 |
 |
| |
| |
 |
| |
|
Fiscally Irresponsible |
| |
|
|
|
"I really feel that some of this wasteful spending, building bridges and roads to nowhere is a good example. No one likes to pay taxes, but with the tax money that does go into our government, we should spend it wisely. We should not put our children in debt."
Macon County News, 1/24/07 |
 |
Heath Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler 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).
Shuler 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)
Shuler 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, Shuler voted for legislation "stuffed full of pork," according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group. (House Roll Call 186) | |
| Endangering America |
|
|
|
"Throughout this campaign I have called on Congress to get to work and secure America with stronger border protections. In Congress, I will fight to make sure our nation is secure and that we stop the flow of illegal immigrants."
www.heathshuler.com |
|
Heath Shuler voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Heath Shuler 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, Heath Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler 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)
The number one priority of Congress should be to protect the American people, but unfortunately, Heath Shuler is proving she cannot be trusted with this responsibility as she continues to play politics with our national security. Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler voted to jeopardize our national security when he sided with her democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole. (House Roll Call 1119)
Shuler voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14) | |
| Tax Hiker |
| |
|
|
|
"We have seen how giving a tax credit to first-time homebuyers can work. Now, we need to take that experience and extend this tax relief to all American families." www.heathshuler.com |
|
Heath Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler voted against providing tax relief for over 20 million Americans, choosing the sham plan of raising taxes in order to cut taxes over putting more money in the pockets of hard-working Americans. (House Roll Call 1183)
Heath Shuler 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). Shuler 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)
Heath Shuler 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)
Shuler refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Shuler'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)
Shuler 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)
Also within the first 15 days of Democrat-control of Congress, he sided with his liberal leadership, voting for a $6.5 billion tax hike -- the first tax increase in 13 years. (House Roll Call 40)
Heath Shuler 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) | |
| Neglecting Troops |
| |
|
|
|
"We must ensure that the advice of our military commanders on the ground is not being ignored for political reasons in Washington, D.C." |
|
Shuler 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)
Shuler voted to defy military commanders on the ground and cut off funds for the troops in harm's way. Shuler's vote to ration funding for the troops allowed for a two month funding allowance that would accelerate the Democrat slow-bleed strategy. (House Roll Call 333)
Shuler voted for the Pelosi-Murtha "slow bleed" scheme to choke-off funding for American troops in harm's way. (House Roll Call 186) | |
| Corruption Hypocrite |
|
|
|
"The time has come for the corruption in Washington to stop... We elect representatives to go to Washington and work for us, not themselves." Press Release, 10/11/2006 |
|
Shuler 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)
Delivering another big win for Big Labor, and another punch against working Americans, Heath Shuler 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, Heath Shuler voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
Shuler failed to take a stand against corruption and 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. | |
| No Access to Healthcare |
|
|
|
|
"Every American deserves accessible and affordable health care."
|
|
Shuler voted to restrict seniors' access to life-saving drugs as well as access to their neighborhood community pharmacist. (House Roll Call 22)
Shuler 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)
Shuler voted against providing affordable health care to uninsured working families (House Roll Call 10) | |
|
|
|
|
TO KEEP AN EYE ON SHULER
Enter your email address in the form below and click on the submit button
| OUT OF TOUCH WITH NORTH CAROLINA |
| |
|
Rep. Heath Shuler proved his loyalty to the trial lawyer lobby
again when he 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).
Rep. Shuler and his 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, Shuler and his 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).
Heath Shuler 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)
 Ignoring basic Constitutional facts that are learned by elementary school students across America everyday, Heath Shuler voted with House Democrats to disregard the Constitutional amendment process and expand voting rights to the District of Columbia. (House Roll Call 231)
Heath Shuler voted against giving the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) the funds and resources needed to combat methamphetamine and other illicit drugs in local communities. Voted to deny the DEA over $50 million in vital funding as well as critical DEA agents. (House Roll Call 72)
Shuler 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)
Shuler voted to allow convicted felons to receive student loan benefits. (House Roll Call 29)
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
