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The conservative index: our final look at the 107th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, including war authorization against Iraq, arming pilots, and taxes. (Congress).
House Vote Descriptions
61 Welfare Renewal -- Democratic Substitute. The Democratic substitute to the welfare renewal bill (H.R. 4737) would "expand state flexibility to provide training and education to welfare recipients, increase mandatory funding for child care by $11 billion over the next five years, and remove various barriers to serving legal immigrants." This amendment is a perfect example of how socialism is incrementally advanced by appealing to our humanitarian impulse to help people. However, what is missing from this picture is how such unconstitutional measures are being used to build an all-powerful, socialistic government.
Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) offered the Democratic substitute to H.R. 4737 in the form of an amendment. The House rejected Cardin's amendment on May 16, 2002 by a vote of 198 to 222 (Roll Call 168). We have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas."
62 Export-Import Bank. The final version (conference report) of S. 1372 would reauthorize the Export-Import bank through fiscal 2006, and would allow it to provide up to $100 billion (a $25 billion increase) in international trade assistance at any one time. In recent years the bank has been used to build up China at the expense of American jobs. For example, the New York Times on September 1st reported that "Export-Import policies in recent years have had the perverse effect of sending American jobs, rather than goods and services, overseas. There was, for example, the case of a Chinese steel mill, the Benxi Iron and Steel Group, that received an $18 million Export-Import backed loan in December 2000 to buy American-made equipment only to be found a year later to be dumping steel into American markets.... In that year, steel companies in the United States laid off 30,000 workers and more than 20 of the companies filed for bankruptcy." The Times went on to state: "By far the biggest user of the bank's financi ng is Boeing, which last year received $2.5 billion in loan guarantees, more than one-quarter of the bank's $9.2 billion in transaction volume. This aid helped win aircraft sales for Boeing to China.... In the last two years, the bank has provided $791.5 million in aid to help Boeing sell planes to Chinese airlines in deals that often require some parts of the planes to be built in China."
The House adopted the conference report on S. 1372 on June 5, 2002 by a vote of 344 to 78 (Roll Call 210). We have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas."
63 National Science Foundation. This bill (H.R. 4664) would authorize $5.5 billion (a 15% increase) for the National Science Foundation for fiscal 2003, then increase that amount by an additional 15% annually for each of the next two years.
The House passed H.R. 4664 on June 5, 2002 by a vote of 397 to 25 (Roll Call 212). We have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas."
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...of 216 to 214 (Roll call 404). We have assigned pluses to the "yeas...of 372 to 46 (Roll Call 431). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 401 to 18 (Roll Call 434). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...
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...of 358-39 (Roll Call 569). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 251-174 (Roll Call 627). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 215-213 (Roll Call 628). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...
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...of 215 to 208 (Roll Call 353). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 347 to 64 (Roll Call 358). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 74 to 350 (Roll Call 364). We have assigned pluses to the "yeas...
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...of 315-116 (Roll Call 18). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 253-174 (Roll Call 20). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...of 218-208 (Roll Call 265). We have assigned pluses to the "nays...