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Fiscally Irresponsible
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"We need to regain the sure footing of sound fiscal and budget practices according to which the government pays its own way rather than relying upon unsustainable budget deficits."
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Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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).
Sestak 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)
Sestak 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) | |
Tax Hiker
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"Joe will fight for Middle Class Tax Relief..."
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Sestak 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).
Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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) Joe
Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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)
Sestak 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)
Sestak refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Sestak?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 Sestak's commitment to increase taxes on hard-working Americans, Sestak voted to allow yet another tax increase on homeowners. (House Roll Call 947)
Sestak voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Sestak 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)
Sestak lined up once again with the Democrat Leadership to make it easier to raise taxes on the American people. He 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)
Sestak 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) | |
No Access to Healthcare
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| "Our collective responsibility is to ensure a health care system which covers all of us." www.sestakforcongress.com |
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Sestak voted to cut Medicare benefits for seniors, ration government-run healthcare and raise taxes to pay for the massive bureaucratic expansion.
Sestak voted to restrict seniors' access to life-saving drugs as well as access to their neighborhood community pharmacist. (House Roll Call 22)
Sestak voted against providing affordable health care to uninsured working families. (House Roll Call 10) | |
Killing Jobs
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| "This Administration has failed to support policies to help relieve cost pressures, jumpstart business formation and encourage business to create new jobs." www.sestakforcongress.com |
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Sestak can't seem to help himself when it comes to paying back Big Labor. This time, Sestak voted to defeat a motion to restore $2 million to the office responsible for investigating union corruption. (House Roll Call 642)
Delivering another big win for Big Labor, and another punch against working Americans, Joe Sestak 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)
Sestak voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
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) | |
| Wrong On Energy |
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| "We must do everything we can to lessen our dependence on foreign oil by adopting a forward-thinking plan to deliver affordable and clean energy." www.sestakforcongress.com |
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Joe Sestak 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, Sestak 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).
Joe Sestak 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)
Sestak 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)
Sestak voted against a bill that would have encouraged biofuels research and development of all alternative fuels, instead of a select few. This proposal would have been very beneficial to local economies, especially in coal-producing communities. (House Roll Call 91)
Sestak 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) | |
| Deserting Troops |
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"As a veteran who served for three decades, I have a deep respect for those who defend our country. Their care and support during and after their service is of the utmost importance to me."
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Joe Sestak 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)
Sestak 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)
Sestak voted for the Pelosi-Murtha "slow bleed" scheme to choke-off funding for American troops in harm's way.(House Roll Call 186)
Sestak and his Democrat leadership in Washington left town on Veterans Day weekend without passing a vital veterans' housing, healthcare, and benefits bill. | |
| Endangering America |
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"The United States is to be second to none in its ability to wage and win our nation's wars...and therefore deter them."
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Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Joe Sestak 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, Joe Sestak 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)
Joe Sestak 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, Patrick Murphy is proving he cannot be trusted with this responsibility as he continues to play politics with our national security. Murphy 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)
Joe Sestak 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).
Sestak 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)
Sestak voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14) | |
| Illegal Immigration |
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"As the son of an immigrant, I believe the richness of our country is based on our immigrant heritage and while we need to respect that heritage, we also have a responsibility to secure our border." www.sestakforcongress.com |
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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, Sestak is
doing the bidding of his 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).
Sestak has made his allegiance to protecting illegals abundantly clear: Sestak 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)
Sestak voted to give federal handouts to illegal immigrants by voting to gut the requirements in the State Children's Health Insurance Program law, which require states to verify citizenship before providing health benefits. (House Roll Call 787)
Sestak voted against full funding for the construction of the border fence as mandated by Congress. (House Roll Call 490)
When he had a chance to take a stand against illegal immigration, Joe Sestak voted to allow illegal immigrants to form unions in the United States. (House Roll Call 117) | |
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| OUT OF TOUCH WITH PENNSYLVANIA |
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 Joe Sestak proved his loyalty to the trial lawyer lobby 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).
Sestak 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)
 Sestak failed to protect children in school when he 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)
In his first opportunity to put partisan politics aside for the sake of cleaning up the mess in Washington, Joe Sestak went back on his 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)
Sestak 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)
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