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CAROL SHEA-PORTER DENIES HEALTHCARE TO HARD-WORKING AMERICANS
Despite her lofty campaign rhetoric: "There are now 46 million people uninsured, and many others who cannot seek medical care because they can't afford their deductible or co-pay." Carol Shea-Porter, www.carolforcongress.com 
Carol Shea-Porter voted against providing affordable health care to uninsured working families. (House Roll Call 10)
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| Wrong On Energy |
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"It's essential for our environment and also for our national security, since some of our oil money is also being used against us in the Middle East. The government needs to now invest heavily in research and development."
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Carol Shea-Porter voted in lock-step with her Washington leaders for the Democrats' "No Energy" bill, killing jobs and increasing dependence on foreign energy. (House Roll Call 1140)
Shea-Porter cast a vote which would not only cripple the American mining industry, but also send American jobs overseas, increase America's dependence on foreign resources, and undoubtedly endanger America's economic and national security. (House Roll Call 1032)
Shea-Porter voted against a measure which would have required that all energy bills be certified to prevent higher energy prices for consumers. Shea-Porter also voted to allow for a reduction of domestic energy supplies and an increase in foreign energy dependence. (House Roll Call 578)
Shea-Porter voted for $6.5 billion in new taxes on American energy producers. Voted for higher energy prices for American consumers. Voted to stifle domestic energy production. And voted to increase America's dependence on foreign sources of energy. (House Roll Call 40) | |
| Fiscally Irresponsible |
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"I will fight this fiscal irresponsibility and work towards a budget that is financially sound and morally fair to all."
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Carol Shea-Porter voted to continue to waste hard-earned taxpayer dollars on pet projects when she voted against a proposal to impose an immediate earmark moratorium until both parties could come together to fix Washington's mess of an earmark process. (House Roll Call 32)
Carol Shea-Porter and the Democrats broke their "PAYGO" promise by voting to violate PAYGO rules in order to pass a patch for the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) that is already so delayed that it will cost over 20 million Americans significant delays in receiving their IRS refunds this year. (House Roll Call 1183)
Carol Shea-Porter ratcheted up another broken promise as she put pet projects over protecting Americans' security when she voted against a measure that would have stripped all earmarks from a bill that was originally designed to enhance our nation's laws. (House Roll Call 1125)
Carol Shea-Porter voted to allow up to 54 secret earmarks to be airdropped into appropriations bills at the last minute, adding a half a trillion dollars in increased spending to these already massive bills (House Roll Call 1044, 1061 and 1098).
Shea-Porter voted to allow wasteful and unnecessary spending in order to add the word "safety" to the 41 year-old Federal Railroad Administration, wasting taxpayer dollars on administrative costs associated with changing the name of the agency. (House Roll Call 979)
Shea-Porter voted to allow hidden earmarks to be tucked into the Democrats' SCHIP bill, despite her promise to be part of the "most open Congress in history." (House Roll Call 902)
By voting for the Democrats' $124 billion supplemental spending bill, Shea-Porter voted for legislation "stuffed full of pork," according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group. (Roll Call Vote 186) | |
| Deserting Troops |
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"If we truly honor our soldiers and veterans, we must honor our commitments to them and to their families."
Manchester Union Leader, 5/28/07 |
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Carol Shea-Porter voted to adjourn the US House of Representatives for a two week Thanksgiving recess, blatantly neglecting to pass a critical housing, health care and benefits bill for our nation's veterans and troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (House Roll Call 1113)
Shea-Porter put partisan politics above the needs of troops and commanders on the ground by voting for a Democrat-sponsored bill mandating extension of troop deployments overseas. (House Roll Call 795)
Shea-Porter voted yet again in lock-step with the Democrat leadership to block a motion aimed at protecting housing for America's homeless and disabled veterans. (House Roll Call 714)
Shea-Porter voted for the Pelosi-Murtha "slow bleed" strategy to choke-off funding for American troops in harm's way. (House Roll Call 186)
Shea-Porter and her Democrat leadership in Washington left town on Veterans Day weekend without passing a vital veterans' housing, healthcare and benefits bill. | |
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| OUT OF TOUCH WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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Shea-Porter voted to give federal handouts to illegal immigrants by voting to gut the requirements in the State Children's Health Insurance Program law, which requires states to verify citizenship before providing health benefits. 
