1. 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act
Yea (
but not later additions)
2. 1909: Ratify 16th Amendment (income tax)
Nay3. 1914: Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Yea4. 1917: Ratify 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
Nay5. 1917: Declare war on Germany (WWI)
Nay (
would have supported with McCulloch or Britten amendments)
6. 1920: Ratify Treaty of Versailles
Nay7. 1924: Immigration Act
Nay8. 1933: Agricultural Adjustment Act
Nay9. 1933: National Industrial Recovery Act
Nay10. 1935: National Labor Relations Act
Nay11. 1935: Social Secuirty Act
Nay12. 1937: Court Packing plan
Nay13. 1938: Fair Labor Standards Act
Nay14. 1940: Lend-lease Program
Nay (
would support some military aid but no blank check to the president)
15. 1941: Declare war on Germany/Japan (WWII)
Yea16. 1944: G.I. Bill
Yea17. 1947: Taft-Hartly Act
Nay18. 1949: North Atlantic Treaty
Nay19. 1951*: Ratify 22nd Amendment (Term Limit)
Yea20. 1954: Censure Joe McCarthy
Yea? (
don't know enough details to be sure)
21. 1958: Landrum-Griffin Act
Nay22. 1958: National Defense Education Act
Nay23. 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Nay24. 1964: Civil Right Act
Yea (
not sure - though deeply conflicted about this one, likely would have voted for the Senate/final version given what black people were facing at the time)
25. 1964: Economic Opportunity Act
Nay26. 1965: Voting Rights Act
Yea27. 1972: Equal Right Amendment
Nay28. 1973: War Powers Act
Yea29. 1977: Panama Canal Treaty
Yea30. 1981: Reagan Tax Cut
Yea31. 1987: Robert Bork's nomination to Supreme Court
Yea32. 1991: Authorization of force against Iraq
Nay33. 1993: NAFTA
Yea 34. 1993: Brady Bill
Nay 35. 1996: Welfare Reform
Yea36. 1996: Line Item Veto
Nay37. 1998: Impeachment/conviction of Bill Clinton
Nay/not guilty 38. 2001: Bush Tax Cut
Nay39. 2001: Authorization of force against Afghanistan
Yea (
reluctantly)
40. 2001: USA PATRIOT Act
Nay41. 2001: No Child Left Behind Act
Nay 42. 2002: Authorization of force against Iraq
Nay43. 2005: John Roberts' nomination
Yea44. 2006: Samuel Alito's nomination
Yea45. 2007: Stem Cell Research Bill
Nay46. 2008: Troubled Asset Relief Program:
Yea (
another hard one)
47. 2008*: New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Yea48. 2009: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act:
Nay49. 2009: Stimulus package
Nay50. 2009: Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Nay51. 2009: Sonia Sotomayor's nomination
Yea52. 2010: PPACA
Nay53. 2010: Repeal of DADT
Yea54. 2010: DREAM Act
Yea55. 2010: Elena Kagan's nomination
Yea56. 2010: Dodd-Frank
Nay57. 2011: JOBS Act
Yea58. 2011: NDAA
Nay59. 2012: Stop Online Piracy Act
NayI did this as I imagined I would vote without hindsight given my values, temperament and philosophy, with the last 25 or so my actual positions at the time (except for a couple I hadn't paid attention to). I substituted 2 items* where the original list had 3 things not voted on by congress, and corrected the dates (I think) on 42 and 45.