Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and Debbie Halvorson served together in the 111th Congress (2009-2010). When Congressman Jackson was leading the charge for President Obama on jobs and health care, Halvorson voted against President Obama with the Republican majority 88 times. It's obvious from her voting record that she wants to be perceived as a "conservative Democrat" or a "quasi-Republican."

HIGHLIGHT SUMMARY OF HALVORSON'S VOTES

The NAACP criticized Halvorson for:

-Voting AGAINST the proposed CBC budget (Vote #190).

-Voting FOR the death penalty for hate crimes (Vote #222).

-Voting AGAINST the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (Vote #968).

-Voting AGAINST making congressman Charles Rangel's punishment more befitting. Halvorson was also among the first Democrats to call on Rangel to  resign his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee (Vote #606 & #607).

• Halvorson is a strong GUN RIGHTS proponent (Vote #479): endorsed by the NRA in 2008 & 2010; signed onto a pro-gun amicus brief opposing the City of Chicago in McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court case challenging Chicago’s handgun ban and publicly cheered the ruling, saying “The decision by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution is a major victory for Americans.” 
• Voted AGAINST the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009. Halvorson was the only Illinois Democrat to vote against the initial House version of the financial reform bill (“Dodd-Frank"), and one of only 27 Democrats in the entire House of Representatives to vote against it (Vote #968). 
• Included at the express request of the CBC she voted AGAINST using $4 billion in Wall Street bailout money (TARP) for housing relief to provide low-interest loans to unemployed homeowners and $1 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
• Voted to make home-ownership more expensive for low-income families by voting in favor of an amendment to raise the minimum down payment for 300,000 "creditworthy borrowers" - only Illinois Democrat and 1 of only 7 Democrats (Vote #348). 
• Voted TO PROTECT oil companies from full legal liability for oil spills even after the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Vote #513). 
• Voted AGAINST strengthening security at chemical plants. 
• Voted AGAINST requiring a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and increasing oversight of private contractors (Vote #453 & #95 & #98). 
• Vote ON THE SIDE OF LENDERS in bankruptcy proceedings (Vote #101). 
• Voted NOT TO RECOGNIZE the Lumbee Native American Tribe of NC (Vote #297). 
• Voted against President Obama's request to relocate the Census Office (or employees) from the Commerce Department to the Executive Office of the President (Vote #383).
• Voted FOR U.S. policy to continue missile defense testing and sought to increase funding for the Missile Defense Agency by $1.2 billion with offsetting reductions coming from defense environmental cleanup (Vote #455). 
• Voted AGAINST creating clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy (#466). 
• Voted TO CUT the Peace Corp by $76,560,000 (Vote #518). 
• Voted TO REDUCE Multilateral Assistance by $505,896,000. (Vote #520). Voted TO PROHIBIT funds from being available for the one-time special educational, professional and cultural exchange grants program (Vote #522). 
• Voted TO STRIKE $1.5 million for the Model for Green Laboratories and Clean Rooms project (Vote #673). 
• Voted AGAINST (Dodds-Frank) the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act of 2009 (Vote $686) 
• Voted to WEAKEN the risk-based performance standards for the security of chemical facilities that require vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans in the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 (Vote #875). 
• Voted AGAINST providing rules for the equitable governance of clearing houses and swap exchange facilities. (Vote #955). 
• Voted AGAINST creating authority for the prudential regulators, the CFTC and the SEC to set margins in swap and security-based swap transactions involving end users (Vote#957). 
• Voted AGAINST an amendment allowing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to ban abusive swaps; sought to amend any proposed commercial risk definition to disregard balance sheet risk; and sought to maintain that any illegal swap entered into after enactment of this Act would not be valid (Vote #959). 
• Voted AGAINST striking the provisions exempting public companies with less than $75 million in market capitalization from the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act relating to the external audit of internal controls (Vote #960). 
• Voted AGAINST an amendment that sought to allow bankruptcy courts to extend repayment periods; reduce excessive interest rates and fees; and to adjust the principal balance of the mortgage to a home's fair market value as necessary, in order to prevent foreclosure and to allow the VA, FHA, and RHS to take steps to facilitate mortgage modifications. (Vote #963) 
• Voted AGAINST raising the debt ceiling which, if passed, would undermine the nation's full faith and credit and, for the first time in its history, cause the nation to default on its bills (Vote #988 & #46). 
• Voted AGAINST revising provisions governing the collection of taxes on, and trafficking in, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (Vote #124). 
• Voted AGAINST providing tax incentives for small business job creation, extending the Build America Bonds program, and providing other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (Vote #173). 
• Voted AGAINST emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and 2010 summer jobs (Vote #179, #428 & #433). 
• Voted AGAINST extending expiring tax provisions for Americans (Vote #323). 
• Voted AGAINST 2011 appropriations for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement (Vote #334). 
• Voted AGAINST tax incentives for small business job creation; and creating the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase the availability of credit for small businesses (Vote #359). 
• Voted AGAINST amending the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide for the national flood insurance program to make available multiperil coverage for damage resulting from windstorms or floods (Vote #466). 
• Voted AGAINST following initial clean-up of a spill, the National Resources Damages Act trustee gives equal and full consideration to all statutorily prescribed natural resource damage remedies to ensure that acquisition of non-impacted land is considered an equal remedy and not given lower priority as is currently provided in statute (Vote #510). 
• Halvorson was ABSENT and DID NOT VOTE to protect girls in developing countries through the prevention of child marriage (Vote #645). 
• Voted FOR tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires (Vote #647).