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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 and her Democrat leaders have failed to reveal their
secret "commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices." In the
face of a slowing economy and soaring cost of living, Shea-Porter and her fellow
Democrats rejected a call to force Speaker Pelosi to tell the American people
how she plans to relieve their pain at the pump (House Roll Call 211).
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) | |
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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) | |
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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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"We need to be strong and confident in our national defense."
Manchester Union-Leader 6/21/06 |
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Carol Shea-Porter alienated herself from not only the bipartisan group of U.S. Senators who strongly support the Protect America Act, but also the American public as a whole, and she supported a sham FISA bill in hopes of finding political cover from voters who are tired of his bobbing and weaving on the issue of national security. (House Roll Call 145)
Carol Shea-Porter voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Carol Shea-Porter continued to abdicate her duty to protect the American people and instead play political games by voting repeatedly to block a vote on the Senate's bipartisan Protect America Act. (House Roll Call 116)
By blatantly blocking the renewal of the critical terrorist surveillance program, Carol Shea-Porter prolonged the Democrats' payback to trial lawyers who are filing frivolous lawsuits against the telecom companies who fulfilled their patriotic duty by aiding the government in terrorist surveillances in the aftermath of 9/11. (House Roll Call 73)
Carol Shea-Porter completely abandoned her responsibility to ensure that our intelligence officials have all of the necessary tools to provide for our national security by allowing the terrorist surveillance program to expire, leaving Americans' security in serious jeopardy (House Roll Call 48 and 53)
The number one priority of Congress should be to protect the American people, but unfortunately, Carol Shea-Porter is proving she cannot be trusted with this responsibility as she continues to play politics with our national security. Shea-Porter voted in lock-step with her liberal Democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole. (House Roll Call 1120)
Carol Shea-Porter voted to jeopardize our national security when she sided with her Democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole. (House Roll Call 1119)
Shea-Porter voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14) | |
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"Democrats in Congress are working to make the tax system fairer for the middle-class."
Press Release 4/18/07 |
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Carol Shea-Porter won't be seen as a friend of the taxpayer this fall
after she voted for a record-shattering $3 trillion dollar budget that increases
taxes on Americans by $683 billion (House Roll Call 382).
Carol Shea-Porter voted for the largest tax increase ever, supporting a devastating $683 billion tax increase, tens of billions of dollars in new wasteful Washington spending and rejecting any reform to solve our nation's entitlement crisis. (House Roll Call 141)
Carol Shea-Porter voted in lock-step with his liberal Democrat leaders to kill a motion that would have permanently eliminated the onerous marriage penalty and extended the $1,000 child tax credit. (House Roll Call 83)
Carol Shea-Porter had the opportunity to pass an AMT patch free of tax increases, but voted with her Democrat leaders to kill it. (House Roll Call 1152)
Carol Shea-Porter then voted in lock-step with her Democrat leaders to kill a clean AMT patch, instead voting for burdening tax increases that will negatively impact the competitiveness of U.S. businesses and the American economy. (House Roll Call 1153)
Carol Shea-Porter had the opportunity to bring a clean Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) patch to a vote, that would protect 23 million Americans from being hit with a massive tax hike on middle class American families, but instead voted in lock-step with her Democrat leadership, moving one step closer toward imposing a massive tax increase on middle class American families. (House Roll Call 1136)
Shea-Porter voted for a down payment on the "Mother of All Tax Hikes" when she supported the Democrats' package for $72 billion in tax increases. (House Roll Call 1081)
Shea-Porter refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Shea-Porter's vote seriously jeopardizes family-owned business and farms, and destroys any hope for hard-working families to pass their livelihood onto future generations. (House Roll Call 959)
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n yet another example of Shea-Porter's commitment to increase taxes on hard-working Americans, Shea-Porter voted to allow yet another tax increase on homeowners. (House Roll Call 947)
Shea-Porter voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Shea-Porter voted to impose another massive tax increase at the expense of America's hard-working farmers, threatening the jobs of more than 5 million American workers. (House Roll Call 746)
Shea-Porter lined up once again with the Democrat Leadership to make it easier to raise taxes on the American people. She voted against a motion which would have prevented the IRS from implementing or collecting any new tax increases that the Democrats try to pass. (House Roll Call 605)
Shea-Porter voted to pave the way for one of the largest tax hikes in history. (House Roll Call 377)
Carol Shea-Porter showed a commitment to raising taxes immediately after being sworn-in: Her first vote elected Pelosi Speaker and her second vote made it easier to impose massive tax hikes on the American people. (House Roll Call 4) | |
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"There are several plans being talked about right now, and I certainly would support any bill that would alleviate the suffering."
