John McCain On The Issues

 

The following is a small list of votes and leanings of John McCain that land him in the “Right Conservative” quadrant of their political graph. These and more of McCain’s positions can be found at OnTheIssues.org

• Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
• Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
• Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
• Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
• Voted YES on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)
• Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)
• Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
• Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
• Voted YES on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms. (May 1994)
• Voted YES on declaring memorial prayers and religious symbols OK at schools. (May 1999)
• Voted YES on school vouchers in DC. (Sep 1997)
• Voted NO on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
• Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
• Voted YES on limiting the President’s power to impose economic sanctions. (Jul 1998)
• Voted NO on preserving habeus corpus for Guantanamo detainees. (Sep 2006)
• Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act’s wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)
• Voted YES on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007)
• Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006)
• Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)
• Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006)
•  In hindsight, Iraq invasion was still justified. (May 2007)
• Rated 85% by the NCJA, indicating a “tough-on-crime” stance. (Dec 2005)
• Timetable would be catastrophe, even if Iraq wants it. (May 2007)
• If we leave Iraq, terrorists will follow us home. (Jan 2007)
• The Iraqi war was necessary after years of failed diplomacy. (Aug 2004)
• Saddam would have acquired terrible weapons again. (Aug 2004)