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Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record

* HE has never voted to raise taxes.
* HE has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
* HE has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
* HE has never voted to raise congressional pay.
* HE has never taken a government-paid junket.
* HE has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

* HE voted against the Patriot Act.
* HE voted against regulating the Internet.
* HE voted against the Iraq war.

* HE does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
* HE returns a portion of my annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

As a congressman, he also introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress. Find out more here and here .

Dr. Paul does not really identify with the beltway Republicans. He is against the war and has been from the start. Like Thomas Jefferson he does not believe we should have entangling alliances, such as fighting wars and trying to establish democracies in lands we have no business being in. At the same time he believes in a strong national defense. He believes in lower taxes and a smaller government. He believes in pulling out of free trade deals and world governmental organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA, as they are a threat to our sovereignty. He believes in personal property rights and that government does not have the right to take your property away from you for their use. In a break from most libertarians he believes in securing our borders, no amnesty for illegal aliens and no more anchor babies.

In Congress, Ron Paul has distinguished himself by his strict and sometimes unpopular adherence to small government conservative and libertarian principles. He has never voted to raise taxes or congressional pay and refuses to participate in the congressional pension system or take government-paid junkets.

Ron Paul's medical training was interrupted when he was drafted during the Vietnam War into the United States Air Force. He served as a flight surgeon at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas from 1963 to 1965. He then served in the Air National Guard from 1965 to 1968 while completing his medical residency in Pittsburgh.

Paul and his wife, Carol Wells, were married on February 1, 1957. Carol asked Ron to their first date at a Sadie Hawkins dance. They went to colleges in different states but kept in touch and married in Ron's senior year at Gettysburg College.

They have five children: Ronnie, Lori, Rand, Robert, and Joy. They also have eighteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. While they lived in Detroit for his residency, Carol ran a dance school in their basement. Three of the children, Robert, Rand, and Joy also became medical doctors. Rand specializes in ophthalmology and Robert specializes in family practice. Like Congressman Paul, his daughter Joy specializes in obstetrics/gynecology. Paul supported his children during their undergraduate and medical school years, not allowing them to take part in subsidized federal student loan programs. He has not signed up for a congressional pension for the same reason.

In his 2008 presidential campaign, Paul has stated that he would like to "reinstate the Constitution and restore the Republic." He believes in restoring and defending civil liberties. His voting record is consistent with his advocacy of a non-interventionist foreign policy and the rejection of a welfare state role for the federal government.

Paul's desire to secure U.S. borders remains a key topic in his 2008 presidential campaign. He opposes the North American Union proposition and its proposed integration of Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada. Paul voted "yes" on the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorizes the construction of an additional 700 miles of double-layered fencing between the U.S and Mexico. Paul opposes illegal immigration as well as amnesty for illegal immigrants. He also introduced legislation that would amend the Constitution to stop giving automatic citizenship to infants born in the United States to non-citizen parents, which has been in effect since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868.

Ron Paul links his strong pro-life position to his libertarian principles. Dr. Paul introduced H.R. 776 titled "Sanctity of Life Act of 2005" which would have defined life to begin at conception and would prohibit the federal government from regulating or funding abortions. Paul believes that abortion rights would be in the jurisdiction of the states citing that it is not an enumerated power of the federal government.

Dr. Paul is a staunch defender of a natural right to self defense, a proponent of individual Second Amendment rights and is the only 2008 Presidential candidate with a voting record rated A+ by Gun Owners of America.

He supports the U.S. converting to a free market health care system, saying in an interview on New Hampshire NPR that the present system is akin to a "corporatist-fascist" system which keeps prices high. He contends that prices decrease in industries with free markets due to technological innovation. He opposes the universal healthcare alternative offered by some Democrats as being harmful as well.

In the May 3, 2007, GOP Debate, Paul stated that as President, he would immediately seek the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the abolition of the income tax specifically. As Congressman, he has long fought for the prohibition of federal individual income taxes by repeal of the 16th Amendment. Paul has been named "The Taxpayer's Best Friend" by the National Taxpayers Union every year he has been in Congress, indicating a fiscal conservative voting record on spending of taxpayer dollars.

Dr. Paul opposed the USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and is the only 2008 Republican presidential candidate to have voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. Paul believes in a strong national defense and voted for the War in Afghanistan in 2001, but suggested alternatives including giving the President authority to grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, which would allow war to be carried out against individuals rather than foreign countries and allow local bounty hunters familiar with the Afghanistani terrain to be hired to capture Osama bin Laden and his co-conspirators. Paul stated that the bill "would allow Congress to authorize the President to specifically target Bin Laden and his associates using non-government armed forces. Since it is nearly impossible for U.S. intelligence teams to get close to Bin Laden, the marque and reprisal approach creates an incentive for people in Afghanistan or elsewhere to turn him over to the U.S." In 2002 Paul also voted for the Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act that would create a program where commercial airline pilots would be deputized as federal law enforcement officers and would then be permitted to carry guns aboard airlines, the bill was eventually amended to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which Ron Paul voted against.

Paul says that he is for the rights of individuals over both corporate and social special interests and has stated that "There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our Liberty."

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