Sunday, March 16, 2008

HALL OF SHAME: Senators who voted AGAINST the pork moratorium

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement after the Senate voted 29-71 against his year-long earmark moratorium to combat wasteful Washington spending.

“Tonight, too many in Congress embraced the earmark favor factory and proved why we have the lowest approval rating in history,” said Senator DeMint. “Earmarks represent the worst of wasteful Washington spending. The big spenders in Congress may still desperately cling to their pork, but our presidential candidates have made it clear the current system is unacceptable. Americans want the bridges to nowhere and earmark scandals to stop.”

“I’m proud of the twenty-nine brave senators who stood up for Americans and against pork-barrel politics. Taxpayer dollars should be spent based on merit, not political influence.”

The bipartisan amendment would have forced an earmark moratorium for Fiscal Year 2009. The amendment was sponsored by Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and cosponsored by Senators John McCain (R-Arizona), Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), Bob Corker (R-Tennessee), Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Barack Obama (D-Illinois), Hillary Clinton (D-New York), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), Mel Martinez (R-Florida), Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) and Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma).

The amendment was also supported by:
• Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
• National Taxpayers Union
• Americans for Prosperity
• FreedomWorks
• Americans for Tax Reform
• American Conservative Union
• Club for Growth
• Grassfire Alliance
http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=ab524ba2-b650-feea-d9ff-e9b5b0598966

29 in favor of the proposal, 71 opposed

Here are the Senators who voted AGAINST the pork moratorium:

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Tester (D-MT)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

2 comments:

RightMichigan.com said...

And just look at our fantastic Senators from the State of Michigan. Stabenow and Levin both standing in defense of pork barrel spending.

Which I guess really shouldn't be a big surprise. The surprise is that they're in favor of all of that government waste and yet they bring so little of it home to Michigan!

For pete's sake, have you driven on the roads these last few weeks? Why are we still a donor state nationally in road dollars? Can anyone explain that to me?

--Nick
www.RightMichigan.com

apackof2 said...

Yet those who keep voting for these two never ask the same question,
"Where's the beef" for Michigan from all that pork barrel!