- Voted AGAINST
withholding tax-payer
dollars from Planned
Parenthood (ACU-6) Read what
Kathryn Jean Lopez has to say about
Planned Parenthood: "Planned".
- Voted FOR Barney Frank’s
Housing Trust Fund of 2007
(ACU-1), which Speaker Pelosi boasted
as “the largest expansion in federal
housing programs in decades” and
which the Bush administration
opposed as “a duplicate program”
that “would create an undue and
counterproductive reliance on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac.”
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, Dent 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 AGAINST an amend-
ment "to prevent a federal
court in Indiana from ban-
ning prayer in the Indiana
House of Representatives"
(ACU 4).
- 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 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 according to ACU
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.
- Voted AGAINST banning tax
-payer dollars from going
to the U.N. to renovate, or build
anew, their headquarters in the United
States (ACU 4).
- 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”
- Voted AGAINST allowing
an Indiana courthouse to
display the Ten
Commandments (ACU 2).
- Voted AGAINST an amend-
ment to cut discretionary
spending by 2% while pro-
tecting the Bush tax cuts
(ACU 2).
- Voted FOR funding the U.N.
Population Fund (ACU 2).
- Voted FOR spending an
additional $100 million on
Public Broadcasting (ACU 2).
- 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).
- 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 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, Dent voted in
favor of the bailout, 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 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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