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Charles Norwood

What will Charles Norwood put on the Auction Block next?




HOW NORWOOD RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES
  • Rep. Norwood voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
  • Rep. Norwood voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.
  • Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Norwood $111,561. Any surprise?

REP. NORWOOD PUTS BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS
  • Rep. Norwood voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers.

GOP "HEALTH CARE"
  • Big drug interests have given $103,110 to Norwood over the Representative's career. They know who their friends are.
  • Rep. Norwood voted against allowing millions of Americans to save their hard-earned dollars on prescription drugs by re-importing them from Canada, even though these were U.S. made and patient safety was ensured.

TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP
  • Norwood has taken $1,000 from House Majority Leader John Boehner.
  • Norwood received $4,419 from House Majority Leader John Boehner's "Freedom Project" PAC.
  • Norwood voted with President Bush 85% of the time.
  • Norwood voted the GOP party line 97% of the time.

TIES WITH TOM DELAY
Norwood has taken:
  • $13,822 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.
With all of these ties to the DeLay mess, is it any surprise that Norwood has:
  • Voted with Tom DeLay 92% of the time (through 3/31/2006)

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS
  • Rep. Norwood voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable. No surprise that Halliburton gave Norwood $1,000.
  • Rep. Norwood opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
  • Rep. Norwood voted against granting a bonus to grant a $1,500 bonus to every American service member serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, including National Guard and Reserve forces.

THE ENVIRONMENT
  • 1,861 water systems in 29 states have been contaminated with MTBE, exposing as many as 45 million Americans to this potential carcinogen, but Rep. Norwood voted to protect the companies responsible from lawsuits by communities that need their help to clean up these systems.
  • Rep. Norwood voted against bipartisan reform of the Endangered Species Act.
  • Rep. Norwood voted for a massive sell off of public lands to mining interests.

HOW DOES NORWOOD SUPPORT....

HIGHER EDUCATION?
  • While tuition costs are rising for ordinary Americans, Rep. Norwood voted to cut Federal student aid by $12.7 billion -- the biggest such cuts in history.
STEM CELL RESEARCH?
  • Rep. Norwood sided with social conservatives against patients with debilitating diseases and voted against expanding Federal funding of stem cell research.

SOURCES
1Vote on price gouging: HR 3402, Vote #500, 9/28/2005 No
2Vote on GOP energy bill: HR 6, Vote #445, 7/28/2005 Yes
3Contributions from oil and gas industries: www.opensecrets.org $111,561
4Vote to block the stripping of overtime protection: HR 2660 , Vote #351, 7/10/2003 No
5Contributions from drug interests: www.opensecrets.org $103,110
6Vote to allow prescription drug re-importation: HR 2427, Vote #445, 7/25/2003 No
7Contributions from John Boehner: www.tray.com $1,000
8"Freedom Project" PAC Contributions: www.tray.com $4,419
9Voting percentage with Pres. Bush:
calculated through: www.cq.com
85%
10Voting percentage with GOP caucus:
calculated through: www.cq.com
97%
11Contributions from ARMPAC: www.tray.com $13,822
12Voting percentage with DeLay: calculated through 3/31/2006: www.cq.com92%
13Vote to stop contracts to corporations that overcharge: HR 4939, Vote #60, 3/16/2006 No
14Contributions from Halliburton: www.tray.com $1,000
15Vote to expand access to TRICARE: HR 1815 , Vote #221, 5/25/2005 No
16Vote for bonus for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans: HR 3289, Vote #554, 10/17/2003 No
17Vote to hold MTBE producers accountable: HR 6, Vote #373, 7/14/2005 No
18Vote on Endangered Species Act reform: HR 3824, Vote #505, 9/29/2005 No
19Vote to sell off public lands: HR 4241,Vote #601, 11/18/2005 Yes
20Vote to cut Federal student aid: S 1932 , Vote #670, 12/19/2005 Yes
21Vote to expand stem cell research: HR 810 , Vote #204, 5/24/2005 No

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