JUST ABOUT EVERYONE KNOWS JOE BIDEN’s voting record and something about his activities — or lack thereof — in the previous administration.
But Sen. Kamala Harris-Emhoff is another matter.
What is her voting record. The REAL record, not just some excerpts, are available online at several locations.
ACCORDING TO RollCall.com1
- Kamala Harris’ arrival in the Senate coincided with the start of the Trump administration in 2017, and the Democratic vice presidential candidate’s legislative record shows her to be a reliable soldier of the opposition (Democrat) party.
Because of that reality, there’s been limited opportunity for crossover voting for Joe Biden’s choice of running mate, but that doesn’t mean there’s been none. Her party unity score, calculated by CQ Roll Call as the percentage of votes cast in which a lawmaker votes the same way as a majority of the members of their caucus, is north of 99 percent.
Notable times that she has dissented with the party include her 2019 vote against a Middle East security package that warned against “precipitous withdrawal” of U.S. military forces in Syria and Afghanistan. She was one of 22 Democratic caucus members to cast a no vote.
Both the Harris Senate Voting Record2 and GovTrack.us3 track her vote line-by-line.
JustFacts.VoteSmart.org 4 also provides a vote-by-vote report.
Belying the claim that she is a Sanders' clone, ProPublica compares her voting record, all eight pages, with Sanders5 and, for comparison, that of Ted Cruz,6 a solid Conservative.
Go to the left, the left, the left
The VP hopeful is truly a libertine. A bullet display of Harris-Emhoff’s voting record (below) vs. the rest of the Senate puts her almost off the left side of the chart.
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Harris-Emhoff voting history compared to all other senators. (GovTrack https://tinyurl.com/y682u58m)
The same source, GovTrack, also provides both a chart and list of the votes Harris-Emhoff missed. From Jan 2017 to Aug 2020, Harris missed 271 of 1,184 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is much worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
GovTrack does not ask the senators why they failed to vote on an issue.
The senator regularly objects to almost all Trump nominees. That is her most consistent vote.
The REAL Question
Given Biden’s obvious cognizance issues; issues that cannot be denied since they were recorded for all to see — again and again — and Biden’s age, is Harris-Emhoff really,/I> running for president?
Is she eligible to be president?
Apparently someone gave Trump some bad information when he is alleged to have suggested Harris-Emhoff is not eligible to be president. Unlike Obama whose birth location is at least questionable, she most assuredly is eligible to president according to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted on July 9, 1868 that states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside".
Wikipedia6 explains:
- The Fourteenth Amendment provides that children born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction become American citizens at birth. At the time of the amendment's passage, President Andrew Johnson and three senators, including Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship to children born to foreign nationals in the United States. Senator Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania had a decidedly different opinion. Some scholars dispute whether the Citizenship Clause should apply to the children of unauthorized immigrants today, as "the problem ... did not exist at the time". In the 21st century, Congress has occasionally discussed passing a statute or a constitutional amendment to reduce the practice of "birth tourism", in which a foreign national gives birth in the United States to gain the child's citizenship.
The clause's meaning with regard to a child of immigrants was tested in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The Supreme Court held that under the Fourteenth Amendment, a man born within the United States to Chinese citizens who have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States and are carrying out business in the United States—and whose parents were not employed in a diplomatic or other official capacity by a foreign power—was a citizen of the United States. Subsequent decisions have applied the principle to the children of foreign nationals of non-Chinese descent.
According to the Foreign Affairs Manual, which is published by the State Department, "Despite widespread popular belief, U.S. military installations abroad and U.S. diplomatic or consular facilities abroad are not part of the United States within the meaning of the [Fourteenth] Amendment."
Lack of knowledge of the Constitution and its amendments, especially when information is so easily acquired, is a disgrace, all the more so when incorrect information is provided to a president (or other CEO).
If Trump really said Harris-Emhoff is not eligible to be president, he once again was embarrassed by a careless flunky. Still, as Harry S Truman noted, “the buck stops” at the president’s desk; in the end, he has to take responsibility. (Perhaps it was a “Biden moment”?)
Sources
1. RollCall.com: https://tinyurl.com/y2ss9ml2
2. Voting Record: https://tinyurl.com/y7sfj6yr
3. GovTrack: https://tinyurl.com/y682u58m
4. JustFacts.VoteSmart.org: https://tinyurl.com/y2oseh7k
5. Emhoff vs. Sanders: https://tinyurl.com/y6nwbqnn
5. Emhoff vs. Cruz: https://tinyurl.com/y59vbzrb
6. 14th Amendment: https://tinyurl.com/yxtebjng
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