Eric I. Cantor
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2014: 113th Congress 37%
- 1: Concurring with Senate Amendments: H.R. 3547 - Omnibus Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014✘ Yea
Key Vote 1: Concurring with Senate Amendments: H.R. 3547 - Omnibus Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014
This bill funded the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year (through September, 2014). It spends $45 billion more than the budget caps established in 2011, and perpetuates a vast amount of wasteful spending from previous years. Lawmakers were also given almost no time to read this 1,500 page spending bill.
"Nay" votes scored. - 2: On the Conference Report: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)✘ Yea
Key Vote 2: On the Conference Report: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)
This final version of the Farm Bill, reconciled between the House and Senate, actually undoes some of the already modest reforms to crop insurance and food stamps that were previously in the bill. This five-year reauthorization of the Farm Bill will spend nearly a trillion dollars over ten years, and remains loaded with corporate welfare and special carve-outs for well-connected agricultural corporations.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: On Passage: S. 540 - Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 3: On Passage: S. 540 - Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act
This bill suspends the debt limit until March 15th of 2015, allowing the president to potentially run up as much debt as he pleases during that time period. The debt is already projected to increase by about $1 trillion over that period, to over $18 trillion. Meanwhile, this debt ceiling suspension contains no reforms to curb spending whatsoever.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: On Passage: H.R. 1944 - Private Property Rights Protection Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 4: On Passage: H.R. 1944 - Private Property Rights Protection Act
This bill would effectively undo the damaging Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo v. New London, which held that the government can redistribute property from one individual to another if it serves a community's "economic development. The bill stops federal, state, and local governments from exercising eminent domain to seize private property for the purpose of "economic development" or any other transfer from a private owner to another private entity. It also provides legal rights for property owners to sue the government for abuse of eminent domain.
"Yea" votes scored. - 5: On Passage: H.R. 3865 - Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 5: On Passage: H.R. 3865 - Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act
This bill would stop the IRS for one year from finalizing a proposed regulation that would stop grassroots non-profit groups from engaging in political free speech. On the heels of the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the regulation that this bill would delay would seemingly finish their job by excluding tea parties and other grassroots groups from any role in the political process.
"Yea" votes scored. - 6: On Passage: H.R. 3370 - Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 6: On Passage: H.R. 3370 - Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act
This bill would delay a major reform to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that would have returned some semblance of market rates to flood insurance premiums. Currently, NFIP is over $25 billion in debt because homeowners in frequently flooded areas do not have to pay an amount that is equal to the risk they incur, meaning that the government takes a loss when the inevitable floods occur. By delaying the scheduled reforms, the NFIP will require a taxpayer bailout for billions of dollars.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: On Passage: H.R. 4118 - SIMPLE Fairness Act (One-year Delay of ObamaCare's Individual Mandate)✔ Yea
Key Vote 7: On Passage: H.R. 4118 - SIMPLE Fairness Act (One-year Delay of ObamaCare's Individual Mandate)
Delaying Obamacare's unconstitutional individual insurance mandate extends the same exception to the law that was extended to businesses with the delay of the employer mandate. This delay would also prevent Obamacare from taking full effect, and provides an extended window to work on defunding, delaying, or dismantling the entire law.
"Yea" votes scored. - 8: On Passage: H.R. 3826 - Electricity Security and Affordability Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 8: On Passage: H.R. 3826 - Electricity Security and Affordability Act
This bill would stop the EPA from imposing proposed regulations that would effectively ban new coal-fired power plants from ever being constructed. It would require the EPA to take into account current achievable technologies from existing plants when setting future emission reductions, stopping them from promulgating impossible regulations that would kill the coal industry.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: On Passage: H.R. 1871 - Baseline Reform Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 9: On Passage: H.R. 1871 - Baseline Reform Act
This bill would require that all government budget calculations be made based upon the spending levels for the current fiscal year. Currently, budget projections assume an automatic increase in federal spending based upon the rate of inflation, meaning that even stopping the growth of federal spending would be scored as a cut. Baseline budgeting would force Congress to account for this "automatic" growth of government spending honestly.
"Yea" votes scored. - 10: On the Amendment: H.Amdt 671 to H.R. 4435 - Preventing NDAA funds from being used to implement climate change initiatives✔ Yea
Key Vote 10: On the Amendment: H.Amdt 671 to H.R. 4435 - Preventing NDAA funds from being used to implement climate change initiatives
This amendment specifically prevents Defense funding from being used to implement any climate change recommendations that are based upon controversial international and U.S. scientific assessments, including the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report, the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, or the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainable development plan.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 696 to H.R. 4660 - To eliminate the Economic Development Administration✘ Nay
Key Vote 11: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 696 to H.R. 4660 - To eliminate the Economic Development Administration
This amendment by Rep. Mike Pompeo would eliminate the Economic Development Administration, a Great Society creation that has turned into a de facto backdoor earmark program.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 742 to H.R. 4660 - To reduce funding for CJS Appropriations by 1%✘ Nay
Key Vote 12: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 742 to H.R. 4660 - To reduce funding for CJS Appropriations by 1%
This amendment by Rep. Marsha Blackburn would reduce the spending levels in the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill by 1% across the board, with the exception of funding for the FBI.
"Yea" votes scored. - 13: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 815 to H.R. 4745 - To prohibit federal funds for the purchase of license plate cameras✔ Yea
Key Vote 13: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 815 to H.R. 4745 - To prohibit federal funds for the purchase of license plate cameras
This amendment by Rep. John Fleming would prevent federal funding for state and local license plate scanning programs. Mass scanning of license plates has the potential to be as invasive of individuals' privacy as the NSA's phone data collection, and should not be subsidized federally.
"Yea" votes scored. - 14: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 824 to H.R. 4745 - To cut T-HUD spending by 1%☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 14: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 824 to H.R. 4745 - To cut T-HUD spending by 1%
This amendment by Rep. Marsha Blackburn would cut spending from Transportation and Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill by 1% across the board.
"Yea" votes scored. - 15: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 935 to H.R. 4870 - To restrict agencies from accessing U.S. citizens' communications metadata✘ Nay
Key Vote 15: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 935 to H.R. 4870 - To restrict agencies from accessing U.S. citizens' communications metadata
This amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie requires the NSA and other intelligence agencies to obtain specific warrants in order to access communications metadata collected on American citizens. It also stops intelligence agencies from using "backdoor" security vulnerabilities to access companies' data.
"Yea" votes scored. - 16: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 992 to H.R. 4923 - To reduce or eliminate funding for three Department of Energy programs✘ Nay
Key Vote 16: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 992 to H.R. 4923 - To reduce or eliminate funding for three Department of Energy programs
This amendment by Rep. Tom McClintock would eliminate all funding for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program and the Fossil Energy Research and Development Program, and reduce funding for the Nuclear Energy Programs, saving taxpayers $3.1 billion dollars.
"Yea" votes scored. - 17: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 1049 to H.R. 4923 - To reduce non defense spending in the bill to 2008 levels✘ Nay
Key Vote 17: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 1049 to H.R. 4923 - To reduce non defense spending in the bill to 2008 levels
This amendment by Rep. Richard Hudson would reduce spending in the Energy & Water Appropriations bill by 7.4831%, which would return spending in the bill to 2008 levels. Defense and nuclear security programs would be exempted from the cut.
"Yea" votes scored. - 18: On Passage: H.R. 5021 - Highway and Transportation Funding Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 18: On Passage: H.R. 5021 - Highway and Transportation Funding Act
This bill bails out the nearly depleted Highway Trust Fund through May of 2015, using revenue gimmicks to supposedly offset most of the cost. The Highway Trust fund desperately needs reform instead of merely continuing to receive periodic taxpayer bailouts.
"Nay" votes scored. - 19: On Passage: H.R. 5078 - Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act✘ Nay
Key Vote 19: On Passage: H.R. 5078 - Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act
This bill would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing a new rule that would allow them to regulate practically any water under the Clean Water Act. The CWA was intended to regulate "navigable waterways", but the EPA wants to be able to regulate everything from irrigation ditches to ponds to dry creek beds - which would massively infringe upon property owners' rights to develop their own land.
"Yea" votes scored. - 20: On Passage: H.R. 24 - Federal Reserve Transparency Act✘ Nay
Key Vote 20: On Passage: H.R. 24 - Federal Reserve Transparency Act
This bill would require a full and comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve. The central bank of the United States has operated in secrecy for over a century, and should be fully open to Congressional and public scrutiny.
"Yea" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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2013: 113th Congress 59%
- 1: H.Amdt. 4 to H.R. 152 - To offset $17 billion of hurricane relief funds by cutting discretionary spending by 1.63%✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: H.Amdt. 4 to H.R. 152 - To offset $17 billion of hurricane relief funds by cutting discretionary spending by 1.63%
The funding for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts was appropriated as "emergency" funding, meaning that it was above and beyond the amount of spending allowed by existing budget caps. This amendment by Rep. Mulvaney would simply offset a large portion of this emergency spending by making a slight, across-the-board reduction in discretionary spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.Amdt.5 to H.R. 152 - To add $33.677 billion in additional spending.✔ Nay
Key Vote 2: H.Amdt.5 to H.R. 152 - To add $33.677 billion in additional spending.
This amendment, sponsored by Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11), would add another $33 billion to the Disaster Relief Act, bringing the total spending in the bill to over $50 billion. Although the bill is supposedly to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy, the better portion of this amendment funds unrelated programs such as community development block grants. The "emergency" spending is also not offset, meaning that it will add to the federal deficit.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: H.R. 152 - Disaster Relief Appropriations Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 3: H.R. 152 - Disaster Relief Appropriations Act
This bill is an "emergency" appropriations bill that contains $50.1 billion in spending that is supposed to aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy. In reality, however, most of the spending will not provide acute disaster relief, and much of it is not even scheduled to be spent until 2014 or later. Thus, the bill functions more like a stimulus than true disaster relief and its spending should be appropriated through the budget process instead of as emergency spending that adds to the federal deficit.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: H.R. 325 - To Increase the Debt Limit until May 19th, 2013✘ Yea
Key Vote 4: H.R. 325 - To Increase the Debt Limit until May 19th, 2013
This bill raises the statutory limit on the public debt (the "debt ceiling") by whatever amount is necessary to reach May 19th, 2013. Although the bill theoretically contains a "no budget, no pay" provision conditional upon the Senate passing a budget resolution, in reality the provision has no teeth. FreedomWorks insists that further increases in the debt ceiling by accompanied by proportional decreases in federal spending in order to address the ever-increasing federal debt, which at the time of this bill stood at $16.4 trillion. Instead, this bill amounts to a "clean" debt ceiling hike, accompanied by the unenforceable promise of spending reforms at a later date.
