- Voted FOR the $700 billion
bailout of the financial services industry (TARP) (ACU-8).
- Voted FOR bailing out the
auto industry (ACU-8). Four months later, our president was firing CEOs. Either Frelinghuysen favors nationalizing industry, or he's too short- sighted to deserve our trust. Either way, he's bad for the country.
- Voted AGAINST protecting
the Bush/Reagan policy of withholding aid from for- eign agencies that perform abortions (ACU-6) Read what Kathryn Jean Lopez has to say about the vote:
"This Mexico Policy is a Keeper."
- Voted AGAINST with-
holding tax-payer dollars from Planned Parenthood (ACU-6) Read what Kathryn Jean Lopez has to say about Planned Parenthood: "Planned".
- Voted AGAINST easing
McCain/Feingold restrictions on political speech in the weeks before an election (1 of only 10 in the GOP)
- Voted FOR Pelosi's "light-
bulb ban" that, as the ACU explains, regulates "lights and appliances (including a ban on the incandescent light bulb), creating new programs for alternative energy sources, imposing more regulations on energy companies and mandating vastly increased use of ‘renewable’ energy” (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 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 con-
servative 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 drilling in
ANWR in 2005 (ACU 2).
- Voted AGAINST drilling in
ANWR in 2006 (ACU-4) .
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 2006 (ACU-4)
- Voted AGAINST off-shore
drilling in 2007 (ACU-6).
- Voted AGAINST a 2008
motion to allow drilling in ANWR, the Outer- Continental Shelf, and other territories in the West (ACU-8).
- Voted AGAINST lifting the
ban on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. Introduced in September 08, this measure would have given states the power to choose whether to allow production off their own coasts (ACU-8).
- 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 bill
protecting property owners from eminent domain abuses. The bill would guarantee access to the federal court so that citizens could sue to stop the government from taking their property.
- Voted AGAINST an
amendment to cut discretionary spending by 2% while protecting the Bush tax cuts (ACU 2).
- Voted FOR raising CAFE
standards (ACU-2) For a look at the link between higher CAFE standards and increased traffic fatalities, as well as the folly of the economic justifications for higher standards, see what Dennis Kneale has to say: "New CAFE" (CNBC-1)
- Voted FOR funding the U.N.
Population Fund (ACU 2).
- Voted FOR raising min-
imum wage after the Dems rejected tax cuts that would have protected entry-level workers and small businesses (ACU-6) . For insights into the harmful effects the measure, in its House form, would have meant to workers and small businesses, National Review Online consulted with four leading economists. All four economists agreed that only politicians stood to gain from the measure : "At Minimum…Should Republicans fight back against a minimum-wage increase?"
- Voted FOR spending an
additional $100 million on Public Broadcasting (ACU 2).
- Voted AGAINST reforming
the Endangered Species Act (ACU 2). to reimburse property owners for losses suffered from not being able to develop their land. It also clarified species designations, better protecting the species in need of protection and better targeting the properties in need of oversight (Marano and Lieberman).
- Voted AGAINST the Online
Freedom of Speech bill, which would have prevented e-mail and blogs from being regulated by the Federal Election Commission (ACU-2). In essence, this bill's defeat leaves open the possibility that McCain/Feingold could reach its way dramatically into the Internet (Hayward).
- Voted AGAINST the 2008
Republican budget resolution that, according to the ACU, "would have made the Bush tax cuts permanent, capped discretionary spending at $973 billion, reduced mandatory spending by $12 billion over five years, and imposed a moratorium on pork barrel 'earmarks'” (ACU-8).
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