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Vote to pass a bill that criminalizes the act of transporting a minor across state lines to avoid parental notification laws and obtain access to abortion services.
07/27/2007 Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007 N
05/02/2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 N
10/05/2001 Agricultural Act of 2001 N
06/08/1999 FY 2000 Agriculture Appropriations bill N
06/04/1998 Agricultural Research bill N
HR 503: To amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.
H AMDT 588 to HR 3824: Amendment in the nature of a substitute sought to improve the use of science, providing certainty to landowners, providing flexibility on deadlines for listing species, creating a voluntary conservation program to promote species conservation on private lands, creating a technical assistance program to help small landowners, increasing the role of State and localities, ensuring accountability of the Department of Interior, ensuring that permit and license applicants fully participate in the consultations process, and requiring a balancing of risks in planning for species recovery.
H AMDT753 to HR 4193: Amendment restores $98 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
Vote to pass a bill that requires political organizations known as 527 organizations to disclose their political activities. A 527 organization falls under Section 527 of the tax code.
Vote to pass a bill that imposes campaign finance reforms on the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) in order to change certain Federal election regulations.
If you let Romney explain, it makes more sense. But Giuliani doesn't want an explanation. He just wants to throw out some low-brow accusation and hope it sticks.
Originally posted by semperfortis
I was looking over Ron Paul's voting record and some of his votes seem troublesome to me...
Perhaps a Ron Paul fan could elaborate on them...
Child Custody Protection Act... Voted..... NO
Vote to pass a bill that criminalizes the act of transporting a minor across state lines to avoid parental notification laws and obtain access to abortion services.
As an obstetrician of more than thirty years, I have personally delivered more than 4,000 children. During such time, I have not performed a single abortion. On the contrary, I have spoken and written extensively and publicly condemning this `medical' procedure. At the same time, I have remained committed to upholding the Constitutional procedural protections which leave the police power decentralized and in control of the states. In the name of protecting states' rights, this bill usurps states' rights by creating yet another federal crime.
The tenth amendment is brutally clear in stating `The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.' Our nation's history makes clear that the U.S. Constitution is a document intended to limit the power of central government. No serious reading of historical events surrounding the creation of the Constitution could reasonably portray it differently.
It is my erstwhile hope that parents will become more involved in vigilantly monitoring the activities of their own children rather than shifting parental responsibility further upon the federal government. There was a time when a popular bumper sticker read `It's ten o'clock; do you know where your children are?' I suppose we have devolved to point where it reads `It's ten o'clock; does the federal government know where your children are.'
Originally posted by SteveR
Good find Semper. I thoroughly beleive Ron Paul will destroy America. The man is fixated on devolving the society and government. Any Ron Paul zealots that disagree should OPEN their eyes and look more into him.
Originally posted by SteveR
reply to post by spacedoubt
If you cannot see his flaws alone then there is little chance I can help you.
1. Ron Paul is a social darwinist. There will be no compassionate conversatism. The hordes of ex-democratic voters registering with the GOP to vote for him are going to have a nasty shock indeed.
2. Ron Paul sees no reason for the Government to support or even subidize Arts, Culture, and many other things that make civilization and the country in particular great.
3. Ron Paul seems to think the unwarranted slaughter of horses is a good thing, to be continued. Do not claim he is limiting governmental power. He is elected to provide a voice of reason and accountability, not as a vote-no robot on anything that uses tax dollars.
4. Ron Paul has clearly stated he beleives the crisis in Darfur should be ignored by the United States. Millions dieing, being displaced, raped, pillaged and persecuted by islamic and ethnic tribes is not worth our mere consideration. Can you imagine his leadership in the 40s?
5. Ron Paul has said that he will abolish the CIA and FBI. I sense a pattern here, don't you? What Ron Paul advocates is a total devolution of modern society, into his backwards isolationist dark aged ideal.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
We are already in a cycle of $ocial darwinism. It's based on who has the ability to lobby for money. Money that was collected from the States, given to the Fed, for the States to then fight over.
Compassionate Conservatism is merely a synonym for Liberalism.
This is not the federal government's role. All states can enact their own programs to support the arts. The states aren't, or were never intended to be a collection of homogenized entities. The states don't need a "nanny of the arts"
Do you really think he likes the idea of slaughtering horses?
The president swears to uphold the constitution.
Human beings (voters), live in the states. Voters have MORE power at a state level, than at a Federal level. You should give them more credit than that.
This is a wash.
We're ignoring it now. why is that?
Yes, there is a pattern. Giant, bureaucratic, tax sucking agencies, that compete with each other, instead of working together.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
After all. All we would accomplish by ditching this agency is to allow people to have more of a say, in how their money is spent. Imagine a 30-50 percent payraise, right off the bat. (unless you are rich, have a good accountant, and tax shelter)