Find out How Your Members of Congress Voted with the AFL-CIO Interim Congressional Voting Record

by Mike Hall, Jul 26, 2006

Get ready. Election season is heating up. Already on TV screens across the nation, congressional candidates are popping up between ads for hair care products and insect repellent.

But all too often, there’s a lot more behind the high-priced commercials and simple sound bites that portray each candidate as a friend of working families, one who supports good jobs with good wages and believes we all deserve great health care and fair taxes.

Starting today, we’ve got a truth detector you can use to find out who is really on your side.

The AFL-CIO 2006 U.S. House and Senate Interim Voting Record is available now so you can see if your representative or senators put their votes where commercials are. The interim record tracks 17 key Senate votes and 15 House votes through the first half of 2006.

With all 435 House seats and a third of Senate seats up for election in November, the voting scorecard is an essential tool to help you determine who will earn your vote.

Check how your senators voted on health care issues—such as giving seniors more time to sign up for Medicare prescription drug coverage without the lifetime premium increase the Bush plan calls for.

Find out if your representative supported a move to increase the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour or voted for yet more tax breaks for millionaires, including exempting multimillion dollar inheritances from the estate tax.

Click here to take a look. Each vote is accompanied by a short explanation of the issue. A “W” indicates a “wrong” vote that would hurt working families.

An “R” indicates a “right,” or pro-working families, vote. The voting record also shows each member’s lifetime record of support for working families.

Don’t forget to check out the complete 2005 voting record for the 108th Congress. The AFL-CIO online voting record reaches back to 1996.

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