- Here is some of Kerry's ANTI ACLU voting record
- ...Seems he likes to stick with LIEberman, Santorum and
even Ashcroft...
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- Senate Vote on Welfare Reform
- H.R. 3734
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- Welfare reform - With bipartisan support and the endorsement
of President Clinton, the House and Senate approved legislation that preyed
on the limited rights of vulnerable groups including children, immigrants,
the poor and the elderly in the name of welfare reform. The bill also eroded
free speech for not-for-profit organizations, violated the separation of
church and state, and damaged privacy rights by establishing a de facto
national identification system. The legislation passed the House on a vote
of 256 to 170; the Senate approved the measure with a vote of 74 to 25.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against the Legislation
- Sen John Kerry voted for this and so did LIEberman, Santorum
& Ashcroft...
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- Senate Vote on Government Funding of Religious Institutions
- S. 1956
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- Government Funding of Religious Institutions - Included
in the welfare overhaul was a provision that could force state governments,
under threat of lawsuits, to contract with religious institutions, including
houses of worship, to provide taxpayer-funded social services, even if
they are delivered in a proselytizing environment. This, too, was a recurring
theme in the 104th Congress where opponents of religious liberty repeatedly
sought to pass provisions to lower the wall of separation between church
and state. In the Senate, the provisions were inserted into the welfare
bill by a vote of 67 to 32. There was no separate vote on the provisions
in the House.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote For the Separation of Church and
State
- Kerry voted against ACLU and so did LIEberman, Santorum
& Ashcroft...
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- How the Senate voted on Internet Censorship
- S.652
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- Internet Censorship - As part of a major overhaul of
the nation's telecommunications industries, both the House and Senate approved
major new censorship schemes for the Internet. The Senate adopted its version,
the so-called Communications Decency Act, by a vote of 84 to 16. A similar
censorship scheme 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. Minutes after President
Clinton signed the legislation, the ACLU challenged its constitutionality
in Reno v. ACLU.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against Censorship
- Kerry voted for this Even LIEberman voting only 28% w/
ACLU voted against this...
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- Senate Vote on Campaign Finance Reform
- S. 1219
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- Campaign Finance Reform - In a sign of widespread disillusion
with the political process, both the House and Senate considered versions
of campaign finance reform that the ACLU believed to be unconstitutional
infringements of free speech provisions of the First Amendment. 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.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote For the First Amendment
- Kerry and LIEberman voted against the First amendment...
Even Ashcroft and Santorum voted for the 1st...
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- Senate Vote on Medical Privacy
- H.R 3103
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- 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.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote For Medical Privacy
- Kerry, LIEberman, Ashcroft, Santorum and many others
voted against Medical Privacy...
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- Senate Vote on Immigration Legislation
- H.R. 2202
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- Immigration - Seeking to capitalize on a wave of anti-immigration
initiatives, both the House and Senate passed bills that represented the
most draconian and divisive immigration proposals in decades. Included
were provisions that would strip the courts of jurisdiction over illegal
and abusive INS actions and erect enormous and virtually insurmountable
barriers for most people seeking political asylum. The House even 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.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against the Legislation
- Kerry, LIEberman, Ashcroft, Santorum and many others
voted for this...
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- Senate Vote on National ID Cards
- S. 1664
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- 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, so-called deadbeat
dads and to monitor health insurance information. Various database schemes
have been included in bills as diverse as immigration, welfare reform and
health insurance. 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.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against National ID Cards
- Kerry voted FOR this... Even LIEberman, Ashcroft, Lott
and Santorum were against this...
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- Senate Vote on Wiretapping
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- Wiretapping - Although the interception of innocent conversations
in federal law enforcement wiretaps is already at record levels, 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).
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against Wiretapping
- Kerry voted FOR Wiretapping with LIEberman and his other
buddy Santorum...
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- How the Senate Voted on Counter-Terrorism
- S. 735
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- 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.
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- The ACLU Urged a Vote Against the Legislation Kerry voted
FOR this with LIEberman, Ashcroft and Santorum...
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- Most of all, Sen John Kerry voted for the INVASION of
IRAQ... Kerry voting record on these issues is almost as bad as Santorum...
Least Santorum voted against national ID cards w/ the likes of Lott and
even Ashcroft...
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- Kerry PRO War/Anti Peace/Pro Censorship/Pro Corporation/Bought
& Sold/Skull & Bones Bush Blood Brother...
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