6/28/05:
Obama
voted
to pass HR 6, the sellout of the environment to the
nuclear, coal-burning and automotive industries discussed above.
Roll
call 158
7/01/05:
Obama
voted
for HR 2419, termed "The Nuclear Bill" by environmental
and peace groups. It provided billions for nuclear weapons
activities, including nuclear bunker buster bombs. It
contains full funding for Yucca Mountain, a threat to food and water in
California, Nevada, Arizona and states across America. Roll
call
172
7/20/05:
Obama
voted
to punish countries opposed to the death penalty.
Under Roll Call 196, funds and assistance would no longer be made
available to any country which refused to extradite individuals
to the United States because of a moral objection to the use, by the
United States, of the death penalty. The United States is
essentially alone among Western nations in its use of the death
penalty. S. Amdt 1271 to
HR 3057.
7/29/05: Obama voted for the conference report on the Energy Bill (HR 6), which was a boon to Halliburton and subjected Americans to the risk of exposure to lethal levels of radiation and mercury poisoning. Roll call 213
9/15/05:
Obama
voted
to allow the use of low-cost foreign labor, in violation of
labor laws, in New Orleans following Katrina. He opposed the
Dorgan Amendment to the appropriations for science, state, justice and
commerce. The amendment attempted to stop the use of
appropriated funding for low-cost foreign labor, in violation of labor
laws, to rebuild New Orleans. Obama's vote stabbed American
workers in the back and further damaged laborers hurt by the loss of
their homes and businesses in New Orleans. Obama's
vote resulted in the importation of under-paid foreign laborers to
displace American workers. Roll call 232.
S Amdt 1665 to HR 2862.
9/26/05 & 9/28/05: Obama failed and refused to place a hold
on the nomination of John Roberts, a supporter of permanent detention
of Americans without trial, and of torture and military tribunals for
Guantanamo detainees. John Roberts's wife worked for
Operation Rescue, an organization that uses extreme measures (including
violence) to oppose women's doctors. John Roberts has questioned
the Constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act and of the
Endangered Species Act. He has also expressed opposition to equal
pay for women. Roberts was responsible for a plan to
disenfranchise tens of thousands of African-Americans in Florida in
2000. Roberts was a personal pick of Pat Robertson, a man who has
called for the assassination of the first world leader (of all world
leaders, including our own) to offer aid to the victims of Hurricane
Katrina. In his confirmation hearings, Roberts refused to say
whether
he would uphold legislation that overrode a presidential veto. A
unanimous consent agreement was necessary to take Roberts's nomination
to the floor, and Obama could have placed a hold on the nomination but
would not do so despite the opposition of over 80% of the American
public to the Roberts nomination.
10/07/05:
Obama
voted
for HR 2863, which appropriated $50 billion in new money for
war. Roll call 2
10/27/05:
Obama
voted
to confirm Susan Blake Neilson for the Sixth Circuit.
She had a history of being a judicial activist against plaintiffs in
civil rights, employment, personal injury and government negligence
cases and a tendency to dismiss claims that present triable issues of
fact. Both of her state Senators felt she was so extreme that
they blue-slipped her. Roll call 277
10/27/05:
Obama
voted
to slash funding for health care, education and other
programs, such as those to help the uninsured by backing cloture on HR
3010 and then voted for the bill. Roll
calls 275 and 281
11/14/05:
Obama
voted
again for "The Nuclear Bill" in Roll Call 321. This
was the vote on the Conference Report on the Nuclear Bill (HR
2419). As the House had already approved the Conference Report,
this was the last opportunity for anyone in Congress to say "no" to
this disastrous bill which threatened California's water and food
supply and provides billions of dollars for the kind of nuclear weapons
activities violative of international law.
12/21/05:
Obama
confirmed his support for war by voting for the Conference
Report on the Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863), Roll
call 366, which provided more funding to Halliburton and
Blackwater.
