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Ask Congressman David Jolly (R-FL) and Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) about the issues that are most important to you -- then vote and tell others! Watch the Florida Open Debate for U.S. Senate right here on Monday, April 25, at 7:00 pm EDT. All questions will be chosen from among those that receive the most votes online.
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What are you going to do to help ratify the CEDAW treaty?

What are you going to do to help further women's equity in this country.

Submitted by: julia m. from CO
April 24, 2016, 3:01 p.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
56

What are you going to do about Guantanamo bay?

What are you going to do about the human rights abuses that occur/ occurred there and what are you going to do to make sure these abuses never occur again.

Submitted by: julia m. from CO
April 24, 2016, 2:59 p.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
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Submitted by: nate from OH
April 22, 2016, 8:32 a.m.
Issue area: Education
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How can homeowners/wind/flood insurances remain affordable for the middle class?

Windstorm, homeowners, and flood insurance rates in Florida are skyrocketing and becoming difficult for the middle class homeowner to afford. Deductibles are high & exclusions are too numerous.

Submitted by: Linda D. from FL
April 22, 2016, 9:50 a.m.
Issue area: Economy & Jobs
62

Why do we have laws making fraud a crime?

There can be no argument that the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street committed fraud but none have been even charged. Is this class of people exempt from the laws? Someone is not doing their job.

Submitted by: Crawford from TN
April 24, 2016, 5:20 p.m.
Issue area: Government & Elections
51

Our Constitution & Freedom to choose without interference Yes/No?

Our Forefathers created a land of Freedom in all respects for ALL citizens but today we have some who would take those freedoms away. It's time to bring those documents to the fore for all!

Submitted by: Pappy from WA
April 21, 2016, 8:29 p.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
80

How will you handle gang violence and drug trafficking?

Their is a growing number of gangs in the city

Submitted by: Coty1000 from FL
April 21, 2016, 3:52 p.m.
Issue area: Society & Community
67

What civil rights issue do you feel is most critical and what's your solution?

There are numerous injustices flooding our system and crippling many Americans. What issues do they find most critical and how do they plan to fight for those civil liberties that are being denied.

Submitted by: Anna A. from NV
April 21, 2016, 9:42 p.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
56

Would you support the Disability Integration Act?

The legislation (S.2427) builds on the 25 years of work that ADAPT has done to end the institutional bias and provide seniors and people with disabilities home and community-based services (HCBS).
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Submitted by: Solomon S. from MA
April 22, 2016, 8:50 a.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
79

Who can better defeat Trump in the general election, Clinton or Sanders?

Of course, when Trump wins CA, Republican nomination with a majority of delegates, he needs strongest challenger, Clinton or Sanders?

Submitted by: Christopher Anderson from CA
April 21, 2016, 12:40 a.m.
Issue area: Government & Elections
65

Do you believe if guns were taking off the streets, the communities will be safe?

I believe that guns should be taken off the streets.

Submitted by: Tiffany H. from LA
April 21, 2016, 8:08 p.m.
Issue area: Society & Community
54

Would you consider creating a federally funded online university?

Student debt is over a trillion dollars. Would force cost coinstraints within the competitive and very profitable education industry. Could target critical needs within the government to justify cost
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Submitted by: chill from FL
April 22, 2016, 2:08 p.m.
Issue area: Education
54

Will you stop minting coins, that cost more to produce than they are worth?

It costs 1.7 cents to make a penny, and 8 to make a nickel. It is also proven to be more cost effective to switch the main currency away from easily damaged bills, to coins.
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Submitted by: KenDSweeney from WI
April 21, 2016, 9:50 p.m.
Issue area: Taxes & Budget
60

What place does conservative politics have in a declining religious America?

Religion has been on decline around the world and in America. Church attendance has reached all time lows. Conservative politics have religious foundations. What's the future of conservatism?

Submitted by: Danny from IN
April 21, 2016, 10:13 a.m.
Issue area: Government & Elections
54
Submitted by: Ice queen from NY
April 21, 2016, 9:12 p.m.
Issue area: Civil Rights
51

Are you in favor of having the Treasury fund the payroll tax?

According to Modern Monetary Theory the purpose of all federal taxes is to control how the economy works. The payroll tax penalizes employees & employers and drives jobs out of the country.

Submitted by: Brooke from CA
April 20, 2016, 7:13 p.m.
Issue area: Economy & Jobs
78

How would you deal with the heightened tensions between NATO and Russia?

Russia claims that as part of the German reunification talks, the West promised that NATO would not expand East. Since then, numerous former Soviet-bloc countries have joined, up to R's borders.Smart?
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Submitted by: freeatlasttga from CA
April 21, 2016, 1:38 p.m.
Issue area: Foreign Policy & Military
74

Do you have a personal position on public transportation?

It seems that mobility is access to experience, jobs, education, health, even groceries, Do you have a dream for Florida?

Submitted by: clurie bennis from OH
April 22, 2016, 12:48 a.m.
Issue area: Society & Community
65

Do you support increasing NASA's budget to at least 1% of the federal budget?

Missions are constantly delayed if they even happen at all. We haven't been to the moon since 1972. Their funding gets cut almost every year.

Submitted by: astrothought from CA
April 22, 2016, 1:46 a.m.
Issue area: Infrastructure & Technology
67
Submitted by: Timmy Sjöberg from PA
April 21, 2016, 11:38 a.m.
Issue area: Foreign Policy & Military
67

What would you do as Senator to combat cancer?

Cancer is a growing epidemic in this nation. It has taken the lives of countless Americans. Cancer must be stopped.

Submitted by: Brandon Mitchell from MD
April 24, 2016, 4:33 p.m.
Issue area: Health
47

What is your opinion of Hillary and guns sales and the NRA?

During debates, why not remind Hillary about her direct tie to gun sales and her support for the NRA?
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Submitted by: Clara from CO
April 22, 2016, 10:21 a.m.
Issue area: Government & Elections
61

Do u support the FCAT, Should our children's education be treated as a business?

Pearson was paid $250 million over four years. Education has become big business thanks to No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Submitted by: JackieSalazar from TX
April 22, 2016, 11:08 a.m.
Issue area: Education
59

Do you have a plan to combat this? Perhaps a wall that the water will pay for?

It is supoorted by 97% of the world's scientists that half your state will be swallowed up into the ocean in the next few due to warming, rising oceans.
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Submitted by: Mr Mars from CA
April 21, 2016, 5:35 p.m.
Issue area: Environment

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