(Look at Republican) Support (for) Obama’s War on Suburbs

CR Conservative Review ^ | 5/19/2016 | CR Staff

[HomerBohn]

Vote Description

This vote was a procedural vote to kill an amendment offered by Senator Lee that would have defunded implementation of a Department of Housing and Urban Development rule that basically federalizes zoning laws and encourages the forced economic diversification of neighborhoods. Rhetorically speaking this rule is a war on the suburbs as it uses the power of federal government to centrally plan out neighborhoods. The rule is a massive power grab by progressive bureaucrats to allow them to conduct large scale social experiments with real neighborhoods by forcing the collection of data that will be used to evaluate whether communities meet Washington guidelines and quotas on race, economic, and other factors. The result will undermine local representation and push localities into more regional government structures that ultimately answer to Washington D.C. -

(The percentage to the right of the Senators' names is how they vote in support of our Constitution.)

CONSERVATIVE POSITION? NO

VOTED YES

OH Sen. Rob Portman 50%

IN Sen. Daniel Coats 45%

MO Sen. Roy Blunt 44%

NC Sen. Richard Burr 44%

UT Sen. Orrin Hatch 38%

NC Sen. Thom Tillis 36%

NH Sen. Kelly Ayotte 35%

GA Sen. Johnny Isakson 35%

AZ Sen. John McCain 35%

SC Sen. Lindsey Graham 33%

ND Sen. John Hoeven 29%

MS Sen. Thad Cochran 27%

AK Sen. Lisa Murkowski 21%

TN Sen. Lamar Alexander 19%

IL Sen. Mark Kirk 19%

WV Sen. Joe Manchin III 16%

MT Sen. Jon Tester 14%

MA Sen. Elizabeth Warren 14%

ME Sen. Susan Collins 12%

MA Sen. Edward Markey 11%

DE Sen. Thomas Carper 10%

NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 10%

OH Sen. Sherrod Brown 9%

IN Sen. Joe Donnelly 9%

CT Sen. Christopher Murphy 9%

CO Sen. Michael Bennet 8%

NJ Sen. Cory Booker 8%

MO Sen. Claire McCaskill 8%

OR Sen. Jeff Merkley 8%

MI Sen. Gary Peters 7%

WI Sen. Tammy Baldwin 6%

PA Sen. Bob Casey 6%

MI Sen. Debbie Stabenow 6%

CT Sen. Richard Blumenthal 4%

MN Sen. Al Franken 4%

VT Sen. Patrick Leahy 4%

FL Sen. Bill Nelson 4%

RI Sen. Jack Reed 4%

NM Sen. Tom Udall 4%

VA Sen. Mark Warner 4%

RI Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse 4%

OR Sen. Ron Wyden 4%

NM Sen. Martin Heinrich 3%

ND Sen. Heidi Heitkamp 3%

HI Sen. Mazie Hirono 3%

ME Sen. Angus King 3%

HI Sen. Brian Schatz 3%

WA Sen. Maria Cantwell 2%

MD Sen. Benjamin Cardin 2%

IL Sen. Richard Durbin 2%

MN Sen. Amy Klobuchar 2%

NJ Sen. Robert Menendez 2%

MD Sen. Barbara Mikulski 2%

NV Sen. Harry Reid 2%

NY Sen. Charles Schumer 2%

NH Sen. Jeanne Shaheen 2%

DE Sen. Christopher Coons 0%

CA Sen. Dianne Feinstein 0%

VA Sen. Tim Kaine 0%

WA Sen. Patty Murray 0%

Voted No

State

Name

Score

Track

UT Sen. Mike Lee 100%

KY Sen. Rand Paul 94%

NE Sen. Benjamin Sasse 93%

SC Sen. Tim Scott 88%

AR Sen. Tom Cotton 80%

FL Sen. Marco Rubio 79%

AL Sen. Jeff Sessions 79%

ID Sen. Jim Risch 78%

ID Sen. Michael Crapo 76%

OK Sen. Jim Inhofe 74%

MT Sen. Steve Daines 71%

OK Sen. James Lankford 71%

LA Sen. David Vitter 70%

KS Sen. Jerry Moran 69%

GA Sen. David Perdue 69%

AL Sen. Richard Shelby 69%

IA Sen. Charles Grassley 67%

PA Sen. Pat Toomey 62%

WY Sen. Michael Enzi 61%

WI Sen. Ron Johnson 59%

AR Sen. John Boozman 57%

IA Sen. Joni Ernst 57%

NE Sen. Deb Fischer 57%

NV Sen. Dean Heller 57%

AK Sen. Dan Sullivan 57%

KS Sen. Pat Roberts 54%

WY Sen. John Barrasso 53%

LA Sen. Bill Cassidy 50%

AZ Sen. Jeff Flake 48%

TN Sen. Bob Corker 47%

SD Sen. John Thune 47%

TX Sen. John Cornyn 45%

KY Sen. Mitch McConnell 44%

CO Sen. Cory Gardner 43%

SD Sen. Mike Rounds 29%

MS Sen. Roger Wicker 29%

WV Sen. Shelley Capito 21%

Not Voting

TX Sen. Ted Cruz 97%

VT Sen. Bernard Sanders 14%

CA Sen. Barbara Boxer 2%

