| "The
heart of the wise inclines to the
right, but the heart of the fool
to the left." Ecclesiastes
10:2 |
Senator
Patty Murray
(D-Wa) - In Lockstep
With The ACLU |
The
percentages of Senator Murray voting with
the ACLU
After 10 long years, it's
(past) time for Ms Patty Murray to leave
the Senate post she occupies.
Washington's Democrat Senator, Patty
Murray, has been in office for too long
folks.
After all this time in office, she has
lost touch with the people of Washington
state. She, to no surprise to many of us,
has spent the last few years as chief
fundraiser for Senate Democrats in D.C.,
while rubbing elbows with lobbyists and
special interest groups instead of
focusing on the issues important to the
people of Washington.
Here it is 2004 and Ms Patty is up for
re-election. It's clear to anyone that
knows her leftist agenda, that it is time
for her to go!!!
The goal of Congressional Report Cards is
to provide information for evaluating
members of the United States Congress on
the most important, and often ignored by
the media, part of their job: making
"good" laws.
These laws matter because it is through
them, the men and women we elect to
Congress that are spending 15-30 cents of
every dollar we, the American taxpayers,
earn; influence every aspect of our life
including our health, financial security,
and personal freedom; and shaping the
world in which our children will live.
Even though Ms Patty Murray continually
tries to portray herself as "just an
average Mom in sneakers," in reality
she has become the ultimate D.C. insider,
serving for the past two years as head of
the Senate Democrats' Campaign Committee
and raising more than $100 million from
special interests.
She continually tries to portray herself
as one who's above the influence of
special interests, but the facts tell a
different story. Voting records do not
lie and they sure can tell you a whole
lot about those we put into office.
Ms Murray is the 15th most-liberal member
of the Senate, placing her in the
"Senate Fringe" of the 20
most-liberal Senators.
Ms Murray leans toward higher
immigration population growth, and
foreign labor as you will read in my
article on her "illegal
Immigration" voting record.
To read more on her liberal love affair
with illegal immigration see it here.
Below is Ms Murray's voting
record on very important issues where she
continually votes a high percentage with
the most anti-God, anti-Christian and
anti-America group in our country...the
radical ACLU.
This
is NO Accident
|
Did Not Vote NV
Votes With
ACLU 
Votes
Against ACLU 
|
| Topic |
Bill
Number |
How Voted |
| School
Vouchers |
H.R.
2546 |
|
School
vouchers - The House voted 241 to
177
to establish a pilot voucher program in
the District of Columbia. Although a
majority of Senators favored the voucher
program, opponents were able to block the
bill through a filibuster. A motion to
end the filibuster failed on a vote of 44
to 56, four votes short of the 60 needed
to end debate.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against School Vouchers
|
| Welfare
Overhaul |
H.R.
3734 |
|
Welfare
reform - The legislation passed
the House on a vote of 256 to
170; the Senate approved the
measure with a vote of 74 to 25.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against the Legislation
|
| Religious
Institutions and Government Funding |
S. 1956 |
|
Government
Funding of Religious Institutions -
Included
in the welfare overhaul was a provision
that provide taxpayer-funded social
services through Religious Institutions.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
For the Separation of Church and State
|
| Prison
Litigation Reform Act |
H.R.
3019 |
|
Prisoners
Rights - Swept into law as a
virtual footnote to a huge appropriations
bill, the so-called Prison Litigation
Reform Act stripped the federal courts of
much of their power to correct even the
most egregious prison conditions. The Act
prohibited prison officials from settling
lawsuits by agreeing to make changes in
unconstitutional prison conditions. There
was so little opposition to the Act that
it never faced separate votes in either
the House or the Senate. The
appropriations bill that included the
PLRA was approved by a vote of 209 to
206
in the House; then a vote of Senate
passed the bill on 79 to 21. The ACLU
Urged a Vote Against the Legislation
|
| Limits
on habeas corpus |
S. 735 |
|
Criminal
Justice The measure limits the
right of habeas corpus that the vehicle
through which death row and other
prisoners may seek federal court review
of their convictions and sentences. An
attempt in the Senate to preserve habeas
failed by a vote of 35 to 64. A similar
attempt in the House failed by a vote of 135 to
283.
