XXXX Voted for Final FY06 Budget Resolution That Ignored Cost of War. XXXX voted for the final version of the Republicans’ $2.56 trillion Fiscal Year 2006 budget resolution, which passed 52-47, provided over $100 billion in tax cuts over five years while ignoring the cost of the war in Iraq. [Vote 114, 4/28/05; New York Times, 4/29/05] XXXX Opposed Amendment Urging President Bush to Detail Cost Estimate for Military Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. In 2005 XXXX opposed an amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that any funds for ongoing military operations overseas, including those in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the president's annual budget request and urge the president to detail cost estimates for ongoing overseas military operations by Sept. 1, 2005. [HR 1268, Vote 96, 4/18/05] XXXX Voted to Adopt Risky FY06 Budget Resolution That Ignored Cost of War. XXXX voted for the Republicans’ Fiscal Year 2006 budget resolution, which passed 51-49. The resolution provided more tax cuts for the wealthy and failed to include the cost of the war in Iraq. [Vote 81, 3/17/05; Telegram & Gazette, 3/18/05] XXXX Voted Against Hiding the Cost of the Iraq War by Removing Funding from the Budget. In June 2004, XXXX voted for an amendment that would express the sense of the Senate that any funds for ongoing military operations overseas, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, should be included in the president's annual budget request and that such funds, when allocated in appropriations bills, should be placed in specific accounts. [HR 4613, Vote 147, 6/24/04] XXXX Passed Risky Budget Resolution That Ignored War Costs. In March 2004, XXXX voted for a $2.36 trillion budget resolution that included large tax cuts targeted towards the wealthiest Americans while ignoring the ongoing cost of Iraq reconstruction altogether. [Vote 58, 3/12/04; AP, 3/12/04; Washington Times, 3/13/04] XXXX Voted Against a Senate Approval on Funds for Iraq. In October 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment that would prohibit the use of funds in the bill for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq unless the authority's administrator has been appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate. [HR 2800, 10/28/03, Vote 414] XXXX Voted Against Asking Bush for Monthly War Reports. In July 2003, XXXX voted against requiring the Bush administration to report monthly on the costs of the Iraq war. The reports would have included cost, personnel levels, the involvement of other countries, casualty figures and all reconstruction contracts above $10 million. [Vote 281, 7/16/03; New York Times, 7/17/03; Washington Post, 7/17/03] XXXX Refused to Ask Bush for War Cost Estimates. In July 2003, XXXX killed a proposal that would have required the President to include an Iraq spending estimate in his Fiscal Year 2004 Pentagon budget. The vote came soon after the administration acknowledged that the Iraq effort was costing $3.9 billion a month. [Vote 278, 7/16/03; New York Times, 7/17/03] XXXX Voted Against Sense of Senate That Bush Should Submit Plan on How to Raise Revenues to Offset Costs of War in Iraq. On April 3, 2003, XXXX voted against an amendment that would have required Bush to submit his spending program before approving funds for Iraq. The amendment’s sponsor, Sen. Hollings, expressed concern about mounting deficits and said, “This sense of the Senate merely says to the President: You submit your program. And if you don't, we have tax revenues to pay for this war.” [S 762, Vote 121, 4/3/03; Hollings Floor Statement, CR page, S4781, 4/3/03] XXXX Voted for Budget that Failed to Include 2003 War Spending. In March 2003, XXXX voted against the Democratic alternative to the Fiscal Year 2004 budget resolution. The substitute provided funding for the war supplemental and provided for a balanced budget in the future by rolling back President Bush’s proposed tax cuts. The Republican budget included no funding for the war. [Vote 83, 3/25/03; Congressional Record, 3/25/03; Congressional Record, 3/17/03] 147