of pride and gratitude for the service of our men and women in the armed forces. | no_bias |
3,541 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Specifically, we support immediate action to:Provide for an increase in military pay targeted in particular toward the career grades now experiencing the greatest attrition; | no_bias |
3,542 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge that the profession of arms will be restored to its rightful place as a prominent expression of patriotism in America. | no_bias |
3,543 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Yet funding requests for sufficient fuel, spare parts, ammunition, and supplies for U.S. war reserves have been cut each year for the past four years from the minimum quantities the armed services have stated they need. | no_bias |
3,544 | 1980 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to make the combat readiness of U.S. Armed Forces and the preparedness of the industrial base to a top priority. | group_2 |
3,545 | 1980 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to revitalize America's military research and development efforts, from basic research through the deployment of weapons and support systems, to assure that our vital security needs will be met for the balance of the century. | group_2 |
3,546 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | In particular, America's preeminence in the exploration of space is threatened by the failure of the Carter Administration to fund fully the Space Shuttle program (with its acknowledged benefits for both the civil and military applications) as well as advanced exploration programs. | no_bias |
3,547 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We believe that a strong national consensus has emerged on the need to make our intelligence community a reliable and productive instrument of national policy once again. | no_bias |
3,548 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will provide our government with the capability to help influence international events vital to our national security interests, a capability which only the United States among the major powers has denied itself. | no_bias |
3,549 | 1980 | political | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans believe that the United States can only negotiate with the Soviet Union from a position of unquestioned principle and unquestioned strength. | group_1 |
3,550 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans will strive to resolve critical issues through peaceful negotiations, but we recognize that negotiations conducted from a position of military weakness can result only in further damage to American interests. | group_1 |
3,551 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans oppose the transfer of high technology to the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, such as has been done in the past, permitting development of sophisticated military hardware which threatens the United States and our allies. | group_1 |
3,552 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to stop the flow of technology to the Soviet Union that could contribute, directly or indirectly, to the growth of their military power. | group_1 |
3,553 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We call for the immediate lifting of this embargo. | no_bias |
3,554 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will spare no efforts to publicize to the world the fundamental differences in the two systems and will strengthen such means as the international Communications Agency, the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty actively to articulate U.S. values and policies, and to highlight the weaknesses of totalitarianism. | group_1 |
3,555 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to end the Carter cover-up of Soviet violations of SALT I and II, to end the cover-up of Soviet violation of the Biological Warfare Convention, and to end the cover-up of Soviet use of gas and chemical weapons in Afghanistan and elsewhere. | group_1 |
3,556 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Defense budgets, weapons acquisition, force readiness, and diplomatic coordination need to be substantially increased and improved. | no_bias |
3,557 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will search for an early resolution of problems that currently inhibit the effective participation of all the nations of NATO's southern region and we call for the integration of Spain into the North Atlantic Alliance. | no_bias |
3,558 | 1980 | racial_cultural | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | With respect to an ultimate peace settlement, Republicans reject any call for involvement of the PLO as not in keeping with the long-term interests of either Israel or the Palestinian Arabs. | group_2 |
3,559 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will oppose discriminatory practices, including boycotts, and we will discourage arms sales which contribute to regional instability. | group_1 |
3,560 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans recognize the importance of our relations within this hemisphere and pledge a strong new United States policy in the Americas. | no_bias |
3,561 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to reestablish close and cooperative relations with the nations of Central and South America and repair the diplomatic damage done by the Carter Administration. | no_bias |
3,562 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge understanding and assistance in the efforts of these nations, and their neighbors, to deal seriously with serious domestic problems. | no_bias |
3,563 | 1980 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to ensure that the Panama Canal remains open, secure, and free of hostile control. | group_2 |
3,564 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | A new Republican Administration will, in close cooperation with its neighbors, seek to work together to build prosperity and to strengthen common efforts to combat externally produced revolution and violence. | group_1 |
3,565 | 1980 | political | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans will recognize the long friendship with these countries and will cultivate and strengthen our diplomatic and trade relationships. | group_1 |
3,566 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | A Republican Administration will work actively to bring relief to these suffering people, especially those who have sought refuge in Thailand. | no_bias |
3,567 | 1980 | racial_cultural | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We value the special contribution the people of Thailand have made to the refugees by opening their borders and saving hundreds of thousands of them from death, and we pledge to provide full economic aid and military material to assist Thailand in repelling Vietnamese aggression. | group_2 |
3,568 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge that a Republican Administration will press for full accounting of Americans still listed as missing in action. | no_bias |
