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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Voted AGAINST off-shore drilling in 06 (ACU-4)

Voted AGAINST off-shore drilling in 07 (ACU-4)

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)

Voted FOR allowing the EEOC to sue employers who require English be spoken in their workplace (1 of 7 "R"s)

Voted FOR the 2007 Energy Policy that, according to the ACU, 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 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 building a fence on the southern border (1 of only 6 in GOP).

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 an amendment to cut discretionary spending by 2% while protecting the Bush tax cuts (ACU 2).

Voted FOR raising minimum 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 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 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 AGAINST a 2008 motion that would have encouraged drilling in ANWR, the Outer-continental Shelf, and other territories in the West (ACU-8).

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, he voted for 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 the AMT "Relief" Bill, which raised taxes on U.S. energy producers. At a time of record high energy prices when some legislators were calling for a tax holiday at the gas pump, Kirk was voting to raise taxes on the energy sector (ACU-8).

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, Reichert 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).

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).