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9,501
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
As part of this adjustment process, we pledge improvement of the assistance offered by government to facilitate readjustment on the part of workers, businessmen and affected communities;
group_2
9,502
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to ensure that international investment problems are dealt with fairly and effectively?including consideration of effects on jobs, expropriation and treatment of investors, as well as equitable principles of taxation.
group_2
9,503
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge increased efforts to promote export opportunities, including coordination of tax policy and improved export financing techniques?designed to make America more competitive in exporting.
group_2
9,504
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to sustain and expand that role.
no_bias
9,505
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Some of these measures have been signed into law.
no_bias
9,506
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a balanced approach?one that takes into account the problems of providing sufficient medical personnel and facilities.
group_1
9,507
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We also support efforts to develop ambulatory medical care services to reduce hospitalization and keep costs down.
group_1
9,508
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We oppose nationalized compulsory health insurance.
group_1
9,509
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support expanded medical research to find cures for the major diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs and kidneys?diseases which now account for over half the deaths in the United States.
group_1
9,510
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We continue to support the concept of comprehensive community mental health centers.
group_1
9,511
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We continue to urge extension of private health insurance to cover mental illness.
group_1
9,512
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge our best efforts to deal effectively with both.
no_bias
9,513
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Assure that the people's elected representatives in Congress play their proper role in developing specific methods for protecting the rights guaranteed by the 14th amendment, rather than leaving this task to judges appointed for life.
group_1
9,514
1972
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor the neighborhood school concept.
group_1
9,515
1972
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In the field of school finance, we favor a coordinated effort among all levels of government to break the pattern of excessive reliance on local property taxes to pay educational costs.
group_1
9,516
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We affirm our confidence in these functions and especially in the free play of ideas and discourse which they imply.
no_bias
9,517
1972
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We believe that means which are consistent with the Constitution can be devised for channeling public financial aid to support the education of all children in schools of their parents' choice, non-public as well as public.
group_1
9,518
1972
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
For the future, we also pledge Special Revenue Sharing for Education, continued work to develop and implement the Career Education concept, and continued efforts to establish a student financial aid system to bring together higher education within the reach of any qualified person.
group_1
9,519
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Its injustices and costs threaten to alienate taxpayer support for welfare programs of any kind.
no_bias
9,520
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Temporary supplements to the incomes of the working poor to enable them to support their families while continuing to work.
group_2
9,521
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We flatly oppose programs or policies which embrace the principle of a government-guaranteed income,
group_2
9,522
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to continue to push strongly for sound welfare reform until meaningful and helpful change is enacted into law by the Congress.
no_bias
9,523
1972
criminal_justice
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Serious crimes rose only one per cent during the first quarter of this year?down from six per cent last year and 13 per cent the year before.
group_1
9,524
1972
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Almost a decade of inadequate Federal support of law enforcement has left deep scars in our society, but now a new mood pervades the country, Civil disorders and campus violence are no longer considered inevitable.
group_1
9,525
1972
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a tireless campaign against crime?to restore safety to our streets, and security to law-abiding citizens who have a right to enjoy their homes and communities free from fear.
group_1
9,526
1972
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to:Continue our vigorous support of local police and law enforcement agencies, as well as Federal law enforcement agencies.
group_1
9,527
1972
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We will strongly support efforts of all law enforcement agencies to apprehend and prosecute to the limit of the law all those who use firearms in the commission of crimes.
group_1
9,528
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Turkey has announced a total ban on opium production and, with our cooperation, France has seized major heroin laboratories and drugs.
no_bias
9,529
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to seek further international agreements to restrict the production and movement of dangerous drugs.
group_1
9,530
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Administration-backed legislation has given farmers much greater freedom to plant what they choose, and we have given assistance to cooperatives to strengthen the farmers' bargaining positions.
no_bias
9,531
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
For the future, we pledge to intensify our efforts to:Achieve a $10 billion annual export market by opening new foreign markets, while continuing to fight for fair treatment for American farm products in our traditional markets;
group_2
9,532
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The need for a better quality and greater availability of urban services;
no_bias
9,533
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The need for better locally designed, locally implemented, locally controlled solutions to the problems of individual urban areas.
no_bias
9,534
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We strongly oppose the use of housing or community development programs to impose arbitrary housing patterns on unwilling communities.
group_2
9,535
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Neither do we favor dispersing large numbers of people away from their homes and neighborhoods against their will.
group_2
9,536
1972
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We also pledge to carry forward our policy on encouraging the development of new towns in order to afford all Americans a wider range of residential choices.
group_2
9,537
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We urge Federal and State governments, in implementing national goals and programs, to utilize the valuable resources of counties as area-wide, general-purpose governments.
