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"We are ensuring that our brave men and women have the resources they need to do the job in Iraq and Afghanistan and we have increased the support given to returning soldiers and to our veterans."
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Ciro Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted to defy military commanders on the ground and ration funds for the troops in harm's way. Rodriguez's vote allowed for a two month funding allowance that would accelerate the Democrat slow-bleed strategy. (House Roll Call 333)
Rodriguez and his Democrat leadership in Washington left town on Veterans Day weekend without passing a vital veterans' housing, healthcare and benefits bill.
Rodriguez voted for the Pelosi-Murtha "slow bleed"scheme to choke-off funding for American troops in harm's way. (House Roll Call 186) | |
No Access to Healthcare
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| "I have always fought for making health care affordable for our families." (Political Ad paid for by the Ciro Rodriguez Campaign) |
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Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted against providing affordable health care to uninsured working families. (House Roll Call 10) | |
Raising College Costs
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"I have always fought for the education of our children."
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Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted to allow convicted felons to receive student loan benefits. (House Roll Call 29) | |
Not Protecting Seniors
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"Our seniors deserve affordable prescription drugs."
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Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted to restrict seniors' access to life-saving drugs as well as access to their neighborhood community pharmacist. (House Roll Call 22) | |
Fiscally Irresponsible
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"As I travel throughout the district, my belief that the district belongs to the working families and not the special interests has been reaffirmed."
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Ciro Rodriguez voted to continue to waste hard-earned taxpayer dollars on pet projects when he 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)
Ciro Rodriguez 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)
Ciro Rodriguez ratcheted up another broken promise as he put pet projects over protecting Americans' security when he 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)
Ciro Rodriguez 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).
Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted to allow hidden earmarks to be tucked into the Democrats' SCHIP bill, despite his 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, Rodriguez voted for legislation "stuffed full of pork," according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group. (House Roll Call 186)
Once elected, Rodriguez voted against a motion that was intended to cut unidentified earmarks. (House Roll Call 71) | |
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"Setting a Renewable Electricity Standard for the United States is a bold step towards energy independence and a cleaner energy future -- one that I am proud to advocate for."
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Ciro Rodriguez voted in lock-step with his Washington leaders for the Democrats' "No Energy" bill, killing jobs and increasing dependence on foreign energy. (House Roll Call 1140)
Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted against a measure which would have required that all energy bills be certified to prevent higher energy prices for consumers. Rodriguez also voted to allow for a reduction of domestic energy supplies and an increase in foreign energy dependence. (House Roll Call 578)
Rodriguez 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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"Over the past year, we have been working every day to improve the lives of our working families."
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Ciro Rodriguez 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)
Ciro Rodriguez 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)
Ciro Rodriguez had the opportunity to pass an AMT patch free of tax increases, but voted with his Democrat leaders to kill it. (House Roll Call 1152) Ciro Rodriguez then voted in lock-step with his 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)
Ciro Rodriguez 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 his Democrat leadership, moving one step closer toward imposing a massive tax increase on middle class American families. (House Roll Call 1136)
Rodriguez voted for a down payment on the "Mother of All Tax Hikes" when he supported the Democrats' package for $72 billion in tax increases. (House Roll Call 1081)
Rodriguez refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Rodriguez'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)
In yet another example of Rodriguez's commitment to increase taxes on hard-working Americans, Rodriguez voted to allow yet another tax increase on homeowners. (House Roll Call 947)
Rodriguez voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Voted to raid the wallets of the middle class, saddling taxpayers with a $400 billion tax hike -- the largest tax increase in American history. Voted to reinstate the marriage penalty, resurrect the death tax, and eliminate the child tax credit. (House Roll Call 212)
Rodriguez showed a commitment to raising taxes immediately after being sworn-in: his first vote elected Pelosi Speaker and his second vote made it easier to impose massive tax hikes on the American people. (House Roll Call 4) | |
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"This Congress has to act to secure our borders and address the illegal immigration crisis."
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Rodriguez 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)
Rodriguez voted with Democrat leadership to strip numerous, important immigration enforcement provisions from the Homeland Security Bill. (House Roll call 316) | |
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Ciro Rodriguez alienated himself 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 he 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)
 Ciro Rodriguez voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Ciro Rodriguez continued to abdicate his 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, Ciro Rodriguez 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)
Ciro Rodriguez completely abandoned his 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, Ciro Rodriguez is proving he cannot be trusted with this responsibility as he continues to play politics with our national security. Rodriguez voted in lock-step with his liberal Democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole. (House Roll Call 1120)
Ciro Rodriguez voted to jeopardize our national security when he sided with his democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole (House Roll Call 1119).
Rodriguez 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)
Disregarding an important component of the Civil Rights Act, Ciro Rodriguez voted against legislation that would fully protect the rights of faith-based organizations that administer Head Start programs. (House Roll Call 284)
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)
In a stunning payback to Big Labor for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and a Democrat victory on Election Day, Rodriguez voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
Rodriguez voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14)
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What Just Happened?
This week, the NRCC released its newest web ad, entitled "What Just Happened?" The ad pinp... [more]
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