NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM: CONGRESS WATCH BULLETIN.
Sen. Ben Nelson
11819 Miracle Hills Dr. #205
Omaha, NE. 68154
Phone: 391-3411
Fax: 391-4725
Sen. Mike Johanns
9900 Nicholas Str. #325
Omaha, NE. 68114
Phone: 758-8981
Fax: 758-9165
THE VOTING RECORD OF YOUR SENATORS:
111th CONGRESS – 2010. 2nd Session.
NTF voting scores during this session:
JOHANNS: 95 % “A”
NELSON: 51 % “F”
Taxes.
HR 1586: To levy additional tax on bonuses received from specific Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) recipients. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4213 S. Amend 3336: 6 mo. employee payroll tax rate cut. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3338: To not create additional tax relief for businesses. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4318: Amend IRS code to eliminate oil and gas company tax incentives. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 4344: Extend time for closing on a principal residence eligible for first-time homebuyer tax credit, a liberal bill exacerbating the housing crisis. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
HR 4851 S. Amend. 3724: That the value-added tax constitutes a huge tax increase that will cripple families on fixed incomes and that the Senate opposes this tax. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4872 S.Amend 3579: To not eliminate the medical equipment tax. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S.Amend 3634: To table eliminating 2-yr. limitation on small business tax credit for taxable years after Obama Care health exchanges open. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3635: To repeal sunset on marriage penalty tax relief and institute an option to deduct state and local sales taxes permanently. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S.Amend 3697: To table indexing tax thresholds imposed under the bill to prevent the feds from using inflation to impose higher taxes on individuals currently earning less than $200,000 yearly and families earning less than $250,000 annually. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3711: Provide inflation adjustment for additional hospital insurance tax on wealthy taxpayers. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. 3816: To prevent offshore placement of jobs through IRS tax penalties. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Spending.
HJ Res. 45: To increase statutory limit on public debt. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3299: Sen. Reid liberal substitute for HJ Res. 45. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3301: To terminate authority under the Troubled Asset Relief Act. FAILED/GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3302: Establish a bi-partisan task force for responsible fiscal action to assure the long-term fiscal stability and economic security of federal government. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3303: To rescind $120 billion in federal spending by consolidating duplicative government programs, cutting wasteful spending, and returning unspent stimulus money. PASSED/GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3305: Sen. Reid amendment to reimpose statutory pay-as-you-go procedures, which will block tax cuts. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3308: Reduce the deficit by establishing 5-yr. discretionary spending caps. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3309: Establish a commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 1586 S. Amend 3453: To reduce deficit by establishing discretionary spending caps. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3454: To table establishing an earmark moratorium for FYs 2010 and 2011. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3470: Recoup unused transportation earmarks and establish a general reporting requirement. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3475: To prohibit earmarks in years in which there is a deficit. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3549: To reduce deficit by establishing discretionary spending caps for non-security spending. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
HR 2847: Inflated appropriations for Depts. of Commerce and Justice FY 2010. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 2393: Prohibit use of funds to fund the leftist ACORN group. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 2626: Eliminate funding for Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning, and Construction. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 2631: Redirect funding of National Science Foundation toward practical scientific research. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 2667: To reduce waste and abuse at the Dept. of Commerce. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
HR 3081: FY 2011 inflated appropriations to Dept. of State and foreign operations. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4674: To reduce non-national security spending by 5%. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 4676: To reduce non-national security spending by 5%. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 4677: To extend Dept. of State funding at current level until Feb. 2011. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
HR 4213 S. Amend 3337: Reduce deficit by establishing discretionary spending caps. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3352: To table Sen. Grassley amendment to insert conservative content into bill. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3358: Require Senate to be transparent with taxpayers regarding spending. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3360: To table to offset cost of bill by cutting elsewhere. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3361: To table additional budget-cutting offsets. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4301: To establish 3 yr. discretionary spending caps. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4302: To table increased transparency of U.S. debt held by foreign governments and assessment risk to U.S. of such holdings. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S.Amend 4303: To establish 3-yr. discretionary spending caps. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4376: To not waive all applicable budgetary disciplines. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4691: Temporarily extend specific spending programs. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3355: Sen. Bunning amendment to substitute more conservative content in the bill. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4851: Provide a temporary extension of specific spending programs. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4872: To pass the bloated FY 2010 federal budget. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
