Kent Conrad on Crime

Democratic Sr Senator (ND): Click here for 10 full quotes OR click here for Kent Conrad on other issues. Voted YES on reinstating $1.15 billion funding for the COPS Program. (Mar 2007) Voted YES on $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program. (May 1999) Voted NO on limiting death penalty appeals. (Apr 1996) Voted NO on limiting product liability punitive damage awards. (Mar 1996) Voted NO on restricting class-action lawsuits. (Dec 1995) Voted YES on repealing federal speed limits. (Jun 1995) Voted YES on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms. (May 1994) Voted YES on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals. (May 1994) Rated 63% by CURE, indicating mixed votes on rehabilitation. (Dec 2000) Rated 71% by the NCJA, indicating a "soft-on-crime" stance. (Dec 2005)

Byron Dorgan on Crime

Democratic Jr Senator (ND): Click here for 12 full quotes OR click here for Byron Dorgan on other issues. Voted YES on reinstating $1.15 billion funding for the COPS Program. (Mar 2007) Voted YES on $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program. (May 1999) Voted NO on limiting death penalty appeals. (Apr 1996) Voted YES on limiting product liability punitive damage awards. (Mar 1996) Voted NO on restricting class-action lawsuits. (Dec 1995) Voted NO on repealing federal speed limits. (Jun 1995) Voted YES on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms. (May 1994) Voted YES on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals. (May 1994) Rated 88% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000) More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001) Rated 75% by the NCJA, indicating a mixed record on criminal justice. (Dec 2005) Establish an FBI registry of sexual offendors. (Oct 1996)

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House:

Earl Pomeroy on Crime

Democratic Representative (ND-At-Large): Click here for 11 full quotes OR click here for Earl Pomeroy on other issues. Voted YES on expanding services for offendors' re-entry into society. (Nov 2007) Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000) Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999) Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996) Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995) Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994) Rated 30% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000) Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing. (Mar 2001) More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001) Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001) Rated 94% by the NCJA, indicating a "tough-on-crime" stance. (Dec 2005)

Former candidates & officeholders:

Edward Schafer on Crime

Former Democrat: Click here for Edward Schafer on other issues. No stance on record.

Mike Liffrig on Crime

2004 former Republican challenger: Click here for the full quote OR click here for Mike Liffrig on other issues. Impose truth in sentencing. (Aug 2004)

Dwight Grotberg on Crime

Republican Challenger: Click here for 3 full quotes OR click here for Dwight Grotberg on other issues. Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes. (Oct 2006) Supports the death penalty. (Jul 2006) Strongly supports mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws. (Jul 2006)