Candidate Research - Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Personal Info
Birth: July 9, 1955
Religion: Southern Baptist

On the Issues
Abortion: Pro-life
Civil rights: Anti-civil rights voting record
Gay Marriage: Against gay marriages
Crime: More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty
Drugs: Supports random drug tests
School Vouchers: Supports voucher program
School Prayer: Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer
Education: Anti-public education voting record
Environment: Anti-environment voting record
Free Trade: Pro-fair trade voting record
Jobs: Supports raising the minimum wage
Government: Government is too big, too intrusive, supports term limits on Congress
Gun Control: Supports the NRA indicating a pro-gun rights voting record
Health Care: Anti-public health voting record
Homeland Security: Supports the Patriot Act and more defense spending
Social Security: Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings
Tax Reform: Repeal marriage tax, cut middle class taxes, phaseout death tax
Technology: Criminal penalties for e-mail spamming
War: We need more troops for long haul in Iraq
Welfare: Limit welfare to 2 years and cut welfare spending

Voting Record
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions
Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime
Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC
Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions
Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder
Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime
Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons
Voted YES on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism
Voted YES on subjecting federal employees to random drug tests
Voted YES on allowing vouchers
Voted YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror
Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's AMWR
Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas
Voted YES on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years
Voted NO on withdrawing from the WTO
Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1
Voted YES on banning physician-assisted suicide
Voted NO on increasing Medicaid rebate for producing generics
Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act
Voted YES on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 rather than $6.25
Voted YES on eliminating the "marriage penalty"
Voted YES on making the Bush tax cuts permanent