Sep 5th, 2008 · A health research advocacy group recently sent a questionnaire to both campaigns asking for policy details on issues such as health care coverage, stem cell research, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and funding for NIH, FDA and CDC. Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, talks about the candidates' responses.
Oct 10th, 2006 · Lawmakers are not the only people running for office this fall. In many states, judges are chosen through popular elections. And as Election Day nears, special interest groups are pushing judicial candidates to fill out questionnaires to show where the candidates stand on controversial issues.
May 5th, 2006 · One of Germany's largest states is using a mandatory questionnaire to make sure that immigrants from Islamic countries are able and willing to assimilate into German culture and accept German values.
Feb 6th, 2006 · As a federal court in Virginia prepares to sentence confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, 500 prospective jurors will fill out questionnaires Monday. A jury of 12 will be asked if he should be executed or serve a life prison term.
Oct 26th, 2005 · A cloud of uncertainty hangs over Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court. She has received a less-than-enthusiastic response on Capitol Hill, mainly from Senate Republicans. Senators await her revisions to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire that was sent back to her last week.
Oct 21st, 2005 · The search continues for insight into the views and legal philosophy of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Alex Chadwick speaks with Slate financial writer Henry Blodgett about Miers' account of her finances in her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.
Oct 20th, 2005 · The Senate Judiciary Committee has returned its questionnaire to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the panel's chair, called Miers' responses "insufficient" and asked for "amplification." Hearings on Miers' nomination are set for Nov. 7.
Oct 20th, 2005 · Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee agree that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers needs to clarify and expand her answers on their questionnaire about her legal background. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor John Dickerson about the politics of the Miers nomination on Capitol Hill and the Senate request for a "do-over."