Barbara Lee Voting Records, Corruption Findings, Earmarking Tendencies
Barbara Lee Voting Records in Congress
Corruption in Congress or Ethical "Challenges"
Earmarking Tendencies
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State: California
Party: Democrat
Former Occupation: Government employee, Career Politician
Representative Since: 1998
Next Election: 2010
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(Note: all corruption will not be listed. Since "corrupt" is a yes/no descriptor, further investigations become redundant after one incident is uncovered.)
Barbara Lee Corruption Investigation Results and/or Ethically Deficiencies Found:
Paybacks:
According to The Seattle Times, Barbara Lee rewarded Ployplus Battery Co with one $800,000 taxpayer financed earmark and another $3,485,000 earmark (ref: omb.gov) in the 2008 cycle after donation receipt of $1800.
Unfortunately for the Army, they did not request these funds which meant that the Pentagon was forced to divert money from defense department desired projects over to Barbara Lee's pet project.
Barbara Lee Voting and Legislative Records in Congress:
- Tort Reform - Medical Malpractice Reform S11 7/03:
No, Representative Lee opposes reform
- Balanced Budget Amendment:
No, Lee has not supported requiring Congress to spend within government means.
- Oil Drilling in US - ANWR (Alaska) HouseVote#831 8/07, Offshore HR4761 6/06:
No, Barbara Lee prefers dependence upon importation of oil, opposing energy independence efforts that include drilling for US oil supplies.
- Cap and Trade HR 2454 6/09:
Yes, Lee supports increased taxes and surcharges on US production of goods and energy.
- Amnesty/Citizenship for Illegal Border Crossers S2611 5/06:
Yes, Barbara Lee supports granting citizenship to those who manage to slip into the country illegally.
- Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act HR 4173 12/09:
Yes, Barbara Lee supports federal government expansion of involvement and control over private industry.
- Auto Company Bailouts HR 7005 12/08:
Yes, supports taxpayer bailouts of private industry
- Bank Bailouts -TARP HR1424 10/08:
Yes, Lee supports taxpayer bailouts for financial institutions that gamble and lose
- 2009 Stimulus Bill HR1 2/09:
Yes, Supported the $787 Billion spending plan
- 2009 Omnibus HR1105 3/09:
Yes, Representative Lee supported the 9000+ earmark, 8.3% government expansion bill
- Health Care HR3590 12/09:
Yes, Supported laying groundwork for federal takeover of Healthcare delivery
Barbara Lee Earmark History:
- Medium Compared to Colleagues in House of Representatives
Charted Comparison of House Colleagues to Barbara Lee Voting Records
Charted Comparison Corruption Investigations for House of Representatives Colleagues of Lee
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