Here is some info from the ACU......

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
Bill Frist (R)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	100	92	7	88
Fred Thompson (R)	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	84	92	7	86

See the Senate Votes Description for more detailed information about these votes.

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
Thad Cochran (R)	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	88	92	29	80
Trent Lott (R)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	96	100	29	93

Senate Vote Descriptions (2001)

Ashcroft Nomination (Roll Call Vote No. 8 )
2001-02-01
Confirmation of President Bush's nomination of John Ashcroft of Missouri to be attorney general. ACU supported this nomination, and considers it a critical test of whether conservatives could be confirmed for executive nominations by the Senate and, ther
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: supported
The vote was: 58-45
Individual Retirement Accounts S. 420 (Roll Call Vote No. 21 )
2001-03-13
Sessions (R-AL) motion to protect individual retirement accounts from limitations imposed during bankruptcy proceedings.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 61-37
Bankruptcy Overhaul S. 420 (Roll Call Vote No. 33 )
2001-03-15
Wellstone (D-MN) amendment that would break private contractual arrangements by allowing the average of a debtor's last two months of income to be used to determine the ability to pay a threshold amount of debt.
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 22-77
Campaign Finance Overhaul - Union and Shareholder Consent S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 43 )
2001-03-21
McCain (R-AZ) motion to kill the Hatch (R-UT) amendment that would require unions and corporations to obtain permission from dues-paying members or shareholders before spending money on political activities. It also would require corporations or labor org
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 69-31
Campaign Finance Overhaul - Union and Corporate Disclosure S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 44 )
2001-03-21
McCain (R-AZ) motion to kill the Hatch (R-UT) amendment that would require corporations and unions that spend money on political activities to provide detailed disclosure of funds spent on political activities to the corporation's shareholders or labor or
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 60-40
Campaign Finance Overhaul - Non-Severability S. 27 (Roll Call Vote No. 59 )
2001-03-29
Dodd (D-CT) motion to kill the Frist (R-TN) amendment that would provide that if one of several specific provisions in the underlying bill, mainly the ban on soft money, disclosure requirements for issue-group advertising, and hard money limits, is found
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 57-43
Defense Spending Increase H. Con. Res. 83 (Roll Call Vote No. 72 )
2001-04-04
Warner (R-VA) amendment to the Budget Act providing for an increase of $8.5 billion for national defense spending.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: passed
The vote was: 84-16
Bolton Nomination (Roll Call Vote No. 92 )
2001-05-08
Confirmation of President Bush's nomination of John Robert Bolton of Maryland to be Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: supported
The vote was: 57-43
Budget Resolution Cappign Spending H. Con. Res. 83 (Roll Call Vote No. 98 )
2001-05-10
Adoption of the final version of the Budget Resolution, calling for approximately $1.35 trillion in tax cuts through fiscal 2011, including a $100 billion stimulus package. "Discretionary" spending was capped at $661.3 billion, about equally divided betw
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: passed
The vote was: 53-47
Accelerated Elimination of Marriage Penalty HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 113 )
2001-05-17
Hutchison (R-TX) amendment to the tax cut bill that would accelerate the elimination of the so-called "marriage penalty" in the standard deduction, so that it would be fully phased out in 2002.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 27-73
Capital Gains Tax Rate Reduction HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 115 )
2001-05-21
Gregg (R-NH) motion to allow consideration of his amendment to the tax cut bill. His amendment would provide for a temporary reduction in the maximum capital gains rate from 20 percent to 15 percent, to stimulate the economy.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 47-51
Tax Cut Bill HR 1836 (Roll Call Vote No. 170 )
2001-05-26
Adoption of the final version of the tax cut bill, reducing taxes by $1.35 trillion through 2010 through income tax rate cuts, relief of the "marriage penalty," a phase-out of the federal estate tax, doubling the child tax credit, and providing incentives
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 58-33
School Vouchers S. 1 (Roll Call Vote No. 179 )
2001-06-12
Gregg (R-NH) amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization bill that would create a demonstration program in 10 school districts to allow public school children to use federal funds in the form of vouchers to transfer to another publ
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 41-58
Boy Scouts S. 1 (Roll Call Vote No. 189 )
2001-06-14
Helms (R-NC) amendment to the education bill that would allow federal education funds to be withheld from public elementary and secondary schools that bar the Boy Scouts from using school facilities.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: passed
The vote was: 53-45
Medical Savings Accounts S. 1052 (Roll Call Vote No. 216 )
2001-06-29
Baucus (D-MT) motion to kill the Craig (R-ID) amendment to the Patients' Rights Bill that would express the sense of the Senate that a patients' rights bill should remove restrictions on the private sector medical savings account demonstration program. A
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 53-45
Waiver of the Right to Sue S. 1052 (Roll Call Vote No. 218 )
2001-06-29
Kyl (R-AZ) amendment to the Patients' Rights Bill hat would allow health plan issuers to provide a lower cost health plan to participants who waive their right to sue.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 42-54
Decrease Navy Appropriations S. 1077 (Roll Call Vote No. 225 )
2001-07-10
Inouye (D-HI) motion to kill an attempt to decrease funds appropriated for a Navy aircraft program and use the funds to increase U.S. contribution to a global trust fund to combat HIV/Aids.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 79-20
Allow Limited Oil and Gas Development HR 2217 (Roll Call Vote No. 231 )
2001-07-12
Landrieu (D-LA) motion to permit oil and gas development in certain areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 67-33
Taxpayer Funding for Gun Turn-Ins HR 2620 (Roll Call Vote No. 267 )
2001-08-02
Craig (R-ID) motion to kill an amendment to the Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill creating a $15 million program for HUD to buy guns from the public.
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 65-33
Strikes by Public Safety Employees HR 3061 (Roll Call Vote No. 323 )
2001-11-06
Motion to limit debate on the Daschle (D-SD) amendment to the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill that would provide collective bargaining rights, including the right to strike, to police, firemen, and other public safety officers employed by states, counties a
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 56-44
Needle Exchange Programs HR 2994 (Roll Call Vote No. 328 )
2001-11-07
Landrieu (D-LA) motion to allow the use of taxpayer funds for needle exchange programs in the District of Columbia.
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 53-47
Emergency Terrorism Spending HR 3338 (Roll Call Vote No. 328 )
2001-12-07
Gramm (R-TX) raised a point of order against a Byrd (D-WV) amendment that would have increased emergency terrorist response money by $15 billion more than the president wanted and the House had passed. ACU supported the Gramm position, which prevailed by
ACU supported this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 50-50
International Criminal Court HR 3338 (Roll Call Vote No. 358 )
2001-12-07
Dodd (D-CT) amendment that would move the United States towards participation in the International Criminal Court for the prosecution of crimes against humanity.
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: defeated
The vote was: 48-51
Dairy Cartel S. 1731 (Roll Call Vote No. 362 )
2001-12-11
Agriculture Overhaul - Dairy Policy Harkin, D-Iowa, motion to preserve in the Agriculture Overhaul Bill a $2 billion direct taxpayer subsidy to milk producers.
ACU opposed this bill.
This bill was: adopted
The vote was: 51-47