group_1
9,538
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Significant numbers of Americans still lack the means for decent housing, and in such cases-where special need exists?we will continue to apply public resources to help people acquire better apartments and homes.
group_2
9,539
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We further pledge:Continued housing production for low and moderate income families, which has sharply increased since President Nixon took office;
group_2
9,540
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We urge prompt action by State, county and municipal governments to seek solutions to the serious problems caused by abandoned buildings in urban areas.
no_bias
9,541
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We strongly support these research and development initiatives of the Department of Transportation.
no_bias
9,542
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge our continued commitment to seeking out practical ways for more and safer bicycling opportunities within our cities and metropolitan areas.
no_bias
9,543
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We call upon the Congress to act promptly on the President's environmental proposals still stalled there more than 20 in all.
group_1
9,544
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
These include:Legislation to control, and in some cases prohibit, the dumping of wastes into the oceans, estuaries and the Great Lakes;
no_bias
9,545
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Both environmentally critical areas such as wetlands and growth-inducing developments such as airports would have particular scrutiny;
no_bias
9,546
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a workable balance between a growing economy and environmental protection.
group_2
9,547
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to develop and manage these lands in a balanced way, both to protect the irreplaceable environment and to maximize the benefits of their use to our society.
group_2
9,548
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We recognize and commend the humane societies and the animal welfare societies in their work to protect animals.
group_2
9,549
1972
political
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We need a Department of Natural Resources to continue to develop a national, integrated energy policy and to administer and implement that policy as the United States approaches the 21st Century.
group_1
9,550
1972
political
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Avoidance of brown-outs and power disruptions now and in the future call for sound policies supporting incentives that will encourage the exploration for, and development of, our fossil fuels.
group_1
9,551
1972
political
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A liquid metal fast breeder reactor demonstration plant will be built with the financial support of the Atomic Energy Commission, the electric power industry and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
group_1
9,552
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We recognize the serious problem of assuring adequate electric generating capacity in the Nation, and pledge to meet this need without doing violence to our environment.
no_bias
9,553
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Protect and conserve marine mammals and other marine species to ensure their abundance and especially to protect species whose survival is endangered;
no_bias
9,554
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge a vigorous program of research and development in order to seek out more economical methods to recover and recycle such commodities, including the processing of municipal solid wastes.
group_2
9,555
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Finally, we pledge expanded efforts to aid unemployed scientists and engineers.
group_2
9,556
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Another is consolidation of scores of categorical grant programs into six Special Revenue Sharing programs which would make available some $12 billion annually in broad policy fields for States and localities to apply in their own ways to their own needs.
no_bias
9,557
1972
criminal_justice
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We will build on our strong record in this area?a record which includes cutting the District of Columbia crime rate in half, aggressive support for a balanced transportation system in metropolitan Washington, initiation of a Bicentennial program and celebration in the national capital region, and support for the first Congressional Delegate in nearly a century.
group_1
9,558
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We will welcome and support statehood for Puerto Rico if that status should be the free choice of its people in a referendum vote.
group_1
9,559
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We vigorously support such action as is necessary to permit American citizens resident in Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to vote for President and Vice President in national elections.
group_1
9,560
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support full voting rights in committees for the Delegates to Congress from Guam and the Virgin Islands.
group_1
9,561
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In our free system, the people are not only the source of our social problems but also the main source of solutions.
no_bias
9,562
1972
education
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We have undertaken a wide variety of demonstration programs to assure our children, particularly poor children, a good start in life?for example, the Parent and Child Center program for infant care, Home Start to strengthen the environment of the preschool child, and Health Start to explore new delivery systems of health care for young children.
group_1
9,563
1972
gender
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We reaffirm the President's pledge earlier this year: "The Administration will . . . continue its strong efforts to open equal opportunities for women, recognizing clearly that women are often denied such opportunities today.
group_2
9,564
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To help meet this need, we favor the development of publicly or privately run, voluntary, comprehensive, quality day care services, locally controlled but federally assisted, with the requirement that the recipients of these services will pay their fair share of the costs according to their ability.
group_1
9,565
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Strengthen private pension plans through tax deductions to encourage their expansion, improved vesting, and protection of the investments in these funds;
no_bias
9,566
1972
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Nation's labor unions, comprised of millions of working people, have advanced the well-being not only of their members but also of our entire free-enterprise system.
group_2
9,567
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We call upon management and labor to devote their best efforts to finding better ways to conduct labor-management relations so the good of all the people can be advanced without strikes or lockouts.
group_1
9,568
1972
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge continued advancement of the health and safety of workers.
