Jeffords' Record

<body background="../bkwood2.gif"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="650"> <tr> <td width="650"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="650"> <tr> <td width="160"></td> <td width="160"> <h2>Charlie</h2> </td> <td width="7" valign="top" bgcolor="#003300"><font size="1" color="#003300">~</font></td> <td valign="top" width="300"> <h2><font size="2" color="#003300">A Citizen Senator for Vermont</font></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="160"><img height="37" width="136" src="../mengifs/jefrecrd2.gif"></td> <td valign="bottom" width="160"> <h2><font size="6">RUSSELL</font></h2> </td> <td width="7" align="right" valign="middle" bgcolor="#003300"><font size="1" color="#003300">~</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="right" width="300"> <center> <h2><font size="2" color="#003300" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><i>Constitution Party</i></font></h2> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="160"><img height="37" width="136" src="../mengifs/jefrecrd2.gif"></td> <td width="160" align="center" valign="top"> <div align="left"> <h3><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Selected Low Points </font></h3> <ul> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Arts issues</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Budget Issues</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Campaign Finance</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Education</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Ethics</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Flag Protection</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Gay Issues</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Gun Issues</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Health Care</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Impeachment</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Life Issues</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Privacy</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Property Rights</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Supreme Court</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Taxes</font> <li type="square"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Women's Issues</font> </ul> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">Note: this is just a modest sampler from the Jeffords Record. For further explanation of these actions, please contact James M. Jeffords.</font></div> </td> <td width="7" valign="top" bgcolor="#003300"><font color="#003300">~</font></td> <td valign="top" width="300"> <center> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><img height="50" width="200" src="../mengifs/jefrecrd.gif"></font></center> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><b>Arts issues</b>: Jeffords has been a leader in protecting and expanding the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, notorious for its funding of crucifixes in urine, porno stage shows, and blasphemous exhibitions.<br> <br> <b>Budget Issues</b>: Jeffords promised to support a line item veto in 1994, then voted against it in 1995.<br> <br> <b>Campaign Finance</b>: Jeffords supports the McCain-Feingold campaign regulation bill denounced even by the ACLU for taking away the First Amendment rights of citizens to express their views during an election season.<br> <br> <b>Education</b>: Jeffords has touted his role in passing intrusive federal education schemes like Goals 2000 and School-to-Work. He has steadfastly opposed efforts to give scholarships (vouchers) to poor (and mostly black) kids suffering in the District of Columbia's failing public schools. Jeffords has never voted against the demands of the powerful teachers unions which endorse him. Jeffords took Clinton's side in support of national testing by the federal government, and opposed education IRAs for elementary and secondary school tuition.<br> <br> <b>Ethics</b>: Jeffords was "admonished" by the Federal Election Commission in 1995 for using campaign funds to buy $1700 worth of clothes for himself.<br> <br> <b>Flag Protection</b>: Jeffords consistently opposed every effort in Congress to protect the American flag.<br> <br> <b>Gay Issues</b>: Jeffords and Sen. Edward Kennedy are the lead sponsors of a federal Gay Rights bill ("ENDA"), which he tried to attach to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. He supports the Vermont civil unions legislation of 1999.<br> <br> <b>Gun Issues</b>: Jeffords has steadfastly supported every effort to take away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American gun owners.<br> <br> <b>Health Care</b>: Jeffords was the only "Republican" to support Hillary Clinton's socialized medicine plan, which failed in 1994.<br> <b><br> Impeachment</b>: Jeffords was the first "Republican" to announce opposition to convicting President Clinton. During his service as a juror in the Clinton impeachment trial, Jeffords arranged a private meeting between himself and the defendant Clinton. Had this been a normal Federal trial, juror Jeffords would have gone to jail for this. Jeffords voted to impeach a Federal judge who had lied under oath, but after his clandestine meeting with Clinton voted to acquit Clinton for the same offense.<br> <b><br> Life Issues</b>: Jeffords won at least one award from the national Abortion Rights Action league for his unwavering opposition to any limitation of abortions. Even Patrick Leahy voted to ban the heinous partial birth abortions of babies just minutes from normal birth - but Jeffords voted to keep it legal.<br> <br> <b>Privacy</b>: Jeffords had the responsibility in 1999 for crafting a medical privacy provision. After producing a draft which would have required patients to waive their privacy rights to be able to buy health insurance, Jeffords missed the deadline, and the protection of our privacy was turned over the Clinton's HHS Secretary Donna Shalala. Jeffords endorsed Janet Reno's gunpoint raid to abduct 6 year old Elian Gonzalez in Miami.<br> <b><br> Property Rights</b>: Jeffords has steadfastly opposed every effort to protect the rights of private property owners.<br> <br> <b>Supreme Court</b>: Jeffords was the first "Republican" to announce his opposition to the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas, well before Anita Hill's challenges were made public.<br> <br> <b>Taxes</b>: Jeffords was the only Republican congressman to pledge to support President Reagan's 1981 tax rate cuts - and then broke his word and voted against them. Jeffords opposes repeal of the death tax which threatens farm and small business families, and voted against repeal of the marriage tax..<br> <br> Women's Issues: In 1999 Jeffords declared that rape is a private matter between the parties, and that Bill Clinton's alleged rape of Juanita Broderick should not be investigated.<br> </font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="650" align="right" bgcolor="#003300"><font color="#003300">~</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="650"> <div align="left"> <h3><a href="../index.html"><img height="50" width="100" src="../mengifs/home.gif"></a></h3> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body>