HR 4899: FY 2010 supplemental appropriations. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 4231: To table paying for supplemental spending costs by reducing waste, inefficiencies, and unnecessary federal spending. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Amend 4232: To table paying for supplemental spending costs by reducing Congressional budget, selling unneeded federal property, and using uncommitted federal funds. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
HR 5297: That the Sec. of the Treasury make intrusive capital investments in financial institutions to increase availability of credit to small businesses. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. 510 Amend 4697: Establish earmark moratorium for FYs 2011-2013. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. 3153: To table providing a fully offset temporary extension of specific programs, thus no increased deficit. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. 3217 Amend 3738: To inform Americans of the names of recipients who received over $2 trillion in stimulus $$ from the Federal Reserve System. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 3986: To protect U.S. taxpayers from paying for bailouts of foreign governments. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 4051: Prohibit taxpayer bailouts of fiscally irresponsible state and local governments. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. 3985: To grant emergency federal supplemental payments to senior citizens to substitute for no Social Security payment increases. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Government Regulation.
HR 4213 S. Amend 4311: Establish bureaucratic Office of Homeowner Advocate to address problems with the Home Affordability Modification Program. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 4351: To extend the time for closing on a principal residence eligible for the first-time homebuyer credit. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4899 S. Amend 4253: Prohibit imposition of fines and liability under specific final EPA rules. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 5297 S. Amend 4500: To establish the bureaucratic Small Business Lending Fund Program. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4596: To repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations, which cause businesses extra paperwork and tax preparation. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 510: To amend the Food & Drug Act with new, burdensome regulations regarding safety of food supply. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 4696: To modernize fed food safety efforts without putting unnecessary burdens on food producers, increasing food prices, or placing added debt on taxpayers. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4702: To repeal expansion of business information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 3217 Amend. 3733: Impose leverage and liability limits on bank holding companies and financial companies. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Amend 3760: To make more transparent information about meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Amend 3816: To ensure that corporate end users can continue to hedge their unique business risks and to improve market transparency. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 3832: To provide orderly and transparent bankruptcy process for non-bank financial institutions and prohibit bailout authority. FAILED/GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 3839: More strict regulation of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 3938: Require the Sec. of the Treasury to conduct study on ending the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and reform the housing finance system. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 3955: To study asset-backed securitization process and residential mortgage underwriting standards. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 3962: Liberal effort to prohibit specific payments to loan originators and to require verification by lenders of ability of consumers to repay loans. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Amend 3987: Increased congressional oversight of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 3991: To force SEC to assign credit rating agencies to provide initial credit ratings. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Amend 4020: To limit further bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and strengthen regulation and oversight of them. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 4072: To guarantee independence of Inspectors General of specific federal entities. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
SJ Res 26: To disapprove an EPA rule regarding endangerment finding and the cause or contributing findings for greenhouse gases under a section of the Clean Air Act. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 3772: To provide more bureaucratic remedies for alleged female victims of pay discrimination. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. 3991: To advance collective bargaining union rights for public safety officers employed by state and local governments, forcing these governments to recognize additional unionization and passing costs onto taxpayers. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Education.
HR 1586 S. Amend 3456: Reauthorize District of Columbia opportunity scholarship program. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
HR 4872 S. Amend 3639: To table ensuring that no state suffers net job losses because of enactment of student aid bill. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Health Care.