group_1
9,569
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge further modernization of the Federal Civil Service System, including emphasis on executive development.
group_2
9,570
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We strongly favor vigorous competition by American business in the world market but in ways that do not displace American jobs;
group_2
9,571
1972
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In 1970 President Nixon approved strong new amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and we pledge continued vigilance to ensure that the rights affirmed by this act are upheld.
group_1
9,572
1972
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge continued attention to the needs of off-reservation Indians and have launched demonstration projects at Indian centers in nine major cities.
group_2
9,573
1972
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Our achievements for human dignity and opportunity are specific and real, not idle promises.
no_bias
9,574
1972
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We oppose punitive proposals which are more anti-business than pro-consumer.
group_2
9,575
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Yet it is exactly because we do care about your basic freedom to manage your own life with a minimum of government interference, because we do care about encouraging permanent and meaningful jobs, because we do care about your getting paid in sound dollars, because we do care about resisting the use of your tax dollars for wasteful or unproven programs?it is for these reasons that we are proposing only actions that the nation can afford and are opposing excessive tinkering with an economic system that works better than any other in the world.
group_2
9,576
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
They attempt to treat only the symptom?rising prices?not the cause.
group_2
9,577
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Historically, controls have always been a dismal failure, and in the end they create only shortages, black markets and higher prices.
group_2
9,578
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Massive, federally-funded public employment programs, such as the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill currently embraced by the new National Platform of the Democrat Party will cost billions and can only be financed either through very large tax Increases or through ever increasing levels of deficit spending.
group_2
9,579
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Sound job creation can only be accomplished in the private sector of the economy.
group_2
9,580
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
a nation can only spend its way into bankruptcy.
no_bias
9,581
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
While the best tax reform is tax reduction, we recognize the need for structural tax adjustments to help the working men and women of our nation.
group_2
9,582
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support economic and tax policies to insure the necessary job-producing expansion of our economy.
group_2
9,583
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Through our farm exports we fight the problem of world hunger, especially with the humanitarian Food for Peace Program (Public Law 480) of the Eisenhower Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress of 1954.
no_bias
9,584
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We oppose government-controlled grain reserves, just as we oppose federal regulations that are unrealistic in farm practices, such as those imposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
no_bias
9,585
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We recognize the importance of the multilateral trade negotiations now in progress and urge our representatives to obtain the most beneficial agreements for our farmers and the nation's economy.
group_2
9,586
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In order to assure the consumers of America an uninterrupted source of food, it is necessary to pass labor relations legislation which is responsive to the welfare of workers and to the particular needs of food production.
no_bias
9,587
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
As in 1972, we urge prompt passage of the Republican-sponsored legislation now pending in Congress which will increase the estate tax exemption to $200,000, allow valuation of farm property on a current use basis and provide for extension of the time of payment in the case of farms and small businesses.
group_2
9,588
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Innovations in agriculture need to be encouraged by expanding research programs including new pest and predator control measures, and utilization of crops as a new energy resource.
group_2
9,589
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
If we expect our farmers to produce an abundant food supply, they must have all the energy they need to produce, market and process their crops and livestock.
group_2
9,590
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Some 9.6 million small firms generate 55 percent of our private employment?or the livelihood of over 100 million Americans.
group_2
9,591
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Estate taxes need liberalization to benefit the family business in the same manner as the family farm.
group_2
9,592
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party, recognizing that small and independent business is the backbone of the American competitive system, pledges itself to strengthen this vital institution.
group_2
9,593
1976
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In particular, we consider essential an analysis of the extensive growth of laws and regulations governing production processes and conditions and standards or consumer products, so as to determine whether the services and benefits the American people receive are worth the price they are paying for these services in higher taxes and consumer prices.
group_2
9,594
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We are intensely aware of the need to protect our environment and provide safe working conditions in American industry, while at the same time preventing the loss of jobs and the closing of small businesses through unrealistic or over-rigorous government regulations.
group_2
9,595
1976
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support a balanced approach that considers the requirements of a growing economy and provides jobs for American workers.
group_2
9,596
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
What we need is a top-to-bottom overhaul.
no_bias
9,597
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party has always believed that the proper role of government is to do only those things which individuals cannot do for themselves.
no_bias
9,598
1976
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In that regard, we oppose "federal post card registration."
group_1
9,599
1976
political
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Such possibilities could not only cheapen our ballot, but in fact threaten the entire electoral process.
group_1
9,600
1976
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We note the low respect the public has for Congress?a Democrat-controlled Institution?and wonder how the Democrats can possibly honor their pledge to reform government when they have utterly failed to reform Congress.
no_bias