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| 2019-02-27 | Establishing a Costly and Burdensome Barrier to Exercise Second Amendment Rights [HR8] | Passed (240-190) |
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| This gun control bill would make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights by mandating "universal" background checks for nearly all private firearm sales and transfers. As a result, individuals privately selling a firearm would be forced to conduct the sale through a federal firearms licensee (FFL) and pay any fees charged by the FFL dealer. ACU recognizes that countless studies have found no correlation between imposing universal background checks and reducing unlawful usage of firearms. These sorts of legislative barriers do nothing to stop criminals from engaging in additional criminal behaviors; they just make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens who are not committing crimes to exercise their constitutional rights. ACU opposes this political attack intended to prevent law-abiding citizens from accessing firearms and opposed this bill. | |||||
| 2019-03-08 | Weakening Election Integrity and Infringing Free Speech through the "For the Politicians Act" [HR1] | Passed (234-193) |
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| This bill attempts to improve chances of election victories for Democrats at the federal, state and local levels and is therefore better known as the For the Politicians Act rather than Rep. Sarbanes' (D-MD) misnomer, For the People. The bill's list of atrocities begins with disenfranchising legitimate voters and instead embracing voter fraud through same-day, online, and automatic voter registration. Next, the bill would erode voluntary political support under the First Amendment with a system that bribes voters with tax credits to contribute to publicly-funded campaigns. The bill would also seek greater federal control of speech by burdening political organizations and committees with myriad new campaign finance disclosure requirements while altering the Federal Elections Committee and overhauling redistricting processes to benefit Democrat politicians. Furthermore, the bill would prohibit citizens from voting for their preferred presidential candidate unless he or she discloses recent personal income taxes. And, finally, the bill's proponents saw fit to burden taxpayers and harm private employers by making Election Day a federal holiday. ACU opposes this partisan political ploy which infringes free speech and disenfranchises legitimate voters by increasing the risk of voter fraud. | |||||
| 2019-04-10 | Re-Imposing "Net Neutrality" Regulations on the Internet [HR1644] | Passed (232-190) |
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| This bill would re-impose Obama-era "net neutrality" regulations on the internet. These regulations, which were rescinded by Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission, classify the internet as a public utility, allowing the government to impose price controls that prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from charging different rates for faster service or blocking websites. ACU recognizes if the left were to succeed in imposing these draconian regulations, the world would be forced to defer to the Chinese Communist Party's puppet corporation Huawei to create and control the standards of infrastructure security, including 5G technology. ACU supports an internet free of government interference, which has allowed it to thrive since its conception, and opposes heavy-handed government regulations, such as net neutrality, which have favored some companies while placing over 1,000 small ISPs at a competitive disadvantage. | |||||
| 2019-07-18 | Reducing Employment by Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour [HR582] | Passed (231-199) |
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| This bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to reduce employment opportunities and infringe the right of employees and employers to freely contract by raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. This increase would be implemented over a period of six years and then increased annually based on inflation. The bill would also reduce employment opportunities for tipped employees by imposing the full minimum wage on those occupations. ACU opposes increases in the minimum wage which harm those who most need help with employment experience, such as students and inexperienced workers. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Authorizing a Fiscally Irresponsible Budget [HR3877] | Passed (284-149) |
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| This bill, known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, codifies the budget deal that busts the budget caps by $320 billion, suspends the debt limit, and "pays" for the new spending through budget gimmicks. Such gimmicks include changes in mandatory program spending which artificially create "savings" which are never actually realized. ACU believes the Senate missed a real opportunity to make the case that national security comes before all other spending by failing to offer an amendment to improve defense readiness while maintaining the domestic spending budget caps. While ACU supports additional defense spending necessary to improve defense readiness, we oppose busting the domestic spending budget caps which are intended to provide some form of fiscal discipline on Congress. | |||||
| 2019-12-18 | Impeaching President Donald J. Trump -- Article I [HRES755] | Agreed To (229-198) |
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| This vote (Article I) impeaches President Donald J. Trump for "abuse of power." The article alleges President Trump abused his presidential power by discussing with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky the credible allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. ACU finds it especially ironic that this impeachment hoax was deployed to cover up the very behavior it claimed to condemn through its attempt to shield former Vice President Joe Biden from transparency into his use of government power for personal gain. ACU further recognizes the Constitution permits impeachment only in cases of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors and that the framers explicitly rejected the parliamentary system wherein a legislative body may remove an executive merely because legislators dislike the President. ACU opposes this coup against a President who has courageously fought for and advanced countless conservative principles. (This vote was double- weighted due to its egregious attempt to reject the will of the people and reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election.) | |||||
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