| Issue
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Al Gore
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George W. Bush
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| WILD FORESTS
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Supports Clinton's proposal to protect 40 million acres of roadless
forests;would extend to include Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
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Vows to reverse Clinton's forest-protection proposal. Supports
increase timber sales in national forests.
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| NEW MONUMENTS
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Supported creation of new national monuments: Giant Sequoia, Grand
Staircase-Escalante, Grand Canyon-Parashant, and others.
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Opposes the new national monuments.
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| ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
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Supports full wilderness protection for the refuge.
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Advocates oil drilling in the refuge.
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| CLIMATE CHANGE
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Negotiated the Kyoto agreement to reduce global warming; supports
reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Believes global warming is real, but opposes Kyoto Protocol.
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| AIR POLLUTION
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Supports stricter clean-air health standards.
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Opposes stricter air standards. Lobbied to weaken enforcement of the
Clean Air Act.
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| WATER POLLUTION
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Supports federal action to reduce pollution from industrial-size
animal facilities.
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Opposes this federal action. His home state of Texas has the most
factory farms of any state.
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| SPRAWL
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Proposed "Better America Bonds" to help communities preserve
green space and farmland.
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Says that controlling sprawl should be left to local government. Texas
is the first in loss of prime farmland to development.
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| POLITICAL REFORM
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Supports McCain-Feingold bill to ban soft-money donations to parties.
Proposes quasi-public financing of campaigns.
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Opposes McCain-Feingold. Opposes public financing of campaigns.
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