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No Access to Healthcare
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"Patrick believes that access to quality health care is a basic human right, and that it's long past time that the United States joined every other industrialized nation in ensuring health care security for all Americans." www.murphy06.net
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Murphy 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)
Murphy voted against providing affordable health care to uninsured working families. (House Roll Call 10) | |
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"I will do everything in my power to ensure that our troops, our veterans and their families receive all of the support and benefits that they have so bravely earned."
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Patrick Murphy 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)
Murphy 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)
Murphy 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
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"Patrick Murphy's plan for ethics reform cleans up the corrupt system in Washington and brings government back to the people."
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Murphy can't seem to help himself when it comes to paying back Big Labor. This time, Murphy voted to defeat a motion to restore $2 million to the office responsible for investigating union corruption. (House Roll Call 642)
In his first opportunity to put partisan politics aside for the sake of cleaning up the mess in Washington, Patrick Murphy 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)
In a stunning payback to Big Labor for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and a Democrat victory on Election Day, Patrick Murphy voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
When he had another chance to take a stand against corrupt behavior, Murphy 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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"Energy independence is vital to national security."
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Patrick Murphy 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, Murphy 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).
Patrick Murphy 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)
Murphy 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)
Murphy voted against a measure which would have required that all energy bills be certified to prevent higher energy prices for consumers. Murphy also voted to allow for a reduction of domestic energy supplies and an increase in foreign energy dependence. (House Roll Call 578)
Murphy 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) | |
Fiscally Irresponsible
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"...the Congress placed the consequences of their runaway spending squarely on the shoulders of working families, and that's wrong." www.murphy06.net
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Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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, 1061and 1098)
Murphy 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)
Once elected, Murphy voted against a motion that was intended to cut unidentified earmarks. (Roll Call Vote 71) | |
Illegal Immigration
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"Patrick does not believe that illegal immigrants should be offered benefits that are awarded to hardworking American citizens ...
Patrick Murphy believes that we should be cracking down on employers who have been flaunting the law to make a quick buck."
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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, Murphy 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).
Murphy 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)
When he had a chance to take a stand against illegal immigration, Patrick Murphy voted to allow illegal immigrants to form unions in the United States. (House Roll Call 117) | |
Tax Hiker
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"We need to make tax day easier for families." Press Release 4/16/07 |
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Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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). Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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)
Murphy 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)
Murphy refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Murphy'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 Murphy's commitment to increase taxes on hard-working Americans, Murphy voted to allow yet another tax increase on homeowners. (House Roll Call 947)
Murphy voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Murphy 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)
Murphy 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)
Murphy 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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"I believe in a strong and assertive foreign policy that will protect and promote America's interests around the world. As your Congressman I will fight to strengthen our nation at home and our reputation abroad."
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Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Patrick Murphy 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, Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy 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)
Patrick Murphy voted to jeopardize our national security when he sided with the democrat leadership to weaken our nation's intelligence laws and to reopen the terrorist loophole. (House Roll Call 1119)
Murphy voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14) | |
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Murphy 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).
Murphy voted to kill a measure to protect state marriage laws from being ch
Murphy 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)
 Murphy 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)
Murphy 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 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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