Know your candidate's voting record! For candidates who were members of Congress, you can find their voting record at THOMAS, http://thomas.loc.gov/. Thomas is an excellent resource and I would highly recommend you use it to check for issues which are important to you, and keep track of your representative's (or senator's) voting record on that issue. If you are ready for it, you could then write a letter to your representative (or senator) commending or disagreeing with his vote, according to your position.
The more Americans who do this, the better we can maintain a truly democratic government.
Follow this link for my page on the current 2004 election.
For convenience, I have assembled tables of Congressional voting records for the current incumbents / members of the House below:
If you are pro-life or pro-choice issues are important to you, then you may want to see your representative's voting record on some key bills:
| date | bill # | bill name | link to bill on THOMAS | link to full voting record on THOMAS | description |
| 09/25/2002 | Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2002 | allows hosptials, other health care providers, and insurers to refuse to provide abortions and refuse to refer people to places which perform abortions, without losing Medicare or other federal funding | Y | ||
| 07/24/2002 | H R 4965 | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.04965: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=343 | |
| 07/31/2001 | H R 2505 | Human Cloning Prohibition Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02505: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=304 |
| date | bill # | bill name | link to bill on THOMAS | link to full voting record on THOMAS | description |
| 09/25/2002 | Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2002 | allows hosptials, other health care providers, and insurers to refuse to provide abortions and refuse to refer people to places which perform abortions, without losing Medicare or other federal funding | Y | ||
| 07/24/2002 | H R 4965 | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.04965: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=343 | |
| 07/31/2001 | H R 2505 | Human Cloning Prohibition Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02505: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=304 |
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Below is some information on candidates in the 2002 election. The selection of candidates and issues necessarily reveals my personal bias, but I have made every effort to obtain accurate information, for my own benefit.
| candidate | web site |
| jamele | http://www.jamele2002.com/pages/724023/index.htm |
| jeffery pritzker | http://www.mdchamber.org/election2002/candidates/AttrnyGen_Jeffery_N_Pritzker.htm |
| joseph curran | http://www.joecurran.org/ |
| kimble | http://www.kimbleforcongress.com/ |
| pierpont+burns | http://www.pierpontburns2002.com/ |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.bobehrlich.com/ |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.bobehrlich.com/home.html |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.house.gov/ehrlich/index.htm |
| ross pierpont | http://www.pierpontusa.com/ |
| sidney burns | http://www.cpaone.com/ |
| candidate | web site |
| jamele | http://www.jamele2002.com/pages/724023/index.htm |
| jeffery pritzker | http://www.mdchamber.org/election2002/candidates/AttrnyGen_Jeffery_N_Pritzker.htm |
| joseph curran | http://www.joecurran.org/ |
| kimble | http://www.kimbleforcongress.com/ |
| pierpont+burns | http://www.pierpontburns2002.com/ |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.bobehrlich.com/ |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.bobehrlich.com/home.html |
| robert ehrlich | http://www.house.gov/ehrlich/index.htm |
| ross pierpont | http://www.pierpontusa.com/ |
| sidney burns | http://www.cpaone.com/ |
| date | bill # | bill name | link to bill on THOMAS | link to full voting record on THOMAS | description | vote |
| 09/25/2002 | Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2002 | allows hosptials, other health care providers, and insurers to refuse to provide abortions and refuse to refer people to places which perform abortions, without losing Medicare or other federal funding | Y | |||
| 07/24/2002 | H R 4965 | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.04965: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=343 | ||
| 07/31/2001 | H R 2505 | Human Cloning Prohibition Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02505: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=304 |
| date | bill # | bill name | link to bill on THOMAS | link to full voting record on THOMAS | description | vote |
| 09/25/2002 | Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2002 | allows hosptials, other health care providers, and insurers to refuse to provide abortions and refuse to refer people to places which perform abortions, without losing Medicare or other federal funding | Y | |||
| 07/24/2002 | H R 4965 | Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.04965: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=343 | ||
| 07/31/2001 | H R 2505 | Human Cloning Prohibition Act | http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02505: | http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=304 |