2/2/06:
Obama
voted to extend the USA-PATRIOT's attack on the Constitution for
five weeks to allow Congress time to put together the support to
adopt the renewal of USA-PATRIOT. Roll call 11
2/16/06:
Obama
voted
for cloture on "USA
PATRIOT
Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006,"
S2271. The act still
contained the most objectionable provisions from 2001 and had a
new provision allowing the government to collect lists of people and
kids suffering from colds and allergies. The renewal still
allowed the government to do all the other really bad stuff it had been
doing under the PATRIOT Act and it could still obtain library records
(even though the public was misled into believing otherwise).
Those voting on the bill knew that it was worse than the
original but worked to deceive the public about how much more freedom
had been taken away. This cloture vote guaranteed passage.
Roll call 22
3/1/06:
Obama
voted to pass S2271, the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorizing
Amendments Act of 2006, which strengthened and made worse the
original USA-PATRIOT Act. Roll call 25
3/1/06:
Obama
voted
for cloture on the USA-PATRIOT Act (HR 3199), Conference
Report. This was the last real chance to stop the Act. It
was known that there would not be enough votes to stop the act, so
stopping cloture was the most important issue. Obama
voted
for
this. Roll call 28
3/2/06:
Obama
voted for the conference report on USA-PATRIOT, itself, made
worse than the original by changes that removed more freedom from the
American people and gave more power to agencies trying to deprive
Americans of their Constitutional Rights and making most of the most
intrusive provisions permanent. This was the last
chance to stop USA-PATRIOT. Roll
call 29.
3/27/06: Obama voted to confirm pro-nuclear war profiteer Dennis Spurgeon as Assistant Secretary of Energy. Spurgeon's appointment will likely lead to Chernobyls in the U.S. and to more wars. Roll call 76.
5/2/06:
Obama
voted for money for more war by voting for cloture on HR
4939, the emergency funding to Halliburton, Blackwater and other war
profiteers. Roll
call 103
5/4/06:
Obama,
again, voted to adopt HR4939 the emergency
funding to war profiteers. Roll call
112.
5/8/06:
Obama
didn't
care enough about the sick to show up to vote on the
cloture vote on S. 22, AKA the Legalize Medical Murder by Capping the
Malpractice Damages Bill. Roll
call 115
5/16/06:
Obama
voted
to confirm Milan D. Smith to the 9th Circuit. The
appointment
was part of an Bush's effort to turn the 9th Circuit from
moderate to extreme right wing by adding justices to the Circuit who
would support the Bush Agenda. This directly
damaged the chances of getting a fair trial on the West Coast.
Roll call 120
5/25/06:
Obama
voted
against immigrants by backing S 2611, the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2006, which was less fair to immigrants than
the previous system or no bill at all. Roll
call 157
5/25/06:
Obama
voted
for cloture on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be a
justice on the D.C. Circuit, placing him in line for a future Supreme
Court nomination. The trouble is that he is another right-wing
extremist who will undercut human rights on the cases he judges.
A
result of his confirmation is the recent decision to deny Guantanamo
detainees the right of habeas corpus. Roll call
158
5/26/06:
Obama
again
opposed environmentalists in voting for the cloture on
anti-environmentalist Dirk Kempthorne, who was nominated for Secretary
of the Interior. Roll Call 161
6/13/06:
Obama
voted
to commend the armed services for a bombing that killed
innocent people and children and reportedly resulted in the death of
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a person unlikely ever to have existed and who
was reported killed three times previously. Michael Berg, whose
son was reportedly killed by al-Zarqawi, condemned the attack and
expressed sorrow over the innocent people and children killed in the
bombing that Obama commended. Roll
call 168
6/15/06:
Obama
voted
for the conference report on HR 4939, a bill that gave
warmongers more money to continue the killing and massacre of innocent
people in Iraq and allows profiteers to collect more money for scamming
the people of New Orleans. Roll Call
171
6/15/06:
Obama
again opposed withdrawal of the troops by voting to table a
motion to table a proposed amendment would have required the withdrawal
of US. Armed Forces from Iraq and would have urged the convening of an
Iraq summit (S Amdt 4269 to S Amdt 4265 to S 2766).