VOTED NO

UT Sen. Mike Lee 100%

KY Sen. Rand Paul 94%

NE Sen. Benjamin Sasse 93%

SC Sen. Tim Scott 88%

AR Sen. Tom Cotton 80%

FL Sen. Marco Rubio 79%

AL Sen. Jeff Sessions 79%

ID Sen. Jim Risch 78%

ID Sen. Michael Crapo 76%

OK Sen. Jim Inhofe 74%

MT Sen. Steve Daines 71%

OK Sen. James Lankford 71%

LA Sen. David Vitter 70%

KS Sen. Jerry Moran 69%

GA Sen. David Perdue 69%

AL Sen. Richard Shelby 69%

IA Sen. Charles Grassley 67%

PA Sen. Pat Toomey 62%

WY Sen. Michael Enzi 61%

WI Sen. Ron Johnson 59%

AR Sen. John Boozman 57%

IA Sen. Joni Ernst 57%

NE Sen. Deb Fischer 57%

NV Sen. Dean Heller 57%

AK Sen. Dan Sullivan 57%

KS Sen. Pat Roberts 54%

WY Sen. John Barrasso 53%

LA Sen. Bill Cassidy 50%

AZ Sen. Jeff Flake 48%

TN Sen. Bob Corker 47%

SD Sen. John Thune 47%

TX Sen. John Cornyn 45%

KY Sen. Mitch McConnell 44%

CO Sen. Cory Gardner 43%

SD Sen. Mike Rounds 29%

MS Sen. Roger Wicker 29%

WV Sen. Shelley Capito 21%

[arthurus]

We get the government the hell out of the housing market. We get the feds, at least out of the business of welfare and reparations totally. The market will take care of the housing and housing will be more affordable to people who go get and hold jobs. The hopeless criminals will not thrive when there is not a welfare population to sustain them. You don’t have to tear down the projects. Just quit building them and financing them. Turn them over to the residents and walk away. Let the residents do what they will with them or leave them. End the incentives to stay in them. Whether people choose to work or to starve is NOT the business of the government in the system instituted in 1787. Put together it is to end the WOP in one action. Cut it off and withdraw the government from all of it.

[ELS]

It depends on whether the low income is due to a low paying job or to welfare payments. The generations who have been on welfare have no clue how to obtain or keep a job. Things such as how to dress for a job or that one needs to arrive at work on time are taking for granted among non-welfare types, but the welfare generations don't have knowledge of these basic aspects of having a job. They also don't have a feeling of responsibility for the property they are living in. That is why, even if they are provided an initially nice place to live, it quickly turns into a dump. Putting Section 8 folk in high-end real estate is a bad idea all around.

I am sure there are a lot of low income earners/workers who would love to live in low crime neighborhoods. Those are the ones we should initially try to help. They are good people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Dems may have gotten their votes by buying the welfare rolls, but the Dems have not actually helped these people in the long run. We now have the (unintended) consequences of the WOP, and, as usual, the Dems refuse to take responsibility for the mess they have created.

[MeanWestTexan]

John Cornyn is an embarrassment to Texas

[HomerBohn]

Barky the Dog Eater got this through the Senate as evidenced by the vote on the measure.

Democrats gladly vote on crap like this because their supporters simply don’t give a damn. Republicrats, on the other hand, are assumed by their constituents to be Conservative and not apt to do something as offsetting as this piece of crap.

[HomerBohn]

Nor a Department of Education, Welfare, TSA or CIA, etc.etc.

Put the TSA and the CIA under the FBI and make certain that the head of the FBI is a right wing Conservative.

[sockmonkey]

When was this vote? Why didn’t Ted Cruz vote?

[Freedom56v2]

Thank you for posting this!

[Pinkbell]

Rob Portman voted yes, eh? Too bad his primary opponent was not well known.

[NorthMountain]

Pleased to see Capito vote “NO” ... it’s a rare sane vote from her. Scumbag Manchin is up for re-election in 2018.