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Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.50	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
0.47	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	The 1931 German moratorium and standstill agreements stemmed European collapse and will be built upon
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government assistance to keep home-owners and farm-owners from foreclosure
0.46	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
0.44	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
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Public works spending is only a stopgap, not a cure for unemployment
0.43	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restoring the commodity price level (reflation)	Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts
0.42	1932	Norman Thomas	Federal responsibility for relief	A $5 billion federal appropriation for immediate relief of those in need
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Veterans' bonus and benefits	No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus
0.41	1932	John Nance Garner	Regulation of banks and securities	RFC loans to individuals and corporations generally — 'the Government into personal banking' (the Rainey bill)
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child labor	No return to sweatshops or children working in factories
0.40	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.39	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.38	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'
0.38	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public ownership of electric power	Public development of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence model, with national control of interstate transmission
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A permanently sound currency stabilized against wide fluctuations
0.38	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
0.37	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
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.36	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
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Level of federal spending	Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch