Al D'Amato on Abortion

Al D'Amato on Budget & Economy

• Voted YES on 1998 GOP budget. (May 1997)
• Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)

Al D'Amato on Civil Rights

• Voted YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998)
• Voted YES on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
• Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
• Voted YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)
• Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag burning. (Dec 1995)
• Voted YES on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds. (Jul 1995)

Al D'Amato on Corporations

Al D'Amato on Crime

• Voted YES on limiting death penalty appeals. (Apr 1996)
• Voted NO on limiting product liability punitive damage awards. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on restricting class-action lawsuits. (Dec 1995)
• Voted YES on repealing federal speed limits. (Jun 1995)
• Voted YES on mandatory prison terms for crimes involving firearms. (May 1994)
• Voted YES on rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals. (May 1994)

Al D'Amato on Drugs

• Voted YES on spending international development funds on drug control. (Jul 1996)

Al D'Amato on Education

• Voted YES on education savings accounts. (Jun 1998)
• Voted YES on school vouchers in DC. (Sep 1997)
• Voted YES on $75M for abstinence education. (Jul 1996)
• Voted YES on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer. (Jul 1994)
• Voted NO on national education standards. (Feb 1994)

Al D'Amato on Energy & Oil

• Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
• Voted NO on do not require ethanol in gasoline. (Aug 1994)

Al D'Amato on Environment

• Voted YES on transportation demo projects. (Mar 1998)
• Voted YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests. (Sep 1997)
• Voted NO on continuing desert protection in California. (Oct 1994)
• Voted YES on requiring EPA risk assessments. (May 1994)
• Fund studies of invasive species and algal blooms. (Mar 1998)

Al D'Amato on Families & Children

• Fund 2,500 Boys and Girls Clubs in underserved areas. (Dec 1997)

Al D'Amato on Foreign Policy

• Voted YES on limiting the President's power to impose economic sanctions. (Jul 1998)
• Voted NO on limiting NATO expansion to only Poland, Hungary & Czech. (Apr 1998)
• Voted YES on $17.9 billion to IMF. (Mar 1998)
• Voted YES on Strengthening of the trade embargo against Cuba. (Mar 1996)
• Voted NO on ending Vietnam embargo. (Jan 1994)

Al D'Amato on Free Trade

• Voted YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority. (Nov 1997)
• Voted YES on imposing trade sanctions on Japan for closed market. (May 1995)

Al D'Amato on Government Reform

• Voted NO on favoring 1997 McCain-Feingold overhaul of campaign finance. (Oct 1997)
• Voted YES on Approving the presidential line-item veto. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on banning more types of Congressional gifts. (Jul 1995)

Al D'Amato on Gun Control

• Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)

Al D'Amato on Health Care

• Voted YES on increasing tobacco restrictions. (Jun 1998)
• Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
• Voted NO on Medicare means-testing. (Jun 1997)
• Voted NO on medical savings acounts. (Apr 1996)

Al D'Amato on Homeland Security

• Voted YES on deploying missile defense as soon as possible. (Sep 1998)
• Voted NO on prohibiting same-sex basic training. (Jun 1998)
• Voted YES on favoring 36 vetoed military projects. (Oct 1997)
• Voted YES on banning chemical weapons. (Apr 1997)
• Voted YES on considering deploying NMD, and amending ABM Treaty. (Jun 1996)
• Voted YES on 1996 Defense Appropriations. (Sep 1995)

Al D'Amato on Immigration

• Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work. (Jul 1998)
• Voted NO on limit welfare for immigrants. (Jun 1997)

Al D'Amato on Jobs

• Voted NO on allowing workers to choose between overtime & comp-time. (May 1997)
• Voted YES on replacing farm price supports. (Feb 1996)

Al D'Amato on Principles & Values

• Member of the Republican Leadership Council. (Jan 2001)
• Fund the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program. (Dec 1997)

Al D'Amato on Social Security

• Voted YES on allowing Roth IRAs for retirees. (May 1998)
• Voted NO on allowing personal retirement accounts. (Apr 1998)
• Voted YES on deducting Social Security payments on income taxes. (May 1996)

Al D'Amato on Tax Reform

• Voted YES on requiring super-majority for raising taxes. (Apr 1998)
• Voted NO on FY99 tax cuts. (Apr 1998)

Al D'Amato on War & Peace

• Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo. (Jul 1995)
• Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Nov 1995)

Al D'Amato on Welfare & Poverty

• Voted YES on welfare block grants. (Aug 1996)
• Voted NO on eliminating block grants for food stamps. (Jul 1996)
• Voted YES on allowing state welfare waivers. (Jul 1996)
• Voted YES on welfare overhaul. (Sep 1995)