XXXX Voted Against Shifting $593 Million From Osprey V-22 Aircraft To Efforts To Control AIDS Overseas. In 2001, XXXX voted to table an effort to shift $593 million from the troubled Osprey V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft to efforts to control AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria overseas. The vote was on a motion to table the Reid (for Feingold) amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2001. [S 1077, Vote 225, 7/10/01; Associated Press, 7/11/01] XXXX Voted For $310 Billion Defense Spending Bill; Increased National Missile Defense. In 2000, XXXX voted to waive the Budget Act and vote for the bill to authorize $310.6 billion in Defense Department spending in FY 2001, an increase of $5.297 billion more than was requested by the Clinton Administration and representing a 4.7 percent real increase in defense spending. Senators who made the budgetary challenge said the bill would create new health care entitlements for military retirees and their dependents at an estimated cost of $60 billion over the next 10 years. The bill included $1.875 billion for the National Missile Defense Program and a 3.7 percent pay raise for military personnel. [Vote 274, 10/12/00; Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 10/13/00] XXXX Voted Against Terminating Funding For The Trident II Ballistic Missile. In 2000, XXXX voted against an amendment that would terminate funding for production of the D-5 (Trident II) submarine-launched ballistic missile. [Vote 177, 7/13/00] XXXX Voted For $4.4 Billion For Missile Defense In The FY 2001 Department Of Defense Appropriations Bill. In 2000, XXXX voted for final passage of the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2001 (H.R. 4576). The bill would provide $287.63 billion in new budget authority for the military functions of the Department of Defense, which was $3.11 billion more than requested, and $19.878 billion more than enacted in the previous year's defense appropriations bill. The bill also included $4.434 billion for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ($411.2 million more than was requested; $1.879 billion would be provided for the National Missile Defense Program, which is $139 million more than requested). The bill passed, 95-3. [Vote 127, 6/13/00] XXXX Voted to Create a National Missile Defense Shield. In 1998, XXXX voted to invoke cloture a bill that would make it U.S. policy to implement a national missile defense shield. The measure would not establish a specific time frame, but would declare a national policy to deploy a system to protect U.S. territory from a limited number of incoming missiles "as soon as is technologically possible." [Vote 262, 9/9/98] XXXX Voted Against Funding Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission. In 1998, XXXX Voted against funding the U.S. portion of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission. [Vote 254, 9/1/98] XXXX Voted to Create U.S. Policy to Implement a National Missile Defense Shield. In 1998, XXXX voted for the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill that would make it U.S. policy to implement a national missile defense shield. The measure would not establish a specific time frame, but would declare a national policy to deploy a system to protect U.S. territory from a limited number of incoming missiles "as soon as is technologically possible." [Vote 131, 5/13/98] XXXX Voted Against Limiting Space-Based Laser Program. In 1997, XXXX voted against limiting and reducing the funds for a space-based laser program. [Vote 171, 7/11/97] MILITARY PRISONERS XXXX Voted Against Providing Congress with Defense Reports on Prisoners Held by the United States. In June 2004, XXXX voted against an amendment that would require the Defense Department to provide Congress with a number of reports pertaining to detainees at U.S. military prisons worldwide, including a report on all prisoner interrogation techniques approved by U.S. officials. It also would require the department to submit all International Committee of the Red Cross reports regarding treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [S 2400, Vote 144, 6/23/04] 320