The ACLU Urged a Vote to
Preserve Habeas
|
| Internet
Censorship |
S. 652 |
|
Internet
Censorship -
As part of a major
overhaul of the nation's
telecommunications industries, both the
House and Senate approved major new
censorship for the Internet. The Senate
adopted its version, the Communications
Decency Act, by a vote of 84 to 16. A
similar censorship was adopted in the
House on a vote of 256 to
149
as part of its version of
telecommunications reform. The final bill
incorporated much of both provisions and
passed overwhelmingly with only five
senators and 16 representatives
registering opposition.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against Censorship
|
| Campaign
Finance Reform |
S. 1219 |
|
Campaign
Finance Reform -
Both the House and Senate considered
versions of campaign finance reform. In
the Senate, a motion to end a filibuster
against the bill failed by a vote of 54
to 36, six votes short of the 60 needed
to end debate. In the House, campaign
finance was rejected by a vote of 259 to
162.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
For the First Amendment
|
 Defense
of Marriage |
H.R.
3396 |
|
Same-Sex
Marriage - Both the House and
the Senate adopted a measure that would
deny federal recognition of marriages
between lesbian and gay couples. The
House vote in favor of the bill was 342 to
67;
the Senate approved it by a vote of 84 to
15.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against the Legislation
To read my
correspondence on this issue with Sen.
Murray,
Go Here |
| HIV and
the Military |
S. 1124 |
|
HIV in
the Military -
Congress approved the 1996 defense
appropriations bill that, as one of its
provisions, would have forced the
military to discharge HIV-positive
service members. Months later -- in an
astonishing reversal -- Congress quickly
repealed the measure. The original
appropriations legislation passed in the
House by a vote of 287 to
129
and in the Senate by a vote of 56 to 34. The ACLU
Urged a Vote Against the Legislation
|
| Flag
Desecration |
S.J. Res
31 |
|
Flag
Amendment Both
the House and Senate voted on a proposal
to amend the Constitution to include a
prohibition against desecration of the
flag. In the House, the measure was
approved by a vote of 312 to
120.
In the Senate, proponents failed by a
vote of 63 to 36, four votes short of the
67 -- or two-thirds of the Senate --
needed to approve a constitutional
amendment.
The ACLU opposed the
amendment
|
| Employment
Non-Discrimination |
S. 2056 |
|
Employment
Discrimination - Building on efforts to
establish the right to be free from
discrimination in employment, a
bipartisan coalition of Senators
introduced the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act of 1996, which
would have outlawed discrimination in
employment based on sexual orientation.
In a vote hailed as a victory for
equality, the Senate fell only two votes
short of passage, setting the stage for
the 105th Congress. The vote was 49 to
50; there was no vote in the House.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
For the Legislation
|
| Medical Records
Privacy |
H.R. 3103 |
NV |
Medical
privacy - Hidden within the
massive health care reform bill approved
by Congress in the stampede for an August
recess was a deceptively labeled
provision that further eroded the privacy
rights of all Americans. The provision,
known as "administrative
simplification," gives government
and businesses access to confidential
medical information about individuals
without their consent and establishes a
unique health identification number for
every patient, health provider, health
plan and employer. The medical privacy
provisions of the bill never came up for
a separate vote, but the Senate approved
the health care measure on a vote of 98
to 0. Earlier, the House had rejected by
a vote of 198 to
226 an
alternative version of the bill that
would have deleted the anti-privacy
provisions.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
For Medical Privacy
|
| Late Term
Abortion Ban |
H.R. 1833 |
|
Reproductive Rights -
In one of
the most highly charged issues of the
104th Congress, both the House and the
Senate approved legislation that would
have, for the first time, imposed
criminal and civil penalties on
physicians who perform abortion
procedures. President Clinton vetoed the
legislation, which had won approval by
the House on a vote of 288 to
139.
The Senate approved the bill by a vote of
54 to 44. The ACLU
Urged a Vote For Reproductive Freedom
|
| Denial of
Benefits to Immigrants |
H.R. 2202 |
|
Immigration - Both the House and
Senate passed bills that included
provisions that would strip the courts of
jurisdiction over illegal and abusive INS
actions and erect barriers for most
people seeking political asylum. The
House approved a bill that would have
effectively denied public education to
American citizen children of undocumented
immigrants. The Senate voted 97 to 3 to
accept one version of the legislation;
the House approved a harsher version by a
vote of 333 to
87.
