Tim Roemer on Abortion

• Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
• Voted YES on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
• Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
• Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)

Tim Roemer on Budget & Economy

Tim Roemer on Civil Rights

• Voted NO on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
• Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
• Shift from group preferences to economic empowerment of all. (Aug 2000)
• Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)

Tim Roemer on Corporations

• Voted YES on Bankruptcy Overhaul requiring partial debt repayment. (Mar 2001)

Tim Roemer on Crime

• Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
• Voted NO on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
• Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing. (Mar 2001)
• Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)

Tim Roemer on Drugs

• Voted YES on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)
• Voted NO on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999)

Tim Roemer on Education

• Voted YES on requiring states to test students. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on allowing vouchers in DC schools. (Aug 1998)
• Voted NO on vouchers for private & parochial schools. (Nov 1997)
• Voted NO on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer. (Mar 1994)
• Offer every parent Charter Schools and public school choice. (Aug 2000)
• Three R’s: $35B for Reinvestment,Reinvention,Responsibility. (Jan 2001)

Tim Roemer on Energy & Oil

• Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
• Voted YES on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
• Voted YES on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
• Supports tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases. (Aug 2000)
• Preserve Alaska's ANWR instead of drilling it. (Feb 2001)

Tim Roemer on Environment

Tim Roemer on Families & Children

• Voted YES on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years. (Mar 2001)
• Give parents tools to balance work and family. (Aug 2000)

Tim Roemer on Foreign Policy

• Voted YES on keeping Cuba travel ban until political prisoners released. (Jul 2001)
• Voted YES on withholding $244M in UN Back Payments until US seat restored. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on $156M to IMF for 3rd-world debt reduction. (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000)
• Voted NO on $15.2 billion for foreign operations. (Nov 1999)
• Progressive Internationalism: globalize with US pre-eminence. (Aug 2000)
• Allow Americans to travel to Cuba. (May 2000)
• Make a long-term commitment to supporting Pakistan. (Jul 2004)
• Expand Saudi relations from oil to anti-extremism. (Jul 2004)
• Multilateral coalition for Muslim youth outreach. (Jul 2004)

Tim Roemer on Free Trade

• Voted NO on withdrawing from the WTO. (Jun 2000)
• Voted NO on 'Fast Track' authority for trade agreements. (Sep 1998)
• Build a rule-based global trading system. (Aug 2000)

Tim Roemer on Government Reform

• Voted NO on banning soft money donations to national political parties. (Jul 2001)
• Voted YES on banning soft money and issue ads. (Sep 1999)
• Voluntary public financing for all general elections. (Aug 2000)
• Replace CIA director with new National Intelligence Czar. (Jul 2004)
• End secrecy about national intelligence appropriations. (Jul 2004)
• Replace "need-to-know" culture with "need-to-share". (Jul 2004)
• Congressional oversight for intelligence is dysfunctional. (Jul 2004)
• No new domestic intelligence agency-use FBI. (Jul 2004)

Tim Roemer on Gun Control

• Voted NO on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)
• Prevent unauthorized firearm use with "smart gun" technology. (Aug 2000)

Tim Roemer on Health Care

• Voted NO on allowing suing HMOs, but under federal rules & limited award. (Aug 2001)
• Voted NO on subsidizing private insurance for Medicare Rx drug coverage. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on banning physician-assisted suicide. (Oct 1999)
• Voted NO on establishing tax-exempt Medical Savings Accounts. (Oct 1999)
• Establish "report cards" on HMO quality of care. (Aug 2000)

Tim Roemer on Homeland Security

• Voted YES on $266 billion Defense Appropriations bill. (Jul 1999)
• Voted YES on deploying SDI. (Mar 1999)
• Focus on potential terrorist sanctuaries like Saudi Arabia. (Jul 2004)
• US majority support among Muslims on 9-11 collapsed by 2003. (Jul 2004)
• Must defeat ideology of terrorism, not Muslim people. (Jul 2004)
• Support "Cooperative Threat Reduction" on Soviet nukes. (Jul 2004)
• Continue targeting terrorist financing; add terrorist travel. (Jul 2004)
• Screen for individual terrorists at borders, no profiling. (Jul 2004)
• Guidelines, supervision, & oversight of new security powers. (Jul 2004)
• Fund better communications between emergency responders. (Jul 2004)
• Improve human intel with racial and linguistic diversity. (Jul 2004)
• Several missed opportunities to disrupt 9/11 hijackers. (Jul 2004)
• Most important failure on 9/11 was one of imagination. (Jul 2004)

Tim Roemer on Immigration

• Voted YES on extending Immigrant Residency rules. (May 2001)
• Voted YES on more immigrant visas for skilled workers. (Sep 1998)

Tim Roemer on Jobs

• Voted YES on $167B over 10 years for farm price supports. (Oct 2001)
• Voted NO on zero-funding OSHA's Ergonomics Rules instead of $4.5B. (Mar 2001)

Tim Roemer on Principles & Values

• Religious affiliation: Catholic. (Nov 2000)
• Supports Hyde Park Declaration of "Third Way" centrism. (Aug 2000)
• Member of Democratic Leadership Council. (Nov 2000)
• New Democrat: "Third Way" instead of left-right debate. (Nov 2000)

Tim Roemer on Social Security

• Voted YES on raising 401(k) limits & making pension plans more portable. (May 2001)
• Voted YES on reducing tax payments on Social Security benefits. (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox. (May 1999)
• Create Retirement Savings Accounts. (Aug 2000)

Tim Roemer on Tax Reform

• Voted NO on $99 B economic stimulus: capital gains & income tax cuts. (Oct 2001)
• Voted NO on Tax cut package of $958 B over 10 years. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on eliminating the Estate Tax ("death tax"). (Apr 2001)
• Voted YES on eliminating the "marriage penalty". (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on $46 billion in tax cuts for small business. (Mar 2000)

Tim Roemer on War & Peace

• Voted NO on disallowing the invasion of Kosovo. (May 1999)

Tim Roemer on Welfare & Poverty

• Voted NO on treating religious organizations equally for tax breaks. (Jul 2001)
• Voted YES on responsible fatherhood via faith-based organizations. (Nov 1999)
• Finish welfare reform by moving able recipients into jobs. (Aug 2000)