Thursday, July 7, 2011

TEA FOR TWO?


http://scottkennethnoble.blogspot.com/2011/06/bachmann-vs-paul-voting-record.html

Or has Bachmann been drinking the Kool-Aid instead?

Bachmann vs. Paul ~ Voting Record

Bachmann record: Big Gov, Tax & Spend, anti-liberty, Constitution enemy!


by Lynette Largent on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 5:35pm
  • Bachmann voted for almost unlimited Presidential war powers:
  • Bachmann votes against beleagured soldiers: H.R.3159 Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act of 2007. Paul voted yes.
  • Bachmann votes for Internet Censorship: H.R.4279 - PRO-IP Act of 2007 and H.R.4061 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009, Sponsored by John Conyers, (D-MI) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/258311 Ron Paul voted no!
  • H.R.5486 Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act of 2010: Backmann voted no. Paul voted yes.
  • Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008: Bachmann voted for Bigger Government and new property seizing powers via S.3325 - The sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Learn more:http://www.defectivebydesign.org/stop-revised-riaa-ip-enforcement-bill-s3325 Ron Paul voted no!
  • H.Con.Res.28 Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan (Accelerating Afghanistan withdrawal). Bachmann, no. Paul, yes.
  • Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 - Expands the types of whistleblower disclosures protected from personnel reprisals to include disclosures without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, forum, or prior disclosures made to any person by an employee or applicant for employment, including a disclosure made in the ordinary course of an employee's duties, that the employee or applicant reasonably believes is a violation of any law. Backmann voted no. Paul voted yes.
  • H.R.4 Part D Medicare Drugs Price Negotiation: Bachman, no. Ron Paul, yes.
  • H.R.1404 Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act.Bachmann votes yes. Paul votes no.
  • Ten percent across-the-board cut to the Department of Homeland Security's budget: Rokita of IN Amendment 1 to H R 2017, requires a (except for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The underlying bill reduces DHS spending only to FY 2009 levels. It failed 110-312. Bachmann voted NO. Ron Paul voted yes!
  • Prohibit TSA from using full-body image scanners as "mandatory or primary" screening devices: Look what Bachmann and West just voted against: Amash/Chaffetz Amendment 2 to H R 207, which prohibits TSA from using full-body image scanners as "mandatory or primary" screening devices. In other words, they can be used only as an option during secondary screening. The amendment failed 123-300. No radiation liberty for Tea Partiers! Ron Paul voted yes! 135 Republicans and 165 Democrats voted against it. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll400.xml
  • College Student Relief Act of 2007 - phases-in cuts in the interest rate charged undergraduate student borrowers under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan (DL) programs, thereby reducing such rate from 6.8% in July 2006 to 3.4% in July 2011. Limits FFEL lender insurance to 95% of the unpaid balance of such loans. Bachmann voted no. Paul voted yes.
  • Bachmann votes for government interference and for increased spending. SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act - Title I: Modernizing the SBIR and STTR Programs -
    Amends the Small Business Act to extend through FY2010 (currently scheduled to expire at the end of FY2008) the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs of the Small Business Administration (SBA).
    Increases, for both the SBIR and STTR programs, the individual small business award levels from:
    (1) $100,000 to $300,000, for participation at a Phase One level; and
    (2) $750,000 to $2.2 million, for participation at a Phase Two level. Allows participating federal agencies (agencies) to exceed such award levels if such agencies notify, and provide annual reports concerning such increase to, the congressional small business committees.
  • Bachmann votes for college scholarship bills H.R.362 and H.R. 363: while America is broke borrowing from China. Paul voted no.
  • H.R.1255 Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2011: Bachmann, yes. Paul, no.
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