CORKER: I've had minimum wage jobs--unlike my opponent. The minimum wage is behind the times, since it hasn't been adjusted for 10 years. We need to look at regions around the country and their cost-of-living. But I'd
like to lessen the burden of taxation and regulation on small businesses.
FORD: Corker in the primary was opposed to the minimum wage increase. I've supported it every year in Congress. I did work in minimum wage jobs--as a parking attendant in college
Source: 2006 TN Senate debate, at Univ. of Chattanooga, x-ref Corker
Oct 10, 2006
Voted YES on end offshore tax havens and promote small business.
American Jobs Creation Act of 2004: <0l>
Repeal the tax exclusion for extraterritorial income - Permits foreign corporations to revoke elections to be treated as U.S. corporations Business Tax Incentives - Small Business ExpensingTax Relief for Agriculture and Small Manufacturers
Tax Reform and Simplification for United States Businesses
Deduction of State and Local General Sales Taxes
Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform
Provisions to Reduce Tax Avoidance Through Individual and Corporation Expatriation
Reference: Bill sponsored by Bill Rep Thomas [R, CA-22];
Bill H.R.4520
; vote number 2004-509
on Oct 7, 2004
Voted YES on $167B over 10 years for farm price supports.
Vote to authorize $167 billion over ten years for farm price supports, food aid and rural development. Payments would be made on a countercyclical program, meaning they would increase as prices dropped. Conservation acreage payments would be retained.
Voted NO on zero-funding OSHA's Ergonomics Rules instead of $4.5B.
Vote to pass a resolution to give no enforcement authority or power to ergonomics rules submitted by the Labor Department during the Clinton Administration. These rules would force businesses to take steps to prevent work-related repetitive stress disorders.
Reference: Sponsored by Nickles, R-OK;
Bill S J Res 6
; vote number 2001-33
on Mar 7, 2001
Rated 86% by the AFL-CIO, indicating a pro-union voting record.
Ford scores 86% by the AFL-CIO on union issues
As the federation of America’s unions, the AFL-CIO includes more than 13 million of America’s workers in 60 member unions working in virtually every part of the economy. The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
Source: AFL-CIO website 03n-AFLCIO on Dec 31, 2003