3,569 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Growing contacts between the United States and the People's Republic of China reflect the interests of both nations, as well as some common perceptions of recent changes in the global military balance. | no_bias |
3,570 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will exercise due caution and prudence with respect to our own vital interests, especially in the field of expanding trade, including the transfer of sophisticated technology with potential offensive military applications. | no_bias |
3,571 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge that our concern for the safety and security of the 17 million people of Taiwan will be constant. | no_bias |
3,572 | 1980 | political | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We reaffirm our commitment to this principle and pledge our strong opposition to the effort of the Soviet Union and its militant allies to subvert this process. | group_1 |
3,573 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will encourage and assist business to play a major role in support of regional industrial development programs, mineral complexes, and agricultural self-sufficiency. | group_2 |
3,574 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | A Republican Administration will seek to strengthen and assist regional security arrangements among nations prepared to assume the burden of their defense. | no_bias |
3,575 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Only by private economic development by the people of the nations involved has poverty ever been overcome. | no_bias |
3,576 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | U.S. foreign economic assistance should have a catalytic effect on indigenous economic development, and should only be extended when it is consistent with America's foreign policy interest. | group_2 |
3,577 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | It has weakened the fabric of the U.S. alliance structure by making the U.S. appear to be an unreliable ally, a trend which can only lead to the undesirable attempt by nations fearful of their security to seek to acquire their own nuclear weapons. | no_bias |
3,578 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Such assistance to any nation need not imply complete approval of a regime's domestic policy. | no_bias |
3,579 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to strengthen America's presence abroad by well-constructed programs of military assistance to promote national and regional security. | no_bias |
3,580 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to reform and rebuild U.S. military assistance and foreign arms sales policies so that they will serve American interests in [p.42] promoting regional security arrangements and the individual defense needs of friendly nations. | no_bias |
3,581 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We oppose subsidies, tariff and non-tariff barriers that unfairly restrict access of American products to foreign markets. | group_2 |
3,582 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge to strengthen trade agreements and to change the Carter economic policies that have undermined the capability of American agriculture and industry to compete abroad. | group_2 |
3,583 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Especially during the two decades preceding Ronald Reagan's election, the federal government eroded their authority, ignored their rights, and attempted to supplant their functions with programs at once intrusive and ineffectual. | no_bias |
3,584 | 1980 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We pledge also to work with our trading partners to eliminate subsidies to exports and dumping. | group_2 |
3,585 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will promote the development and support of a domestic shipbuilding and ship-repair mobilization base adequate to both the commercial and the national security requirements of the United States. | no_bias |
3,586 | 1980 | racial_cultural | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | In contrast, the Soviet Union imports only two critical minerals at a level in excess of 50 percent of domestic consumption. | group_2 |
3,587 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to work to eliminate domestic disincentives to the exploitation of these resources. | no_bias |
3,588 | 1980 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans pledge to promote allied defense cooperation to assure protection from military threats to overseas resources. | no_bias |
3,589 | 1984 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Republicans affirm that now, as throughout history, the spiritual and intellectual genius of the American people will create a better nation and maintain a just peace. | no_bias |
3,590 | 1984 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | This is not some abstract formula. | no_bias |
3,591 | 1984 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Today we declare ourselves the Party of Hopenot for some but for all. | no_bias |
3,592 | 1984 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Our society provides both a ladder of opportunity on which all can climb to success and a safety net of assistance for those who need it. | no_bias |
3,593 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We therefore oppose any attempts to increase taxes, which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans. | group_2 |
3,594 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We favor reducing deficits by continuing and expanding the strong economic recovery brought about by the policies of this Administration and by eliminating wasteful and unnecessary government spending. | group_2 |
3,595 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will expand coverage of the Individual Retirement Account, especially to homemakers, and increase and index the annual limits on IRA contributions. | group_2 |
3,596 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We oppose withholding on dividend and interest income. | group_2 |
3,597 | 1984 | no_bias | no_bias | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Such controls only cause shortages, inequities, and ultimately high prices. | no_bias |
3,598 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | Therefore, we support policies which will increase opportunities for the poorest in our society to climb the economic ladder. | group_2 |
3,599 | 1984 | economic | implicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | High marginal tax rates reduced the incentive for work, saving, and investment, and retarded economic growth, productivity, and job creation. | group_2 |
3,600 | 1984 | economic | explicit | comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets | We will continue our efforts to further reduce tax rates and now foresee no economic circumstances which would call for increased taxation. | group_2 |
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