"Nay" votes scored. - 5: H.Res. 99 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 933 (the Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government)✘ Yea
Key Vote 5: H.Res. 99 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 933 (the Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government)
This closed rule does allow for any extended debate or amendments to the Continuing Resolution, thus allowing a bill that spends at the rate of over $1 trillion per year to be passed without any input from individual Members of Congress on the floor of the House.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.R. 45 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other Obamacare-related provisions✔ Yea
Key Vote 6: H.R. 45 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other Obamacare-related provisions
This bill would repeal ObamaCare entirely, stopping the government takeover of our health care. If allowed to take effect, ObamaCare will greatly increase health insurance costs, reduce the quality of care, and eventually lead to direct rationing of care. It also contains unconstitutional mandates that attempt to force people to buy health insurance, an unprecedented use of federal power.
"Yea" votes scored. - 7: H.R. 1947 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)✘ Yea
Key Vote 7: H.R. 1947 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)
The so-called "Farm Bill" is actually a combination of agricultural policy and welfare, with food stamps accounting for 80 percent of the bill's nearly trillion dollars in projected spending. Aside from failing to contain the multitude of faults within the rapidly-expanding food welfare programs, the agricultural portion of the bill is an amalgam of direct corporate welfare for insurance companies and farm corporations and special carve-outs and price supports for the specific industries with the best lobbyists.
"Nay" votes scored. - 8: H.Amdt. 258 to H.R. 2609 - To eliminate $1.544 billion from funding for various energy R&D programs✔ Yea
Key Vote 8: H.Amdt. 258 to H.R. 2609 - To eliminate $1.544 billion from funding for various energy R&D programs
This amendment by Rep. McClintock would cut $1.544 billion from various research and development programs for alternative energy. The free market can take care of researching and development the next generation of energy technologies far more efficiently than the federal government can, without the distorting effect of the government picking winners and losers.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)✘ Yea
Key Vote 9: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)
This version of the Farm Bill contains only the actual agricultural side of the earlier bill, leaving food stamps to be considered as their own bill. Unfortunately, this bill actually makes the Farm Bill worse by making the billions in subsidies to farm corporations and dozens of special hand-outs to favored industries permanent, instead of making free market reforms. The bill also still contains the brand new, unnecessary "shallow-loss" crop insurance entitlement, which will actually increase the Farm Bill's cost.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: H.R. 2668 - Fairness for American Families Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 10: H.R. 2668 - Fairness for American Families Act
This bill would simply delay the enactment of ObamaCare's "individual mandate" for one year, extending the same temporary reprieve for individuals that was granted to businesses when the administration delayed the employer mandate. Delaying the individual mandate effectively forces a delay of the entire law, and buys time to work to defund and dismantle ObamaCare entirely.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: H.Amdt. 413 to H.R. 2397 - to prevent the NSA from blanket metadata collection on Americans without specific authorization.✘ Nay
Key Vote 11: H.Amdt. 413 to H.R. 2397 - to prevent the NSA from blanket metadata collection on Americans without specific authorization.
This amendment to the DoD Appropriations Act, by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), protects a basic 4th Amendment right by requiring that the NSA can only gather electronic data from people who are actively under an investigation with approval of the FISA court. This is basic due process under the law - you need a specific warrant to search and seize an individual's physical property; the same should apply to that individual's communications and digital property.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: On the Amendment: H.Amdt.422 to H.R. 2610 - To eliminate the Essential Air Service program✔ Yea
Key Vote 12: On the Amendment: H.Amdt.422 to H.R. 2610 - To eliminate the Essential Air Service program
This amendment to the T-HUD Appropriations bill would eliminate the Essential Air Service program, a wasteful federal subsidy that supports seldom-used rural airfields. This would save taxpayers $100 million.
"Yea" votes scored. - 13: H.Amdt. 448 to H.R. 367 - To require that Congress be allowed to vote on any tax or levy upon carbon emissions✔ Yea
Key Vote 13: H.Amdt. 448 to H.R. 367 - To require that Congress be allowed to vote on any tax or levy upon carbon emissions
This amendment by Rep. Scalise (R-LA) effectively prevents the executive branch from levying any form of carbon tax without Congressional approval. Since a carbon tax would be tremendously destructive to the economy as a whole, this measure would hopefully make such a tax far less likely to pass.
"Yea" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 367 - Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 14: H.R. 367 - Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act
This bill, entitled the “REINS Act”, would require a vote in Congress on any “major” regulations issued by the executive branch before it could be enforced on the American people. The REINS Act would thus restore accountability and protect citizens’ rights by giving elected officials a voice in all major regulations issued.
"Yea" votes scored. - 15: H.R. 2009 - Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 15: H.R. 2009 - Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act
This bill would prevent the IRS from implementing or enforcing any aspect of ObamaCare. Under the law as written, the IRS would have access to a massive new data source called the "Federal Data Services Hub", which would give the IRS employees charged with enforcing ObamaCare's mandates unprecedented access to information about each and every taxpayer. In the wake of multiple scandals in which IRS employees deliberately leaked sensitive personal information on political candidates and groups, it makes little sense to put them in charge or our health care.
"Yea" votes scored. - 16: Meadows Letter to Defund ObamaCare through the Continuing Resolution✘ Nay
Key Vote 16: Meadows Letter to Defund ObamaCare through the Continuing Resolution
Congressman Mark Meadows solicited signatures for a letter to Speaker Boehner, asking that the House Republicans stand firm in their commitment to defund ObamaCare through the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government. Members who signed the letter affirmed their commitment to resist ObamaCare using a must-pass bill (the CR), rather than continuing to take ineffectual, symbolic votes to that effect.
"Yea" votes scored. - 17: H.J. Res. 59 - Continuing Resolution (with no funding for ObamaCare)✔ Yea
Key Vote 17: H.J. Res. 59 - Continuing Resolution (with no funding for ObamaCare)
This initial Continuing Resolution offered by the House during the debate over the funding for ObamaCare fully funds the entire federal government except for any further implementation or operation of ObamaCare. The premium increases, dropped insurance policies, and delays of major portions of ObamaCare made clear that this poorly-written law could not succeed, and this Continuing Resolution was the last chance to stop ObamaCare's harmful policies before they took full effect.
"Yea" votes scored. Double Score - 18: To Concur in Senate Amendments: H.R. 2775 - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014✘ Yea
Key Vote 18: To Concur in Senate Amendments: H.R. 2775 - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014
H.R. 2775 was used as the vehicle for the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government. This bill funds the government fully (including ObamaCare) through January 15th of 2014, suspends the debt ceiling completely until February of 2014, and obliges both chambers of Congress to go to conference on a full-year budget. In other words, this CR allows for more uncontrolled spending and debt, with no reforms to either, does nothing to address ObamaCare, and potentially promises more future spending if a budget agreement is reached.
"Nay" votes scored. - 19: H.R. 2728 - Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 19: H.R. 2728 - Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act
This bill would protect individual states' rights to develop energy resources within their borders by declaring state regulations on hydraulic fracturing to have supremacy over those issued by the federal EPA. Hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") has proven to be a safe and economical way to develop America's vast natural gas resources, and in those state which choose to allow fracking thousands of new jobs will be created as a result.
"Yea" votes scored. - 20: H.R. 1900 - Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 20: H.R. 1900 - Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act
This bill simply expedites the permitting process for establishing natural gas pipelines. Currently the federal government has slowed down pipeline construction by as much as several years in many instances, and this bill would require that the permitting process be finished within one year of a permit request being filed.
"Yea" votes scored. - 21: On Concurring in the Senate Amendment: H.J.Res. 59 - The Ryan/Murray Budget✘ Yea
Key Vote 21: On Concurring in the Senate Amendment: H.J.Res. 59 - The Ryan/Murray Budget
This is the final House vote to pass the budget deal negotiated by Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray. The deal breaks the budget caps established in 2011 by $63 billion over two years, while claiming to contain a net deficit reduction over ten years by raising fees and making other minor cuts. With no guarantee that future congresses will obey the scheduled spending cuts, this bill delivers increases in both spending and taxes in exchange for no meaningful reforms.
"Nay" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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2012: 112th Congress 37%
- 1: H.R. 1173 - Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: H.R. 1173 - Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act
The bill would repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act is the long-term care entitlement, which even the Dept. of Health and Human Services admits is prohibitively expensive. Voting to repeal CLASS at this time advances the larger goal of fully repealing President Obama's unworkable Affordable Care Act.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.R. 3578 - To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reform the budget baseline✔ Yea
Key Vote 2: H.R. 3578 - To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reform the budget baseline
The bill would reform the way that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calculates the baseline spending assumptions that are the basis for all of its projections of future spending. The legislation would remove the assumption from CBO calculations that spending will increase each year in proportion to inflation, which makes Congress’ new spending each year look like less than it is. The Baseline Reform Act would make the federal budget process more honest and transparent.
