Ah. Now Shooter understands the despicable upset with Rep. Gosar

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Paul A. Gosar

 

Montana's GOP governor bashes Dems for 'spending trillions' -- then brags about using money they gave him

Brad Reed
January 05, 2022



Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on Wednesday bashed Democrats for excessive spending, and then immediately bragged about using the money they gave him on a much-needed infrastructure repair.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday evening, Gianforte bemoaned the fact that "the federal government is spending trillions of dollars of our kids and grandkids' money."

Despite this, however, the governor said that "Montana will invest it in our kids and grandkids' future" in the form of "investing $1.9 million in Dillon to replace the city's 100-year-old water lines."



The tweet was accompanied by a photo of the governor proudly holding a large check written out to the city of Dillon for $1.9 million.

As political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen pointed out to Gianforte, the check he's holding in the photo features a logo for the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the massive pandemic relief bill that Democrats passed along party lines at the start of President Joe Biden's term.

Governor Greg Gianforte
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Since the federal government is spending trillions of dollars of our kids and grandkids' money, Montana will invest it in our kids and grandkids' future. That's why we're investing $1.9 million in Dillon to replace the city's 100-year-old water lines.

2:45 PM · Jan 5, 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/greg-gianforte-2656241803/

 

The world's 10 richest men have made so much money during the pandemic that a one-time 99% tax on their gains could pay for all COVID-19 vaccine production and more: Oxfam
Huileng Tan
Mon, January 17, 2022, 2:25 AM·2 min read

The wealth of the 10 richest men has more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images; Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images; Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images

• The 10 richest men have more than doubled their wealth in the COVID-19 pandemic, Oxfam calculated.
  
• Oxfam issued a new report on inequality in which it advocated more taxation for the rich.
  
• "Billionaires have had a terrific pandemic," Oxfam's executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.
  

The wealth of the 10 richest men in the world has grown so much during the coronavirus pandemic that even a one-time 99% tax on their gains would be able to pay for the production of all the COVID-19 vaccines the world needs and more, according to the charity Oxfam.

"Billionaires have had a terrific pandemic. Central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to save the economy, yet much of that has ended up lining the pockets of billionaires riding a stock market boom," Oxfam International's executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said in a press release announcing a new report from the organization, "Inequality Kills."

Highlighting the vast wealth disparity that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, Oxfam noted that the wealth of the world's 10 richest men more than doubled to $1.5 trillion from $700 billion from March 2020 to November 2021. That's a rate of $15,000 a second or $1.3 billion a day, the charity said.

Oxfam used the Forbes Billionaires List, topped by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, to calculate the figures.

"Vaccines were meant to end this pandemic, yet rich governments allowed pharma billionaires and monopolies to cut off the supply to billions of people. The result is that every kind of inequality imaginable risks rising," Bucher said.

According to Oxfam's calculations, a one-time 99% windfall tax on the gains in fortunes of the 10 richest men would able be to pay for the manufacture of the world's COVID-19 vaccines. There'd also be enough to fund other public-works projects, including universal healthcare and social protection.

"All this, while still leaving these men $8 billion better off than they were before the pandemic," Oxfam noted in its report.

The charity urges governments to "claw back" gains made by billionaires.

"It has never been so important to start righting the violent wrongs of this obscene inequality by clawing back elites' power and extreme wealth including through taxation — getting that money back into the real economy and to save lives," Bucher said.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-top-10-richest-men-092511264.html

 

So, plenty enough to pay for biden/harris pig bill?

 

Rank hypocrisy alert as Georgia's Brian Kemp takes credit for Obamacare insurance access

Jay Bookman, Georgia Recorder
January 20, 2022



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Based on the first few days of the Georgia General Assembly, the Republican Party’s 2022 legislative agenda is to outlaw non-citizen voting which is already outlawed, ban “critical race theory” from schools where it already doesn’t exist, bar transgender athletes from high school sports where the rules already say they can’t compete, and combat voter fraud that also doesn’t exist, all while preening about their “bravery” in taking on liberals trying to destroy America.
And oh yeah – they also want to address the fact that in this country we have too few guns readily available to irresponsible, untrained and unvetted people. Their so-called “constitutional carry” provision ought to fix that problem quick as a bullet fired in a road-rage incident.

Honestly, though, it’s a neat trick, especially in an election year. Fake problems are infinitely more susceptible to fake solutions by fake leaders than are real problems, which tend to be complicated and bring the risk of potential failure to those who dare try to fix them.