41 posted on 12/23/2002 1:24:49 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

He'll have to prove himself to the 'RATS and to the naysayers within the GOP/Conservatives as well.

May he fear us more than he fears them! *grin*

Actually, conservative scepticism is a good thing. Every single elected official bears watching, no matter their political stripe.

The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance, right? ;-)

42 posted on 12/23/2002 1:27:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance

Excellent post, Meek.

Thanks.

Information is the soul of Free Republic.

43 posted on 12/23/2002 1:27:26 PM PST by xzins

To: EternalVigilance

Excellent points. I agree. Some are dissing him before he actually assumes the leadership position Jan. 7th, though, lol !

I'll do my usual watch and see what happens act.....

44 posted on 12/23/2002 1:33:40 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

This is Lincoln Chaffee and Olympia Snowe to demonstrate what it appears like to compare a liberal pubbie with a conservative one. Frist had a 100 this year. Chaffee had a 44 and Snowe a 64.

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
Susan Collins (R)	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	64	76	5	58
Onlympia Snowe (R)	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	60	80	23	51

See the Senate Votes Description for more detailed information about these votes.

See the House Votes Description page for more detailed information about these votes.

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
Lincoln Chafee (R)	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	44	44	2	28
Jack Reed (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	12	11	8

See the Senate Votes Description for more detailed information about these votes.

45 posted on 12/23/2002 1:43:10 PM PST by xzins

I've a feeling this is all going to work out for us here in the conservative movement.

46 posted on 12/23/2002 1:43:57 PM PST by E.G.C.

Senate GOP elects Frist Senate majority leader by phone

WASHINGTON (CNN) --Senate Republicans named Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee as their new leader Monday, a Frist spokesman said.

Frist was unanimously elected majority leader by acclamation in a telephone conference of Republicans in the incoming Senate, the spokesman said.

Forty-two of the 51 Republicans in the upcoming 108th Senate participated in the conference call, said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania.

It was the first time a Senate majority leader was ever elected over the telephone.

The move is aimed at curbing the damage from the racially-charged controversy that led to Sen. Trent Lott's having to relinquish the position.

Sen. Lott took part in the call, CNN learned.

In a statement, President Bush said "I congratulate Senator Bill Frist on his election to Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate.

"Senator Frist has earned the trust and respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. I look forward to working with him and all members of the Senate and House to advance our agenda for a safer, stronger, and better America."

Senators were looking for a leader "who could take on a very tough task of bringing together a Republican caucus that is somewhat divided at this point," Republican consultant Cliff May told CNN Monday. "There's some bad feelings, and also in the Senate as a whole there is some bitterness."

Some of that bitterness revolves around Lott.

His comment December 5 in support of Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential bid, which was on a segregationist platform, triggered an avalanche that eventually buried his opportunity to remain Senate Republican leader.

