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RFC loans to individuals and corporations generally — 'the Government into personal banking' (the Rainey bill) — John Nance Garner, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.75	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone
0.64	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks
0.63	1932	Herbert Hoover	Railroad regulation and consolidation	Revise the railway transportation laws for stability, while RFC loans avert receiverships
0.61	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.56	1932	Herbert Hoover	Short-term and marketing credit for agriculture	Restore short-term farm credit through the new agricultural credit corporations, RFC loans to processors and financing of export sales
0.56	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Railroad regulation and consolidation	Six-point railroad program — conditional federal support, receivership reform, ICC regulation of trucks and holding companies, consolidation
0.55	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.55	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government assistance to keep home-owners and farm-owners from foreclosure
0.55	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of banks and securities	Separate investment banking from commercial banks; tighter national-bank supervision; faster payouts to depositors of closed banks
0.54	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
0.54	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.54	1932	John Nance Garner	Public works as employment policy	The Garner-Rainey $1.2 billion public-works bill — and a pledge to reintroduce it
0.53	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses
0.52	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	Consolidate the seven federal farm-mortgage agencies under a single purpose
0.50	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	Federal regulation of securities and commodity exchanges, interstate holding companies and interstate utility rates
0.50	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.50	1932	Herbert Hoover	Level of federal spending	Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch
0.50	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.49	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.49	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Control of credit expansion	Prevent another runaway credit expansion through government information, not government control of credit
0.49	1932	Norman Thomas	Public ownership of major industries	Transfer the principal industries — banking, natural resources, utilities — to social ownership by compensation, not confiscation
0.48	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Flood control and river-basin development	Federal construction of head-water storage basins to prevent floods, with the consent of the States concerned
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of utility rates and holding companies	Eight-point federal utility program: publicity, Federal Power Commission control of holding companies, prudent-investment rate base
0.47	1936	William Lemke	Farm and home mortgage relief	Refinance farm mortgages through the Frazier-Lemke plan (government-issued credit at low interest)