Look! This is important: Voting record: Biden vs McCain vs Obama

[Joanne98]

by professorfate
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 01:06:25 PM PDT
Pundits come and pundits go; consultants come and consultants go, but the voting record is the voting record. No matter how the "experts" talk about the experience of McCain versus the experience of Obama being so very different, their votes speak to their experience more than anything else. Ironically, Biden’s experience is deemed to be equal to McCain’s; thus let’s see just how the experience of Biden compares to the experience of McCain and the experience of Obama based on FACT - how they voted on key issues. Take a look and then marvel at how the media completely ignores reality in favor of 30 second snips of the jiggling jello of inanity.

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Topic: Not Voting
First of all, while McCain’s military courage may be unquestionable, his legislative courage is certainly very questionable. The following are important issues about which John McCain, summoning all of his Presidential ardor, decided he did not want to decide; he didn’t vote. NV = Not Voting (More details on the bills can be found in the categorized sections that follow.)

Clean Energy Achievement Criteria Motion Agreed - Senate (56 - 39)
Biden Yes McCain NV Obama Yes

Alternative Energy Subsidies Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (57 - 36)
Biden Yes McCain NV Obama Yes

Energy Act of 2007 Bill Passed - Senate (65 - 27)
Biden NV McCain NV Obama Yes

Preventing Petroleum Export Organizations (NOPEC Act of 2007) Amendment Adopted - Senate (70 - 23)
Biden NV McCain NV Obama Yes

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 Bill Passed - Senate (69 - 28)
Biden No McCain NV Obama Yes

Striking Telecom Immunity from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Bill Amendment Rejected - Senate(32 - 66)
Biden Yes McCain NV Obama Yes

Equal Pay Bill Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (56 - 42)
Biden Yes McCain NV Obama Yes

Iraq and Afghanistan War Funding, Unemployment Benefits Extension, and GI Bill Concurrence Vote Passed (Senate) (92 - 6)
Biden Yes McCain NV Obama Yes

Bills Organized by Category: This section provides a little more detail on the bills.

Topic: Defense

Intelligence Appropriations Declassification amendment Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 56)
Biden Yes McCain No Obama Not in Senate
Bill Number: S 858
Date: 06/19/1997
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment that requires the President to include in the annual budget the total amount appropriated and total amount requested for intelligence for the current fiscal year.

Iraq Troop Reduction Amendment Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 47)
Biden Yes McCain No Obama Yes
Date: 09/21/2007
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment to begin reducing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq within 90 days of the enactment of this bill, with the exception of a limited number of U.S. forces to be engaged in targeted counterterrorism, the training of Iraqi forces, and the protection of U.S. personnel and infrastructure.

Time Between Troop Deployments Amendment Rejected - Senate (56 - 44)
Biden Yes McCain NO Obama Yes
Date: 09/19/2007
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment that adds language to HR 1585 establishing mandatory minimum rest periods for members of the regular and reserve components of the armed forces between deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and expressing the sense of the Congress concerning ideal rest periods between these deployments.

Judicial Review of Detainees Amendment Amendment Rejected - Senate
(44 - 54)
Biden Yes McCain NO Obama Yes
Bill Number: S 1042
Date: 11/15/2005
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment that alters Senate amendment 2515 to give the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia (DC) exclusive jurisdiction on habeus corpus claims filed by or on the behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay who have already had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Amendment Amendment Adopted - Senate
(49 - 42)
Biden NO McCain YES Obama NO
Bill Number: S 1042
Date: 11/10/2005
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment that requires the Secretary of Defense to submit procedures for determining the status of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House.

Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Treaty rejected - Senate
(48 - 51)
Biden Yes McCain NO Obama not in Senate
Bill Number: Treaty Doc. 105
Date: 10/13/1999
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty that would require 44 countries that have nuclear power plants or nuclear research reactors to ban nuclear weapons testing six months after the treaty is ratified.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/23/15515/1569

[gateley]

1. Uh, hello? Senator McCain? Does anyone know where Senator McCain is?

Man, I was looking at that and thinking - why do they keep putting that McCain is from Nevada? There was an NV after his name every single time!

[liberalmuse]

2. A POW during the war, and MIA in the Senate.

That is a pathetic voting record right there.

[Bobbieo]

3. NV means Not Voting or No Vote. That seems to be the story of MCain's

Congressional career! He has the worst voting record in Congress.

[gateley]

6. I know - but initially I read it as Nevada, because it was behind his name

every single time! He should be ashamed of himself. Probably only showed up to vote for the bills that padded his pockets and those of his friends.

[CrispyQ]

4. Your post title is a great slogan!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[gateley]

5. Well put! Love it! nt

[demwing]

7. I'm Sorry Senator McCain is not home...

He's currently at home, or at home, or at home, or at home, or at home, or at home, or at home, or at home, or at home......