While I am campaigning, several people tell me they are supporting Adam Smith for Congress no matter what. However, when I ask them to name some accomplishment by Smith that helped to garner their support, I usually get frowns as if I was giving them some kind of hard test. About the closest thing I've heard from someone to answer this question was that he's good on technology, but that was it, just a general vague sense that he is doing something right with technology -- perhaps giving the go-ahead for Uncle Sam to assist a country, with American nuclear energy technology, that has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), as if that were "good." Smith, as a de facto member of the Democratic Party's corporate "Blue Dog" wing in Congress, is part and parcel of the "This Town" (a new book by Mark Leibovich) crowd in Washington, D.C. We recommend this book to anybody who wants to know how the present Congress works for corporations, not their constituents.
[revised on 8/27/13]
Congressman Adam Smith has voted for the following:
[revised on 8/27/13]
Congressman Adam Smith has voted for the following:
- the 2002 Iraq War resolution
- Gramm, Leach, Bliley Act (the law that dismantled the Glass-Steagall Act)
- Wall Street bail-outs
- Nuclear Energy Deal with India (despite that this involves the energy sector, the deal undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)
- 2001 USA "PATRIOT" ACT
- 2011 "PATRIOT" EXTENSION ACT
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