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| Military Scorecard McCain vrs Kerry |
| 2004-03-29 |
| EFL Senate Votes John Kerry John McCain Subject U.S. Troops to ICC (12-7-01) Yes No Xfer Navy funding to AIDS (7-10-01) Yes No McCain amendment to reduce pork and use money saved for DOD (7-10-01 No Yes National Missile Defense (18 votes, 1991 to 2000) No, 18 Times Yes, 18 Times Cut Defense by $400M (7-10-97) Yes No Cut Defense by $5M (7-9-97) Yes No Cut Defense by $13B (6-26-96) Yes No Freeze DOD spending for 7 years & use the $34.8B for entitlements (5-24-95 Yes No Pub Covert Intel Budget (10-19-93) Yes No Gays in the Military (9-9-93) Yes No Block military pay raise (3-24-93) Yes No Help new Enl regist to vote (3-17-93) No Yes Eliminate B-2 bomber program (9-18-92) Yes No Xfer $3B from DOD to DE (9-16-92) Yes No Xfer $3B from DOD and use the money for social programs (9/10/91) Yes No Cut $6B from Defense (4-9-92) Yes No First Iraq War (1-12-91) No Yes Cut funding for MX Missile (8-1-89) Yes No Aid anti-Communist fighters in Nicaragua and Cambodia during the 1980s No, No Yes, Yes The original article was in tabular form. I agree with McCain. Kerry certainly had a hardon for Defense; nothing soft about that voting record. |
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| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-03-29 3:10:37 PM |
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