You know what else is a neat trick? Swooping in to take credit for somebody else’s accomplishment.



In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Brian Kemp bragged that as recently as 2019, “Georgia had only four health insurance carriers offering plans in the individual market. Today, we have nearly tripled that number with eleven carriers offering plans for 2022.”

He went on to point out that “in 2019, only 26 percent of Georgia’s counties had more than one carrier offering insurance on the individual market. Now, in 2022, 98 percent of all counties have more than one carrier – which means expanded choice and lowered costs for hardworking Georgians.”

If your hypocrisy alarm is blaring, it ought to be. Without saying the “O word,” Kemp is basically embracing and taking credit for the success of Obamacare, the health insurance program that he and every other Republican predicted would destroy the American health care system, produce ruinously high insurance premiums resulting in the dreaded “death spiral,” and in the process turn us all into Communists. Here in Georgia, GOP officials tried hard to ensure that the program failed, with then-Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens at one point pledging to do “everything in our power to be an obstructionist.”




None of that happened. Last year, Georgia had the fifth highest enrollment total in the country, with 517,000 signing up for Affordable Health Care Act plans. That was up 11% from 2020. Enrollment in 2022 has jumped to 654,000, an increase of 26.5%. Despite all attempts to kill it, Obamacare is working and working well.

And while Kemp wants to credit his 2019 “Patients First Act” for that success, much of his legislation has yet to take effect and probably never will, and the improvements in rates and availability that he cites as the product of his leadership are being experienced in states all over the country, not just in Georgia.



That’s why you no longer hear Republicans pledging to repeal Obamacare. They don’t because it is a success, and because it is popular, so popular that Kemp wants credit for it. It turns out Nancy Pelosi was right when she told voters they needed to wait to see how the legislation worked before condemning it.

Despite that progress, however, Georgia still has the third highest rate of uninsured in the country, because under Republican rule it has steadfastly refused federal offers to expand Medicaid for the state’s working poor. Four years ago, when Kemp first ran for governor, 17 states, including Georgia, still refused Medicaid expansion dollars. Now it’s down to 12. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 452,000 additional low-income Georgians would become eligible for coverage if Georgia took that step.

But it won’t, because our leaders are more interested in fake solutions to fake problems than in actually making life better for the people who pay their salaries.

Georgia Recorder is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Georgia Recorder maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor John McCosh for questions: info@georgiarecorder.com. Follow Georgia Recorder on Facebook and Twitter.

https://www.rawstory.com/brian-kemp/

 

This made me laugh, what's next white lives matter pacifiers?



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Conservatives are incredibly stupid!

Hilarious...



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Oh, wait!
You think conservatives have a corner on stupid?

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This whole thread

https://forum.xnxx.com/threads/government-waste.642271/

is just a great example of the lie of conservatism as it is preached and practiced in this nation. We sure never heard any screaming from treasonous conservative/Republicans for all four years Trump was president. But as soon as a Democrat is president all of a sudden its a major problem and scandal.




And the OP even admits it. With as excuse that is nothing short of an insult that he even thinks we might be that fucking stupid.

 

Stumbler is so anti conservative, pro liberal, that he flatly refuses to acknowledge that liberals are bigger waste and corruption frauds than any other political persuasion. He just cannot help but rant that deplorables waste money, despicables spend it to make our lives beter.

And that, we know, is a big fat lie.

 

The very project lead by RINO's to criticize all things Trump is now in the headlines for sex scandals and a path to "generational wealth."...which never had a real message of substance. more like a source for inbred propaganda.

Lincoln Project Pays Six-Figure Legal Settlement to Co-Founder Who Quit Over Sex Pest John Weaver
Financial disclosures show 'legal payout' to Jennifer Horn



The Lincoln Project quietly reached a six-figure legal settlement with an official who last year accused the super PAC of ignoring allegations of sexual misconduct against one of its founders, John Weaver.

Jennifer Horn received $375,000 from the Lincoln Project last year, according to campaign disclosures released this week. The Lincoln Project paid Horn, a cofounder of the group, an initial installment of $250,000 on July 15 and monthly installments of $25,000 thereafter.

