Obama's Votes in the Senate - Actions Speak Louder Than Words!

Hussein voted "present" 303 times(so he won't leave much paper trail) of a total of 610(about 50%) while in the Senate, so we don't have much data about him. However, here are some of Hussein's votes (excluding, of course, the ones that are in agreement with G.Bush's policies which I posted earlier). ~ Actions Speak Louder Than Words! ~

- Hussein voted "NO" To extend the 35, 33, 28, and 25 percent income tax rate structure and protect nearly 28,000,000 families and individuals, including small business owners, from having their tax rates increase to 39.6, 36, 31, or 28 percent.

- Hussein voted "NO" To provide budget levels to extend through 2012 the production tax credit for electricity produced from renewable resources, the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, and energy tax provisions for energy efficient buildings and power plants.

- Hussein voted "NO" To provide for a budget point of order Against legislation that increases income taxes on taxpayers, including hard-working middle-income families, entrepreneurs, and college students.

- Hussein voted "NO" To provide certainty to taxpayers by extending expiring tax provisions such as the R&D Tax Credit that helps US companies innovate, combat pay exclusion for our soldiers in the field, the education deduction to make colleges more affordable and the alternative energy incentives to make the environment cleaner through the end of 2009.

- Hussein voted "NO" To strike a provision relating to paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying.

- Hussein voted "YES" To make available an additional $6,700,000,000 to fund equipment reset requirements resulting from continuing combat operations in Iraq, including repair, depot, and procurement activities.

- Hussein voted "NO" To improve domestic fuels security.

- Hussein voted "NO" To strengthen the security of cargo containers.

- Hussein voted "NO" To provide standards for clean coal-derived fuels.

- Hussein voted "NO"  To make permanent certain education-related tax incentives.

- Hussein voted "NO" To ensure agricultural equity with respect to the renewable fuels standard.

- Hussein voted "YES" To disallow the credit for renewable diesel for fuel that is coprocessed with petroleum.

- - Hussein voted "No" To save American taxpayers up to $24 billion in the 10 years after passage of this Act, by preventing the earned income tax credit, which is, according to the Congressional Research Service, the largest anti-poverty entitlement program of the Federal Government, from being claimed by Y temporary workers or illegal aliens given status by this Act until they adjust to legal permanent resident status.

- Hussein voted "NO" To repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

- Hussein voted "NO" to Provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for providing an above the line Federal income tax deduction for individuals purchasing health insurance outside the workplace.

- Hussein voted "NO" To provide certain employment rights and an employee engagement mechanism for passenger and property screeners, and for other purposes.

- Hussein voted "NO" To protect families, family farms and small businesses by extending the income tax rate structure, raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%; to keep education affordable by extending the college tuition deduction; and to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains.

- Hussein voted "NO To the Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005.

- Hussein voted "YES" To increase by $360,800,000 amounts appropriated by title IX for Other Procurement, Army, for the procurement of armored Tactical Wheeled Vehicles for units deployed in Iraq, and to increase by $5,000,000 amounts appropriated by title IX for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, for industrial preparedness for the implementation of a ballistics engineering research center.

- Hussein voted "NO" To reauthorize the secure rural schools and community self-determination program and to provide funding for the payments in lieu of taxes program.

- Hussein voted "NO" To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35%.

-- Modified on 10/14/2008 7:48:57 AM