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Legislator | 2008 Senate Key Votes (View All Descriptions) | Score | |
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HI - DAkaka | 7 | ||
TN - RAlexander | 46 | ||
CO - RAllard | 69 | ||
WY - RBarrasso | 86 | ||
MT - DBaucus | 15 | ||
IN - DBayh | 21 | ||
UT - RBennett | 43 | ||
DE - DBiden | N/A | ||
NM - DBingaman | 7 | ||
MO - RBond | 38 |
FreeedomWorks identifies the most important votes on issues of economic freedom and scores Members of Congress based on their votes. We use a scale of 100, so the higher the score the more often the Member is on our side fighting for lower taxes, less government and more freedom.
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The following legislators were not scored for this year because FreedomWorks has determined that they missed too many votes to receive a fair and accurate score.
Senator Biden has not been scored for 2008 because of the number of votes missed as a result of his presidential campaign.
Senator Clinton has not been scored for 2008 because of the number of votes missed as a result of her presidential campaign.
Senator Kennedy has not been scored for 2008 because he missed much of the year due to declining health.
Senator McCain has not been scored for 2008 because of the number of votes missed as a result of his presidential campaign.
Senator Obama has not been scored for 2008 because of the number of votes missed as a result of his presidential campaign.
This would provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security reform. Social Security is unsustainable in its current form and this amendment would be a welcome reform.
This would put a moratorium on earmarks. Earmarks are spending projects which will add to the deficit and are unnecessary.
This amendment would increase government involvement in the lending and housing markets, rewarding the irresponsible decision makers while punishing those not involved. There is plenty to reform in the housing market, but this is not the way to do it.
To create a bipartisan, bicameral special committee to investigate the insertion of an earmark for Coconut Road into a 2005 highway bill. This is one step in reforming earmark abuse.
This amendment would create a new hurricane insurance program that would crowd out private insurance coverage and leading to increased costs and higher government spending.
This bill would give exclusive bargaining controls to inefficient labor unions over public safety employers. It would thus create a union-run monopoly over all public safety employees and would force local governments to cooperate.
The Act, which proposes to curb greenhouse gases, would significantly hamstring the economy of the United States by burdening taxpayers and risking thousands of jobs as our global competitiveness vanishes under a flood of regulations, taxes, and higher costs.
This bill, and farm subsidies generally, benefit politically connected farm corporations and agriculture industry lobbyists through inefficient price hikes and market restrictions. These market-distorting policies mostly benefit those who engage in cronyism, while making it impossible for small, family-owned farms and businesses to compete. The costs of these market distortions then get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
This is the final vote on the bill that provided a massive (up to $300 billion) bailout to the "Government Sponsored Entities" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two GSEs were in danger of bankruptcy because of their irresponsibly loose lending practices, and they should have been allowed to go bankrupt instead of putting taxpayers on the hook for their misbehavior. In addition, the bill contains an $800 billion increase in the debt ceiling.
FreedomWorks opposes this omnibus spending bill because it greatly increases the government's already out-of-control spending. The omnibus is also loaded loads of unnecessary and wasteful earmarks.
This bill would introduce over 30 new provisions to the tax code that would increase taxes by nearly $2 billion. Congress should not be using the tax code as a way to pick winners and losers in the economy by creating lobbyist-influenced loopholes and deductions, nor should it be raising taxes on the American people, particularly in a time of economic turbulence.
This bill would provide a $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of the financial industry. Institutions which make risky loans should be allowed to suffer the consequences of those loans. Bailing them out creates the moral hazard that these banks and lenders know that will not have to suffer the long-term consequences of their bad decision if they merely become "too big to fail".