Despite Lott's repeated public apologies and claims that he supports civil rights and equality, public attention was drawn to his record of voting against policies espoused by civil rights leaders and to previous comments supporting Thurmond.

Lott gave up his post as Senate Republican leader Friday.

The 50-year-old Frist has only served in the Senate since 1994, making him a relative newcomer compared to some of the senators he'll represent as majority leader. A surgeon with degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he is the Senate's only practicing physician.

Seven years in Senate

"He's bright, he's attractive," Democratic consultant Victor Kamber told CNN Monday, "but he's only been there seven years. He doesn't know the parliamentary procedure, he doesn't know the legislative process in the way that a schooled person who is going to lead his own party (should). He has not been a deal maker within his own party."

Frist has close ties to the Bush White House. He is outgoing chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee that helped orchestrate November's midterm elections, which were a tremendous success for the GOP.

Sources told CNN the Bush administration preferred him as majority leader in the wake of the controversy over Lott. Publicly, however, President Bush said through aides that he did not see a reason for Lott to resign, and officials said the White House played no active role in Lott's decision.

Still, Frist's relationship with the White House could limit his influence with colleagues, who are wary of a leader trying to push the president's agenda.

"I think there's no question that he has, I would say, support from the White House," said May. But he insisted Frist was not "handpicked" by the president.

Lott said Sunday he would support Frist "if he is the choice" of senators in Monday's vote. "I will make it clear I support our leadership team and will support the agenda I believe in very strongly," Lott said.

While many Republicans have publicly praised Frist, some Democrats have said the entry of a new leader will not fix fundamental problems in the GOP.

"If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you're naive," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said over the weekend.

But Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, said Monday that the election of Frist as leader could be a positive move for the Senate.

Calling Frist "a wonderful person" and "a man of faith," Lieberman told CNN "I hope that he'll be a bridge builder and not a partisan divider."

But, Lieberman added, "Unfortunately, these leadership jobs sometimes turn people more partisan than they need to be."

47 posted on 12/23/2002 1:52:47 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!

I have perused through some of the states also and noted some unusual cases as well. For instance, look at the record of one of our Texas Democrat Congressional Reps., Ralph Hall.

Twenty-one years of service as a Democrat with a lifetime ACU rating of 83 !

Ralph Hall (D)

48 posted on 12/23/2002 1:59:38 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

Henry, like all other pundits, better hock their crystal balls and try to get real work.

49 posted on 12/23/2002 2:04:14 PM PST by Redleg Duke

And Jumpin' Jeffords (shown here as a 'RAT, he's actually an "I" - for "Idiot"):

Senate

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	2001	2000	YOS	Life
James Jeffords (D)	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	A	-	29	36	17	27
Pat Leahy (D)	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	8	8	27	6

A lifetime rating of 27, most of Jeffords 17 years were spent as a Republican, I believe.

50 posted on 12/23/2002 2:04:27 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

Yeah, but wait until Rightwing2 and NY Catholic get done raggin' on ya!

51 posted on 12/23/2002 2:05:21 PM PST by Redleg Duke

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, that is more than some others around here will give him.

52 posted on 12/23/2002 2:06:18 PM PST by Redleg Duke

Heck...I'll give you 120 days to get your head out of rectal deflade! :-) That is gonna be a bigger challenge than PBA!

53 posted on 12/23/2002 2:07:25 PM PST by Redleg Duke

To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!

It's a question of faith. I'm okay with him. He has flaws. Oh well. Who doesn't.

54 posted on 12/23/2002 2:07:48 PM PST by Mercat

To: MeeknMing; RAT Patrol

Looking at these records, it's hard to see how anyone can even begin to justify calling Frist a Rino.

It's against all the evidence.

55 posted on 12/23/2002 2:08:53 PM PST by xzins

Yeah? You mean I might hafta get my cleanup crew out?.....

56 posted on 12/23/2002 2:12:11 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

Looking at these records, it's hard to see how anyone can even begin to justify calling Frist a Rino.

It's against all the evidence.

Yep....

57 posted on 12/23/2002 2:15:25 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

58 posted on 12/23/2002 2:17:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The ballad of Trent Lott

Slap their backs
Tickle their ears
Agree with them
And kiss their rears

Sidestep, pander
Grease their palms
Whatever it takes
To quiet their qualms

But in the end
That's not enough
We all knew
It was only fluff

That is the story
Of ol Trent Lott
So down he went
His racket shot

If he were a Dem
Like Jackson or Byrd
Nothing could have budged him
It wouldn't be heard

But we've done better
Than that corrupt crew
We can all be proud
Go forward and do

EV

59 posted on 12/23/2002 2:27:54 PM PST by EternalVigilance

To: EternalVigilance

...If he were a Dem
Like Jackson or Byrd
Nothing could have budged him
It wouldn't be heard

But we've done better
Than that corrupt crew
We can all be proud
Go forward and do

Excellent ! Thanks.

60 posted on 12/23/2002 2:47:01 PM PST by MeekOneGOP

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