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• Required energy conservation in central air conditioners

• Issued new regulations on washing machine energy efficiency

• Instituted stricter standards for energy-efficient water heaters

• Added protections for sea otters along the West Coast

• Increased requirements for storing imported food

• Proposed revoking approval for the antibiotic enroflaxacin in poultry feed, which has resulted in germs and bacteria resistant to the drug

• Safeguarded Alaskan sea lions

• Required iron, lead, and steel smelting facilities to inform the public of all lead emissions over 100 pounds a year—a dramatic drop from the previous level of 2 5,000 pounds a year

• Created an eighty-four-million-acre Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, banning drilling and capping commercial fishing at their current levels

• Issued stricter rules on nutritional labeling for meat

• Outlawed snowmobiles in national parks

• Set child-safety standards for vehicles taking children to Head Start programs

• Limited the information health care providers can give out without permission of the patient

• Protected federal land from hard-rock mining in cases when mining would do irreparable harm to the land

• Allowed federal officers to deny contracts to companies that violate environmental, labor, consumer, and employment laws

• Set standards for using bodily restraint and confinement for those under the age of twenty-one in residential psychiatric facilities

• Proposed to regulate bioengineered pesticides

• Awarded $320 million to Chicago’s mass-transit system

• Awarded $7.5 million to states for child-passenger safety education

• Set aside $18 million to buy enviromnentally sensitive cropland from California farmers

• Revised the regulatory definition of “Discharge of Dredged Material,” protecting the nation’s wetlands

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Time to Remove These “Democrats”

This list shows just how far off your Democratic representatives to Congress are from a progressive agenda. The percentages represent how often they voted against liberal legislation and in favor of the Republicans. (Source: Americans for Democratic Action; based on voting records in the year 2000).

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Ralph M. Hall, TX (voted with GOP 80% of the time)

Ken Lucas, KY (75%)

Christopher John, LA (70%)

Jim Traficant, OH (70%)

Marion Berry, AR (65%)

Bud Cramer, AL (65%)

Ronnie Shows, MS (65%)

Gene Taylor, MS (55%)

Sanford D. Bishop Jr., GA (50%)

Allen Boyd, FL (50%)

Gary Condit, CA (50%)

David Phelps, IL (50%)

Leonard Boswell, IA (45%)

Jerry Costello, IL (45%)

Tim Holden, PA (45%)

Paul E. Kanjorski, PA (45%)

James H. Maloney, CT (45%)

Michael R. McNulty, NY (45%)

Bob Clement, TN (40%)

Bob Etheridge, NC (40%)

Harold Ford, TN (40%)

Bart Gordon, TN (40%)

Collin C. Peterson, MN (40%)

Max Sandlin, TX (40%)

Shelley Berkley, NV (35%)

Peter Deutsch, FL (35%)

Jim Barcia, MI (60%)

Ike Skelton, MO (60%)

William 0. Lipinski, IL (55%)

Tim Roemer, IN (55 %)

Adam Smith, WA (55%)

Charlie Stenholm, TX (55%)

John Tanner, TN (55%)

Mike Doyle, PA (35%)

John J. LaFalce, TN (35%)

Frank Mascara, PA (35%)

Carolyn McCarthy, NY (35%)

Dennis Moore, KS (35%)

Solomon P. Ortiz, TX (35%)

Loretta Sanchez, CA (35%)

Bart Stupak, M1 (35%)

Brian Baird, WA (30%)

Lois Capps, CA (30%)

Eva Clayton, NC (30%)

Cal Dooley, CA (30%)

Barry Hill, IN (30%)

Darlene Hooley, OR (30%)

Jay Inslee, WA (30%)

William J. Jefferson, LA (30%)

Jim Moran, VA (30%)

Nick Rahall,WV (30%)

Vic Snyder, AR (30%)

John Spratt, SC (30%)

Ellen Tauscher, CA (30%)

SENATE

Zell Miller, GA (Voted with the GOP 100% of the time)

John Breaux, LA (50%)

Daniel Inouye, HI (40%)

Max Cleland, GA (30%)

Blanche Lincoln, AR (30%)

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Vulnerable Republicans Who Can Be Beaten

The following Republican members of Congress are the most likely to be defeated if a strong and real Democrat runs against them:

SENATE

Wayne Allard, CO

Susan Collins, ME

Pete Domenici, NM

Tim Hutchinson, AR