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     Today I will review Mr. Obama's voting record.  It has been reported that he has missed 263 votes of the present congress.  Which means he votes 56% of the time.

 

On the critical issues Mr. Obama has votes as follows:

  • voted against amendment to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would allowed expanded surveillance of foreign suspects without a warrant.
  • voted to expand chip health insurance.
  • he did not vote for or against for the bill to implement the 9/11 commissions recommendations.
  • voted on cloture for the immigration reform bill.
  • voted against 120 billion of Iraq war funding and other programs.
  • voted for another war funding bill with benchmarks for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
  • voted for war funding bill that would require troops to start withdrawing 120 days after bill was passed.
  • voted for non-binding resolution that would require president to redeploy us forces away from Iraq.
  • voted for increase in the federal minimum wage.
  • voted for bill to increase transparency in congress about earmark legislation.
  • voted for the secure fence act.
  • voted against amending "military commission act of 2006".
  • voted to allow research on existing embryos that would otherwise be destroyed.
  • voted against senate amendment that would create power for congress to ban desecration of the American flag.
  • voted against cloture vote on the gay marriage amendment.
  • voted for amendment requiring president to withdraw troops, but with no time limit.
  • voted for amendment securing the borders but allowing for guest worker and path to citizenship.
  • voted no to expand Bush tax cuts.
  • voted for reauthorization of the "patriot act".
  • voted against Samuel A. Alito confirmation to the Supreme Court in the second confirmation.
  • voted against 40 billion cut from federal budget by restructuring some social programs.
  • voted to offer tax breaks and incentives to oil companies with hopes of spurring innovation that would lead to reduction in oil dependency.
  • voted against free trade pact between United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic.
  • voted against united nations ambassador confirmation in order to limit debate.
  • voted against measure that would make it more difficult for people to declare bankruptcy.
  • voted for amendment that "Sought to curtail the ability of plaintiffs to file class-action lawsuits against corporations by making cases that were filed in multiple states the responsibility of federal courts".

Comments
on Jul 12, 2008

Where is your review?  You posted his votes but I though you were going to review them?  Hate the fact he voted for tax breaks and incentives to the already record profit producing oil companies.  Hurts my bones it does.