1. Voter Registration - Vote on the "Motor Voter" bill to automatically register to vote anyone applying for, renewing, or changing an address on a driver's license. Had it become law, the bill would have greatly increased the possibility of voter fraud. Bill passed 289-132, 2/6/90. ACU opposed the bill.
2. EPA/Cabinet - Vote on a bill to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet level, renaming it the Department of Environmental Protection. The result is the addition of one more level of waste and bureaucracy to the federal government. Bill passed 371-55, 3/28/90. ACU opposed the bill.
3. Child Care - Vote on a Stenholm (D-TX) substitute amendment to provide increased earned income tax credit to poor working families with children. This amendment would have replaced the liberal child care bill that expands federal aid to daycare centers and regulates and licenses existing child care arrangements, including requiring the licensing of grandmothers providing child care. Substitute amendment rejected 195-225, 3/29/90. ACU supported the substitute amendment.
4. Defense Cuts - Vote on a Dellums (D-CA) substitute amendment to slash defense funding by $56.4 billion in the fiscal 1991 budget resolution. Substitute amendment rejected 90-334, 5/1/90. ACU opposed the substitute amendment.
5. Parental Leave - Vote on a bill to force public and private employers to give employees unpaid leave to care for a new child or a sick child, parent, or spouse. On top of the onerous cost to small businesses, the unintended effect of the bill is to reduce employment opportunities for young married women. Bill passed 237-l87, 5/l0/90. ACU opposed the bill.
6. ADA/AIDS - Vote on a Chapman (D-TX) amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act to allow employers to transfer personnel infected with communicable diseases (including AIDS) out of food handling priority into equal paying jobs without being guilty of "discrimination." Amendment adopted 199-187, 5/17/90. ACU supported the amendment.
7. Military Aid to El Salvador - Vote on a Moakley (D-MA) amendment to reduce military aid to the government of El Salvador by 50% and link future aid to human rights and progress toward a negotiated peace settlement with the communist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The amendment fails to recognize the important role U.S. aid to El Salvador plays in negotiations with the FMLN for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. Amendment adopted 250-163, 5/22/90. ACU opposed the amendment.
8. Clean Air Act - Vote on passage of a bill that vastly expends excessive and counterproductive federal regulations denting with auto, manufacturing and utility emissions. The Act could throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work for the sake of marginally reducing emissions, increase utility costs for consumers, increase the price of gasoline, reduce American competitiveness, and put other burdensome costs and regulations on society. Bill passed 401-21. 5/23/90. ACU opposed the bill.
9. Fish Farm - Vote on a Whitten (D-MS) motion that the House recede from its disagreement and concur in the Senate amendment to provide $6 million to procure a fish and wildlife refuge in central Iowa. Motion agreed to 246-160, 5/24/90. ACU opposed the motion.
10. Exports to the Soviet Union - Vote on a Hunter (R-CA) amendment to prohibit the export of machine tools to the Soviet Union. High technology American machine tools give the Soviets the capabilities to outmaneuver our defense systems and to further develop their offensive military systems. Amendment rejected 90-304, 6/6/90. ACU supported the amendment.
11. Hatch Act - Vote on a Ford (D-MI) motion to suspend the rules and vote on a bill to overhaul the 1939 Hatch Act which bars federal employees from engaging in political activities. Under the new law, federal employees (including even IRS agents) would be able to campaign, raise funds and run for partisan elected office. Motion agreed to, bill passed 334-87, 6/12/90. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting (281 in this case) was required for passage under suspension of the rules. ACU opposed the motion and the bill.
12. Flag Desecration - Vote on a Brooks (D-TX) motion to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the desecration of the American flag. Motion rejected 254-177, 6/12/90. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting (288 in this case) was required for passage under suspension of the rules. ACU supported the motion.
13. Balanced Budget - Vote on passage of a joint resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced budget. Joint resolution rejected 279-150, 7/17/90. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting (286 in this case) was required for passage of a joint resolution. ACU supported the joint resolution. Vote double-weighted.
14. Frank Reprimand/Censure - Vote on a Gingrich (R-GA) motion to recommit the resolution to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct with instructions to report back the stronger recommendation to censure Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). Frank is guilty of improperly using his political influence and of abusing his congressional authority. Motion failed 141-287, 7/26/90. ACU supported the motion.
15. Quota Bill - Vote on the passage of the "Civil Rights Act of 1990" to reverse or modify recent Supreme Court decisions that have reestablished more reasonable standards of proof in discrimination cases. The bill would have shifted the burden of proof onto the accused, required employees to keep track of their employees’ religions, and effectively forced businesses to adopt quota hiring policies to prevent endless litigation. Bill passed 272-154, 8/3/90. ACU opposed the bill. Vote double-weighted.
16. SDI Spending - Vote on a Dornan (R-CA) amendment to increase SDI spending by $1.3 billion by proportionately decreasing other spending provisions in the defense budget. Amendment rejected 83-338, 9/18/90. ACU supported the amendment.
17. SDI Cuts - Vote on a Bennett (D-FL) amendment to slash $600 million of SDI spending. The amendment was an attempt by liberal Congressmen to move away from strategic defense programs with nearterm deployment capabilities. Amendment adopted 225-189, 9/18/90. ACU opposed the amendment.
18. Budget Resolution - Vote on adoption of the Conference Report to set binding budget levels for FY 91. The agreement, a result of the Administration’s budget "summit," would have modestly restricted the growth of spending of some entitlement programs, imposed caps on appropriations for defense, international affairs, and discretionary domestic spending programs, and instituted the largest tax and public fees increase in the history of the United States. Conference report rejected 179-254,10/5/90. ACU opposed adoption of the conference report.
19. "Racial Justice" Removal - Vote on a Sensenbrenner (R-WI) amendment to strike provisions in the Omnibus Crime Bill that would have effectively nullified all state and federal death penalty statutes. The provisions the Sensenbrenner amendment would have deleted prohibit the execution of death row prisoners who claim that evidence demonstrates that the death penalty had been previously imposed in that jurisdiction in a racially disproportionate manner. Amendment rejected 204-216, 10/5/90. ACU supported the amendment.
20. NEA - Vote on a Rohrabacher (R-CA) en bloc amendment to prohibit the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) from funding child pornography, obscenity, works denigrating the beliefs or objects of a religion, works denigrating an individual on the basis of race, sex, handicap, or national origin, works desecrating the U.S. flag, or works that contain any part of human embryo or fetus. Amendment rejected 175-249, 10/11/90. ACU supported the amendment.
21. Budget II - Vote on passage of the bill containing the modified budget reconciliation agreement to set binding budget levels for FY 91. The second budget package includes even higher tax increases and fewer spending cuts than the first. Bill passed 227-203, 10/16/90. ACU opposed the bill.
22. Aid to UNITA - Vole on a Solarz (D-NY) amendment to suspend military aid to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The Solarz Suspension of aid is based solely on the promise of the marxist Angolan government to accept a cease-fire and political settlement for the conflict in Angola. Amendment adopted 207-206, 10/17/90. ACU opposed the amendment.