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A long-range plan consolidating the federal government's scattered public-health and welfare agencies — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	'Employment for all surplus labor at all times' through self-liquidating public works (the Shearon letter, as Hoover read it)
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects
0.39	1936	William Lemke	Public control of the central bank and money creation	'Drive the money changers out of the temple': public control of money and credit, further inflation of the currency
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Cut the cost of the federal government by at least 25 percent
0.39	1936	Alf Landon	Politics and patronage in relief administration	Relief will continue, but purged of politics, administered locally on merit, with economies taken from 'the political exploiters'
0.38	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Level of federal spending	Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.36	1936	Alf Landon	European war debts and reparations	Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.35	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	"A new deal for the American people" — work and security through liberal, planned government action
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Campaign finance and lobbying	Continuous publicity of political contributions; stronger Corrupt Practices Act; curb paid lobbies
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	Consolidate the seven federal farm-mortgage agencies under a single purpose
0.34	1936	Alf Landon	National economic planning	End federal regimentation: no revival of NRA or AAA controls, no more emergency powers over production, wages and hours
0.34	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Concentrated economic power vs. the average citizen (rhetorical framing)	Take power from the 'economic royalists': the mandate of 1932 is to end economic tyranny
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Full relief for service-disabled veterans and dependents; review existing veterans' laws to remove inequalities and effect economies
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.33	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Ratify the St. Lawrence seaway treaty and complete the inland waterway system
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Veterans' bonus and benefits	No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.33	1936	Alf Landon	Reorganization of the executive branch	Cooperate with Congress to reorganize agencies, abolish unnecessary ones and eliminate duplication
0.33	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'
0.32	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National Prohibition	Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment by state conventions; legalize beer now; states control liquor and bar the saloon
0.32	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it