The result of Obama's vote is that the reported US death toll is
now over 3000 and the reported civilian death toll is about 700,000.
Families of those who have died in Iraq since 6/15/06 can send
their bills for the funeral expenses to Barack Obama. Roll Call
174
6/19/06:
Obama
voted
to confirm Sandra Segal Ikutu, another opponent of human
rights, to the 9th Circuit. This was part of Bush's
stacking of the 9th Circuit in a seeming effort to turn the 9th
circuit from moderate to right-wing. Roll call 175
6/22/06:
Obama
voted
against withdrawing the troops by opposing the Kerry
Amendment (S Amdt 4442 to S 2766) to the National Defense
Authorization Act. The amendment, which was rejected, would have
brought our troops home, ended the fighting and forced the Iraqi people
to take charge of their security. Roll Call
181
6/22/06:
Obama
voted for cloture (the last effective chance to stop) on
the National Defense Authorization Act (S 2766), which
provided massive amounts of funding to defense contractors to continue
the killing in Iraq. Roll Call 183
6/22/06:
Obama
again
voted for continued war by voting to pass the National
Defense Authorization Act (S 2766) continued war funding.
Roll Call 186
6/29/06:
Obama
voted to adopt the United States - Oman Free Trade
Agreement Implementation Act (S 3569), which
gave American jobs to foreign child slave laborers and eliminated
environmental requirements for industries. Roll
call 190
8/2/06:
Obama
voted
to use $1.8 billion to build a fence along the Mexican
border to satisfy a group of anti-immigrant racists. Roll
call
220
8/3/06:
Obama
voted
to gut pensions of American workers in voting for HR4, AKA
the Pension Destruction Act. Roll Call 230
9/7/06:
Obama
voted
to give more money to profiteers for more war (HR 5631).
Roll Call 239
9/19/06:
Voted
for
United States-Oman Cut Jobs for American Workers and Send
them to India Trade Implementation Act (HR 5684). This and
similar bills perpetuate the use of child slave labor and undercutting
the environment while sending US jobs to foreign low-cost labor.
Roll Call 250
9/29/06:
Obama
voted for the
conference report on more funding for war, HR 5631. Roll Call
261
11/16/06:
Obama
voted for nuclear
proliferation in voting to pass HR 5682, a bill to exempt the United
States-India Nuclear Proliferation Act from requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954. Roll Call 270
12/06/06:
Obama
voted
to confirm pro-war Robert M. Gates to be Secretary of
Defense. Gates is a supporter of Bush's policies of pre-emptive
war and conquest of foreign countries. Roll Call 272
12/8/06:
In Roll Calls 275 and 276, Obama voted for cloture and
confirmation of another of Bush's right wing Circuit Court nominees,
Kent A. Jordan. This nomination is part of Bush's
plan to pack the 9th Circuit against labor, against the environment,
against choice, against civil rights and civil liberties and in favor
of corporate rule.
1/26/07:
Obama
voted
to elevate Lt. General David Petraeus (one of the most
bloody generals ever and later called by Moveon: General Betray Us) to
be General in Iraq. Roll Call 33
2/15/07:
Obama
voted
to confirm conservative Norman Randy Smith of Idaho for the
9th Circuit. Roll Call 49
3/15/07:
Obama
voted
to confirm conservative Thomas M. Hardiman for the 3rd
Circuit. Roll Call 95
3/22/07:
Obama
voted
against establishing a Social Security Reserve fund that
couldn't be raided. This was a vote on an amendment to the budget
resolution. The amendment would have established that reserve
fund for Social Security. The purpose of the proposed reserve
fund was to prevent Congress from raiding money paid into Social
Security for other purposes. The author pointed out that an IOU
to Social Security didn't go far enough and that a reserve needed to be
set aside out of the budget to protect those who had paid into Social
Security. Roll Call 89
3/23/08:
Obama
voted
for more war funding (Iraq, Iran, etc.) in the budget. Roll
Call 114
3/28/07:
Obama
voted
for cloture on HR 1591, a bill to finance the occupation in
Iraq for years to come. The bill contained money for a
potential war with Iran. Roll Call 117.
