- Voted AGAINST easing
McCain / Feingold
restrictions on political
speech in the weeks before
an election.
- 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).
Bush’s veto of the State
Children’s Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) expansion
(ACU-6). This program was created in
1997 only to provide insurance to
children from uninsured families who
were narrowly above poverty. But 10
years later, the Dems moved to
expand the program--and, as always,
the devil was in the details. By joining
forces with the Dems, Wolf chose to
do the following:
- Re-define "children" to mean "21-year-
old adults."
- Re-define "just above poverty" to
mean "$80,000 income."
- Let some taxpayers pay for other
taxpayers' insurance (even if the
former make less than the latter and
purchase their own insurance).
- Give incentives for states to
“recruit” new enrollees and thus
make this big program even bigger.
(Carney-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
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 an
amendment "to prevent a
federal court in Indiana
from banning prayer in the
Indiana House of
Representatives" (ACU 4).
- Voted AGAINST allowing an
Indiana courthouse to
display the Ten
Commandments (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 banning 50-
caliber rifle exports (ACU 2).
According to the NRA-Institute for
Legislative Action (NRA-ILA 1), this bill,
which was sponsored "by notoriously
anti-gun Representative James
Moran," outlawed exports of .50-
caliber rifles, and it marked the first
congressional vote on any kind of .50-
caliber ban.
- Voted FOR spending an
additional $100 million on
Public Broadcasting (ACU)
- Voted AGAINST a ban on
federal eminent-domain
seizures that force property out of
the hands of private citizens and into
the hands of private developers (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 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 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 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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