HR 847: The 9-11 Health & Compensation Act of 2010 to compensate individuals impacted by the 9-11 terrorist attack on NYC. The bill offered lawyers huge sums, and compensation will go to some already compensated or heretofore ineligible. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4213 S. Amend 4304: Extension of dependent coverage under Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4872 S. Amend 3553: To table repealing Obama Care. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3556: To table reducing cost of providing federally-funded RX drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting Viagra coverage for child molesters and rapists and coverage for drugs that induce abortion. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3564: The President, cabinet members, senior White House staff, and congressional leadership staff must all buy health insurance through health insurance exchanges established by Obama Care. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3567: To table preventing Medicare use for new entitlements and using Medicare savings to save this program. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3569: To table ensuring equitable reimbursement under Medicare program for all rural states. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3570: To allw ObamaCare state exemptions for Hawaii, Montana, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Connecticut. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3577: To protect Medicare beneficiary access to hospital care in rural areas from recommendations of Obama Care advisory board. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3582: To table ensuring that Americans can retain insurance coverage by keeping premiums affordable under Obama Care. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3586: To enroll congressmen in the Medicaid program. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3593: To improve access to care for medically underserved or poor individuals by providing limited medical liability protections. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3608: To table protecting rights of states to opt out of Obama Care. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3645: To table repealing limitation on itemized medical expense deductions. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3651: To provide long-term fix to Medicare sustainable growth rate formula to improve access for Medicare beneficiaries. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3665: Prevent Obama Care from further increasing an unsustainable deficit. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3668: To table increased womens’ access to breast cancer screenings. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3681: To table allowing people to opt out of Medicare Part A benefits. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3698: To table ensuring that health care reform reduces health care costs for American families, small businesses, and taxpayers. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3710: To table eliminating penalty for failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3712: To table giving states incentives to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid programs. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Welfare.
HR 4213: Extend specific expiring provisions of IRS code to extend unemployment compensation payments. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S.Amend 3356: Extend TANF welfare emergency fund through FY 2011 and provide funding for summer employment for youth. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
HR 4851 S. Amend 3723: To table paying for full cost of extending additional unemployment insurance and other federal benefits by recouping unspent fed funds not obligated yet. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3727: To table paying full cost of extending additional unemployment insurance. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4872 S.Amend 3640: To repeal the welfare Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Law & Order.
H Res. 1031: 4 individual votes to impeach Thomas Porteous, U.S. District Court Judge, for high crimes and misdemeanors. PASSED/GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 2847 S. Amend 2669: To table prohibiting use of funds for prosecution in civilian U.S. courts of individuals involved in 9-11 terrorist attacks. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 5281: Make it easier to transfer litigation against federal officers or agencies to federal courts, depriving the aggrieved of local or state adjudication. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
PN 228: Confirm nomination of liberal Marisa De Meo as associate judge of Superior Court of D.C. for 15 yrs. CONFIRMED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
PN 319: Confirm nomination of liberal Patricia Smith of New York as Solicitor for Dept. of Labor. CONFIRMED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
PN 1351: Confirm nomination of liberal Craig Becker as member of the National Labor Relations Board. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
PN 1472: Confirm nomination of liberal William Martinez as U.S. District Judge in Colorado. CONFIRMED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
PN 1768: To confirm liberal Elena Kagan as associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court. She is hostile to the 2nd Amendment and drafted a Clinton Administration executive order to ban semi-automatic rifles. CONFIRMED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
Gunowner Rights.
HR 4872 S. Amend 3700: To protect 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 3628 7-27-10: To force organizations to disclose to the Federal Election Commission membership lists or face prohibition from running radio and TV ads exposing liberal voting records on the 2nd Amendment within 60 days of a general election. The FEC requirements would force groups to identify themselves up to 3 times during each ad disclaimer. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S. 3628 9-23-10: FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Energy.
HR 4213 S. Amend 4312: Ensure that new revenues in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund used for fund and not as budget tricks to offset other spending. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Military Affairs.