3/29/07:
This
was
the vote to pass HR 1591, a bill to finance the
occupation in Iraq for years to come. The bill contained money
for a potential war with Iran. Roll Call 126
4/16/07: Obama didn't bother to show
up to vote for or against cloture on S372, The Intelligence
Authorization Act for 2007. This Act included occupational &
war funding and funding for surveillance on us. Roll Call 130
4/17/07: Obama didn't bother to show
up to vote for or against cloture on S372 (more funds for
occupation, war and surveillance). Roll Call 131
4/25/07: Obama voted for
S 761 (inclusive of HR 2272), a bill that extensively funded
nuclear programs that threaten all life on Earth. Roll Call 146
4/26/07:
Obama voted to approve the conference report on HR 1591 (more
occupation and war funding). Roll Call 147
5/9/07: Obama voted to confirm
anti-human rights justice Debra Ann Livingston to the Second
Circuit.
Roll Call 158
5/17/07: Obama voted
for the conference report on the budget (S Con Res 21), which included
lots of funding to continue the occupation in Iraq. Roll Call 172
6/5/07:
Obama
didn't
bother to vote on an immigration act amendment that would
have dramatically affected the rights of undocumented workers.
Roll Call 182
6/5/07: Obama didn't bother to vote on an immigration act amendment that would have encouraged employers to give preference to American workers. Roll Call 183
6/5/07:
Obama
didn't
bother to vote on whether or not registered voters could
be prevented from voting if they did not show up at the polls with a
photo ID. This amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Act and
the Help America Vote Act could have resulted in the disenfranchisement
and harassment of sizable numbers of legitimate registered
voters.
Roll Call 184
6/5/07:
Obama
didn't
bother to vote on whether or not to establish a commission
to review World War II injustices against Americans, Latin Americans
and Jews. Roll Call 185
6/7/07:
Obama
voted
for cloture on S 1348, one of the worst immigration bills
ever proposed. It would have created slave labor concentration
camps for immigrant workers. Roll Call 204
6/28/07:
Obama
voted
for cloture on S 1639, which was the anti-immigrant
legislation S 1348 re-introduced under a new number. Roll Call 235
7/12/07:
Obama
didn't
bother to vote on a National Defense Authorization Act
amendment (S 2024) which provided false statements of
nuclear activities in Iran and expressed support for a potential attack
on Iran. Roll Call 245
7/17/07:
Obama
voted
for a National Defense Authorization Act amendment
(S 2100) opposing withdrawal from Iraq because it would lead to a
failed state and
that a failed state would lead to "massive humanitarian suffering."
Roll Call 248
7/19.07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on an amendment (S 2351) praising and supporting the work at
Guantanamo. Roll Call 259
7/19/07: Obama didn't vote either way
regarding the use of a secret ballot in National Labor Relations Board
elections. Roll Call 260
7/20/07: Obama didn't bother to
vote on the College Cost Reduction Act, HR 2669. College is
financially out of reach for millions of middle class American
youth.
Roll Call 272. He didn't bother to vote either way on bringing it
to the floor on the 17th either. That was Roll Call 253
7/24/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
on S 1642, the Higher Education Amendments Act of 2007, which included
grants and funding for college. Roll Call 275
7/26/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
on S Amdt 2480 (the Graham Amendment) on the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2008. This Amendment, which passed,
ensured the wall along the border of the United States and Mexico and
included other anti-immigrant measures. Roll Call 278
7/26/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
on an amendment to include funding for the Real ID Act (which gives
Michael Chertoff the power to commit any crime with immunity and
provides for Nazi-style National ID Cards) in the Homeland Security
Appropriations Act of 2008. If those who had not voted had done
so, there would have been a tie. Roll Call 279
7/26/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
at all on the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of
2008, HR 2638. This Act contained funding for anti-immigrant
measures, the war, anti-civil liberties measures, and the war.
