Dick Cheney in Congress
A look at Dick Cheney’s voting record as a House member from Wyoming, 1979 to 1989.
* Voted against federal funding for abortions, even in cases of rape, incest or life endangerment.
* Opposed creating a new Department of Education.
* Voted to reduce individual income taxes.
* Voted against a ban on armor-piercing bullets and a ban on plastic guns that might be smuggled past metal detectors.
* Opposed funding for the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.
* Favored raising the Social Security retirement age to 67 from 65.
* Opposed busing to achieve racial desegregation in public schools.
* Opposed the Equal Rights Amendment.
* Supported prayer in public schools.
* Supported aid to the anti-Communist forces in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
* Supported building an antimissile defense system.
* Supported production of MX missiles.
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Sources: Times staff and wire reports
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