Horn, the former chair of the New Hampshire GOP, resigned from the Lincoln Project in February amid allegations that Weaver made unwanted sexual advances toward more than 20 young men. The Lincoln Project fired back at Horn after her resignation, claiming she quit over a contract dispute. The group said Horn asked for a $250,000 signing bonus and a $40,000 monthly consulting fee. Other Lincoln Project founders at the time were raking in millions of dollars a year through their consulting firms. One founder, Steve Schmidt, said he saw the Lincoln Project as a path to "generational wealth."

Horn alleged other Lincoln Project founders knew of allegations against Weaver before they were made public. She claimed she was "demeaned" and "lied to" after she confronted another Lincoln Project executive about the inconsistency. The Lincoln Project responded on Twitter by publishing Horn’s exchanges with a journalist writing about the Weaver allegations. The group deleted the posts, and Schmidt stepped down from the board of directors. He issued an apology to Horn after she reportedly threatened to take legal action.

The terms of Horn’s legal settlement are not clear. The payments are listed as "legal payout" in Federal Election Commission records. Horn has said relatively little about the Lincoln Project since parting ways with the organization. She took a shot at the group in October for hiring a group of operatives to pose as white nationalists at a rally for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R., Va.).

The Lincoln Project made severance payments of $65,000 to its former press secretary, Nathaniel Nesbitt, according to campaign finance records. The group paid another $130,310 to Paul Hastings, the law firm hired to investigate Lincoln Project’s handling of the Weaver allegations. Lincoln Project released the results of the Paul Hastings inquiry in June that purported to clear the group of wrongdoing.

Horn and the Lincoln Project did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Hey you know don't you us conservatives are all about national security and protecting classified material. That's why you should trust us conservatives. Liberals are just too weak and lax. Just look at Hillary.

'A lot of silence from Republicans' about Trump's stealing of classified documents: reporter

Matthew Chapman
February 11, 2022



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Mande Ngan/AFP)


On Friday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," Atlanta Journal-Constitution Washington correspondent Tia Mitchell highlighted the double standard surrounding Republicans who attacked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server to handle sensitive work, but who are are now staying silent amid reports that former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents on his way out of the White House.

"I know from the email scandal in 2016, 2017, that a lot of Republican officials are very concerned about the top secret clearance and information not going into the wrong places," said anchor Jake Tapper. "So I assume, correct me if I am wrong, many officials came out and decried what happened here?"

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"You will be disappointed, that is not the case," said Mitchell. "Republicans have been silent when they don't want to contradict their previous statements, they'll conveniently not respond. So we are see a lot of silence from Republican members. We know it's not going to be the same. We know the way they came, the way they came to Hillary Clinton was partisan and it wasn't equal to the way they have responded to many of the controversies from former President Trump. And so this is just another one on the list where Republicans are not holding him accountable in the same way they've held Democrats for similar behavior or, quite frankly, even less serious behavior."

Watch below:



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-classified-documents-2656634793/

 

Just like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted. "Vote no but take the dough."

Republicans busted for claiming credit for Biden spending they opposed

Travis Gettys
March 15, 2022



Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) during an interview. Image via screengrab.


President Joe Biden is expected to sign a spending bill that includes the first earmarks in more than a decade.

Congress had eschewed earmarks since the early years of the Obama administration in bipartisan distaste for the money set aside for special projects for individual lawmakers back home, but Democrats and Republicans alike are happy to see their return -- even if they voted against the bill, reported Politico.

"While I could not support this portion of the bill," said Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), "I am pleased that the bill includes several Community Funding Projects I advocated for to benefit our local communities."

Tenney claimed she "secured" funding for eight projects for her district, while Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) claimed credit for four in his district -- despite voting against the bill.

READ: Georgia GOP chairman faces furious backlash for 'spreading Russian propaganda'

"Despite my objections to the bill in its totality," Higgins said, "we worked closely with the House Appropriations Committee to secure funding for several important Louisiana projects."

Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) boasted about $14 million that will fund eight projects in his district, although he, too, voted against the appropriations bill.

"Passage of this bill is the culmination of more than a year of working with stakeholders in our communities to identify and secure federal support for their critical needs," Meuser said.

https://www.rawstory.com/earmarks-2022/

 

And despicables follow the trend.
Spend the money then deny the impact on inflation and the debt.

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it the day the infrastructure bill passed. Now just watch the Republicans vote no but take the dough. And then brag about it.

GOP congresswoman gets called out after bragging about infrastructure improvements she voted against

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
July 07, 2022



United States Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) speaking at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit, hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas (Gage Skidmore).


