Good picks all! To bad the committee is unconstitutional!
Not familiar with any of these people. They RINO’S or a mixture?????????
Upton is the RINO pos behind the light bulb ban... we be screwed
Hensarling.
Oooooooh!
Hensarling in the Royal Congress. Wow.
Thank God the EPA is still safe. [/sarc]
Looks like Texas and Michigan have representation. What about the citizens from the other 48 states?
THIS IS THE MAN WHO CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO BAN THE LIGHTBULB!!
Fred Upton's voting record:
BAILOUTS
Voted YES for TARP
Voted YES on the auto bailout
Voted YES on Cash for Clunkers
SPENDING
Voted NO on 7 of the last 9 RSC Budgets
Voted YES on the Farm Bill
Voted YES on the 2005 Highway Bill
Voted NO to cap farm subsidies
Voted YES four times to extend unemployment benefits
Voted NO to end milk subsidies
Voted NO to cut sugar subsidies
Voted NO to cut NEA spending
Voted NO to cut AMTRAK spending
Voted YES to increase funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Got a 53% on the Clubs 2009 RePORK Card
Got a 42% on the Clubs 2007 RePORK Card
TAXES
Voted YES on Patriot Tax a surtax on high income earners
REGULATIONS
Voted YES for Sarbanes-Oxley
Voted YES to increase the minimum wage
Voted YES on energy bill with new CAFÉ standards and tax hikes
Voted NO to waive Davis-Bacon
Voted YES to criminalize price-gouging
POLITICAL FREE SPEECH
Voted YES to force 527s to disclose their donors
Voted YES on McCain-Feingold
Voted YES on the 527 Reform Act
ENTITLEMENTS
Voted YES for SCHIP
GOVERNMENT REFORM
Voted NO to privatize postal service for 20 communities
Voted 7 of 9 times to increase congressional pay
SCHOOL CHOICE
Voted YES on No Child Left Behind
Glaringly missing is any Tea Party freshmen....
,,,,,,, shouldn’t be hard to get those 7 liberal votes IMO .
,,,,,,, shouldn’t be hard to get those 7 liberal votes IMO .
It looks like The path to Hell is well paved . . .
Glaringly missing is any Tea Party freshmen....
Fred Upton...total RINO
Hensarling...Boehner chose Hensarling over a true conservative, DeMint to chair the Republican Conference
And a Michigan republican who is a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership, who will be as useless as boobies on a male swine.
Damn, I guess this seals the deal that we are now royally %^&ked!
Ahhhh . . . the House members of the Republican Cave In Committee . . .
Two from Michigan and no Tea Party representation . . . bend over folks . . . you are about to be screwed
Did anyone think this ‘committee’ was being set up to be effective?
Or just another show...to ‘appear’ to be doing something of good on our behalf of course...of course.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) - 100 (House term rating)
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) - 88 (House term rating)
I heard someone refer to this “Gang of 12” as The Politboro.