“government should avoid picking winners and losers.” [Think Progress, ] Climate Change Under Secretary Clinton, State Department Appointed The First Special Envoy For Climate Change. [State Department, ] Secretary Clinton: “I Believe That American Leadership Is Essential To Meeting The Challenges Of The 21st Century…And Chief Among Those Is The Complex, Urgent, And Global Threat Of Climate Change.” [State Department, ] Proposed To “Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 Percent From 1990 Levels By 2050” As President. [Speech in Cedar Rapids, IA, Council on Foreign Relations, ] “The Senate Passed My Legislation To Require The Department Of Defense To Integrate [The Threat From] Global Warming’ Into Our Planning.” [Speech in Cedar Rapids, IA, Council on Foreign Relations, ] Equated denying climate change with denying gravity. [Salon, ] O’Malley called international collaboration to confront climate change a “security imperative.” [Washington Post, ] Opposed 2009 Copenhagen agreement, citing lack of congressional approval. [Vox, ] Believed climate change was manmade and wanted America to lead the on Climate Change. [Washington Post, ] Believed climate change was manmade. [Associated Press, ] EPA plant regulations Appeared to support 2014 EPA power plant regulations. [Washington Post, ] Supported 2014 EPA power plant regulations, while acknowledging they would hurt coal jobs. [Daily Caller, ] Supported 2014 EPA power plant regulations. [Office of Governor O’Malley, ] Appeared to oppose all EPA carbon regulations under the Clean Air Act. [Think Progress, ] Supported 2014 EPA power plant regulations. [Office of Senator Sanders, ] Supported 2014 EPA power plant regulations. [Office of Governor Chafee, ]
2611,Vote 150, 109th Congress, ] 2611,Vote 150, 109th Congress, ] Executive action Supported immigration action. [MSNBC, ] Supported immigration action as Vice President. [CNN, ] Supported immigration action. [Talking Points Memo, ] Believed immigration action was within presidential powers. [Richmond ] Supported immigration action. [Press Release, Office of Senator Sanders, ] Approach for handling children at the border Supported sending unaccompanied minors back to home countries. [Huffington Post, ] Supported sending unaccompanied minors back to home countries. House, ] Opposed sending unaccompanied minors back to home countries. [Washington Post, ] Supported housing children, called crisis a refugee and not an immigration issue. [Ed Show, MSNBC, 7/16/14] Said he would look to place unaccompanied minors in Rhode Island, but was not asked to do so by a federal agency. [Washington Post, ] Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. 2015: Supported driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. [Huffington Post, ] 2008: Opposed driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants equivocating on the issue at a Democratic primary debate. [Huffington Post, ] 2007: Opposed driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants without comprehensive immigration reform. [Democratic Primary Debate, ] Supported driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. [@GovernorOMalley, Twitter, ] Voted against a bill that sought to crack down on illegal immigrant drivers. [NBC News, ] Supported driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. [Associated Press, ] Guest workers / H1B visas 2007: Supported raising the cap on H1B visas. [Computer World, ] 2009: As Secretary of State, did not firmly support H1B visas, echoing Obama administration hesitation. [Computer World, ] Opposed expansion of H1B visas. “The bottom line is that feel, very much, that a lot of the initiative behind these guest workers programs, a very large expansion of guest worker programs — H2B visas would go up to as many as 195,000, H1B to as many as 205,000 a year — is coming from large corporations who want cheap labor from abroad.” [Washington Post, ] Wanted to rein in worker program. [New York Times, ] Supported program. [New York Times, ]