The Republican 92
One of the most interesting votes last week in the House on GOP budget cutting plans was when more conservative Republicans pushed $22 billion in extra cuts – and 92 GOP lawmakers voted against that plan.
It was yet another reminder in the halls of Congress that lots of people talk big about making budget cuts, but taking the extra step to do that doesn’t always happen.
Who were the Republican 92? A number of them were newly-elected lawmakers, who made a big deal about cutting spending in their election campaigns. By my count, there were almost two dozen freshmen who voted ‘No.’
Many were members of the Appropriations Committee, whose job it is to put together spending bills – in fact, 22 of the 29 GOP members of that panel voted against the cuts that were put forward by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
And many of those on the Appropriations panel made clear they thought this across-the-board cutting plan was useless. A “waste of time,” said former panel Chair Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA).
“Lazy,” declared Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), a GOP veteran who is chairman of the House Administration Committee. He was worried about deeper cuts to security for lawmakers in the wake of the shooting attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).
Several other committee chairs joined in voting ‘No,’ as most senior Republicans went against the extra cuts – including the House Majority Whip Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA) and his top lieutenant, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Yes, that would be the number two and number three Republicans in the House.
So, why did these 92 Republicans vote ‘No’ on the Blackburn amendment? Most of them would probably chalk it up to the across-the-board nature of the proposed cuts, which might have hit programs they support.
For example, there are two lawmakers from Central Florida who have a big interest in NASA. They both were against this budget cut plan, as were 4 of 6 Republicans from Alabama and several GOP’ers from Texas.
One other note from last week’s budget debate – when the week began, the GOP bill had $60.8 billion in cuts. When the week ended, that number was just over $61.4 billion.
In other words, not much in savings was added after 4 long days of debate.
For your review, here are the 92 Republicans who voted against an additional $22 billion in savings last week:
* Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) – freshman elected with Tea Party support
* Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) – member of the Appropriations Committee
* Rep. Rodeny Alexander (R-LA) – had a Tea Party opponent in 2010
* Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Charlie Bass (R-NH) – veteran GOP lawmaker
* Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND) – another freshman votes no
* Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) – just an hour before the vote, Biggert was on the floor arguing for deeper cuts
* Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA) – veteran California Republican
* Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL) – four of six Alabama Republicans voted ‘No’ on this plan
* Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) – Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) – Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee
* Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) – The House Majority Leader
* Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) – Sometimes called a RINO
* Rep. John Carter (R=TX) – he says President Obama “cuts too little”
* Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) – second term Republican
* Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) – another Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) – Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman
* Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) – called Obama budget “failure of leadership”
* Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) – yet another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) – often criticized as a RINO
* Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) – Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL) – freshman says he’s not a Tea Party supporter
* Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) – Chairman of the House Rules Committee
* Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) – Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) – in his fourth term
* Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) – Appropriations member
* Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) – veteran lawmaker from Georgia
* Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) – Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) – freshman described as “Tea Party darling”
* Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) – All three MS GOP’ers voted ‘No’ on this
* Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) – Chairs Natural Resources Committee
* Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) – another frosh ‘No’
* Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) – Chairs Oversight Committee
* Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL) – more moderate GOP lawmaker
* Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) – voted against the whole bill
* Rep. Peter King (R-NY) – Chairs Homeland Security Committee
* Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) – Appropriatons Subcommitte chairman
* Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) – Tea Party favortie picked for GOP transition in House
* Rep. John Kline (R-MN) – Chairs House Education Committee
* Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) – seen as too moderate by some
* Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) – Appropriations subcommittee chairman
* Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) – Former Chair of Appropriations Committee
* Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) – veteran Republican from Jersey
* Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) – Chairs House Agriculture Committee
* Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) – Chairs House Administration Committee
* Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) – House Majority Whip
* Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) – Chairs House Armed Services Committee
* Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) – Tea Party freshman favorite from WV
* Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) – veteran Michigan GOP’er
* Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) – freshman Tea Party favorite from South Dakota
* Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) – a defender of the Tea Party
* Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-MS) – Appropriations Committee member
* Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) – another Mississippi ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) – veteran GOP lawmaker
* Rep. Tom Posey (R-FL) – self-described budget conservative, except on NASA
* Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) – veteran GOP’er in swing districtd
* Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) – another freshman ‘No’ vote from Alabama
* Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) – another Alabama ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY) – Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee
* Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) – pushed F-35 engine cut
* Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) – Chairs Foreign Affairs Committee
* Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) – has been highly critical of Obama spending
* Rep. Jon Runyan (R-NJ) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL) – another Tea Party ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Adam Schock (R-IL) – another Illinois ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) – veteran Republican
* Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) – another veteran Republican
* Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) – Appropriations subcommittee chair
* Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) – another New Jersey ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) – another freshamn ‘No’ vote
* Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) – supports big cuts in budget
* Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) – 2 of 3 Nebraska GOP voted ‘No’
* Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) – accused of being a RINO
* Rep. Scott Tipton (R-AZ) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) – Chairs Energy & Commerce Committee
* Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) – key member of GOP transition
* Rep. Allen West (R-FL) – big Tea Party freshman favorite
* Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) – veteran Georgia lawmaker
* Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) – Appropriations subcommittee chairman
* Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) – another freshman ‘No’ vote
* Rep. Don Young (R-AK) – longtime GOP lawmaker
* Rep. Bill Young (R-FL) – longtime Appropriations committee member
It should be noted that 91 of the 92 voted for final approval of the budget cutting bill. The only overall ‘No’ vote from this group was by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC).
