Sunday, December 4, 2011

NEWT GINGRICH'S VOTING RECORD

04/02/1987 - He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine


10/22/1991 - He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.


03/—/1993 - He Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.


11/19/1993 - He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.


11/27/1994 - He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.


08/27/1995 - He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.


04/25/1996 - Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)


04/10/1995 - He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.


06/01/1996 - He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionali st Ron Paul in the 1996 election.


09/25/1996 - Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.


01/22/1997 - Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.


11/29/2006 - He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment."


11/29/2006 - He called for a "Geneva Convention for terrorists" so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.


02/15/2007 - He supported Bush's proposal for mandatory carbon caps.


09/28/2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.


10/01/2008 - Says in an article that TARP was a "workout, not a bailout."


12/08/2008 - He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.


03/31/2009 - Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.


07/30/2010 - Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the "Axis of Evil".


08/03/2010 - Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.


08/16/2010 - Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.


11/15/2010 - He defended Romneycare


12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.


01/30/2011 - He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.


01/30/2011 - He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.


02/13/2011 - He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.


02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."


03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.


03/15/2011 - Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.


03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)


03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.


03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.


04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.


05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.


06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff resigned en masse.


07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.


08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.


10/07/2011 - He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.


- Gingrich voted for an increase in the debt ceiling in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984


- Gingrich voted to permit the Federal Reserve to purchase Treasury Debt


- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout


- Gingrich voted to strengthen the federal home loan agencies


- Gingrich voted for increased powers to the FDIC to bail out struggling savings and loans through reorganization, purchase of bad assets, or recapitalizatio n.


- Gingrich voted in favor of the Chrysler Bailout in 1979


- Gingrich voted for an oil windfall profits tax in 1979, which was signed by Jimmy Carter.


- Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.


- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.


- Gingrich voted against a provision requiring congressional approval prior to deployment of U.S. troops into Central America in 1983.


- Gingrich voted to increase CIA secrecy and against any requirement that the President report covert activity to congress before it is initiated.


- Gingrich voted for Jimmy Carter’s “Energy Mobilization Board.”


- Gingrich voted for an increase in taxes on coal producers in 1981


- Gingrich voted for a 5-cent increase in the gas tax to fund highway and other mass-transit projects.


- Gingrich was one of the few who voted against the 1984 bill requiring the President and Congress to submit a balanced budget


- Gingrich voted for a congressional pay raise


- Gingrich voted against a bipartisan 1% cut to the Department of Defense budget for 1983


- He was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the "right battlefield at the right time."