Don Manzullo supports torture.

Short and sweet. Vote is here.

How's being pro-torture a 'Christian family value' again?

Oh my dear God.

From those wonderful folks over at Scrutiny Hooligans:

In october of 1999 with very little opposition the house passed h.r. 1887, a bill with a rather clumsy title called the “to punish the depiction of animal cruelty” law. the bill, which amended title 18, made it illegal in the united states for anyone to create, sell, or possess depictions of animal cruelty with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain."
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"this bill passed overwhelmingly, 372-42, with 17 no-votes, and was signed into law by then-president clinton. of those 42 “nay” votes, 35 of them were republicans.

and, as if you couldn’t see where i was going with this, one of them was rep. charles taylor.

You might ask the same question of Don Manzullo, too. Ask him if he thinks THIS sort of thing is okay for a 'Family Values' guy to vote for.

Who does your rep stand for?

It looks like Paris Hilton.

Good to see that the House managed to stay open until 2 in the morning to try and give her an estimated $91 million dollar tax break.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll425.xml

The math involved is here.

Wonder how many residents of the district are worth more than $5 million - Don seems to think the only way you should get a raise in the minimum wage is to give them a tax break. Otherwise, he's voted against increases in the minimum wage routinely.

Some good info on Dandy Don

While I'm at it, anyone interested in his voting record can go here.

I particularly liked this one:

Rep. Manzullo voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable. No surprise that Halliburton gave Manzullo $2,000.

Manzullo votes against stem-cell research

Roll call here.

Word has it that the bill, passed by a majority of both parties in both houses and vetoed by the President (The first veto he's ever used), failed to get a veto-overturning majority in the second House vote.

Do you want to guess which way Dandy Don voted?

Good News/Bad News

Well, the good news is that the House passed the Voting Rights Act, with no changes.

The bad news is that your rep, Donald "Minority" Manzullo voted for all the changes that failed, including the one making bilingual ballots illegal and the one trying to backdoor a 'sundown' provision that would have killed the VRA in one year instead of the 25 provided for in the bill. Only after any attempt to water down the bill was beaten did Donny finally vote 'for' the bill.

Sterling moral courage, there, Donny.

Manzullo helps stall the Voting Rights Act

No lie. The story's here.

It should have been just another procedural vote allowing for one of those rare bipartisan moments when legislators gather on the Capitol steps to celebrate a piece of historic legislation. To the humiliation of party leaders, this time around it didn't quite turn out that way. On Wednesday morning, June 21st, in an increasing common display of Republican disunity, 79 Representatives presented Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) with a letter stating that they would not support the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Voicing opposition to the provisions for bilingual ballots contained in the forty-one year old landmark civil rights legislation, the rebellious Republican Representatives refused to lend their votes until the requirements were removed. In spite of the fact that the House Judiciary Committee approved the measure last month by a 33-1 vote, Representatives from nine mostly southern states joined them on the grounds that they believed many of the other protections afforded in the bill were no longer called for. Only hours before floor debate was scheduled to begin, Sensenbrenner wishing not to end up in a protracted and embarrassing floor fight, removed the bill from consideration.

One of those 79 Representatives? Donald 'Don't Care About Minority Votes' Manzullo.

A tale of two votes

Congressman Manzullo voted himself a pay raise last week.

The other vote? One he won't be taking.

WASHINGTON | The Republican-controlled Senate smothered a proposed minimum wage increase Wednesday, rejecting Democratic claims it was past time to increase the $5.15 hourly pay floor.

The 52-46 vote was eight votes short of the 60 needed for approval. It came one day after House Republican leaders made clear they did not intend to allow a vote on the issue, fearing it might pass.

God forbid YOU get a raise, right?