Two other Republicans did vote against the bill, both because they wanted more cuts, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Rep. John Campbell (R-CA).
No Democrats voted for the final bill.
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26 comments Add your comment
Alan Fanning
February 22nd, 2011
7:26 am
Scott Tipton is a Rep. from Colorado not Arizona.
Mickey
February 22nd, 2011
7:48 am
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, FY2004 Foreign Operations Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Flood Insurance Reauthorization , Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Debt Limit Increase, Fiscal 2005 Omnibus Appropriations, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extention.
Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations, Withdrawing U.S. Soldiers from Afghanistan.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional” votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey
wreckmaniac
February 22nd, 2011
10:03 am
$60 billion is chickenfeed when facing a $14 trillion deficit. Until they start discussing cuts of at least
10% of the annual budget which, I think, is approx. $350 billion, these guys will remain in la-la land as usual.
We held an election for this ? Why did we have one at all ?
The next shoe to fall will be federal bailout of the states. If I know DC, there must be ( please supply your opinion Jamie) at least 1000 lobbyists in DC now whose sole job is getting a state bailout.
wreckmaniac
February 22nd, 2011
10:06 am
Re Blackburn, the only vote that really matters is the debt limit increase.
do you understand why i vote democratic?
February 22nd, 2011
10:51 am
i used to be firmly in the GOP camp, but i saw too many hypocritical actions. too many promises to cut spending, when in fact, it’s just moving the spending into corporate tax breaks and the military.
i prefer to see waste in education and healthcare rather than waste in the pentagon and corporate tax breaks
bhorsoft
February 22nd, 2011
10:58 am
I noticed Phil Gingrey voted no, but I didn’t see Tom Price’s name in the list – those two are usually joined at the hip?!?
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An Old Saw
February 22nd, 2011
11:28 am
To paraphrase an old saw: Don’t cut (tax) you, don’t cut (tax) me. Cut (tax) that man behind the tree.
Vote Republican. Experience hypocrisy at its finest.
USMC dawg
February 22nd, 2011
11:31 am
Yeah, Jamie. Great reporting for you and your Left wing Liberal friends.
I never read your article for the the last two years about the Democrats that didn’t want to cut a penny off of the Budget.
Your Liberal slant is ever so obvious in your “reporting”, Jamie.
And regardless of what you think, you are not smarter than the rest of us.
Jamie Dupree = Intellectual Dishonesty
joe
February 22nd, 2011
11:33 am
The only way these 92 will get it, is to vote them out and put someone in there place who will actually follow through on these across the board cuts, no matter who in their districts feels the pain.
JF McNamara
February 22nd, 2011
11:42 am
Joe,
Maybe they are doing what the majority of their constinuency wants. Isn’t that what they were elected to do? Everybody wants budget cuts until they are the people bearing the brunt of the cuts. That’s why we never see them. I personally wouldn’t vote out someone in my district who protected my job. Would you?
Interesting
February 22nd, 2011
11:58 am
@ USMC dawg..”Yeah, Jamie. Great reporting for you and your Left wing Liberal friends.
For starters, you didnt even address the issue @ hand which Jamie highlighted in his post, which is republicans yelling “budget cuts” AND SUBSQUENTLY voting against it if it hurts “their interests”..
And if Jamie’s “Liberal slant is ever so obvious in your “reporting”, what about Kyle Wingfield or Bob Barr?