When President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law in November 2021, the members of Congress who took a victory lap included centrist Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina — both of whom played a key role in the negotiations. But many GOP members of Congress, anxious to show how MAGA they were, opposed the bill and attacked it as “socialism.”

One of the bill’s critics was Rep. Beth Van Duyne of Texas. Van Duyne voted against it, but on July 7, she bragged about new funding for the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport — funding coming from the infrastructure bill she opposed in 2021:


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I am thrilled for @DFWAirport to receive this important funding, which will ensure one of the largest airports in the country can address energy by taking a balanced approach and creating solutions without heavy handed regulations.



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DFW International Airport will get $35 million from the federal government to cover some of the costs of a new zero-carbon power plant, part of an effort to...
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Journalist Jamie Dupree called out Van Duyne’s hypocrisy, tweeting:



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Yet another example today of a GOP lawmaker taking credit for money approved in the bipartisan infrastructure law. Rep. Beth Van Duyne R-TX voted against the infrastructure package, but happily touts new money from it for the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.



11:10 AM · Jul 7, 2022

But Van Duyne is hardly the only Republican who railed against the infrastructure package only to turn around and take advantage of it.

In Tennessee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn attacked the bill as a “gateway to socialism,” and Tennessee Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives joined her in attacking it. But Tennessee hasn’t cut itself off from federal funding.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has been angrily railing against the Biden Administration’s economic policies — only to brag about the millions of dollars in federal stimulus money being used in his state. On May 17, the Orlando Sun-Sentinel’s Jeffrey Schweers reported, “Gov. Ron DeSantis has been on a spending spree for months, taking credit for millions of dollars in federal stimulus money he’s handing out to mostly rural Republican counties while at the same time, bashing President Biden’s big government spending. Federal bucks have bolstered the state budget for two years in a row, shoring up the state’s reserves, and funding such things as the governor’s job growth program, climate ‘resiliency’ against rising waters, road projects, broadband expansion, college training programs and tax cuts.”

In a January 25 op-ed for MSNBC’s MaddowBlog, journalist Steve Benen called out some of the Republicans who opposed the infrastructure bill only to brag when they used funding from it — a list that includes Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia, Rep. Gary Palmer of Alabama, Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa and Rep. Kay Granger of Texas.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-congre...nfrastructure-improvements-she-voted-against/

 

Republicans only object to government spending when it's spent on someone else.

 

Rick Santorum demanded 'fiscal responsibility' as a 2012 presidential candidate. A decade later, his campaign committees still owe creditors nearly $1 million.

Rick Santorum demanded 'fiscal responsibility' as a 2012 presidential candidate. A decade later, his campaign committees still owe creditors nearly $1 million.

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  Former Sen. Rick Santorum's 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns are still in debt.
  
  
• The committees owe creditors a combined total of almost $1 million, filings show.
  
  
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Conservative commentator Rick Santorum once demanded "fiscal responsibility" as a 2012 presidential candidate, arguing that America needs a leader prepared to make "tough choices" on spending.

Ten years later, Santorum's 2012 and 2016 presidential campaign committees both remain deep in debt, owing creditors a combined total of $1 million, according to quarterly financial filings submitted Wednesday to the Federal Election Commission.


Financial disclosure from Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential campaign committee.Federal Election Commission

Financial disclosure from Rick Santorum's 2016 presidential campaign committee.Federal Election Commission

Both Santorum's 2012 and 2016 committees report only a minimal amount of cash on hand — a combined $3,589, as of June 30, the filings indicate.


The 2016 campaign committee owes Santorum himself $317,130, having only paid him back $26,869 worth of two personal loans he made to the campaign totaling $344,000. Additionally, he is owed loan interest of more than $47,251.

The 2016 campaign also reports owing $39,192 to American Express for "credit card" bills.

Among the campaigns' creditors are consultants including Brabender Cox LLC, which is owed $366,060 for media consulting, production, and placement services in 2012 and $89,816 in 2016.

Santorum could not be reached for comment.

During his 2012 campaign, Santorum blasted Democrats for their spending habits. He slammed one of former President Barack Obama's budget proposals, warning there would be "turmoil in the streets" without spending cuts. Santorum said he was committed to balancing the budget and cutting $5 trillion in spending in five years.

Santorum's voting record as a senator on raising the debt limit came under fire during that campaign, with then-Rep. Ron Paul of Texas calling him a "big government, big spending individual" during a debate. Santorum, CNN reported, voted six times for permanent increases in the debt limit while in the Senate, where he represented Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007.