"Yea" votes scored. - 3: H.R. 4105 - To apply the countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 to nonmarket economy countries✘ Yea
Key Vote 3: H.R. 4105 - To apply the countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 to nonmarket economy countries
FreedomWorks opposes this bill. It would allow the Department of Commerce to continue issuing countervailing duty (CVD) on imports from China, Vietnam and other countries deemed non-market economies (NMEs). H.R. 4105 would hurt U.S. consumers and importers while further escalating a trade war with China. Like other taxes, the cost of tariffs, including “countervailing duties” are only paid by consumers.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: H.Amdt.1003 to H.Con.Res. 112 - Substitute amendment containing the Republican Study Committee budget for FY 2013✘ Nay
Key Vote 4: H.Amdt.1003 to H.Con.Res. 112 - Substitute amendment containing the Republican Study Committee budget for FY 2013
The amendment would replace Paul Ryan's budget proposal, which does not balance until after 2040, with the Republican Study Committee's alternative proposal, which would balance in five years. The RSC's budget also simplifies the tax code, reforms Medicare and Social Security, and caps federal spending at just below 2008 levels. The RSC budget is the kind of aggressive but workable reform we need in order to get America back on the path to fiscal sustainability.
"Yea" votes scored. - 5: H.R. 4628 - To extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans✘ Yea
Key Vote 5: H.R. 4628 - To extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans
This bill would keep student loan rates at 3.4 percent instead of allowing them to rise to their 2007 level of 6.8 percent. Artificially keeping student loan rates low not only costs taxpayers billions of dollars, it also distorts markets by encouraging students to take loans that they otherwise may not have been able to afford, which in turn encourages colleges to charge more for tuition.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.Amdt.1039 to H.R. 5326 - to eliminate the Economic Development Administration☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 6: H.Amdt.1039 to H.R. 5326 - to eliminate the Economic Development Administration
This amendment would eliminate the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which is an obsolete program whose grants are being used by many Members of Congress to essentially create earmarks. Eliminating this useless program would also save over $500 million per year.
"Yea" votes scored. - 7: H.Amdt.1065 to H.R. 5326 - to cut Commerce, Science, & Justice appropriations by 1%☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 7: H.Amdt.1065 to H.R. 5326 - to cut Commerce, Science, & Justice appropriations by 1%
This amendment would cut Commerce, Science & Justice Appropriations across the board by 1%, for an annual savings of $511 million.
"Yea" votes scored. - 8: H.Amdt.1066 to H.R. 5326 - to cut $2.7 billion from selected portions of CJS appropriations.☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 8: H.Amdt.1066 to H.R. 5326 - to cut $2.7 billion from selected portions of CJS appropriations.
This amendment would reduce spending for each of the agencies funded by this bill by 12.2%, exempting certain key organizations such as the U.S. Marshals and the FBI. This would save $2.7 billion in FY 2014 and apply that money towards reducing the budget deficit.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: To Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H.R. 2072 - To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, and for other purposes✘ Yea
Key Vote 9: To Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H.R. 2072 - To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, and for other purposes
FreedomWorks opposes reauthorizing the Export-Import bank because it is essentially a corporate welfare program that hands out trade subsidies to politically connected companies. The government could better improve exports by reducing regulations and corporate taxation, which would render American manufacturing more competitive with the rest of the world.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: H.Amdt.1178 to H.R 5325 - to eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program.✔ Yea
Key Vote 10: H.Amdt.1178 to H.R 5325 - to eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program.
This amendment would eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, which directly subsidizes green energy companies. This program is pure corporate welfare, with the government picking winners and losers in the energy sector, and eliminating it would save taxpayers $1.45 billion annually.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: H.Amdt. 1185 to H.R. 5325 - To defund the Fossil Fuel Research and Development programs✘ Nay
Key Vote 11: H.Amdt. 1185 to H.R. 5325 - To defund the Fossil Fuel Research and Development programs
This amendment would eliminate much of the Department of Fossil Energy, another federal agency which uses taxpayer dollars to subsidize green energy research. This would save nearly half a billion dollars in 2013, and return more research and development to the private sector where it belongs.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: H.Amdt.1217 to H.R. 5325 - to cut $3.1 billion from Energy and Water appropriations.✘ Nay
Key Vote 12: H.Amdt.1217 to H.R. 5325 - to cut $3.1 billion from Energy and Water appropriations.
This amendment would cut nearly 10% from the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, for an annual savings of $3.1 billion. This cut would comply with the Republican Study Committee's budget, which aims to balance the federal budget in five years.
"Yea" votes scored. - 13: Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4348 - to require that transportation spending be capped.✘ Nay
Key Vote 13: Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 4348 - to require that transportation spending be capped.
This motion by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) would instruct the House conferees to insist upon capping highway spending at the amount taken in by the gas tax. The gas tax was intended to be the sole revenue source for the Highway Trust Fund, but the federal government has routinely outspent their revenue supply in the past decades, requiring periodic bailouts of the Trust Fund.
"Yea" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 5972 - Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.✘ Yea
Key Vote 14: H.R. 5972 - Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.
This bill provides funding for the Departments of Transportation and Housing & Urban Development. It increases funding for such unnecessary programs as Amtrak, the Essential Air Service, and community development block grants. The bill fails to make any real cuts to spending, in spite of the country's massive deficits.
"Nay" votes scored. - 15: On the Conference Report: H.R. 4348 - To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway ... transit, and other programs✘ Yea
Key Vote 15: On the Conference Report: H.R. 4348 - To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway ... transit, and other programs
FreedomWorks opposes this bill because it reauthorizes federal highway spending at a level that far exceeds its revenue from the gas tax. This bill also includes an amendment which continues the artificial lowering of student loan rates, a practice which encourages students to incur debt that they cannot afford to pay back.
"Nay" votes scored. - 16: H.R. 6079 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)✔ Yea
Key Vote 16: H.R. 6079 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)
This bill would fully repeal the unaffordable and unpopular health care law popularly known as "ObamaCare". ObamaCare fails to either protect patients or make health care more affordable, and must be repealed and replaced with free-market, patient-centered reforms to bring competition into the industry and drive down costs for all consumers.
"Yea" votes scored. - 17: H.Amdt. 1431 to H.R. 5856 - To cut $1.07 billion from DoD Appropriations✘ Nay
Key Vote 17: H.Amdt. 1431 to H.R. 5856 - To cut $1.07 billion from DoD Appropriations
This amendment selectively cuts $1.07 billion from the Department of Defense's Appropriations, exempting military pay and benefits from any cuts. As the DoD accounts for over 40% of total discretionary spending, targeted cuts in defense spending will be necessary in order to ever balance the budget.
"Yea" votes scored. - 18: H.R. 459 - To require a full audit of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks ✔ Yea
Key Vote 18: H.R. 459 - To require a full audit of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks
This bill would require the Comptroller of the United States to conduct a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve, in order to determine where this powerful and notoriously opaque private agency has been allocating the U.S. money supply. Transparency in the Federal Reserve is an essential first step to reestablishing a sound monetary policy.
"Yea" votes scored. - 19: H.R. 3409 - Stop the War on Coal Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 19: H.R. 3409 - Stop the War on Coal Act
This bill would prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from promulgating upcoming regulations that would devastate the coal industry and make it nearly impossible for many companies to develop new mines. Attacking coal development will massively increase the cost of energy over a large portion of the country, further straining resources in the midst of a weak economy.
"Yea" votes scored. - 20: On Concurring with the Senate Amendments: H.R. 8 - Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012✔ Nay
Key Vote 20: On Concurring with the Senate Amendments: H.R. 8 - Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
This bill is the vehicle for the deal brokered by Senator McConnell and Vice President Biden to avert the "fiscal cliff". While it extends the 2001, 2003 and 2009 tax cuts and credits for most Americans, it allows them to expire on those earning over $450,000 per year. The bill also contains a $30 billion extension of unemployment benefits, and reauthorizes the 2008 Farm Bill for nine months. H.R. 8 allows the payroll tax holiday to expire, effectively raising taxes on 77% of taxpayers, yet extends dozens of tax credits and deductions that amount to corporate welfare for special interests. It also fails to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all Americans, thus raising taxes at a time when economic growth is desperately needed.
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2011: 112th Congress 72%
- 1: H.R. 2 - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: H.R. 2 - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
The bill would fully repeal the deeply controversial “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (ObamaCare) passed in March 2010. ObamaCare will reduce the quality and drive up the cost of health care, and contains an unconstitutional mandate requiring Americans to purchase health care simply because they exist.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.Amdt.16 to H.R. 1 - To cut spending by $450 million✘ Nay
Key Vote 2: H.Amdt.16 to H.R. 1 - To cut spending by $450 million
This amendment would save taxpayers $450 million by cutting the development of the superfluous second engine for the F-35 fighter jet. The military already has one functioning engine for the F-35, and this second design is a wasteful payoff to defense contractors. Even the military says that this program is not necessary.
"Yea" votes scored. - 3: H.Amdt. 45 to H.R. 1 - to cut the EPA's budget by $64 million✔ Yea
Key Vote 3: H.Amdt. 45 to H.R. 1 - to cut the EPA's budget by $64 million
This bill would cut the EPA's science and technology budget by $64 million. EPA programs were given massive increases in funding in 2010, and were clearly over-funded. Many of these programs are redundant and wasteful, funding scientific studies that should be left to academia and the private sector.
"Yea" votes scored. - 4: H.Amdt. 58 to H.R. 1 - saving taxpayers $100 million✔ Yea
Key Vote 4: H.Amdt. 58 to H.R. 1 - saving taxpayers $100 million
This amendment would save taxpayers $100 million by reducing the Child & Family Services entitlement, a program which contains a great deal of fraud and wasted spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 5: H.Amdt. 102 to H.R. 1 - to prohibit funds to employees who implement ObamaCare✔ Yea
Key Vote 5: H.Amdt. 102 to H.R. 1 - to prohibit funds to employees who implement ObamaCare
This amendment prohibits the use of funds to pay any employee, officer, contractor, or grantee of any department or agency to implement the provisions of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also known as "ObamaCare."
"Yea" votes scored. - 6: H.Amdt.104 to H.R. 1 - to stop allocation of funds to Obamacare✔ Yea
Key Vote 6: H.Amdt.104 to H.R. 1 - to stop allocation of funds to Obamacare
This amendment would prevent any funds from H.R. 1 from being allocated to the implementation of the job-killing and unconstitutional bill popularly known as ObamaCare.
