Issues
She identifies as a moderate Democrat with a "unique understanding of the most significant issues of the day – from education to the Middle East." Her campaign focuses on making health care affordable to combat the double digit increase in Nevadian family health care costs. This also includes lowering prescription drug costs and reforming the prescription drug bill, which "Congress passed and was mostly by and for the pharmaceutical industry, not patients."
She also means to restore fiscal responsibility. She noted, "Politicians have created runaway deficits with wasteful spending, pet projects like the Alaskan bridge to nowhere, and special interests tax giveaways like billions for the oil companies." She promises to "restore fiscal discipline in Washington, support a balanced budget, and pay down the national debt.”
Her stance on the Iraq War is that the United States should withdraw from Iraq but not before helping to establish a stable government. She has signed onto the A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq along with 42 other Democratic congressional candidates seeking office in 2008. Derby has said about the plan, "It addresses two fundamental questions, How do we end our involvement in a responsible manner and what do we put in place to make sure we don't make similar mistakes again." In addition to ending the war, the plan suggests using U.S. diplomatic power to create stability, addressing the humanitarian issues of displaced Iraqis, live up to the promises made to our military, and create a U.S.-centered energy policy. In the early 80's, she was also an advocate against U.S. military involvement and escalation into Central American civil wars and believed in self determination and financial aid, instead of guns and bullets, to help solve the terrible living condtions and poverty.
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