I’ve compiled a table of 11 votes on war funding bills, December 2005 to June 2008, by the Oregon congressional delegation and the two presidential candidates. You can find the table online at http://tinyurl.com/warfunding.
Please note that the bill and roll call vote numbers are links to the source of the information.
If you live in another state, you can click on the roll call links and quickly find the votes of your representative and two senators.
There are notes at the bottom for each bill, with links to further information.
For most of these bills there wasn’t just one vote in the House and one in the Senate, there were a whole string of votes as the bill bounced back and forth between the two houses. The vote on the last bill was especially complex — major game playing — and I depended on an analysis from United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) to decide which vote to count. See note.
For the other bills I used my best judgment. Someone else, with more knowledge than I have, might make a different choice. I tried to pick the last vote in each house where there were a significant number of votes on each side. If only a few people voted against it I figured it was probably minor. I’m sure there is a better way, but I haven’t found it yet. If you see any problems with this table, I would like to hear about it. Feel free to add a Comment to this post.
In any case, I think our legislators should have voted “no” every time. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will never stop until Congress cuts the funding. I hope this table will help you to hold them accountable.
