John Conyers' Voting Record on Key Issues
By Discover The Networks
January 2009

During his legislative career, Conyers has voted:

against the development of a national missile defense system;
against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001;
against the post-9/11 anti-terrorism measure known as the Patriot Act;
against allowing the U.S. government to use electronic surveillance to investigate suspected terrorist operatives;
against a bill permitting the government to combat potential terrorist threats by monitoring foreign electronic communications which are routed through the United States;
against an October 2002 joint resolution authorizing U.S. military action in Iraq;
against the establishment of military commissions to try enemy combatants captured in the war on terror;
against President Bush’s 2007 decision to deploy some 21,500 additional U.S. soldiers in an effort to quell the violent insurgents in Iraq;
in favor of a proposal to expedite the transfer of all prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay detention center;
against requiring hospitals to report (to the federal government) illegal aliens who receive emergency medical treatment;
against the Real ID Act, which proposed to set minimal security requirements for state driver licenses and identification cards;
against separate proposals calling for the construction of some 700 miles of fencing to prevent illegal immigration along America's southern border;
against a proposal to grant state and local officials the authority to investigate, identify, and arrest illegal immigrants;
against major tax cut proposals in September 1998, February 2000, March 2000, July 2000, May 2001, May 2003, October 2004, and May 2006;
against a welfare reform bill designed to move people off the welfare rolls and into paying jobs;
in favor of prohibiting oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR); and
against a proposal to fund offshore oil exploration along the Outer Continental Shelf.