"Yea" votes scored. - 7: H.Amdt.105 to H.R. 1 - cutting funding for implementation of ObamaCare✔ Yea
Key Vote 7: H.Amdt.105 to H.R. 1 - cutting funding for implementation of ObamaCare
This amendment specifically disallows any funds from H.R. 1 from being used to pay the salary of any employee working to implement ObamaCare.
"Yea" votes scored. - 8: H.Amdt.106 to H.R. 1 - Denies implementation of the individual mandate of ObamaCare✔ Yea
Key Vote 8: H.Amdt.106 to H.R. 1 - Denies implementation of the individual mandate of ObamaCare
This bill prevents the IRS from being allowed to enforce the penalty under ObamaCare for failing to enroll in a health insurance plan. Basically, this would make the unconstitutional individual mandate in ObamaCare powerless, as there would be no consequences for failing to comply with it.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: H.Amdt. 111 to H.R. 1 - To reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels and cut $18.6 billion✘ Nay
Key Vote 9: H.Amdt. 111 to H.R. 1 - To reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels and cut $18.6 billion
This Republican Study Committee amendment would reduce discretionary spending back to 2008 levels, which would amount to $18.6 billion in cuts in 2011 alone.
"Yea" votes scored. - 10: H.Amdt. 167 to H.R. 1 - to cut non-defense discretionary spending to 2006 levels✘ Nay
Key Vote 10: H.Amdt. 167 to H.R. 1 - to cut non-defense discretionary spending to 2006 levels
This amendment would reduce all non-defense discretionary spending to 2006 levels, saving taxpayers billions of dollars in 2011 alone. This is by far the boldest of the spending cuts offered to the 2011 appropriations bill.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: H.Amdt.169 to H.R. 1 - to prevent the 2011 budget from being required to pay for inflated union wages✔ Yea
Key Vote 11: H.Amdt.169 to H.R. 1 - to prevent the 2011 budget from being required to pay for inflated union wages
This bill would prevent any projects in the 2011 budget from being required to comply with Davis-Bacon wage requirements. Davis-Bacon is a leftover from the New Deal era which costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year because it requires government contractors to pay "local prevailing wages" for every project, which usually leads to expensive union labor receiving the contracts.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: H.R. 1 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011✔ Yea
Key Vote 12: H.R. 1 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
This omnibus appropriations bill for 2011 includes the largest single discretionary spending cut in history, cutting $106 billion from various programs and departments. While this is only a fraction of the cuts needed to rein in the government’s spending, it is a very good first step in the right direction.
"Yea" votes scored. - 13: H.R. 4 - Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011✔ Yea
Key Vote 13: H.R. 4 - Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011
This bill eliminates the 1099 reporting mandate from Obamacare. Due to a provision hidden in the 2,400 page health care law passed last March, businesses will be required to submit an IRS form 1099 for all goods and services purchased over $600 starting in 2012. This is a paperwork nightmare that will significantly hurt small businesses and cost an abundance of jobs, and must be repealed.
"Yea" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 830 - FHA Refinance Program Termination Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 14: H.R. 830 - FHA Refinance Program Termination Act
The bill would eliminate the inefficient FHA Refinance Program, saving taxpayers $8 billion. This program, one of the T.A.R.P bailout programs, refinances underwater loans to the FHA, which by the government’s own admission transfers the risk on these bad investments to the taxpayer. This program should never have been created, as it is a clear violation of free market principles.
"Yea" votes scored. - 15: H.R. 836 - To rescind the unobligated funding for the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program and to terminate the program✔ Yea
Key Vote 15: H.R. 836 - To rescind the unobligated funding for the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program and to terminate the program
The bill would end the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Emergency Homeowners Relief Program, saving taxpayers $1 billion. The program provides high-loss mortgage loan subsidies to people who are very unlikely to be able to pay back the money, which merely delays the inevitable foreclosures and wastes taxpayers’ dollars.
"Yea" votes scored. - 16: H.J.Res. 48 - Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes✘ Yea
Key Vote 16: H.J.Res. 48 - Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes
This bill contains a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government. Because the Senate has refused to pass a budget for three years, the government has been funded through these CR’s, continuing our unsustainable levels of deficit spending without even the transparency of the open budget process.
"Nay" votes scored. - 17: H.R. 471 - Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 17: H.R. 471 - Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act
This bill would reauthorize the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provided school vouchers to allow parents in failing school districts to send their children to higher-quality schools of their choice. Congress ended this program in 2009 despite its overwhelming success.
"Yea" votes scored. - 18: H.R. 910 - Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011✔ Yea
Key Vote 18: H.R. 910 - Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
This bill, the “Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011”, would stop Obama's cap and trade scheme by completely stripping the EPA of its ability to use the 'Clean Air Act' to regulate greenhouse gases. This is important legislation that would take serious steps towards addressing high energy costs and ensuring America's energy security.
"Yea" votes scored. - 19: H.J.Res. 37 - Disapproving of the rule submitted by the FCC with respect to regulating the Internet✔ Yea
Key Vote 19: H.J.Res. 37 - Disapproving of the rule submitted by the FCC with respect to regulating the Internet
H.J. Res 37 would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing net neutrality regulations on Internet providers. These job-killing regulations would involve new government controls on the Internet that would have significant implications for investing in innovation and broadband deployment.
"Yea" votes scored. - 20: H.Amdt.258 to H.Con.Res. 34 - To replace the Paul Ryan budget with the RSC's budget✘ Nay
Key Vote 20: H.Amdt.258 to H.Con.Res. 34 - To replace the Paul Ryan budget with the RSC's budget
This substitute amendment would replace Paul Ryan's budget with the Republican Study Committee's alternative proposal, which would actually balance the federal budget in about a decade. Ryan's budget, while a step in the right direction, would not balance the budget until at least 2040 – far too slowly given the massive size of our nation’s debt.
"Yea" votes scored. - 21: H.Con.Res. 34 - Congressman Paul Ryan's Budget for Fiscal Year 2012✔ Yea
Key Vote 21: H.Con.Res. 34 - Congressman Paul Ryan's Budget for Fiscal Year 2012
This bill is Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal for FY 2012. It would balance the federal budget by 2040 without raising taxes, and would cut $6.2 trillion over the next decade compared to President Obama’s budget. The plan reduces government spending to below 20 percent of GDP and block grants Medicaid to the states.
"Yea" votes scored. - 22: H.R. 1213 - To repeal mandatory funding to the states to establish health care exchanges.✔ Yea
Key Vote 22: H.R. 1213 - To repeal mandatory funding to the states to establish health care exchanges.
The bill would repeal mandatory funding provided to states in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) to establish American Health Benefit Exchanges. The Obama administration is already using this unlimited slush fund to seduce states into collaborating in the implementation of ObamaCare and has hinted at tapping it to bail out exploding state Medicaid budgets. H.R. 1213 would strike the unlimited direct appropriation and rescind any unobligated funds.
"Yea" votes scored. - 23: H.R. 1229 - Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 23: H.R. 1229 - Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
The bill would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the production of American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration has delayed or canceled offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. The bill would jumpstart offshore oil drilling by implementing a 30-day deadline in which the secretary of the U.S. Interior Department would have to make a decision on the Gulf of Mexico drilling permit applications.
"Yea" votes scored. - 24: On Agreeing: H.Amdt.397 to H.R. 2017 - to reduce spending of the legislation by 10%✘ Nay
Key Vote 24: On Agreeing: H.Amdt.397 to H.R. 2017 - to reduce spending of the legislation by 10%
The amendment to Homeland Security appropriations would cut funding to that department by 10% across the board. This would save over $3.5 billion from current funding levels.
"Yea" votes scored. - 25: H.Amdt. 428 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $700 million dollars in waste to pay off the debt✔ Yea
Key Vote 25: H.Amdt. 428 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $700 million dollars in waste to pay off the debt
This amendment to the “megabus” appropriations bill would reduce funding for the Economic Research Service by $43 million; reduce funding for the National Agriculture Statistical Service by $85 million; reduce funding for the Agriculture research service by $650 million; zero out the Food for Peace program and to apply the savings towards reducing the budget deficit.
"Yea" votes scored. - 26: H.Amdt. 443 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $900 million in waste and apply to a spending reduction account✔ Yea
Key Vote 26: H.Amdt. 443 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $900 million in waste and apply to a spending reduction account
This amendment to the “megabus” appropriations bill would reduce Food for Peace Title II Grants by $940 million and apply the savings towards reducing the budget deficit.
"Yea" votes scored. - 27: H.Amdt.596 to H.R. 2354 -to cut spending 9.93% ($3.04 billion) from Energy & Water Appropriations Act of 2012✘ Nay
Key Vote 27: H.Amdt.596 to H.R. 2354 -to cut spending 9.93% ($3.04 billion) from Energy & Water Appropriations Act of 2012
This amendment to the Energy & Water appropriations bill would cut spending by an additional $3.04 billion – nearly 10% - and apply that total to reducing the budget deficit.
"Yea" votes scored. - 28: H.R. 2560 - Cut, Cap, and Balance Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 28: H.R. 2560 - Cut, Cap, and Balance Act
This is the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011”, which would cut total spending for FY2012 by $111 billion, cap total federal spending, and require the passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that includes a super-majority requirement to raise taxes and a limit on spending before the debt limit can be raised.
"Yea" votes scored. - 29: H.Amdt. 715 to H.R. 2584 - to cut $3 billion and apply it to the spending reduction account✘ Nay
Key Vote 29: H.Amdt. 715 to H.R. 2584 - to cut $3 billion and apply it to the spending reduction account
This amendment to the Department of Interior appropriations would reduce spending in that department by over $3 billion and apply that money to reducing the budget deficit.
