Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group. Platform. Adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, NV Download as a PDF As adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles.
These specific policies are not our goal, however. The Democratic Party Platform. Four years ago, Democrats, independents, and many Republicans came together as Americans to move our country forward.
We were in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the previous administration had put two wars on our nation's credit card, and the American Dream had slipped out of reach for too many. Today, our economy is growing again, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11, and our manufacturing sector is growing for the first time in more than a decade. But there is more we need to do, and so we come together again to continue what we started. We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth—the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us. Reclaiming the economic security of the middle class is the challenge we must overcome today. Health Care. Restoring the American Dream: Economy & Jobs.
Key Votes. Key Issues. On The Floor // Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. On April 26, the Senate passed a strong, bipartisan Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization by a bipartisan vote of 68 to 31, which upholds the traditions of VAWA Reauthorizations of being bipartisan and working to ensure all victims of domestic and sexual violence should be protected.
By sharp contrast on May 16th, 2012, the House passed H.R. 4970, a controversial House GOP version of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization that fails to include many of the protections in the Senate bill and also rolls back current protections. A manager's amendment made a few modest changes in the area of immigrant victims - but even with the manager's amendment, the GOP version remains a partisan bill that rolls back key protections in current law for many domestic violence victims, making them less safe. The GOP bill rolls back certain long-standing VAWA protections that help promote the safety of battered immigrant victims: The GOP bill fails: Key Provisions:
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