Democratic Party cont.	Republican Party cont.
Worker Rights	All workers have right to organize, .	Support Right to Work Laws; oppose
& Overtime	collect dues, negotiate. Support Free	Employee Free Choice Act.  Repeal
	Choice Act. Guarantee overtime pay.	minimum wage laws.
Reproductive	Trust Texas woman to decide about	Urge reversal of Roe v. Wade. Support
Rights &	bearing children rather than politicians	Life at Conception Act. Oppose RU-486
Family Planning	deciding. Support family planning	& morning after pill. For a human life
	including emergency contraception.	constitutional amendment.
Energy,	Address high cost of food & energy.	Oppose subsidizing alternative fuel
Utilities &	Restore fees to help needy pay utility	production.  Promote all energy
Food Costs	bills. Support research of alternative	production including ANWR, offshore
	energy that is sound environmentally.	California and East Coast.
Border Issues	Give necessary resources to Border	Unimpeded deportation process. End
& Immigration	Patrol to police borders. Create path	catch & release policy. For illegal
	to citizenship for undocumented	immigrants "No amnesty! No how, no
	immigrants here. Oppose Homeland	way." Oppose any amnesty or legal
	Security waivers to build a fence w/o	status for illegal immigrants. Prohibit
	regard to border economy, impact on	non-lawful non citizens from enrolling in
	environment & property rights.	public schools. No automatic citizenship
		for non-legal children born in U.S.
Veteran Care	Establish full service V.A. hospital in	Construct "Veterans Museum in Texas."
& Military	South Texas & restore Kerrville V.A.	Disqualify homosexuals from military
	Hospital for Hill Country vets. All Texas	service. Pass new G.I. Bill to fund
	vets to be able to use G.I.  Bill benefits	expanded educational scholarship
	& Hazlewood Act concurrently.	opportunities for Veterans.
Environment	Support requiring Texas to meet all	Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.
	EPA standards. All cities must comply	Support cooperative energy regulation &
	w/ Clean Air Act. Stop nuclear waste	rulemaking.  Allow state to consider costs
	from other states/nations. Stronger Tx	when comparing emission control
	environmental protection/regulation.	techniques. Stop unnecessary
	Protect state water from depletion &	environmental regulations. Groundwater
	exploitation.	is a vested ownership issue.
Bilingual &	Reject attempts to destroy bilingual	Abolish bilingual programs in Texas
English Issues	education.	schools & require students to pass
		English ability tests before advancing to .
		next grade. Adopt American English as
		official language of Texas.
Sources:	http://www.txdemocrats.org/issues/party_platform/
	http://www.texasgop.org/site/PageServer?pagename=What_We_Believe
Compiled by Jan Weaver for the Coastal Bend Texas Democratic Women                                    www.tdw.org