Children's Defense Fund Scorecard: Obama 100%, Hillary 90%

[ProSense]

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2006 Congressional Scorecard

Best and Worst U.S. Senators for Children

The average Senate score for children was 48 percent. There were 26 Senators who scored 100% and 23 Senators who scored 0%.

Best U.S. Senators for Children

Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) 100%
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) 100%
Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) 100%
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 100%
Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) 100%
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) 100%
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) 100%
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) 100%
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) 100%
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) 100%
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) 100%
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) 100%
Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT) 100%
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) 100%
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) 100%
Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-WI) 100%
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 100%
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 100%
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) 100%
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) 100%
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) 100%
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) 100%
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) 100%
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) 100%
Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) 100%
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) 100%

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) 90%

Key Senate 2006 Children’s Votes (PDF, Clinton voted for number 1):

1 Senate’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
2 Congress’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
3 Paying for Tax Cuts
4 Increasing Education Funding
5 Increasing Education and Health Care Funding
6 Helping with Heating Costs
7 FY 2007 Budget Resolution
8 Estate Tax Repeal
9 Increasing the Minimum Wage
10 Minimum Wage and Estate Tax Reduction

Roll Call Vote

Screw NOW-NYS

[BeyondGeography]

1. Sounds like a bullseye on the diaper logo to me

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Good stuff.

You should make a summary of these threads.

[Levgreee]

9. I agree, a summary would be very nice (nt)

[usregimechange]

3. More facts to chew, what a solid progressive Obama has been

[ProSense]

15. Agree! n/t

[papau]

4. So because she voted for the first Bush tax cuts she is anti-children ? - sounds desparate

[ProSense]

6. Where does it say that? n/t

[papau]

8. The votes that were yes or no in the score card in the summary posted said "tax cut" is the

Hillary(bad) vote

[ProSense]

10. Huh? "Senate’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy" Hillary, yea. CDF score: 90%. That's it! n/t

[papau]

11. Yes -excerpts below - she voted "wrong" on Senate mark=up but voted "right" on final bill

Members who served only part of a term are scored only on votes
cast while in office.

Key Senate 2006 Children’s Votes
1 Senate’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
2 Congress’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
3 Paying for Tax Cuts
4 Increasing Education Funding
5 Increasing Education and Health Care Funding
6 Helping with Heating Costs
7 FY 2007 Budget Resolution
8 Estate Tax Repeal
9 Increasing the Minimum Wage
10 Minimum Wage and Estate Tax Reduction

On page 24 the tax cut is listed as the bad Senate version of the bill vote that Hillary made.- but she voted "correctly" on the final bill!

The bill included provisions exempting
certain households with incomes between $100,000 and $500,000 from paying the Alternative
Minimum Tax.

CDF Action Council Position: No. The Senate’s $70 billion tax cut widened the gap between
rich and poor and eliminated revenues needed for crucial children and family investments, which
the Senate had cut earlier by $39 billion. In addition, it enabled passage of the fiscal year 2006
Tax Reconciliation bill, which finalized these tax cuts for the wealthy. Seventy billion dollars would
guarantee funding to cover all uninsured children for almost five years.

[ProSense]

13. Are you arguing that she doesn't have a 90% rating from the CDF? n/t

[usregimechange]

5. Hey, PM me, we could combine these types of threads...

[1776Forever]

7. Very nice! I hope undecided voters will look this over! As for me it's Obama!!!!!!!

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:
GObama!!!!!!!

[usregimechange]

14. These are the things we need to be looking at imo

[AtomicKitten]

12. That's gotta hurt.

Excellent research!

[TayTay]

16. This is very interesting stuff

thanks for doing this research.

[fedupinBushcountry]

17. K&R

:kick:

[ray of light]

18. wow!