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On 07/26/2002 Robin Hayes voted against an amendment that would have expanded the protections for government employees -- often referred to as "whistleblowers" -- who expose government wrongdoing by giving them the right to go to court instead of going through an internal review process.
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The U.S. House easily passed a measure on 12/14/2005, 308-122, to ban torture and limit interrogation tactics in U.S. detention facilities, setting uniform guidelines for the treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism.

The language, proposed by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), would prohibit "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" of anyone in the custody of the U.S. government. It easily passed the U.S. Senate as well, 90-9.

Unfortunately, Rep. Robin Hayes from North Carolina's 8th district didn't agree with prohibiting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. He voted against banning torture.

Back in March of 2005, the US House of Representatives voted to spend another 80 billion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House had a separate vote on whether to add an amendment stipulating that none of that money could be spent on torture, and the amendment passed: 240 to 2.

One of the two pro-torture Representatives was North Carolina's own Robin Hayes.

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On June 15, 2005, the House agreed, by a vote of 238 to 187, to an amendment that would prohibit the use of a section of the Patriot Act to obtain records of libraries and bookstores.

Robin Hayes voted against this amendment. Apparently he doesn't care if the government knows what books you read.

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