discounted prices. The vote was on tabling the Bond amendment to the Senate Concurrent Budget Resolution for fiscal years 2001-2005. [Vote 63, 4/6/00; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4/5/00] CYBERSECURITY XXXX Voted Against Ending Filibuster On Cybersecurity Bill. In November 2012, XXXX voted against a motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the bill that would create voluntary security standards for vital digital infrastructure. The motion was rejected by a vote of 51-47 (D 45-5; R 4-42; I 2-0). [Vote 202, 11/14/12]  XXXX Voted Against Ending Filibuster On Cybersecurity Bill. In August 2012, XXXX voted against a motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the bill that would create voluntary security standards for vital digital infrastructure. The motion was rejected by a vote of 52-46 (D 45-6; R 5-40; I 2-0). [Vote 187, 8/2/12] MISCELLANEOUS XXXX Supported Katrina Relief Bill. XXXX voted for a $109 billion plan to provide funding for hurricane relief and funding for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Boston Globe, 5/5/06; Vote 112, 5/4/06] XXXX Supported Controversial Judge William Pryor. Since 2003, XXXX has consistently voted to confirm President Bush’s nomination of William H. Pryor Jr. of Alabama to be a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. [Vote 133, 6/9/05; Vote 132, 6/8/05; Vote 441, 11/6/03; Vote 316, 7/31/03]  Pryor Called the Voting Rights Act “an Affront to Federalism.” William Pryor told congress that he opposed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that protected minority voting rights. Pryor called this essential provision “an affront to federalism and an expensive burden that has far outlived its usefulness.” [Transcript of Pryor Testimony, 7/15/97] XXXX Voted For Racist Nominee Charles Pickering. In 2003, XXXX voted to confirm Charles Pickering, who was nominated to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and has been criticized for his racist positions. “The debate over the nomination had centered on Judge Pickering’s civil rights record as a Mississippi lawyer, state lawmaker and federal judge over the course of decades. Senate Democrats argued that he did not deserve elevation because he had written an article as a young man recommending ways to strengthen Mississippi’s anti-miscegenation laws, left the Democratic Party in 1964 when the national party tried to integrate the state delegation to the national convention and, more recently, presided over a 1994 trial in which he took extraordinary steps to reduce the sentence of a man convicted in a cross-burning incident.” [Vote 419, 10/30/03; New York Times, 01/17/04]  NAACP Opposed Pickering. The NAACP opposed the Pickering nomination referring to him as a “right-wing extremist.” [NAACP Legislative Report Card, 2003-04] XXXX Opposed Restricting Rights of Japanese Individuals Who Were Used as Slave Labor in WWII Internment Camps. In 2001, XXXX voted for an amendment to prohibit the use of funds under the bill by the Justice or State departments to file a court motion opposing a civil action against a Japanese person or corporation where plaintiffs allege they were used as slave or forced labor as World War II American prisoners of war. [HR 2500, Vote 276, 9/10/01]  “Victims of Japanese forced labor have gone to court in California and other states seeking compensation from leading Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co., for the inhumane treatment they experienced during the war. But the departments of State and Justice have opposed those lawsuits, filing legal briefs stating that under the 1951 peace treaty the allied powers expressly waived any rights to reparations from Japan.” “But the Senate measure – introduced as an amendment to a $41 billion spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments – would bar any funds to State and 37