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ALTMIRE BREAKS CAMPAIGN PLEDGE, VOTES FOR SURRENDER DATE
"I don't want an arbitrary timeline. ... I support going to the Iraqi government and letting them decide what that timeline is going to be." Jason Altmire, CQ Interview 8/21/06
Altmire voted for the Pelosi-Murtha slow-bleed strategy to choke-off funding for the troops in harm's way. (House Roll Call 186)
By voting yes, Altmire broke his campaign pledge and voted for a date-certain for retreat and defeat in Iraq. He also voted to hamstring the mission by allowing Congress to micromanage the war.
Ignoring widespread criticism from the American Legion and major news publications from across the country, Altmire made it clear that he believes politicians in Washington can better execute the military's mission than the commanders on the ground.
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If elected, Altmire promised spending restraint and a committment to fiscal discipline. www.jasonaltmire.com
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Altmire voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Altmire 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)
Altmire voted to block a bill that would create a Joint Select Committee on Earmark Reform to review and report on how to fix Washington's mess of an earmark process. (House Roll Call 32)
Altmire 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)
Once elected, Altmire voted for a $124 billion supplemental spending bill, "stuffed full of pork," according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group. (House Roll Call 186)Altmire also voted against a motion that was intended to cut unidentified earmarks. (Roll Call Vote 71)Altmire and Democrat leaders voted to stealthily airdrop 54 secret earmarks into already massive appropriations bills at the expense of important funding for our troops, our veterans and hard working Americans. (House Roll Call 1044, 1061 and 1098)
Altmire 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) | |
| Flip-Flopped on Tax Hikes |
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Altmire "Supports tax limitation constitutional amendment requiring 2/3 supermajority to raise taxes." (NTU Candidate Survey)
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Rep. Jason Altmire (PA-04) won?t be seen as a friend of the taxpayer this fall
after he voted for a record-shattering $3 trillion dollar budget that increases
taxes on Americans by $683 billion (House Roll Call 382). Altmire 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)
Altmire 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)
Altmire had the opportunity to protect 23 million Americans from being hit with an enormous tax hike by bringing a clean Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) patch to a vote but instead voted in lock step with his Democratic leadership, moving one step closer to imposing a massive tax increase on middle class American families. (House Roll Call 1136).
Altmire 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). Altmire then voted in lock-step with his Democrat leaders to kill a clean AMT patch, instead voting for burdensome tax increases that will negatively impact the competitiveness of U.S. businesses and the American economy (House Roll Call 1153).
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)Altmire broke his campaign pledge and voted AGAINST a 2/3 supermajority requirement for tax increases, making it easier to impose massive tax hikes on the American people. (House Roll Call 4)Altmire lined up once again with the Democrat Leadership to make it easier to raise taxes on the American people. Altmire 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)
Altmire voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Altmire 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) | |
| Corruption Hypocrite |
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On the campaign trail, Jason Altmire promised to clean up the "culture of corruption" in Washington and pledged reform. www.jasonaltmire.com
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In Washington, Altmire 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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| OUT OF TOUCH WITH PENNSYLVANIA |
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Altmire 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. 
