XXXX Voted Against Cutting Bus Tax Cuts by $2 Billion to Fund COPS and Cut the Deficit. In March 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment to increase spending on Community Oriented Policing (COPS) programs by $1 billion in fiscal 2004 and put $1 billion toward deficit reduction. The spending would be offset by a $2 billion reduction in tax cuts. The amendment was rejected 48-52. [Vote 78, 3/21/03; CQ, 3/21/03] XXXX Voted Against a Democratic Substitute Budget That Would Reduce Tax Cuts By $1.24 Trillion. In March 2003, XXXX voted against a Democratic substitute budget resolution that was defeated 43-56. Sen. Kent Conrad explained that the alternative “has $1.2 trillion less in deficits than the President’s plan… It provides for additional funding for homeland security of $80 billion over the baseline. It provides $194 billion of additional funding for prescription drugs, which is still well short of what would be needed to give Americans the kind of coverage we, as Members of Congress, have…It provides $71 billion for transportation infrastructure, $13 billion for veterans, and balances in 2011, as compared to the underlying resolution of balancing in 2012, and the President’s budget which never balances.” [Vote 83, 3/25/03; Congressional Record, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted Against Making It More Difficult To Pass Tax Cuts In The Senate. On March 25, 2003, XXXX voted against making it more difficult to pass new tax cuts in the Senate. The Byrd amendment would have essentially allowed Senate Democrats to filibuster the 2003 Bush tax cuts [Vote 84, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted Against Bush Tax Cut Alternative That Would Balance Budget By FY 2009. In 2003, XXXX voted against an alternative budget resolution that would have provided a balanced budget by fiscal 2009. Sponsor Tom Carper explained, “This amendment takes the 10 and 20 percent bracket cuts and makes them effective immediately. The estate tax exclusion is set permanently at $6 million per family. We grow the child credit. We eliminate the marriage penalty. We allow small business to expense their equipment purchasing at $75,000 for this year and for next. We pay for that by deferring further cuts in the 35 and 38.5 percent rate until we balance the budget… It is a good, balanced approach.” [Vote 95, 3/25/03; Congressional Record, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted To Protect The Bush Tax Cuts Rather Than The Environment. In 2003, XXXX voted against decreasing tax cuts in order to increase FY04 spending for environmental and conservation programs. [Vote 96, 3/25/03; CQ, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted Against Striking Tax Cuts Except For $150 Billion In Short-Term Stimulus. In March 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment to strike all of Bush’s tax cuts from the FY 2004 budget resolution, except for short-term fiscal stimulus tax cuts. The amendment would leave tax cuts of $100 billion in fiscal 2003 and $50 billion in fiscal 2004. [Vote 100, 3/25/03] XXXX Voted Against Stopping Bush’s Dividend Tax Cuts if Federal Budget Had Deficits. In May 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment to prohibit the Bush tax cuts on dividend income from going into effect unless the U.S. Treasury certifies that there would still be an on-budget surplus. [Vote 147, 5/14/03] XXXX Voted Against Giving a Child Tax Credit to All Families Regardless of Income. In 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment to require that all recipients of a $400 child tax credit in Bush’s “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003” receive the full payment regardless of their income. The amendment also accelerated Bush’s dividend tax cuts by one year. These provisions would be offset by eliminating the bill’s 10 percent increase in dividend income excluded from taxation from 2008 through 2012. [Vote 151, 5/15/03] XXXX Voted Against Substitute Plan to Cut Payroll Taxes and Give $40 Billion to States. XXXX voted against a substitute amendment to the 2003 Bush tax cut package that would have cut federal payroll taxes for two years and given $40 billion in aid to states and localities. It also would have increased the amount businesses could deduct for equipment costs, extended federal unemployment benefits and expanded eligibility for the benefits to low-wage and part-time workers. [Vote 160, 5/15/03; Palm Beach Post, 5/16/03; Congressional Record, 5/14/03, 5/15/03] XXXX Voted Against A Substitute to Bush Tax Bill That Included Wage Credit, Child Tax Credit and Business Stimulus. XXXX voted against a substitute amendment to the 2003 Bush tax cut package that would 261