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==Controversial votes==
==Controversial votes==
During Bernie Sanders 2006 Senatorial campaign, [[Republican]] opponent Rich Tarrant made an issues over Sanders 2003 vote against the [[Amber Alert]]. Which is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets in [[Canada]] and in the [[United States]], when police confirmed that a child has been abducted. The bill passed in the House of Representatives 410-14. Every United States Senator voted for it, including Vermont Senator's [[Patrick Leahy]] and [[Jim Jeffords]]. He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Women's Rights HIV Testing –Passage. Which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant.
During Bernie Sanders 2006 Senatorial campaign, [[Republican]] opponent Rich Tarrant made an issues over Sanders 2003 vote against the [[Amber Alert]]. Which is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets in [[Canada]] and in the [[United States]], when police confirmed that a child has been abducted. The bill passed in the House of Representatives 410-14. Every United States Senator voted for it, including Vermont Senator's [[Patrick Leahy]] and [[Jim Jeffords]]. He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Women's Rights HIV Testing –Passage. Which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant.
After countless stories of election fraud by the group ACORN, Bernie Sanders was one of seven Democrats that voted to continue funding [[ACORN]]. The vote failed and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate <ref>[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html Senate denies ACORN funding, Politico, September 14, 2009]</ref>
==References==
==References==