Voting:

• Voted NO on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment.   (Mar 1997)
• Voted YES on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes.   (Jun 2002)
• More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes.   (Apr 2001)
• Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program.   (Aug 2009)
• Voted YES on Congressional pay raise.   (Jul 2009)
• Voted YES on providing a U.S.   House seat for the District of Columbia.   (Feb 2009)
• Voted YES on granting the District of Columbia a seat in Congress.   (Sep 2007)
• Voted NO on requiring photo ID to vote in federal elections.   (Jul 2007)

Quotes:

• The border is secure.   Martin Heinrich talked to the caucus today.   He's a border state senator.   He said he can say without any equivocation the border is secure.(July 15, 2014)
• I have been a fan of earmarks since I got here the first day.(May 6, 2014)
• We have already cut 2.6 trillion dollars from the debt.(October 24, 2013)
• The only people who feel there shouldn't be more coming in to the federal government from the rich people are the Republicans in the Congress.   Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more.   They want to pay more.!(October 24,2013)
• In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.(August 3, 2009)
• If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it.   They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.(March 16, 2006)