More recently, Santorum, a long-time CNN commentator, "parted ways" with the network last year after he faced criticism for disparaging remarks he made about Native Americans.

Despite his old campaign committees' debt, Santorum's two committees total less than a quarter of what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's 2012 committee owes.

The "Newt 2012" campaign committee remains more than $4.63 million in debt, according to financial filing submitted in January to the FEC.

No presidential campaign from any election cycle owes creditors more money than that of Gingrich.

Because of federal rules, neither Gingrich nor Santorum are personally liable for the debts of their presidential committees.

Read the original article on Business Insider


https://www.yahoo.com/news/rick-santorum-demanded-fiscal-responsibility-175928862.html

 

This is another treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican lie of conservatism that just personally disgusts me. They love to wave the flag and use our troops and veterans as just emotional and political props when it suits their purpose but all the rest of the time its fuck those losers and suckers. Let them die.

And they did the exact same thing for decades denying Agent Orange was sickening and killing Vietnam Veterans even when there was overwhelming scientific evidence proving it did.

This thread also proves treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans had no problem at all with spending when Trump was president and they were running a trillion dollar budget deficit in a time of prosperity and before anyone ever even heard of COVID.


GOP senators block bill expanding care for veterans exposed to toxins

Brad Dress
Wed, July 27, 2022 at 9:26 PM·3 min read



Republican lawmakers blocked passage of a bill in the U.S. Senate Wednesday that expands healthcare coverage for military veterans who were exposed to toxins and burn pits during their service.

All Democrats and eight Republicans voted for the Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act, but the 55 yes votes fell short of the 60 needed to end a filibuster in the Senate. Three Senators did not vote.

The PACT Act, which the House passed earlier this month, would enable additional healthcare coverage for more than three million veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits and Vietnam-era veterans exposed to the deadly herbicide Agent Orange.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) said on the Senate floor that he didn’t support the bill because it would create $400 billion in unrelated spending, which he called a “budgetary gimmick.”


“My concern about this bill has nothing to do with the purpose of the bill,” Toomey said. “This budgetary gimmick is so unrelated to the actual veterans issue that has to do with burn pits, that it’s not even in the House version of this bill.”

Although Toomey urged his colleagues to immediately fix the issue, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) accused Toomey of “having a problem” with supporting the country’s veterans.

“If you have the guts to send somebody to war, then you better have the guts to take care of them when they get home,” Tester said. ‘If we don’t take care of our veterans when they come home, they’re going to say, ‘Why should I ever sign the dotted line. Because the promises I made and the promises the country made, only half that deal is being respected.'”

The House passed the PACT Act by a 342-88 vote on July 13, about a month after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 84-14.

The Senate had to retake the bill up on Wednesday because the House passed some minor changes in its version.

The legislation adds 23 toxic and burn pit exposure conditions to the Department of Veterans Affairs database, while expanding care for post-9/11 veterans who were exposed to the burn pits.

The burn pits were used for the combustion of medical waste, human waste and other waste needed for disposal. Exposures to those toxins can lead to asthma, rhinitis and cancer.

It also opens up care for veterans in the Vietnam-war era who were exposed to Agent Orange in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Guam, American Samoa and Johnston Atoll.

Existing coverage for veterans exposed to toxins forces them to prove they got their illness or malady during their time in service and take additional steps that ultimately limits their coverage.

While Toomey said he supported the bill, he argued lawmakers should work to curb wasteful spending amid high inflation.

“We’ve been spending money like no one’s ever imagined,” Toomey said. “I would stress there’s a very easy path to a very big vote in favor of this bill [but] let’s fix this problem.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-block-bill-expanding-032616654.html

 

So why, exactly, did those deplorables torpedo a bill they previously voted for?

Because, as our resident american hater says, they hate veterans?
No.
Because the despicables, having driven us to new depths of debt, are determined to keep it up and spend us into bankruptcy. And in the process use some sketchy accounting to hide their scheme.

Remark | Remarks | THE NEWSROOM | Republican Leader (senate.gov)

Important Veterans’ Bill Deserves Commonsense Toomey Amendment and Prompt Passage
‘Yesterday, the Senate should have been able to clear bipartisan legislation to expand VA health benefits for millions of men and women who have served bravely in our armed forces… A bill this important and this bipartisan deserves for us to fix this accounting gimmick, and then it deserves to become law.’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the PACT Act:

“Yesterday, the Senate should have been able to clear bipartisan legislation to expand VA health benefits for millions of men and women who have served bravely in our armed forces.

