Easy Senate Score Chart

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

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

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

4/28/05: This was the vote on H Con Res 95 Conference Report, which was the budget.   This budget included drilling in an ANWR, where species would be wiped out by the drilling and the ecological balance of the planet would be further upset.  Programs and services to the needy were cut while the super-rich got pork from the budget.

4/29/05:This was the vote on cloture on the nomination of EPA nominee Stephen L. Johnson, a man who advocated testing  pesticides in baby food.

5/10/05: HR 1268/HR418 involved two bills re-combined in committee.  Since these bills both are catastrophic to human rights and human life and were originally two separate bills, though they were voted on together following the conference report, each of the two bills is being counted here. HR 1268 is an appropriations bill which gives profits to contractors who benefit from wars and which acts as an excuse to continue the war and the killing in Iraq.  HR 418 presumes to override Articles I,II and III of the U.S. Constitution and to give the power to commit acts of terrorism, murder, torture, etc. to Michael Chertoff, a man connected with individuals involved in financing 9/11. It also eliminates political asylum in the United States by requiring the victims of persecution to obtain written proof of the persecution from the governments that are persecuting them.  It also sets up the basis for a Nazi-style national ID Card while making the highways more unsafe and terrorism more likely.

5/24/05: This was the cloture motion on Priscilla Owen for the 5th Circuit.  Torture-proponent Alberto Gonzales even called Owen extreme.  Her record shows that she  is anti-environment, anti-employee, anti-civil rights, anti-human rights,  pro-discrimination and pro-polluter.  This was the critical vote - the confirmation vote was a sure thing once this passed.

5/26/05: This was the vote on cloture on UN nominee John Bolton, a man who has vehemently attacked the United Nations on a regular baisis, who was involved in preventing democracy in the United States in 2000 and who has engaged in other objectionable conduct which makes him unsuitable for any leadership position.

6/07/05:  This was the cloture vote on Janice Rogers Brown, an anti-employee, anti-environment, anti-civil rights, pro-corporate extremist for a lifetime appointment to the DC Circuit, placing her in line for the U.S. Supreme Count.  The cloture vote guaranteed her confirmation, making the final vote nothing more than a formality.

6/09/05B:  This was the confirmation vote on David McKeague for a lifetime appointment to the Sixth Circuit.  McKeague has a judicial activist history of being a strong opponent of the environment and of privacy rights.    The approval of both Griffin and McKeague places the future of the natural resources and the health of the residents of the area covered by the 6th Cirucuit in grave jeapardy.