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Joe Manchin III on Homeland Security
Democratic Jr Senator; previously Governor
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Higher National Guard pay & tuition waivers
Making A Difference For Veterans- Made the Director of Veterans Affairs a cabinet-level position
- Signed a National Guard pay raise bill
- Extended graduate school tuition and fee waivers for National Guard
- Extended tuition waivers to childre
and spouses of Guard members killed
- Strongly supports the "Helmets to Hardhats" program
- Supporting a new national veterans' cemetery in West Virginia
- Supported a bill that made it easier for vets to receive increased bonuses.
Source: 2008 Gubernatorial campaign website, for re-election
, Nov 1, 2008
Covenant to support our troops in Iraq
Adjutant Gen. Allen Tackett likened the idea to a couple renewing wedding vows -- a covenant to pledge West Virginia's "family" in supporting National Guard troops waging war against foreign terrorism.
Gov. Joe Manchin helped forge the covenant, calling on residents to back their troops deployed overseas.
Manchin said he swelled with pride when he toured Iraq, Afghanistan and
Kuwait, where commanders from outside West Virginia openly bragged about his constituents in uniform.
"If we only had more like West Virginia sends to us," the governor quoted the military leaders. "I can't tell you how proud
I am," Manchin said as he scanned the roomy chamber, ringed with soldiers in camouflage fatigues. "You give me bragging rights."
Source: The Register-Herald, "Covenant to Support Troops"
, Feb 24, 2008
Tuition assistance and service bonuses for Desert Storm vets
We must never forget the brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. We owe them a debt we can never repay. To that end, I am asking all of you gathered here to help pass the Veterans Benefits bill we have proposed. In that legislation, we will give
our veterans and active military from Desert Storm service bonuses and increased funding for tuition assistance. Our veterans deserve nothing less for all you have done for the cause of freedom and to preserve our way of life.
Source: 2005 State of the State Address to North Dakota legislature
, Jan 4, 2005
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps.
Congressional Summary: A bill to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 relating to access to business records, individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers, and roving wiretaps until December 8, 2011. Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:
[Rep. Smith, R-TX]: America is safe today not because terrorists and spies have given up their goal to destroy our freedoms and our way of life. We are safe today because the men and women of our Armed Forces, our intelligence community, and our law enforcement agencies work every single day to protect us. And Congress must ensure that they are equipped with the resources they need to counteract continuing terrorist threats. On Feb. 28, three important provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act will expire. These provisions give investigators in national security cases the authority to conduct "roving"
wiretaps, to seek certain business records, and to gather intelligence on lone terrorists who are not affiliated with a known terrorist group. The Patriot Act works. It has proved effective in preventing terrorist attacks and protecting Americans. To let these provisions expire would leave every American less safe.
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Rep. Conyers, D-MI]: Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows a secret FISA court to authorize our government to collect business records or anything else, requiring that a person or business produce virtually any type record. We didn't think that that was right then. We don't think it's right now. This provision is contrary to traditional notions of search and seizure which require the government to show reasonable suspicion or probable cause before undertaking an investigation that infringes upon a person's privacy. And so I urge a "no" vote on the extension of these expiring provisions.
Status: Passed 86-12
Reference: FISA Sunsets Extension Act;
Bill H.514
; vote number 11-SV019
on Feb 17, 2011
Supports banning homosexuals in the military.
Manchin supports the CC survey question on banning homosexuals in the military
The Christian Coalition voter guide [is] one of the most powerful tools Christians have ever had to impact our society during elections. This simple tool has helped educate tens of millions of citizens across this nation as to where candidates for public office stand on key faith and family issues.
The CC survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: "Enforcing the 1993 law banning homosexuals in the military"
Source: Christian Coalition Survey 10-CC-q3a on Aug 11, 2010
Sponsored opposing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
Manchin co-sponsored Resolution on UN
Congressional Summary:Expressing the conditions for the US becoming a signatory to the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
- WHEREAS the ATT poses significant risks to the national security, foreign policy, and economic interests of the US as well as to the constitutional rights of US citizens and US sovereignty;
- WHEREAS the ATT fails to expressly recognize the fundamental, individual right to keep and to bear arms;
- WHEREAS the ATT places free democracies and totalitarian regimes on a basis of equality, recognizing their equal right to transfer arms, and is thereby dangerous to the security of the US;
- WHEREAS the ATT will create opportunities to engage in 'lawfare' against the US via the misuse of the treaty's tribunals;
- WHEREAS the ATT could hinder the US from fulfilling its strategic and moral commitments to provide arms to allies such as Taiwan & Israel;
- Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED that--
- the President should not sign the Arms Trade Treaty,
and that the Senate should not ratify the ATT; and
- that no Federal funds should be authorized to implement the ATT.
Opponent's argument against bill:(United Nations press release, June 3, 2013):
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon str
Source: S.CON.RES.7 & H.CON.RES.23 : 13-SC007 on Mar 13, 2013
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