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

1/06/05:  This was the opportunity for Senators to stand up for democracy and honest elections

1/26/05: This was the vote on confirmation of Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State, the woman largely responsible for 9/11 and for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in unnecessary wars.

2/01/05: This was the day where all Senators were part of a unanimous consent agreement not to filibuster the nomination of a lawless torturer (Alberto Gonzales) as chief law enforcement officer of the United States (U.S. Attorney General)

2/03/05: This was the last chance to stand up and oppose torture by voting against Alberto Gonzales.  All Republicans, except the one who didn’t care to vote, voted for torture.  Their records speak for themselves.

2/10/05: This was the vote for an act (The Class Action (Extreme Un)Fairness Act of 2005) that makes it much more difficult
for victims to seek and obtain damages in a class action suit filed against a wrongdoer who has harmed multiple victims.

2/15/05: This was the vote to confirm Michael Chertoff, a proponent of water-board torture, an individual connected to the financing of 9/11 and the man behind the round-up of thousands of people of Middle-Eastern descent following 9/11. By confirming him the Senate, in effect, endorsed terrorist attacks on America, water-board torture and racism.

3/08/05: This was the cloture vote on the bankruptcy deform bill, guaranteeing that credit card issuers can now steal homes from veterans, laid-off workers and people with serious medical conditions.

3/10/05: This was the actual vote on the bankruptcy deform bill, guaranteeing that credit card issuers can now steal homes from veterans, laid-off workers and people with serious medical conditions.

4/21/05A: This was the roll call vote which subjected American children to the possibility of being killed by death squads here in the United States.  In Central America, John Negroponte was connected to death squads which murdered nuns and children in sizable quantities.  Instead of prosecuting him for these deaths, 98 Senators rewarded him by making him National Intelligence Director.  On 4/17/05, the California Democratic Party unanimously passed a resolution discussing the death squads and calling on senators to reject the nomination of John Negroponte

4/21/05B: This was HR 1268, the appropriations bill which took funds away from veterans injured in Iraq and from education, heath care and services for children, the elderly and the needy in America and gave approximately $81 billion dollars to those who were profiting from death.

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.