Tom McClintock

His campaign website says the Affordable Care Act should be fully repealed and replaced with changes such as giving individuals the same tax advantages employers get for health plans, letting people buy plans from any state, expanding health savings accounts, reforming cost drivers such as malpractice, and strengthening assigned-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions.⁹

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says the country needs a balanced budget amendment to limit federal borrowing.¹⁰

1. Add a balanced budget requirement to the Constitution
2. No amendment; limit spending by law instead, such as with spending caps
3. No constitutional requirement or new spending limits

His campaign website calls the national debt the greatest danger to the nation and proposes giving mandatory spending programs the same yearly review as other spending and barring appropriations that are not authorized by law.^6,10

His campaign website says the economy has grown whenever tax and regulatory burdens were reduced, and includes a 2015 speech crediting the 1981 Reagan tax rate cuts with economic growth.¹¹

His campaign website says the Constitution requires Congress to declare war before U.S. troops are placed in harm's way.¹²

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack

His campaign website says the military should have the latest technology, the best equipment and enough trained personnel to defend the nation, but that the country should not spend more on defense than it requires.¹²

His campaign website calls the Iran nuclear agreement a major mistake that gave Iran's government money and room to keep developing nuclear capabilities, and says he supports giving Iran's internal opposition moral and material support so that the regime collapses from within.^13,14

His campaign website says environmental reviews and lawsuits under laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act have made forest management and timber sales too costly and slow, and that he has introduced legislation to speed the removal of dead timber, replanting and the care of surviving forests.¹⁵

1. Focus mainly on making homes and towns near forests harder to burn
2. Fund more thinning and controlled burns under current review rules
3. Speed up thinning and logging by shortening reviews and limiting lawsuits

His campaign website says he opposes spending any federal money on California's high-speed rail project, and includes a 2015 House floor speech for his amendment to end taxpayer subsidies for Amtrak, under which Amtrak could keep running its Northeast Corridor from its own earnings.^16,17

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

His campaign website says highway taxes should be spent on highways, and that diverting them to mass transit has left highways congested and in poor repair.¹⁷

His campaign website says he finds claims about human activity's effect on climate change unconvincing, and includes a 2009 speech criticizing a proposed federal cap-and-trade plan that he says would raise costs for families.¹⁸

His campaign website says gun control laws disarm law-abiding citizens rather than criminals, and includes a 2011 House speech supporting H.R. 822, a bill to make states recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states.¹⁹

1. Require every state to accept other states' permits
2. Let each state decide which permits to accept

His campaign website says the main problem with immigration law is that it is not being enforced, and that he favors strict enforcement of current law before any other immigration reform.²⁰