“I appreciate our colleagues on the Veterans Affairs Committee for their hard work on the PACT Act. I support the substance of the bill.

“But even on legislation this major and this costly, the Democratic Leader tried to block the Senate from any semblance of a fair amendment process.

“Specifically, the senior Senator for Pennsylvania has an amendment that would ensure we do not just apply a financial band-aid to the problem, but actually fix the underlying accounting issue.

“As written, the legislation would not just help America’s veterans as designed. It could also allow Democrats to effectively spend the same money twice and enable hundreds of billions in new, unrelated spending on the discretionary side of the federal budget.

“There is no excuse why the Democratic Leader should continue to block Senator Toomey’s commonsense amendment. A bill this important and this bipartisan deserves for us to fix this accounting gimmick, and then it deserves to become law.”

 

Just like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Republicans are gong to vote no on an infrastructure bill but then turn around and brag about taking the dough.




DCCC site dings Republicans celebrating projects funded by bills they voted against
by Emily Brooks - 08/01/22 7:00 AM ET

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has launched a new website knocking House Republicans for promoting programs funded by bills that they voted against.

The site, GOPVotedNoTookTheDough.com, lists 26 House Republicans who touted projects funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, the American Rescue Plan stimulus or the fiscal 2022 funding omnibus despite voting against the bills. Mousing over a bullet point for any of the Republicans listed replaces the member’s photo with a clown emoji.


The list includes a number of House Republicans running in districts targeted by the DCCC, such as Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), but also includes members in solidly Republican districts like House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and members running for higher office.

“If Republicans want to tout these critical victories coming to their districts, they should have voted for them,” DCCC spokesperson Tommy Garcia said in a statement. “House Democrats delivered these historic investments — if House Republicans had their way, none would have been made possible.”

Republicans have generally defended their promotion of the programs by saying that while they support specific measures, they objected to legislation as a whole and had long advocated for funding certain projects.

A spokesperson for Hinson, whom the DCCC listed for promoting a dam modernization project on the Upper Mississippi River despite voting against the infrastructure bill, told HuffPost earlier this year that she opposed the package because it was tied to trillions of other spending.

“Since the bill was signed into law, this money was going to be spent regardless. If there’s federal money on the table she is, of course, going to do everything she can to make sure it is reinvested in Iowa,” Hinson’s spokesperson said.

Gonzales, whom the DCCC listed for promoting $75 million in creek revitalization funding after the infrastructure legislation, had a similar response.


“While Congressman Gonzales did not vote for the initial package due to the $1 trillion price tag associated with it, if the money is going to be spent, he is going to advocate that it goes to the district,” Gonzales’s office told the San Antonio Express-News earlier this year. The office said the funding was not specifically allocated for the creek project in the bill and that Gonzales advocated for the funds for the project after it passed.

Scalise celebrated $1 billion in funding for Louisiana flood mitigation projects that were authorized by the infrastructure bill that he voted against. A Scalise spokesman in January told NOLA.com that he voted against the bill due to effects on the budget and pointed to “years of work” on flood protection projects and securing ability for one project to get federal funding.

The DCCC has been putting out statements slamming House Republicans for the promotion of certain programs after “no” votes on the bills for months, and Democrats have long signaled that they will use the votes in negative campaign ads. The website comes as midterm campaign season kicks into high gear, with House members ticking up campaign events in their districts over the August recess.


Democrats have made enactment of the $1 trillion Infrastructure Jobs and Investment Act a cornerstone of their midterm campaign argument. The legislation passed last year with the support of 17 Republican senators and 13 House Republicans, despite House GOP leaders whipping its members to vote against the legislation.

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Democrats have found a challenge, however, in communicating their accomplishment to voters. A June poll from the center-left think tank Third Way found that only 24 percent of voters thought that the legislation was law, while 37 percent said that they did not know and 30 percent saying that it is still being worked on in Congress.

At the time the infrastructure bill passed, much attention was focused on congressional Democrats also pursuing a roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better bill with health care, education and climate programs through a special reconciliation process that bypassed the need for Republican support in the evenly divided Senate.


That deal later fizzled due to objections from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who last week announced support for a slimmed-down $739 billion reconciliation deal on tax, climate and health care provisions.


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