"Yea" votes scored. - 30: S. 365 - The Budget Control Act of 2011✘ Yea
Key Vote 30: S. 365 - The Budget Control Act of 2011
This weak bill, the “Budget Control Act of 2011”, allows President Obama to raise the debt ceiling to over $16 trillion, in exchange for undetermined spending cuts to be decided by a "Super-Committee" picked from both parties. This committee is unlikely to be able to agree to any real spending cuts, and is allowed to use tax increases to create the necessary deficit reductions.
"Nay" votes scored. - 31: H.R. 2587 - Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 31: H.R. 2587 - Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act
The bill would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from ordering any employer to close, relocate or transfer employment under any circumstance. The Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act would help ensure that the government agency does not over step their bounds by dictating decisions made by private sector companies.
"Yea" votes scored. - 32: On Passage: H.R. 2401 - To require analyses of the cumulative and incremental impacts of certain rules and actions of the EPA✔ Yea
Key Vote 32: On Passage: H.R. 2401 - To require analyses of the cumulative and incremental impacts of certain rules and actions of the EPA
This bill, the TRAIN Act, would establish an 11-member committee, chaired by the Department of Commerce, to analyze the impacts of a number of major Environment Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. This bill would push back against the EPA's unconstitutional, outrageous rules and regulations that raise energy prices for consumers, destroy jobs and increase our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
"Yea" votes scored. - 33: On Concurring to the Senate Amdt.: H.R. 2608 (Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government)✘ Yea
Key Vote 33: On Concurring to the Senate Amdt.: H.R. 2608 (Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government)
This bill was used as the vehicle for the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government. Because the Senate has refused to pass a budget for three years, the government has been funded through these CR’s, continuing our unsustainable levels of deficit spending without even the transparency of the open budget process.
"Nay" votes scored. - 35: H.R. 3078 - To implement the United States-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement✔ Yea
Key Vote 35: H.R. 3078 - To implement the United States-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement
This would ratify the pending free trade agreement with Columbia. Freer trade will allow Americans to reap the benefits of competition, which include more choices, better products, and lower prices.
"Yea" votes scored. - 36: H.R. 3079 - To implement the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement✔ Yea
Key Vote 36: H.R. 3079 - To implement the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement
This would ratify the pending free trade agreement with Panama. Freer trade will allow Americans to reap the benefits of competition, which include more choices, better products, and lower prices.
"Yea" votes scored. - 37: H.R. 3080 - To implement the United States-Korea Trade Agreement✔ Yea
Key Vote 37: H.R. 3080 - To implement the United States-Korea Trade Agreement
This would ratify the pending free trade agreement with South Korea. Freer trade will allow Americans to reap the benefits of competition, which include more choices, better products, and lower prices.
"Yea" votes scored. - 38: H.R. 2832 - To extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes✘ Yea
Key Vote 38: H.R. 2832 - To extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes
This bill picks favorites among trading partners and disrupts the price system. The biggest problem is that an amendment to extend Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) at the current, higher post-stimulus levels is attached to the bill.
"Nay" votes scored. - 39: H.R. 2250 - EPA Regulatory Relief Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 39: H.R. 2250 - EPA Regulatory Relief Act
The bill would help to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Boiler MACT regulations on boilers and industrial incinerators. Boiler MACT is an unreasonable regulation that would shut down businesses and cost thousands of jobs.
"Yea" votes scored. - 40: H.R. 10 - Making major executive regulations subject to Congressional vote (REINS Act)✔ Yea
Key Vote 40: H.R. 10 - Making major executive regulations subject to Congressional vote (REINS Act)
This bill, titled the “REINS Act” would require a vote in Congress on any “major” regulations issued by the executive branch before it could be enforced on the American people. The REINS Act would restore accountability and protect citizens’ rights by giving elected officials a voice in all major regulations issued.
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2010: 111th Congress 95%
- 1: H.J.Res. 45 - Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 1: H.J.Res. 45 - Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act
This bill contains a more than $1 trillion increase in the federal debt ceiling. Raising the debt ceiling should be accompanied by measures to cut spending so that such an increase would not be necessary in future. Instead, this bill merely contains a "pay-as-you-go" procedure which Congress can easily ignore and which does nothing to address the current record spending levels.
"Nay" votes scored. - 2: Concurring with the Senate Amdt: H.R. 2847 - Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 2: Concurring with the Senate Amdt: H.R. 2847 - Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act
The HIRE Act massively increases federal highway spending and other spending in order to supposedly stimulate the economy, operating under the Keynesian fallacy that a country can spend its way to prosperity. This bill will create few private sector jobs, while burdening our economy with still more deficit spending.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: H.Res. 1203 - Providing for consideration of the Amendments to H.R. 4872✔ Nay
Key Vote 3: H.Res. 1203 - Providing for consideration of the Amendments to H.R. 4872
This resolution is the House "Rule" that would allow consideration of the "reconciliation" bill, H.R. 4872. The reconciliation bill would make the recently passed health care legislation even worse by enacting massive tax increases and creating still more new government bureaucracies in order to support it.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)✔ Nay
Key Vote 4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)
This is the vote on the final passage of ObamaCare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act neither protects patients nor provides affordable care. It would kill jobs, drive up the price of health care, bankrupt the government, and ruin the world's best health care system. The bill also contains an unconstitutional individual mandate, which forces everyone to either purchase health care or pay a penalty, violating our individual liberty.
"Nay" votes scored. Double Score - 5: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
The reconciliation bill makes the terrible health care legislation recently enacted even worse with more job killing tax hikes, harsher penalties, and new government bureaucracies. This bill also builds a massive new student loan bureaucracy by essentially nationalizing the student loan industry.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 6: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
This key vote is on the motion to concur in Senate amendments. The reconciliation bill makes the terrible health care legislation recently enacted even worse with more job killing tax hikes, harsher penalties, and new government bureaucracies. The reconciliation bill also builds a massive new student loan bureaucracy by nationalizing the student loan industry.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 7: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act
The American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 contains several tax hikes that impose significant costs on businesses and threaten job creation. One undesirable tax increase included in the bill is the elimination of the punitive damages tax deduction. Another added tax increase is a new tax on carried interest.
"Nay" votes scored. - 8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✔ Nay
Key Vote 8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act would impose new mandates, fees, and regulations on the nation's financial services sector and create a permanent $150 billion Wall Street bailout fund. Although it claims to prevent another financial meltdown like that of 2008, this bill actually institutionalizes the very financial practices and moral hazard that led to the crisi in the first place. It also creates a massive new regulatory apparatus with several agencies, such as the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), that have sweeping new powers but are generally unaccountable to Congress and the American public.
"Nay" votes scored. - 9: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 ✔ Nay
Key Vote 9: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010
The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 would extend unemployment benefits to November 30th for the long-term jobless. It would not boost job growth and it would add to our skyrocketing national debt.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: On the Motion to Concur: H.R. 4899 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs✘ Yea
Key Vote 10: On the Motion to Concur: H.R. 4899 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs
This would make emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. This bill would add to our national debt.
"Nay" votes scored. - 11: H.R. 3534 - Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 11: H.R. 3534 - Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act
This bill would further tax and impose harmful regulations on oil and gas producers and removes the legal liability cap for offshore operators.
"Nay" votes scored. - 12: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 1586 - "Education Jobs and Medicaid Funding Bill"✔ Nay
Key Vote 12: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 1586 - "Education Jobs and Medicaid Funding Bill"
This bill in its present form would authorize over $26 billion for an "education jobs fund", and would extend continue increased funding for the "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" for Medicaid. The "pay-for" for this bill is a $9.6 billion tax increase, and even with the tax hike the bill would still add billions to our the nation's deficit spending.
"Nay" votes scored. - 13: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5297 - Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010✔ Nay
Key Vote 13: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5297 - Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010
The Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010 would allocate $30 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to a new fund for financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets. The legislation would also create a new $2 billion federal program to encourage states to develop initiatives to increase access to capital for small businesses.
"Nay" votes scored. - 14: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4853 - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act ✔ Nay
Key Vote 14: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4853 - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act
This bill is the vehicle for reauthorizing the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which were set to expire at the end of 2010. However, the bill would allow the tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest tiers of income earners - a bad policy at any time, but even worse at a time when the economy is recovering from a recession. The bill would also reinstate the death tax. Soaking the rich will not fund our excessive government spending, and will further harm a precariously shaky economy.
"Nay" votes scored. - 15: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 15: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act
H.R. 3082 would fund the government for the next ten months at current 2010 levels. With Congress failing to pass any of the required 12 annual appropriation bills, leaders have opted to put forth a massive $1.1 trillion continuing resolution that includes a number of costly provisions.
"Nay" votes scored. - 16: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5116 - America COMPETES Reauthorization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 16: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5116 - America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
This spending bill would double authorized funding levels for scientific research agencies within ten years. Research and development are best left to the academy and the marketplace, instead of allowing the government to potentially use taxpayer dollars to favor research that suits a political agenda.
"Nay" votes scored. - 17: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2751 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 17: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2751 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
The FDA Food "Safety" Modernization Act would grant the federal government unprecedented control over our diets while not making our food any safer. The bill imposes new regulations upon farmers and other food producers and also requires the government to hire a troop thousands of new bureaucrats to enforce the new rules. They will be funded by "such sums as may be necessary." Besides wasting taxpayer dollars directly, the cost of producers complying with these new regulations will simply be passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices. Outbreaks of food-borne illnesses have decreased dramatically in frequency in recent decades, and there is simply no need for such an intrusive and expensive new set of regulations on food safety.
"Nay" votes scored. - 18: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011 ✔ Nay
Key Vote 18: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
H.R. 3082 would fund the government for the next ten months at current 2010 levels. With Congress failing to pass any of the required 12 annual appropriation bills, leaders have opted to put forth a massive $1.1 trillion continuing resolution that includes a number of costly provisions.
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2009: 111th Congress 90%
- 1: H.R. 12 - Paycheck Fairness Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 1: H.R. 12 - Paycheck Fairness Act
The Paycheck Fairness Act would enforce more strictly the wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in order to address a perceived wage "gender gap". Instead, its provisions are an invitation to increase lawsuits with no end in sight for compensation. We should not be heaping more financial burdens on our business institutions and taking away the power of employers to make sound personnel decisions - all because of a misunderstood statistic.
