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Wes Clark is committed to:

1. Equal Economic Opportunity for Women by increasing penalties for employers that discriminate against women, investing in job training for women, aggressively addressing the pay gap, and increasing the minimum wage to keep pace with the cost of living.

2. Putting Families First by implementing a tax plan that gives a tax break to families with children with an income of $100,000 or less, and lifts all federal taxes from families of four with an income up to $50,000. Also, implementing a jobs plan that devotes $100 billion over two years to jumpstart job creation without increasing the deficit.

3. Ensuring Reproductive rights and reproductive health by supporting Roe v. Wade, supporting legislation to cover FDA-approved prescription contraceptive drugs/devices, and appointing judges who will uphold laws protecting women's reproductive rights.

4. Ensuring the safety of all Americans by re-engaging with our international allies, investing $40 billion to close the gaps in America's homeland security, and enforcing existing gun laws.

5. Improving our health care by making insurance more affordable for everyone, supporting equal funding for gender-based health research on diseases that disproportionately affect women and girls, continuing the fight on AIDS by substantially increasing AIDS funding, and supporting passage of the Human Cloning Ban and the Stem Cell Research Protection Act.

6. Protecting our civil rights by supporting affirmative action, ensuring that discrimination laws include gender and sexual orientation, and calling on Congress to review each provision of the Patriot Act and eliminate those provisions that unduly threaten our civil liberties.

7. Improving our education by providing pre-school access, investing resources to expand Head Start, and implementing the Universal College Grant to help students with a family income less than $100,000.

8. Protecting our seniors by working to improve and expand our system for long-term care, maintain the current retirement age, and not privatize social security.

9. Supporting our families by expanding paid family leave, making child care affordable for everyone, and lifting 2 million children out of poverty by 2008.

10. Protecting our environment by vigorously enforcing all clean air and clean water laws, by reversing the Bush administration's cutbacks in environmental investigations, funding, and enforcement.