The President signed the immigration
legislation in September.
The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against the Legislation
|
| National
ID Card |
S. 1664 |
|
National
ID Card One of the most
pervasive themes of the 104th Congress
has been proposals to establish a
national identification system as a means
of tracking undocumented workers,
deadbeat dads and to monitor health
insurance information. Since these
proposals have been buried in much larger
legislation, it was often difficult to
determine the position of members of
Congress. In the House, however, an
attempt to eliminate a national ID system
from the immigration bill failed by a
vote of 159 to
260.
A similar attempt in the Senate failed by
a vote of 46 to 54. The ACLU
Urged a Vote Against National ID Cards
|
| Wiretapping I |
S. 735 |
|
Wiretapping
- Congress
has been asked to give the FBI even
greater authority to wiretap. Proposals
have ranged from providing $500 million
to the nation's phone companies to
finance a retrofit of their systems to
make it easier for the FBI to wiretap to
permitting law enforcement agencies to
use more "roving" wiretaps
(without specifying which phone is to be
tapped), and more "emergency"
wiretaps (without obtaining a prior court
order). Congress partially funded the
retrofit proposal, but rejected other
wiretapping proposals. In the Senate, an
amendment to authorize more wiretaps
without a prior court order was rejected
by a vote of 28 to
52.
A second amendment to give the government
increased authority to use roving
wiretaps passed on a vote of 77 to 19. The ACLU
Urged a Vote Against Wiretapping
|
| Wiretapping II |
S. 735 |
|
Wiretapping
- Congress
has been repeatedly asked to give the FBI
even greater authority to wiretap.
Proposals have ranged from providing $500
million to the nation's phone companies
to finance a retrofit of their systems to
make it easier for the FBI to wiretap to
permitting law enforcement agencies to
use more "roving" wiretaps
(without specifying which phone is to be
tapped), and more "emergency"
wiretaps (without obtaining a prior court
order). Congress partially funded the
retrofit proposal, but rejected other
wiretapping proposals. In the Senate, an
amendment to authorize more wiretaps
without a prior court order was rejected
by a vote of 28 to 52. A second amendment
to give the government increased
authority to use roving wiretaps passed
on a vote of 77 to
19. The ACLU Urged a Vote
Against Wiretapping
|
| Counter-terrorism |
S. 735 |
|
Counter-terrorism
The
bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal
Building lifted from obscurity a Clinton
Administration proposal to increase the
powers of law enforcement in the name of
fighting terrorism. The measure gave the
government the power to use secret
evidence to deport immigrants it accuses
of being "terrorists" and to
exclude aliens merely because they are
members of a disfavored foreign group.
The bill won approval in the Senate by a
vote of 91 to 8 and a vote of 293 to
133
in the House.
The ACLU Urged a Vote Against
the Legislation
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| Percentage
of the time Senator Murray voted with the
ACLU |
59% |
| Topic |
Bill Number |
How Voted |
| District of
Columbia Appropriations |
S. 1156 |
|
S.
1156 District of Columbia Appropriations Senate failed to vote to
end debate on an amendment that would
have imposed tax-payer funded vouchers on
the District of Coumbia. The ACLU
opposed this legislation
|
| Campaign Finance |
S. 25 |
|
S.
25 Campaign Finance
Senate failed to end debate on
McCain-Feingold campaign finance
proposal.
The ACLU opposed this
legislation |
| Abortion
Procedure Ban |
H.R. 1122 |
|
H.R.
1122 Abortion Procedure Ban
The legislation bans an abortion method
known in the medical community as
"dilation and
extraction"(D&X) and
"intact dialation and
evacuation" (D&E), otherwise,
"partial-birth abortion." The ACLU
opposed this bill
|
| Percentage of the time Sen.
Murray voted with the ACLU: |
67%
|
For a Senator,
she seems strangely lacking in information about
the country she claims to represent, although
she's doing an adequate job of bringing the
socialist agenda to this state and Washington D.
C.
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