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Richard Lugar

SELECTED BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE 10 MOST EFFECTIVE SENATORS.

OTHER REPUBLICANS SELECTED - John McCain - Susan Collins - Olympia Snowe - Arlen Specter

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Lifetime Grade on Immigration: "F" - Americans for Better Immigration

Voted FOR bailing out the auto industry (ACU-16). Four months later, our president was firing CEOs. Either Richard Lugar favors nationalizing industry, or he's too short-sighted to deserve our trust. Either way, he's bad for the G.O.P.

Voted FOR TARP (ACU-16).

Voted AGAINST returning $350 billion of unspent TARP to the public coffers (ACU-18).

Voted FOR the 2007 expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $60 billion (ACU-15). 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. Under threat of Bush veto, Lugar chose to join force with the Democrats and do the following:

Re-define "children" to mean "21-year-old adults."

Re-define "$80,000 income" to mean “just above poverty."

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 2009 expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $32.8 billion. According to the ACU, “The bill raises taxes, expands the program to include legal immigrants and pregnant women, and loosens citizenship requirements. Although the program was designed to help poor children, the bill prohibits the government from covering poor children first” (ACU-18).

Every time you hear it said that "once Washington puts something into place, it's just going to keep getting bigger and bigger"—you can and should think of Richard Lugar.

Voted FOR a 2004 measure to make gun manufacturers and sellers libel for gun deaths (ACU-12) .

Voted AGAINST a 2008 bi-partisan amendment to repeal the D.C. gun ban (ACU-18).

Voted FOR extending the “assault weapons” ban (i.e., ban on collectibles) (ACU-12). For more info about this infringement on ownership rights and the truth about these weapons, please see the following by gun-rights advocate Alan Korwin: "New York Times Recognizes 10 Years of Errors."

Voted AGAINST a cap on future discretionary spending to hold it at 2006 levels (ACU-13).

Voted FOR forcing the US. to comply with the Kyoto Treaty despite our never having ratified it (ACU-11).

Voted FOR Campaign Finance Reform, one of the greatest abridgments of free speech in our history (WP-6).

Read what Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation says about Campaign Finance Reform: "Campaign Capital; Repeal McCain-Feingold Law And Mandate Disclosure Instead."

Hear what McCain himself says about it on The Don Imus Show: "John McCain Admits That McCain-Feingold Is Unconstitutional."

Read what Doug Patton of Humanevents.com, says about this criminalization of free speech: "McCain-Feingold Doing What Its Authors Intended."

Voted FOR raising CAFE standards (ACU-13). 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 a 2005 job-killing bill in hopes of keeping the climate from changing. The real kicker is that the bill, which required "greenhouse emissions" be brought down to 2000 levels, openly acknowledged it would kill jobs. For more information about the bill's recklessness (and zaniness), please see the following National Review piece by Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute: "Surrender Monkeys in The Senate: Senate Republicans follow the French president’s lead on global warming" (ACU-13).

Voted AGAINST a Constitutional safeguard for Campaign-Finance Reform (s.27, roll call 59) According to the ACU,
the amendment would have ensured “that if one of several specific provisions in the underlying bill, mainly the ban on soft money, disclosure requirements for issue-group advertising, and hard money limits, [were] found to be an
unconstitutional infringement of the First Amendment, then the other provisions specified would also be invalid.

Voted AGAINST changing senate rules to make it harder to increase spending from one year to the next (ACU-14).

Voted FOR allowing illegal aliens to claim social security credit for work done prior to receiving a social-security number (ACU-14).

Voted FOR a 2006 amnesty bill for illegal aliens. As the ACU explains, this precursor to the amnesty bill of 2007 was a bill "overhauling U.S. immigration laws and offering a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants in the country." This bill was spun as a "guest worker program" (ACU-14).

Voted AGAINST a border fence that, according to the ACU, would have provided for "the construction of 370 miles of double-layered fencing and at least 461 miles of vehicle barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border" (ACU-14).

Voted FOR the Dems' 2007 Energy Policy, which imposed draconian new regulations on the energy sector. As the ACU explains, these measures included "a rise in automobile mileage to 35 miles per gallon by 2020, a ban on the incandescent light bulb, new energy efficiency mandates for appliances, the use of 15 billion gallons of biofuels by 2015, and the taxpayer subsidy of new energy technologies" (ACU-15).

Voted FOR extending Social Security benefits to illegal aliens (ACU-15).

Voted FOR a 2008 mortgage bailout scheme that, according to the ACU, “would further nationalize the mortgage industry, raise limits on some risky loans, and [add] another $4 billion grant program to be handed out by local
governments” (ACU-16).

Voted AGAINST 2008 earmark reform that would have imposed a one-year moratorium on all pork-barrel earmarks. After the moratorium expired, the reform would have continued to make these ear-marks more difficult to pass (ACU-16).

Voted AGAINST an anti-military-bias measure that would have transferred funds from the city of Berkley to the Marine Corps. As the ACU explains, this measure would have done away with "earmarked taxpayer spending for the city of Berkeley, Calif., after the City Council denounced the Marine Corps and encouraged protestors to stop recruitment. Funds saved would have been transferred to the Marine Corps" (ACU-16). Not even Olympia Snowe voted against this measure!

Voted AGAINST Eminent Domain protections that, according to the ACU, "would have prohibited federal, state and local governments from using eminent domain to take farmland or grazing land and use it for parks, open space or similar purposes" (ACU-15).

Voted FOR the amnesty bill of 2007 by means of his cloture vote (ACU-15). Here's a reminder as to why, in spring of '07, conservatives flooded the senate with phone calls, practically shutting the lines down:

At Kennedy and McCain's bidding, the Senate tried to advance this bill through the dark of night, using the same methods the current congress has employed for the stimulus and health care packages.