- Voted AGAINST building a
fence on the southern
border (1 of only 6 in GOP).
- Voted AGAINST the right of
workers to a secret ballot
when voting on whether to
unionize (ACU-6).
- Voted FOR Barney Frank’s
Housing Trust Fund of 2007
(ACU-5), which Speaker Pelosi boasted
as “the largest expansion in federal
housing programs in decades” (Pelosi 1)
and which the Bush administration
opposed as “a duplicate program” that
“would create an undue and
counterproductive reliance on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac” (Woolley & Gerhard
1) .
- Voted FOR a 700% increase
in funding for the HOPE VI
Public Housing Program,
even as $2 billion remained in the
coffers, unspent. This was a program
that Bush had marked for elimination
(ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the Democrat's
2007 Energy Policy that
mandated reliance on biofuels while
not allowing oil supplies to increase.
The policy also stiffened regulations
and raised taxes $2 billion (ACU-6).
- Voted FOR applying
McCain/ Feingold to
grassroots organizations (ACU-
4) NOTE: Undoubtedly, in this
instance, the dems were the good
guys. This was GOP-sponsored and
nearly ALL republicans voted for it.
However, we at Remove the Rinos
believe there is no excuse for voting
against the 1st Amendment no matter
how many republicans do so and no
matter how reprehensible George
Soros’ 527s are. And if John McCain
were to jump off a bridge…..??
- Voted AGAINST a 2006
conservative budget
alternative that would have
extended Bush's tax cuts while
trimming more than 300 billion dollars
of discretionary spending, done away
with close to 150 programs, and
increased funds for the military and for
veterans. It also would have opened
ANWR for drilling (ACU-4) .
- Voted AGAINST banning
taxpayer dollars from going
to the U.N. to renovate, or build
anew, their headquarters in the United
States (ACU 4).
- Voted AGAINST an
amendment that would
keep government funds
from being used to enforce
trigger-lock regulations (ACU 4).
Critics argue these regulations have
little value in promoting gun safety and
are primarily punitive in design, adding
cost and red tape to gun ownership.
Still worse, these trigger locks would
hamper, if not outright nullify, a gun-
owner's ability to use the weapon in
self-defense. This suggests another
Machiavellian gun-control strategy: if
you can't make a gun illegal, do the
next best thing--make it useless.
- Voted AGAINST a measure
to tighten enforcement
against illegal immigrants.
According to the ACU, the measure
was designed to "set new procedures
to expedite lawsuits against the
government involving immigration law,
require the Justice Department to hire
more attorneys to prosecute human
smuggling cases, and clarify that state
and local law enforcement agencies
have the authority to investigate and
apprehend illegal immigrants."
- Voted AGAINST speeding
up construction on the
border fence (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 07 (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST new
measures to combat illegal
immigration. According to the
ACU, these measures were designed
to "tighten up IRS procedures so that
illegal aliens do not receive certain tax
benefits, and to pressure state and
local governments to report illegal
immigrants to federal officials" (ACU-8).
One of only three G.O.P.
representatives to vote against
these measures (Washington Post 4).
- Voted FOR permanently
raising taxes on businesses
while temporarily extending tax credits
on “green” initiatives. This was
presented to the American people as
"tax relief" (a deed that the ACU
appropriately describes as "legislative
sleight-of-hand") (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the Democrat's
Mortgage Bailout (Round
One). Introduced in May 08, this bill
set the tone for the bailout fever that
would soon infect Washington. Under
threat of Bush veto, Diaz-Balart voted
ifor the bill, which sought to further
distort the marketplace by increasing
the Federal Housing Authority's
influence, guaranteeing hundreds of
billions of dollars in Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac loans. Simultaneously, it
provided a multi-billion dollar trust fund
available to parties of questionable
relevance and repute, such as ACORN
(ACU-8).
- For background into the
bill's tie-in to our current
bailout woes, see the
following prescient NRO
editorial: "Do Nothing,
Congress."
- Voted FOR penalizing
energy producers. As part of
an ongoing assault on the energy
sector at a time when we most needed
to encourage exploration and drilling,
Diaz-Balart voted with the democrats
on a bill that, as the ACU explains,
would have placed "new requirements
and penalties on holders of federal oil
and gas leases" (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the Paycheck
Equality Bill, which--at its best--
duplicated anti-discrimination laws
already in effect, and--at its worst--
moved the burden of proof in
discrimination cases from the
employee to the employer (a clear
violation of the innocent-until-proven-
guilty principle) and opened the door
to oppressive intrusion into the labor
market (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR the economic
stimulus bill of September
2008 (ACU-8).
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