"Nay" votes scored. - 2: H.R. 11 - Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 2: H.R. 11 - Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
This bill would amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to permit discrimination claims against employers well outside of the current statute of 180 days. This presents a radical departure from current anti-discrimination laws. Doing away with any practical statute of limitations, which has been considered a just practice in courts for centuries, opens the flood gates to a river of frivolous lawsuits.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 384 - T.A.R.P. Reform and Accountability Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 3: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 384 - T.A.R.P. Reform and Accountability Act
The $700 billion in Wall Street bailout funds authorized by TARP was a bad policy in its own right, and the actual use of those funds has been even more troubling. The "TARP Reform and Accountability Act" fails to adequately protect these taxpayer funds or safeguard how they are being used. This motion to recommit would have stopped the unused $350 billion in TARP funding from being spent at all, and would have forced the Treasury Department to submit a repayment plan for those bailout funds which have already been spent.
"Yea" votes scored. - 4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
This legislation calls for spending an additional $33 billion over the next five years to expand coverage under the S-CHIP program. At a time when our nation is facing record-breaking deficits in the trillions of dollars, expanding autopilot spending programs should not be on the agenda.
"Nay" votes scored. - 5: On the Conference Report: H.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "Stimulus Package") ✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: On the Conference Report: H.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "Stimulus Package")
This bill would create $787 billion in new government spending on projects designed to stimulate an economic recovery. It is neither the government's role, nor is it within its ability, to spend the economy into prosperity. This stimulus package merely spends a fortune in taxpayers' hard-earned money to give away to whatever special interests are best able to claim that they can "create jobs".
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.R. 1105 - Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009✔ Nay
Key Vote 6: H.R. 1105 - Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
This bill to fund the federal government contains a whopping 80 percent spending increase and is packed with earmarks and sweeping policy changes. Altogether, this omnibus bill increases government spending at more than double the rate of inflation and almost triple the rate of median growth in household incomes. With budget deficits already running at record highs, this bill just accelerates Washington's already out-of-control spending.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: H.R. 1106 - Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009✔ Nay
Key Vote 7: H.R. 1106 - Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
This legislation allows bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages - including reducing principal - rather than leaving those business decisions in the hands of the banks and lenders who own the homes. The act modifies the Hope for Homeowners program by removing the taxpayer protections in place, making it easier for those who took mortgages they could not afford to receive a taxpayer-funded bailout.
"Nay" votes scored. - 8: H.Amdt. 29 to H.R. 1262 - To remove Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the bill✔ Yea
Key Vote 8: H.Amdt. 29 to H.R. 1262 - To remove Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the bill
This amendment sought to remove all Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the 2009 water resources bill. Davis-Bacon is a leftover from the New Deal era which costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year because it requires government contractors to pay "local prevailing wages" for every project, which really means letting expensive union labor receive the contracts regardless of other competition.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: On the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 13 - Congressional Budget for FY 2010✔ Nay
Key Vote 9: On the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 13 - Congressional Budget for FY 2010
Their budget taxes too much, spends too much, and borrows too much. And, potentially worst of all, it would open the door for socialized medicine and a massive energy tax to be enacted later this year without substantial debate through the reconciliation process.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009✘ Yea
Key Vote 10: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009
The bill includes a $100 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. The bill contains funding for other projects that should not be used as a vehicle to ram IMF funding through Congress. Using this method to get the IMF funding passed is dirty Washington politics and law makers should reject it.
"Nay" votes scored. - 11: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 1256 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 11: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 1256 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
This legislation marks a radical increase in power for the Food and Drug Administration over the tobacco industry, and another attempt by a parental government to make citizens' health choices for them.
"Nay" votes scored. - 12: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009✔ Nay
Key Vote 12: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009
The bill includes a $100 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. The bill contains funding for other projects that should not be used as a vehicle to ram IMF funding through Congress. Using this method to get the IMF funding passed is dirty Washington politics and law makers should reject it.
"Nay" votes scored. - 13: H.R. 2454 - American Clean Energy and Security Act (Cap-and-Trade)✔ Nay
Key Vote 13: H.R. 2454 - American Clean Energy and Security Act (Cap-and-Trade)
The Waxman-Markey energy bill calls for a “cap-and-trade” system for the regulation of greenhouse gases, and is, in essence, a massive tax on all energy use. The resulting spike in energy costs would devastate the economy across the board, and would particularly harm lower-income individuals, who would have even less money to spend on steadily rising electric and heating bills.
"Nay" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 3269 - Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 14: H.R. 3269 - Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act
This bill introduces federal control of employee compensation to a degree that is both constitutionally questionable and has no place in a market economy. Perhaps most startling about this bill is that the new mandates it establishes on the private sector are so broad and ill-defined that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is unable to determine just how much these rules will cost the economy, making it impossible to conduct a cost-benefit analysis.
"Nay" votes scored. - 15: H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009✔ Nay
Key Vote 15: H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009
The bill would essentially provide an endless line of credit to college students, as well as greatly increasing the amount given out through Pell Grants. Guaranteeing students access to free, easy loans on grants will encourage them to take on more debt that they cannot afford, while colleges will continue to raise their tuition to match the flow of government money. This bill further expands the massive student loan debt bubble, which - like the housing bubble before it - will eventually burst.
"Nay" votes scored. - 16: H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 16: H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act
(Note: this was the original version of ObamaCare, later passed as H.R. 3590.) This comprehensive government takeover of health care saddles hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes upon the American people. The bill contains an unconstitutional individual mandate forcing people to buy health insurance simply because they exist. Instead of making health care more affordable, this bill's mandates and regulations will massively increase the cost of everyone's health insurance and reduce the quality of care over time.
"Nay" votes scored. - 17: H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009✔ Nay
Key Vote 17: H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
This bill contains the "doc fix" that Congress passes annually in order to keep Medicare payments to doctors from sharply decreasing. While the doc fix may be necessary in order to keep doctors from opting out of seeing Medicare patients, this bill would cost $200 billion over ten years, with no spending reforms to offset its huge expense. Separating this bill from the main comprehensive health care reform bill is thus a fundamentally dishonest attempt to hide the true costs of the massive health care takeover being discussed in Congress, and to kick the problem of Medicare reform down the road yet again.
"Nay" votes scored. - 18: H.R. 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 18: H.R. 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act
While this bill claims to enact "permanent estate tax relief", the legislation puts in place a permanent 45 percent tax on estates over $3.5 million. A 45 percent tax is a dramatic tax increase over the zero percent death tax that will be in place in 2010, when death is scheduled to no longer be a taxable event.
"Nay" votes scored. - 19: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R.3288 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 ✔ Nay
Key Vote 19: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R.3288 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, or so-called “minibus” would combine six of the seven remaining appropriations bills to fund nine Cabinet departments to the tune of $447 billion and $600 billion in funding for Medicare and Medicaid for a total of $1.1 trillion; a 13% increase over FY 2009 and a 25% increase over FY 2008.
"Nay" votes scored. - 20: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✔ Yea
Key Vote 20: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)
This motion to recommit would have amended the Dodd-Frank bill to fully repeal the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and to reduce the national debt limit by an amount corresponding to the hundreds of billions that would be saved by TARP's repeal.
"Yea" votes scored. - 21: H.R. 4173 - The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✔ Nay
Key Vote 21: H.R. 4173 - The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)
The "Dodd-Frank" bill not only fails in its stated goal of reining in the risky lending that led to the current fiscal crisis, it actually institutionalizes the practice of bailing out banks deemed to be "too big to fail". By telling Wall Street banks that irresponsible lending will be rewarded by government bailouts, this bill almost guarantees another financial bubble and collapse in the future.
"Nay" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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2008: 110th Congress 74%
- 1: H.Amdt. 928 to H.R. 3524 - Prevents wage restrictions✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: H.Amdt. 928 to H.R. 3524 - Prevents wage restrictions
This amendment would prevent funds in the bill from being used to fund Davis-Bacon Act wage requirements. The Davis-Bacon Act is an obsolete and destructive wage control program which requires that employees be paid at the "prevailing local wage". Because this prevailing wage is usually artificially set by unions, Davis Bacon essentially forces government contractors to hire more expensive union labor, wasting taxpayer dollars.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.R. 5351 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008✔ Nay
Key Vote 2: H.R. 5351 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008
This bill would increase regulations on energy and subsidize renewable energy. This would raise the cost of energy production, causing home energy bills and the price of gas at the pump to rise.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: H.Res. 1092 - Relating to the implementation of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement✔ Nay
Key Vote 3: H.Res. 1092 - Relating to the implementation of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
This motion, by Speaker Pelosi, would kill the Columbia Free Trade Agreement. Free trade encourages both imports and exports between countries, and creates wealth and jobs on both sides of the agreement.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: H.R. 5818 - Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008✔ Nay
Key Vote 4: H.R. 5818 - Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008
The bill, which provides $15 billion in loans and grants to states and cities to buy foreclosed properties, is a prime example of out-of-control government spending that would do little to address the underlying problems in the housing sector.
"Nay" votes scored. - 5: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 2642 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 2642 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act
This amendment would impose a so-called "Patriot Tax" on upper income brackets. Raising taxes upon these high income brackets does great harm to the small business owners who are the engine for growth in America's economy.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 70 - The Congressional Budget Resolution✔ Nay
Key Vote 6: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 70 - The Congressional Budget Resolution
This is the budget resolution for fiscal year 2009 that will skyrocket the national debt.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H.R. 6346 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 7: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H.R. 6346 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act
The bill, a shallow attempt to rein in gas prices, is eerily reminiscent of the very policies that led to shortages and gas lines in the 1970s and early 1980s. It would over-regulate energy prices and prevent free market allocation.
"Nay" votes scored. - 8: H.R. 6275 - Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008✔ Nay
Key Vote 8: H.R. 6275 - Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008
This spending bill would raise taxes and increase the national debt.
