Senator Richard Durbin's Voting Record
By DiscoverTheNetworks.org
June 2009
During the course of his legislative career, Senator Richard Durbin has voted:
- in favor of a 2003 bill to ban oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;
- against major tax-cut proposals in 1999, 2000, 2000 (again), 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006;
- in favor of a 2008 bill imposing a 25 percent tax on the “windfall profits” of major oil companies;
- against a 2006 proposal to create military commissions to try unlawful enemy combatants for war crimes they had committed against the U.S.;
- in favor of separate proposals (in 2006 and 2007) to impose an arbitrary timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq;
- in favor of a 2008 amendment removing telecommunications companies’ immunity from the FISA Amendments Act of 2008;
- in favor of affirmative-action policies awarding preferential treatment to business enterprises owned by nonwhite minorities and women;
- against separate proposals (in 2004 and 2005) to ban lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others;
- against separate bills (in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2003) designed to ban the late-term procedure commonly known as “partial-birth abortion”; and
- against a 2004 proposal to make it an added criminal offense for someone to injure or kill a fetus while carrying out a crime against a pregnant woman.
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