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Originally Posted by dc_dux
dk.....tell me what constitutional rights you personally lost in the 90s (or before) as opposed to the last six years...please, no isolated incidents from the agitator.com
host...you are looking for the unattainable....a political representative with whom you agree 100% of the time....good luck!
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It's not that difficult....they don't have to agree with me 100 percent of the time, but they have to represent the public interest....the interest of the most people who they represent, most of the time, and they can't be bought of by special interests.
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http://www.peace-action.org/pub/votes/2001VR.pdf
Dear Friend,
The Peace Action Education Fund (PAEF) works for the global elimi-
nation of nuclear weapons, an end to the conventional arms trade,
and cutting military spending in order to address human needs.
While this voting record is only a snapshot of one year, 2001, you
can see who voted to support those aims and who did not.
One vote sticks out, of course, the one that authorized war in re-
sponse to the horror perpetrated last September 11. One member of
Congress, Rep. Barbara Lee of California, voted against it. Perhaps
others would have considered alternatives to rushing into an open-
ended war had the vote not been scheduled just three days after
September 11, when most of the nation was still in shock. That path
was not taken, and the consequences will be with us for years to
come.
This voting record probably looks a lot like those of the early 1980s.
Then, as now, a president new in office was able to push his military
program through a mostly deferential Congress. In just a few years,
however, it became clear that the public did not support Ronald
Reagan’s military buildup, and the peace movement successfully
mobilized to turn the tide toward nuclear arms reductions.
If the past is indeed prologue, then the challenge before us is clear.
We must articulate and build grassroots support for real solutions
for a safer world: support for the force of law, not the law of force;
rapid progress towards nuclear and conventional disarmament; a
foreign policy reflecting American values of democracy, human
rights, social and economic justice. Communicating with your mem-
bers of Congress is a good place to start.
This voting record is a powerful tool for educating the public, and
for holding members of Congress accountable. Use it well!
For peace and justice,
Kevin M. Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action Education Fund
Congressional
Voting Record
2001
The only Member of Congress to earn 100
percent on our 2001 Voting Record was:
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Top Scoring Senators
Member
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI)
Score 86%
PAC $0
Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Score 71%
PAC $0
Top 10 Military PAC Money Recipients*
Member
Score %
PAC $
1 Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
14 $115,750
2 Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
0
$75,400
3 Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
0
$74,700
4 Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)
29
$68,699
5 Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
14
$64,598
6 Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
14
$56,000
7 Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO)
13
$53,428
8 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
14
$51,000
9 Rep. Bob Stump (R-AZ)
0
$50,000
10 Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
14
$45,500
Military Contractor
PAC $
1 General Dynamics Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$435,500
2 Newport News Shipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $317,200
3 Lockheed Martin Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$306,450
4 General Electric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $263,694
5 Raytheon Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $232.000
6 Boeing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$228,966
7 Northrop Grumman Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $225,450
8 DaimlerChrysler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200,040
9 General Atomics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$195,250
10 BAE Systems North America. . . . . . . . . . . . $183,657
Total PAC Gifts of Top 10 Military
Contractors*
* PAC data for member gifts was supplied by the Center for
Responsive Politics for the first session of the 107th Congress
(January through October, 2001). Data for the top 10 military
contractors PAC gifts also comes from CRP and is based on
contributions from PACs, soft money donors and individual
donations for the 2000-2001 election cycle.
www.opensecrets.org
www.peace-action.org
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<b>Where would we be today, if we had not increased military, intelligence agency, and domestic security spending, after 9/11, and not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq ?</b>
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