Campaign Finance Reform

• Ban Soft Money
• Enact New Lobbying Reform
  With this reform, lobbyists would have to disclose infromation about their activities.
• Strenghten the Federal Elections Commission
• Improve Disclosure of Issue Advocacy Advertisements
  This would require that all issue advertisements by special interest groups broadcast within 60 days of an election disclose their sources of funding.
• Provide Candidates Targeted in Issue Advertiesments with Equal Air Time
• Support Television Time for Democracy
  This is where a television stations agree to a voluntary standard of free broadcast time in which candidate-centered discourse in the thirty nights preceding an election will take place.

Health Care

• Expanding Access to Health Care Coverage
  • Expand eligibility under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and hold states accountable for signing up eligible children for health insurance.
  • Expand health care coverage to working families by extending CHIP to parents.
  • Provide affordable health care options for Americans ages 55 to 65 with a 25% tax credit for the premuim costs of each employee.
  • Stringhten health care delivery systems for the uninsured.
• Strenghthening Medicare
  • Price Competition Among Managed Plans
• Imporving Medicare with a Prescription Drud Benefit
• Protecting Patients
  • Will make sure that medical records are kept private
• Making Long-Term Care More Affordable
• Support Research and Prevention to Fight Diseases
• Improving Enrollment in Medicaid
• Protecting Women's Right to Choose