HR 2965: To allow openly practicing homosexuals and lesbians to remain in the U.S. Armed Forces. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 3082: FY 2010 appropriations for Dept. of Veterans Affairs and military construction. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
S. Amend 2733: Increase by $50 million the amount available for Dept. of Veterans Affairs for minor construction projects to convert its unused buildings into housing with supportive services for homeless vets and provide a spending cut offset. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend. 2757: Require public disclosure of specific reports on construction and vet affairs appropriations FY 2010. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend. 2774: To table prohibiting use of funds in bill to build or modify a facility in U.S. to permanently or temporarily hold terrorists now held at Guantanamo Bay. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4872 S. Amend 3644: To table protecting medical access for wounded troops. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. Amend 3652: To table protecting integrity of Dept. of Veterans Affairs and DOD health care programs for veterans, active troops, their families, widows, widowers, and orphans. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
S. 3217 Amend. 3943: To establish a consumer protection liaison for armed forces members and their families. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 3454: To authorize FY 2011 inflated appropriations for Dept. of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of Dept. of Energy. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
PN 1873: To confirm Gen. David Petraeus as war theater general. CONFIRMED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Doc. 111-5: To ratify START Treaty with Russia. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Amend 4833: To increase the number of inspections allowed under the START Treaty. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4841: To modify deployed delivery vehicle limits in the treaty. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4855: Provide for clear definition of Russian rail-mobile missiles. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4860: Require certification that the President negotiated a legally-binding agreement and that Russia will not deploy significant number of nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles during treaty duration. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4878: To table demanding return of U.S. military equipment stolen by Russia. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
Amend 4893: START Treaty ratification subject to understanding regarding non-use of missile covers by Russia that interfere with inspections and accurate warhead counting and subject to certification that Russia will not deny telemetric exchanges on new ballistic missile systems it deploys during treaty duration. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Amend 4895: Adopt treaty provisions that affect rights and obligations to create new rights and obligations for U.S. and that must go to Senate for advise and consent. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Foreign Affairs.
H J 83: Approve renewal of import restrictions in the 2003 Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 2194: To expand economic sanctions against Iran. PASSED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
Family Values.
HR 4872 S. Amend 3568: To protect right of D.C. people to define marriage. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: NO
Immigration.
HR 2847 S. Amend 2630: To table prohibiting funds used in violation of an illegal immigration section of the 1986 immigration act. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
S.Amend. 2648: To provide additional funds for State Criminal Alien Assistance Program by reducing corporate welfare programs. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
HR 4213: To block funding for lawsuits that seek to invalidate provisions of law in the Arizona anti-illegal immigration bill. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
HR 4872: To table use of effective verification system to ensure that illegal aliens cannot access health care subsidies created by ObamaCare. To maintain 5-yr. waiting period to ensure that immigrants must pay into the system before ability to receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 3701: To table resolution that Americans must not pay for health benefits for illegal aliens by requiring use of effective eligibility verification system and maintaining current law requirement that legal immigrants must not become a burden to American taxpayers and thus reduce cost of ObamaCare. PASSED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: NO
HR 4899: Fund deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops to secure our southern border. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4202: Appropriations to improve border security, with offset from unspent stimulus funds. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4214: National Guard support to secure our southern border. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend 4228: $200 million for Operation Streamline, a very successful zero-tolerance operation, to increase resources for Dept. of Justice to counter illegal crossings of our southwest border, with offsets. It targets illegals for immediate prosecution when arrested at or near the border. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. Amend ?: To provide $3 billion for federal, state, and local law officers who work on front lines at the southern border to stem illegal immigration. FAILED/ GOOD BILL Johanns: YES Nelson: YES
S. 3992: To pass the DREAM Act that would grant illegal alien minors in-state college tuition and scholarships and cancel the deportation of these illegal students. FAILED/ BAD BILL Johanns: NO Nelson: YES
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Source: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes.