"Nay" votes scored. - 9: H.R. 415 - To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act ✔ Nay
Key Vote 9: H.R. 415 - To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
This bill's real purpose, while purporting to protect wildlife and natural scenery, is to prevent the installation of an efficient and environmentally beneficial natural gas terminal. This bill only hinders energy production and economic progress.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H.R. 6515 - Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act of 2008✔ Nay
Key Vote 10: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H.R. 6515 - Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act of 2008
This bill creates more government interference in energy markets, essentially imposing a "use it or lose it" rule upon oil lands. This rule would make it nearly impossible for many oil-rich areas to be developed, which merely harms consumers and prevents the creation of jobs.
"Nay" votes scored. - 11: Concur in Senate Amendment with House Amendment: H.R. 3221 - Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008✔ Nay
Key Vote 11: Concur in Senate Amendment with House Amendment: H.R. 3221 - Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008
This is the final vote on the bill that provided a massive (up to $300 billion) bailout to the "Government Sponsored Entities" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two GSEs were in danger of bankruptcy because of their irresponsibly loose lending practices, and they should have been allowed to go bankrupt instead of putting taxpayers on the hook for their misbehavior. In addition, the bill contains an $800 billion increase in the debt ceiling.
"Nay" votes scored. Double Score - 12: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H.R. 1108 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 12: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H.R. 1108 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
The House bill includes language that allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to impose new "user fees" to cover the costs of its expanded regulatory program. The user fee would no longer be a "fee for service' that covers the agency’s costs—it would be a new tax.
"Nay" votes scored. - 13: H.R. 6604 - Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 13: H.R. 6604 - Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act
H.R. 6604 is a premature action by Congress to pin the current energy problem on commodities future traders rather than address the real problem of supply. The consequences of the legislation are greater intervention in markets and an expansion of government into the reach of private contracts.
"Nay" votes scored. - 14: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 3997 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (1st T.A.R.P. vote) ✘ Yea
Key Vote 14: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 3997 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (1st T.A.R.P. vote)
This bill is a vehicle for the massive government bank bailout, including the Troubled Assets Relief Program (T.A.R.P.). Bailing out banks that have made bad investments distorts the free market by creating a 'moral hazard'. If banks know that the government will bail them out of their bad decisions just because they are "too big to fail", they have no incentive to make wise investment decisions. FreedomWorks has double-weighted votes against this bill.
"Nay" votes scored. Double Score - 15: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 1424 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (2nd T.A.R.P. Vote)✘ Yea
Key Vote 15: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 1424 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (2nd T.A.R.P. Vote)
This bill would provide a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. FreedomWorks strongly opposes this bill because it rewards those institutions which caused the financial collapse in the first place by making reckless loans. Bailing them out creates the moral hazard that these banks and lenders will recognize that they can continue to make risky loans without fear of consequences as long as they are "too big to fail".
"Nay" votes scored. Double Score - 16: H.R. 7321 - Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (Auto Bailout)✔ Nay
Key Vote 16: H.R. 7321 - Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (Auto Bailout)
This legislation would provide $14 billion in taxpayer loans to eligible U.S. automakers. Like T.A.R.P., this bailout would create moral hazard for the failing car companies. This bill picks winners and losers, while the market should be allowed to adjust to changes.
"Nay" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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2007: 110th Congress 100%
- 1: H.R. 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 1: H.R. 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act
The Fair Minimum Wage Act would allow for an increase in the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour over two years. According to CBO estimates, a minimum wage increase would saddle small businesses with up to $7 billion in added costs.
"Nay" votes scored. - 2: H.R. 800 - The Employee Free Choice Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 2: H.R. 800 - The Employee Free Choice Act
This is the "Card Check Bill," which will make it easier for unions to unionize workers in the private sector. It will eliminate most of the secrecy in union balloting, allowing union intimidation of workers.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: H.R. 1257 - Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 3: H.R. 1257 - Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act
This bill would amend the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to force shareholder review of executive compensation, which would open the door for increased federal intrusion into the private sector. Although transparency in executive compensation is necessary, many shareholders already have this privilege under their company’s bylaws.
"Nay" votes scored. - 4: On Motion to Pass: H.R. 1252 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 4: On Motion to Pass: H.R. 1252 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act
This legislation would make it a federal crime to sell crude oil, gas, natural gas or petroleum at a price that is “unconscionably excessive” or “takes unfair advantage” of unordinary market conditions. This legislation mandates severe fines for any violations including market manipulation, false price reporting and unconscionable prices.
"Nay" votes scored. - 5: H.R. 3043 - Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: H.R. 3043 - Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
This $607 million spending bill will end up costing $152 million in 2008 thus exceeding the president’s budget by more than $10 million. In addition, it would spend $7 million more than the current levels and more than $2.3 million more than the Senate version. In addition to exceeding the budget, this bill is also loaded with pork projects and represents the out of control spending going on in Congress.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.R. 3162 - Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007✔ Nay
Key Vote 6: H.R. 3162 - Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007
Funded by a $0.45 increase in the federal cigarette excise tax and a nearly 200% raise in taxes on cigars, the SCHIP reauthorization proposal calls for up to $50 billion in new funds for the program, dwarfing the President’s current request of $5 billion over 5 years. In addition to greatly expanding a program that was originally designed to be a limited contribution to State health services, this bill would be a giant step toward government controlled health care.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 2272 - 21st Century Competitiveness Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 7: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 2272 - 21st Century Competitiveness Act
This bill would authorize over $43 billion over 3 years to fund at least 40 new federal programs for various agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Science and Technology, and the Departments of Commerce, Education and Energy. The size and scope of the funding that emerged from the conference report drastically exceeds the original House version where $23 billion was allocated for 20 new programs. It not only represents the reckless spending that has come to characterize Congress, but also is a drastic and irresponsible expansion of the size of government.
"Nay" votes scored. - 8: H.Amdt. 749 to H.R. 3221 - Udall/Plats Renewable Energy Standard Amendment✔ Nay
Key Vote 8: H.Amdt. 749 to H.R. 3221 - Udall/Plats Renewable Energy Standard Amendment
This amendment to the “New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act” would create a mandate requiring the use of renewable portfolio standard for generating electricity starting in 2010 with the goal of forcing electric utilities to produce 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. Energy providers who did not comply would be penalized by being forced to purchase renewable energy from other generators in the form of utility credits or pay the difference to the federal government.
"Nay" votes scored. - 9: H.R. 2776 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007✔ Nay
Key Vote 9: H.R. 2776 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007
The bill would hit our energy suppliers with billions of dollars in new taxes. New taxes on oil and its providers will only lead to increased cost of production which will be passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices on gas, natural gas and electric utilities. Even though alternative energy holds promise for the future, federal mandates and taxes will not make the technology viable any faster. All that this bill will do is increase taxes and the price of fuel for the consumer.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: Agree to Senate Amendments: H.R. 976 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 10: Agree to Senate Amendments: H.R. 976 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
This legislation calls for spending $33 billion over the next five years to expand coverage of the S-CHIP program. S-CHIP would be a massive increase in health care entitlements, and only exacerbates the underlying problem of increasing health care costs and reliance upon third-party payers in health care. It will also cost tens of billions of dollars at a time when the government is already incurring massive, unsustainable deficits. The bill, as passed, would vastly expand government controlled health care coverage to cover individuals up to 300% above the poverty line.
"Nay" votes scored. - 11: H.R. 2895 - National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007✔ Nay
Key Vote 11: H.R. 2895 - National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007
This legislation would add layers of bureaucracy to a situation already bogged down in government regulations and mismanagement. Not only does the act duplicate the efforts of the existing HUD department, at the same time the trust would compete with HUD for already limited funds. Whereas the government needs to be streamlining and modernizing a department, H.R. 2895 creates an increasingly complex web of uncertain funding and extraneous administration, making this act, in essence, the appendix of the housing conundrum.
"Nay" votes scored. - 12: Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding: H.R. 976 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 12: Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding: H.R. 976 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
This bill calls for $50 billion in new funding for the program that far exceeds the $5 billion requested by the President. In addition to greatly expanding a program that was originally designed to be a limited contribution to State health services, this bill would be a giant step toward government controlled health care.
"Nay" votes scored. - 13: H.R. 505 - Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 13: H.R. 505 - Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act
This bill would provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian governing body and reaffirm the “special political and legal relationship between the United States” and the governing body. According to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 2000 case of Rice v. Cayetano, any preferential treatment that the native Hawaiian population enjoys runs contrary to the 15th Amendment’s protection against racial discrimination.
"Nay" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 3963 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 14: H.R. 3963 - Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
This bill calls for $50 billion in new funding for the program that far exceeds the $5 billion requested by the President. In addition to greatly expanding a program that was originally designed to be a limited contribution to State health services, this bill would be a giant step toward government controlled health care.
"Nay" votes scored. - 15: Agree to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 3678 - Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act of 2007✔ Yea
Key Vote 15: Agree to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 3678 - Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act of 2007
This bill would permanently ban taxation of the Internet, which would encourage the free dissemination of technology and information. If the Internet were allowed to be taxed, then it could also be regulated. This would result not only in an additional tax on consumers, businesses, and schools, but also could open the door to censorship.
"Yea" votes scored. - 16: H.R. 1495 - Water Resources Development Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 16: H.R. 1495 - Water Resources Development Act
This water projects bill is bloated with over 900 special-interest earmarks, which far exceeds the $4.9 billion requested by the Army Corps of Engineers. The bill does not set any priorities and would result in funding for truly essential projects, like protections in Louisiana against future hurricanes, being drowned out in a sea of pork.
"Nay" votes scored. - 17: H.R. 3688 - United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement✔ Yea
Key Vote 17: H.R. 3688 - United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
This amendment would reduce tariffs for 80% of U.S. consumer and industrial exports to Peru and would phase out the remaining tariffs over the next ten years. Free trade not only drives the efficiency of the global economy, but is also essential to the freedom of American citizens to buy and sell legal goods without government interference.
