THIS CHART REFLECTS VOTES ON IMPORTANT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Home Run (H Run): This Congressperson took a stand for the American people. +10 points

AWOL: This Congressperson was AWOL when the American people needed him/her to take a stand. –7.5 points

Strike:This Congressperson voted or agreed to an outcome harmful to the American people, freedom and/or democracy. -10 points

N/L: The roll call record does not show this representative under any of the categories (yea, nay, not voting).2 representatives were not listed on the roll call on 1/6.A # is placed after their totals as it is based on one fewer vote than the other representatives. Representative Matsui was elected to fill the spot vacated when her husband passed and was not in Congress when the first five votes on the chart took place

PRESENT: This is a protest vote, often made by Congresspersons who know that they are outnumbered, and having no effect on the total for or against a bill. 0 points.

Total: The accumulated points to date on major votes.

Other votes:  (1/6/05-4/28/05)  (5/5/05-6/9/05)  (6/15/05-7/20/05B)  (7/20/05C-7/28/05C)  (9/14/05-9/29/05D)  (10/07/05-11/09/05B)  (11/17/05-12/19/05A)  (12/19/05B-12/19/05C)

Votes counted this page:

9/14/05: This was the passage of HR 3132, which creates a national database of convicted offenders (including juvenile delinquents) involved in a broad variety of acts which could could include walking one's sister to a date and indecent exposure. Juveniles with poor supervision but who not do anything serious enough to be bound over to the adult justice system could wind up in this national database for life.

9/15/05:  H Res 437 was the agreement to a bi-partisan Republican-controlled commission to whitewash the truth about the damages and deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina.  This was a circumstance of the foxes (those who cut the funding to the infrasturcture, which was largely responsible for the deaths and losses from Katrina) being able to judge whether their actions were responsible or whether there is a local person to whom to pass the buck for the destruction and deaths in the henhouse.

9/22/05:  Roll Call 493 was the vote on the HR 2123, which allows religious discrimination within Head Start hiring programs.

9/29/05A:  H Res 388 was an attack on Cuba.  In inself it is words.  However, this vote has been used by at least one Democratic orangization to justify a refusal to call for the lifting of the embargo against Cuba.  The Cuban embargo is harmful to both the people of Cuba (as it seeks to keep them apart from necessary supplies and from their families who live elsewhere) to their relatives who can not send anything to their family in Cuba.

9/29/05B: HR 3824 was the vote to gut the protections of the Endangered Species Act.  Exterminating species threatens all life on Earth as each species affects life in other species.

9/29/05C:  HJ Res 68 was the appropriations for 2006.  Involved the cutting of much needed funding and the redistritribution of weath to those who are less in need.

9/29/05D: H Con Res 178 recognized the need to pursue research into the cause, treament and eventual cure for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that affects and many Americans.