Fay
February 22nd, 2011
12:00 pm
Let’s see the conservatives cut defense. It is the most bloated, overspent, overdone part of our budget. The corporate welfare queens in the defense industry cost us more money than any mythical “welfare queen” individual could ever dream of.
Y’all cut defense. Quit bombing countries that never attacked us; get our bases out of countries we have no business being in. Then I might take you seriously.
Well, that and let people buy alcohol at the store on Sundays. “Smaller government” indeed.
Semper Fi
February 22nd, 2011
12:13 pm
@ USMC Dawg…
What part of this is a liberal slant? What appears to be presented as facts but is merely an opinion of the writer…please explain
It’s ok to own an opinion, but you don’t own the facts
BPJ
February 22nd, 2011
12:31 pm
Proposing across-the-board cuts, whether in government or in business, simply means you have no idea what you’re doing.
Mark Seminole
February 22nd, 2011
12:32 pm
Fay,
I couldn’t agree with you more. The biggest welfare recipient’s are Boeing; McDonnell-Douglas; Halliburton. Let’s be real and pull out of countries where we’ve no business being and divert those savings to rebuilding America from the inside. That’s called innovation.
USMC Dawg, how do you feel about cutting the Defense budget?
Bo Doodley
February 22nd, 2011
12:39 pm
I’m sorry, but there is nobody as fair in his political assessments than Jamie.
Semper Fi
February 22nd, 2011
1:09 pm
USMC Dawg has to wait for Hannity to come on a little later today to get those talking points
RL
February 22nd, 2011
1:28 pm
92 that cannot do the right thing
You Distort/We Deride
February 22nd, 2011
1:30 pm
USMC
The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
You, sir, and your double standards are precisely what’s wrong with the Republican Party these days.
Whip your constituents into a frenzy based on your pie-in-the-sky principles, then do the opposite once you’re in Washington.
Seems to me your disgust should be directed towards the Republican 92, and not Jamie Dupree.
That’s what makes you a buffoon.
Not a Republican
February 22nd, 2011
1:34 pm
Hey Gang! I’m not a Republican but I don’t see this as humorous at all. Even amongst our own party we have to to be able to compromise and work together. Yes, people make promises but please please vote for what makes sense for the American people not your selfish insights or likes or dislikes. Sometimes you can’t deliver on all of your promises but no way am I going to like or dislike you anymore, sometimes s#$t happens. I know I can’t speak for everyone about issues but I think I can speak for all of you….We Love our Courntry-the old Red, White, and Blue’
USMC dawg
February 22nd, 2011
1:36 pm
“USMC Dawg, how do you feel about cutting the Defense budget?”
Mark, I am for cutting the ENTIRE budget “ACROSS THE BOARD”.
We should also cut out most, if not all, Foreign aid and Welfare entitlements.
We have to start somewhere. Our government spending is way out of control.
And I don’t watch Fox News, Semper Fi, but your Drivel is predictable.
I guess Semper Fi needs to wait for Keith Olbermann to come on TV for his talking points.
Oh yeah, he got “canned”!
USMC dawg
February 22nd, 2011
1:43 pm
“Seems to me your disgust should be directed towards the Republican 92, and not Jamie Dupree.”
Hey Buffoon, don’t get me wrong, I am upset with these 92, but they will be dealt with at the ballot box.
But as far as I am concerned, The Repubs are at least headed back in the right direction. But they definitely need to go MUCH further.
But where was Jamie Dupree when the Dems were spending like drunken sailors since 2006? He was glossing over the Liberal Democratic garbage that was shoved down our throats, i.e. Obamacare.
You Distort/We Deride
February 22nd, 2011
1:48 pm
USMC
You may not watch FOX but you’re channeling them with your inanity.
Do you happen to remember WHY the Democrats had the majority in the House and Senate from 2006 to 2010?
Because of the FAILURE of your party to hold its ground; to act according to its principles; to adhere to the representation of its constituents back home. If you recall, the American people spoke LOUDLY in 2006 and 2008.
You have no one to blame but your own pathetic political party.
And from what I read here, they haven’t changed one iota.
Semper Fi
February 22nd, 2011
2:43 pm
@ USMC Dawg
What party is responsible for Medicare Part D and two-unfunded wars..yet you rail against “Obamacare” or more properly-termed the Affordable Healthcare Act that actually saves money.
No party solely owns increased spending.
mickeywhite
February 22nd, 2011
8:11 pm
Marsha Blackburn has voted FOR many Debt Increases.