"Yea" votes scored. - 18: H.R. 3996 - Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007✔ Nay
Key Vote 18: H.R. 3996 - Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007
While providing tax relief for some, this bill contains a tax increase on carried interest and private equity, expatriates, and deferred compensation. Additionally, H.R. 3996 would delay another tax cut for 8 years, which essentially amounts to a tax increase.
"Nay" votes scored. - 19: H.R. 3915 - Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act✔ Nay
Key Vote 19: H.R. 3915 - Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act
This bill imposes unnecessary regulations and exposes lenders to increased liability, which will have the net effect of making mortgage loans harder to get for many Americans. Although mortgage reform is necessary, H.R. 3915 fails to set clear guidelines for lending companies and opens the door for lawsuit abuse.
"Nay" votes scored. - 20: H.Amdt. 890 to H.R. 3355 - Omnibus Spending Bill✔ Yea
Key Vote 20: H.Amdt. 890 to H.R. 3355 - Omnibus Spending Bill
This bill contains more than 8,000 earmarks for special-interest projects. In addition to the large amount of earmarks, the bill also contains several budget gimmicks designed to hide the addition $14 billion in unnecessary Congressional spending.
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2006: 109th Congress 82%
- 1: On Agreeing to the Resolution: H.Res. 653 - Reconciliation of H.Con.Res. 95 with S. 1932 ✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: On Agreeing to the Resolution: H.Res. 653 - Reconciliation of H.Con.Res. 95 with S. 1932
This resolution would allow the deficit reduction bill (S. 1932) to be considered in the budget for fiscal year 2006 (H.Con.Res. 95). This would allow for modest reductions in spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.Amdt. 904 to H.R. 5384 - Limits dairy education funding☐ Did Not Vote
Key Vote 2: H.Amdt. 904 to H.R. 5384 - Limits dairy education funding
This amendment prohibits any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to fund dairy education in Iowa. There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to subsidize dairy education.
"Yea" votes scored. - 3: H.Amdt. 911 to H.R. 5384 - To prevent funding for the National Grape and Wine Initiative✘ Nay
Key Vote 3: H.Amdt. 911 to H.R. 5384 - To prevent funding for the National Grape and Wine Initiative
An amendment to prohibit use of funds in the bill for the National Grape and Wine Initiative. This project is unnecessary should not require taxpayer funds.
"Yea" votes scored. - 4: H.R. 5429 - American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 4: H.R. 5429 - American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act
The American Made Energy and Good Jobs Act would privately develop domestic oil reserves. This is a critical step in the long term strategy of reducing American dependence on foreign sources of energy and of developing low-cost energy in this country.
"Yea" votes scored. - 5: H.Amdt. 987 to H.R. 5252 - Network Neutrality✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: H.Amdt. 987 to H.R. 5252 - Network Neutrality
Amendment sought to add a new section to Title VII of the Communication Act of 1934 entitled "Network Neutrality". Network neutrality would hurt Internet innovation.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.Amdt. 1036 to H.R. 5576 - To restrict funding for a city-owned pool✔ Yea
Key Vote 6: H.Amdt. 1036 to H.R. 5576 - To restrict funding for a city-owned pool
An amendment to prohibit the use of funds from being used to renovate a city-owned pool in Banning, California. This is an unnecessary overreach of federal spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 7: H.Amdt. 1066 to H.R. 5631 - To prevent spending on an aquarium✘ Nay
Key Vote 7: H.Amdt. 1066 to H.R. 5631 - To prevent spending on an aquarium
An amendment to prohibit any of the funds in the bill from being used for the Institute for Exploration at Mystic Aquarium in New London, Connecticut. This is an unnecessary program that the federal government should not be involved in.
"Yea" votes scored. - 8: H.R. 4890 - Legislative Line Item Veto Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 8: H.R. 4890 - Legislative Line Item Veto Act
H.R. 4890 would give the President the authority to isolate unnecessary or wasteful spending provisions in bills that have passed Congress and send these specific line items back to Congress for a timely up-or-down vote. This would allow for greater control over spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 9: H.R. 4761 - Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 9: H.R. 4761 - Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act
H.R. 4761 would increase oil exploration in the United States through reducing overbearing regulations.
"Yea" votes scored. - 10: H.R. 5684 - To implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement✔ Yea
Key Vote 10: H.R. 5684 - To implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement
This legislation moves the United States closer to the goal of creating a region-wide Middle East free trade area by 2013. An agreement with Oman would mark the fifth such nation in the Middle East with open trade ties to the United States. Free trade agreements allow Americans to buy and sell goods in more markets.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: H.Res. 1003 - Earmark reforms✔ Yea
Key Vote 11: H.Res. 1003 - Earmark reforms
This resolution would make it more difficult to pass earmarks, a necessary step in controlling spending.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: H.R. 4772 - Private Property Rights Implementation Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 12: H.R. 4772 - Private Property Rights Implementation Act
This would allow greater and fairer access to Federal courts by those who assert Federal property rights claims under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause. Protecting private property allows for greater economic development.
"Yea" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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2005: 109th Congress 76%
- 1: S. 5 - Class Action Fairness Act of 2005✔ Yea
Key Vote 1: S. 5 - Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
S. 5 is a major step towards stopping lawsuit abuse by limiting venue shopping by trial lawyers. Unscrupulous attorneys often bring cases to a handful of state ‘tort hellholes’ where judges and juries consistently produce unreasonable awards with national economic impact. This new legislation would move the largest cases to federal courts, where judges are better equipped to consider the national scope of each case.
"Yea" votes scored. - 2: H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users✘ Yea
Key Vote 2: H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
This is a $295 billion transportation bill which is more than $11 billion larger than the agreed upon allotment for transportation. In addition, it contains literally thousands of wasteful earmarks.
"Nay" votes scored. - 3: H.Amdt. 65 to H.Con.Res. 95 - Amendment to substitute legislation with budget cuts✔ Yea
Key Vote 3: H.Amdt. 65 to H.Con.Res. 95 - Amendment to substitute legislation with budget cuts
The amendment would reduces spending by 2% compared to last year's level (the Budget Committee calls for a .7% reduction), which is over $5.1 billion more in first-year savings than the Committee's bill. It includes reconciliation instructions reducing the rate of growth of mandatory spending from 6.4% to 6.1%.
"Yea" votes scored. - 4: H.R. 8 - Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 4: H.R. 8 - Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act
This bill would make the repeal of the death tax permanent. The death tax is a massive double tax on business capital vital to increased productivity and job creation.
"Yea" votes scored. - 5: H.J.Res. 27 - Withdrawing approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization✔ Nay
Key Vote 5: H.J.Res. 27 - Withdrawing approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization
This resolution would have rejected American membership in the World Trade Organization, threatening international free trade. Free trade is beneficial to the productivity of all nations.
"Nay" votes scored. - 6: H.R. 22 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act✘ Yea
Key Vote 6: H.R. 22 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
This bill fails to bring the market discipline the postal system needs and acts as yet another taxpayer bailout of the Postal Service. The US Postal Service desperately needs reform, but H.R. 22 is not reform.
"Nay" votes scored. - 7: H.R. 3045 - Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 7: H.R. 3045 - Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
This would ratify the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement. Free trade opens the economy to new and cheaper goods.
"Yea" votes scored. - 8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users✘ Yea
Key Vote 8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
This is a $295 billion transportation bill which is more than $11 billion larger than the agreed upon allotment for transportation. In addition, it contains literally thousands of wasteful earmarks.
"Nay" votes scored. - 9: H.R. 3673 - Further Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, Hurricane Katrina, 2005✘ Yea
Key Vote 9: H.R. 3673 - Further Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, Hurricane Katrina, 2005
This would grant further Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Katrina relief. This spending would add to the national debt.
"Nay" votes scored. - 10: H.R. 3824 - Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 10: H.R. 3824 - Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act
The bill addresses many of the problems of government overreach in the Endangered Species Act and strengthens the protection of private property rights.
"Yea" votes scored. - 11: H.R. 3893 - Gasoline for America’s Security Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 11: H.R. 3893 - Gasoline for America’s Security Act
This bill would expedite the construction of new refining capacity in the United States and reduce many burdensome environmental regulations.
"Yea" votes scored. - 12: H.R. 554 - Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 12: H.R. 554 - Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act
This bill prevents frivolous lawsuits against food and soft drink distributors, a step forward in reforming America’s dysfunctional tort system.
"Yea" votes scored. - 13: H.R. 420 - Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 13: H.R. 420 - Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act
This bill would improve attorney accountability and reduce frivolous lawsuits. This would promote a more stable legal environment.
"Yea" votes scored. - 14: H.R. 1606 - Online Freedom of Speech Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 14: H.R. 1606 - Online Freedom of Speech Act
H.R. 1606 would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act to exclude Internet communications from the Act’s definition of “public communication.” The bill is commonly regarded as the “blogger protection” bill since it addresses concerns that bloggers who regularly engage in mass public communications will become subject to federal campaign finance regulations—- especially if they reference a federal candidate 30 days before a primary election or 60 days before a general election. Of course, all restrictions on speech content offend the Constitution, but protecting bloggers will be a good first step.
"Yea" votes scored. - 15: H.R. 4128 - Private Property Rights Protection Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 15: H.R. 4128 - Private Property Rights Protection Act
This bill would curb eminent domain abuse by withholding federal economic development funds from states and localities that engage in eminent domain abuse. Limiting the government's ability to enforce eminent domain will protect private property from government overreach.
"Yea" votes scored. - 16: H.R. 4241 - Deficit Reduction Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 16: H.R. 4241 - Deficit Reduction Act
This bill would save taxpayers $50 billion over the next five years. This is not an enormous cut but a good first step to long-term debt reduction.
"Yea" votes scored. - 17: H.R. 4297 - Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act✔ Yea
Key Vote 17: H.R. 4297 - Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act
This legislation would extend the pro-growth reductions to capital gains and dividend tax rates that have helped to grow the economy.
"Yea" votes scored. - No votes for this year match the provided filters.
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