HR 1 and amendments:
BIG DISAPPOINTMENTS: Judy Biggert and Adam Kinzinger.
CLICK HERE to see summary of how they voted on these unambiguous spending cuts.
Here's summary from Heritage Action for America: click here for link
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a measure to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year and cut $61 billion in the process. The bill was considered under an open amendment process, and there were hundreds of amendments offered and over a hundred votes cast over the span of a week. This after-action report will look solely at the Congressional appetite to cut spending.
Heritage Action compiled all of the votes on the amendments that proposed to cut non-security spending. We excluded amendments that proposed to shift spending from one program to another or sought to block various Obama policies—whether it be the many amendments to defund Obamacare or turn off the EPA’s rule making authority. For this exercise, we chose to look solely at the unambiguous spending cuts and to see how Congress did.
Key takeaways:
47 Members (all Republicans) showed a rock-solid willingness to cut spending by voting for every spending cut:
- Amash, Bachmann, Broun, Campbell, Chabot, Chaffetz, Coffman, Duncan (TN), Duncan (SC), Flake, Fleming, Franks, Garrett, Gowdy, Graves (GA), Heller, Hensarling, Herger, Huelskamp, Huizenga, Hurt, Jenkins, Jordan, Lamborn, Mack, McClintock, McHenry, Miller (FL), Mulvaney, Myrick, Neugebauer, Paul, Pence, Pompeo, Price (GA), Ribble, Rokita, Royce, Scalise, Schweikert, Scott (GA), Scott (SC), Sessions, Walsh, Wilson, Woodall, and Young (IN).
95 Members (all Democrats) showed no appetite to cut spending by voting against every single spending cut. Another 47 voted against all but one of the cuts.
The following were the most reluctant Republicans to cut spending in descending order:
- Reichert, LaTourette, Biggert, Gerlach, Simpson, Diaz-Balart, Smith (NJ), Bass, Frelinghuysen, Wolf, Wittman, Dent, Dold, Grimm, Kinzinger, Meehan, Stivers, and Young (FL).
Compared to their partisan colleagues, the following Democrats were the most willing to cut spending:
- Costa, Peters, Boren, Holden, Peterson, Altmire, Cardoza, Owens, Barrow, Cuellar, Ross, Shuler, Costello, Schrader, McIntyre, Chandler, Donnelly, Himes, and Kissell.
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In 1960, the government spending on welfare was 3% of all government spending and healthcare was 1.5%. That was BEFORE Medicare. In 2010, the cost of government healthcare will be 24% and welfare quadruples to 12% of all government spending. Combined with government pensions, the cost of these social programs totals 57% of the federal budget.
Are we in a safer world today than in 1960? Our expenditures for national defense have been approximately cut in half compared to 1960.
Click here for these charts and full federal spending and budget information from 1792 to today.
We were promised "no more earmarks." According to U.S. News and World Report, in FY 2009, Congress "stuffed" 10,160 pork projects into 12 appropriations bills for a total expenditure of $19.6 billion.
2009 Omnibus Bill and Pork Project List. I particularly like the $200,000 for tatoo removal. Didn't President Obama just tell our children that they need to take individual responsibility? Would paying to remove your own tatoo be considered individual responsibility?
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