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Shea-Porter voted to cut Medicare benefits for seniors, ration government-run healthcare and raise taxes to pay for the massive bureaucratic expansion. (House Roll Call 787)
Voted to restrict seniors' access to life-saving drugs as well as access to their neighborhood community pharmacist. (House Roll Call 22)
Shea-Porter voted against the interests of America's small businesses and their ability to create jobs and provide affordable health care to their workers. (House Roll Call 17) | |
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"I support legislation that would restore power to the voters and weaken the
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Shea-Porter voted for a bill that is widely perceived as a giveaway to the trial lawyer lobby, allowing for an open-ended commitment for frivolous lawsuits in the workplace. (House Roll Call 768)
Shea-Porter can't seem to help herself when it comes to paying back Big Labor. This time, Shea-Porter voted to defeat a motion to restore $2 million to the office responsible for investigating union corruption. (House Roll Call 642)
In her first opportunity to put partisan politics aside for the sake of cleaning up the mess in Washington, Carol Shea-Porter went back on her word by voting to give John Murtha a pass on a significant ethical breach. Murtha threatened to cut off earmarks for not ONE, but TWO members of Congress who voted against a Murtha-sponsored project that has been deemed wasteful and a "boondoggle." (House Roll Call 402)
Delivering another big win for Big Labor, and another punch against working Americans, Carol Shea-Porter also voted to expand the scope of Davis-Bacon for the first time in over a decade, imposing a potentially bankrupting mandate on small business owners. (House Roll Call 135)
In a stunning payback to Big Labor for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and a Democrat victory on election day, Carol Shea-Porter voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
When she had another chance to take a stand against corrupt behavior, Shea-Porter voted behind-the-scenes to allow FBI bribery suspect Congressman William Jefferson to sit on the Homeland Security panel and have access to top US secrets. | |
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 Despite the nearly 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States today, and
an ever increasing security threat resulting from porous borders, Shea-Porter is
doing the bidding of her liberal leaders in Washington by blocking a vote on a
bipartisan bill aimed at addressing America's border security and illegal
immigration crisis (Discharge
Petition).
Carol Shea-Porter proved her loyalty to the trial lawyer lobby
again when she rejected a proposal to protect firefighters who assist families
in their community with the proper installation of child safety seats from
frivolous lawsuits (House Roll Call 159).
Shea-Porter has made her allegiance to protecting illegals abundantly clear: Shea-Porter voted not once, not just twice, but three times to make it easier for illegal immigrants to receive federal housing assistance, instead of ensuring that the funds go to the low-income Americans. (House Roll Call 628, 814 and 875)
 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. (House Roll Call 787)
Shea-Porter failed to protect children in school when she voted against a motion which would have provided funding for schools to cover the fees to do background checks on teachers across the country. (House Roll Call 685)
Carol Shea-Porter voted against increasing funding for border security. (House Roll Call 471) Shea-Porter then voted against full funding for the construction of the border fence as mandated by Congress. (House Roll Call 490)
Voted against a measure that would have eliminated taxpayer-funded small business grants for convicted felons including sex offenders, kidnappers and others. (House Roll Call 224)
Voted against increasing college access and affordability for middle- to low-income students, against providing greater resources for Pell Grants, and against deficit reduction on behalf of taxpayers. (House Roll Call 31)
Voted to allow convicted felons to receive student loan benefits. (House Roll Call 29)
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Shea-Porter's Posturing on Gun Issue Backfires
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) has been in Washington, D.C. just over a year, and already ... [more]
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