PAF
03-10-2014, 06:30 AM
- Mitch McConnell has voted repeatedly to increase the debt limit. Over the past 16 years, Sen. McConnell has voted to increase the debt limit 9 times for a grand total of $6.7 trillion. (CRS Report, 02/15/13).
- Mitch McConnell talks a good game on taxes, but he voted to increase taxes on 80 percent of Kentuckians in the recent fiscal cliff deal. (RC #251, 01/01/13).
- Mitch McConnell continuously votes for larger federal government, including No Child Left Behind (RC#371, 12/18/01), Medicare Part D (RC #459, 11/25/03), and the 2007 energy bill that raised taxes and imposed new mandates on automakers. (RC #430, 12/13/07).
- Mitch McConnell voted to bail out the big Wall Street banks (RC #213, 10/01/08) and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (RC #186, 07/26/08) on the backs of Kentucky taxpayers.
- Mitch McConnell voted for amnesty in 1986 & 2006. (RC #335, 10/17/86) (RC #157, 05/25/06) Mitch's lack of leadership allowed another amnesty bill to sail through the U.S. Senate. (RC #168, 06/27/13)
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (The 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.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: 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.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on S.Res. 15 - Amending the Rules of the Senate. This change to the rules of the Senate weakens the minority party's ability to filibuster legislation by imposing much tighter restrictions on debate time on bills. The ability of either party to slow down consideration of a bill or nomination was a feature granted to the Senate intentionally by our founders, providing the opportunity for legislation to be exhaustively debated before being passed into law. This rules change is a major blow to that important tradition.
- Mitch McConnell voted NO on Lee Letter to Defund ObamaCare through the Continuing Resolution. Senator Mike Lee solicited signers on a letter to Senator Harry Reid, which declared that the signers would not vote for any appropriations bill, including a Continuing Resolution (CR), that contained further funding for ObamaCare's implementation or enforcement. The letter put senators on the record committing to actually defunding ObamaCare using a must-pass bill (the CR), rather than just taking another symbolic vote on an amendment that the Democrats could easily defeat.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: H.J.Res. 59 - Continuing Appropriations Resolution to Fund the Federal Government. This is the crucial vote to end debate on the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government while ending funding for ObamaCare. Voting for cloture would allow Senate Democrats to resume funding ObamaCare with a straight party-line vote, meaning that a 'yea' vote here is a vote to fund ObamaCare, with the law's first starting date just days away.
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/mitch-mcconnell
PDF: https://app.box.com/s/7nf2t5yotqj8jonb2wqd
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- Mitch McConnell talks a good game on taxes, but he voted to increase taxes on 80 percent of Kentuckians in the recent fiscal cliff deal. (RC #251, 01/01/13).
- Mitch McConnell continuously votes for larger federal government, including No Child Left Behind (RC#371, 12/18/01), Medicare Part D (RC #459, 11/25/03), and the 2007 energy bill that raised taxes and imposed new mandates on automakers. (RC #430, 12/13/07).
- Mitch McConnell voted to bail out the big Wall Street banks (RC #213, 10/01/08) and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (RC #186, 07/26/08) on the backs of Kentucky taxpayers.
- Mitch McConnell voted for amnesty in 1986 & 2006. (RC #335, 10/17/86) (RC #157, 05/25/06) Mitch's lack of leadership allowed another amnesty bill to sail through the U.S. Senate. (RC #168, 06/27/13)
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (The 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.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: 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.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on S.Res. 15 - Amending the Rules of the Senate. This change to the rules of the Senate weakens the minority party's ability to filibuster legislation by imposing much tighter restrictions on debate time on bills. The ability of either party to slow down consideration of a bill or nomination was a feature granted to the Senate intentionally by our founders, providing the opportunity for legislation to be exhaustively debated before being passed into law. This rules change is a major blow to that important tradition.
- Mitch McConnell voted NO on Lee Letter to Defund ObamaCare through the Continuing Resolution. Senator Mike Lee solicited signers on a letter to Senator Harry Reid, which declared that the signers would not vote for any appropriations bill, including a Continuing Resolution (CR), that contained further funding for ObamaCare's implementation or enforcement. The letter put senators on the record committing to actually defunding ObamaCare using a must-pass bill (the CR), rather than just taking another symbolic vote on an amendment that the Democrats could easily defeat.
- Mitch McConnell voted YES on Cloture: H.J.Res. 59 - Continuing Appropriations Resolution to Fund the Federal Government. This is the crucial vote to end debate on the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government while ending funding for ObamaCare. Voting for cloture would allow Senate Democrats to resume funding ObamaCare with a straight party-line vote, meaning that a 'yea' vote here is a vote to fund ObamaCare, with the law's first starting date just days away.
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/mitch-mcconnell
PDF: https://app.box.com/s/7nf2t5yotqj8jonb2wqd
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