Roll Call 282
9/6/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on another military appropriations bill, HR 2642. Roll
Call 316
9/6/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on an amendment that would have prevented contributions to
pro-choice organizations. Roll Call 320
9/6/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on HR 2764, the Department of State, Foreign
Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008, which
profited further from funding for war with Iraq and Afghanistan and
operations in Iran. Roll Call 325
9/7/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on HR2669, the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007.
Roll Call 326
9/11/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on a motion to table an amendment to the Highway Bill
requiring that obsolete bridges be repaired as a priority. Roll
Call 330
9/12/07: Obama voted to table an
amendment to provide a system for better construction and maintenance
of
America's aging bridge infrastructure in the Transportation
Appropriations Act. Roll Call 334
9/12/07: Instead of supporting
the use of Transportation funds for construction and maintenance of
the aging bridge infrastructure, he voted for using those funds for a
baseball field in Billings, Montana by tabling an amendment to prohibit
tho use of transportation and housing funds for that particular
baseball field. The amendment would also have prioritized
arranging housing for Katrina victims. Roll Call 335
9/20/07: Obama did not bother to
vote on a Senate amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act
which condemned a Move-on ad referring to General Petreaus as "General
Betray us." The amendment was adopted by a vote of 72
to 25 with more than half of the Democrats (including Clinton) opposing
the amendment. Roll Call 344
9/26/07 Obama did not bother to
vote on a Senate amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act
condemning Iran. Roll Call 349
9/27007 Obama did not vote either way
on further appropriations which included war. Roll Call 355
10/16/07 Obama did not bother to
vote on appropriations to local law enforcement to make them
immigration
enforcers. Roll Call 369
10/16/07 Obama did not bother to
vote on the Commerce Act which included funds for anti-immigrant
activities. Roll Call 372
10/16/07 Obama did not bother to vote
on whether pregnant women, mothers and infants should receive
$1,000,000 that was previously set aside for a Woodstock Museum.
The reassignment of this money to the pregnant
women, mothers, and infants was barely defeated. Roll Call 377
10/23/07 Obama did not bother to
vote on requiring Congress to prioritize health
care for children over special interest pork projects. Roll Call
384
11/01/07: Obama did not bother
to vote either way on Children's Health Insurance (HR 3962). Roll
Call
403
12/04/07: Obama did not bother
to vote either way on the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. Roll Call
413
12/06/07: Obama did not bother to vote
either way on a tax bill that raised the limits of amounts that could
be earned in different brackets. Roll call 415
12/13/07: Obama did not
bother to vote either way on a bill that was purportedly to provide
farm relief. Roll Call 428
12/14/07: Obama did not bother
to vote either way on the FHA Modernization Act that purported to help
new potential homeowners. Roll Call 432
12/14/07: Obama did not bother to vote
either way on the conference report on the National Defense
Authorization Act, which provided funding to the current occupation of
Iraq, and future wars. Roll Call 433
12/14/07: Obama did not bother to vote
either way on the "Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act of 2007."
Roll Call 434
12/17/07: Obama did not bother to vote
either way on cloture on the FISA Act, which provided for spying on
Americans. Roll Call 435
12/18/07: Obama didn't bother to
vote either way on HR 2764, the Department of State, Foreign Operations
and Related Programs, which provided funding for spying on Americans
and overt and covert wars. It was also an anti-immigration bill.
Roll Call 436
12/18/07: Obama didn't vote either way
on an amendment to create a transition towards a more limited role in
Iraq. Roll Call 438
12/18/07: Obama didn't bother to vote
either way on the confirmation of right wing justice John Daniel Tinder
to the Seventh Circuit. Roll Call 442
Should someone
give him a map? Or
should someone hold back that map until he is out of the Senate?
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