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"He [Walz] said the process of picking projects for congressional districts that are merely 'pork' has to stop. Instead, he said, everyone should attach their names to projects that make their way through Congress to eventually be decided on their merits, not slipped into a big bill without accountability."
(Post-Bulletin, 12/21/06)
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Rep. Tim Walz (MN-01) 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).
Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz 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, Walz voted for legislation "stuffed full of pork," according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group. (House Roll Call 186)
Walz voted to protect hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden earmarks, including a Tropical Rain Forest in Iowa. (Roll Call Vote 71) | |
Deserting Troops
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"Our veterans have served this nation selflessly, without regard to their personal welfare. It is time for Congress to honor their sacrifices and provide them the benefits they deserve." Press Release 10/3/07 |
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Tim Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Voted to defy military commanders on the ground and cut off funds for the troops in harm's way. Walz' vote allowed for a two month funding allowance that would accelerate the Democrat slow bleed strategy. (House Roll Call 333)
Walz and his Democrat leadership in Washington left town on Veterans Day weekend without passing a vital veterans' housing, healthcare and benefits bill. | |
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"Tim Walz environmental program starts with reducing our reliance on foreign fossil fuels and the negative affects on our air, water, and climate. We can immediately reduce energy usage through simple conservation practices and greater use of today's efficient technology. We only need some real leadership to make this happen now."
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Tim Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz voted against a measure which would have required that all energy bills be certified to prevent higher energy prices for consumers. Walz also voted to allow for a reduction of domestic energy supplies and an increase in foreign energy dependence. (House Roll Call 578)
Walz 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)
Walz 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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"We need to put things into the daylight, to make them transparent.... The American public's demanding that. That's why people chose me." (Star Tribune, 11/9/06) |
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Walz 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)
Walz can't seem to help himself when it comes to paying back Big Labor. This time, Walz 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, Tim Walz 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)
Delivering another big win for Big Labor, and another punch against working Americans, Tim Walz 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, Tim Walz voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private ballot. (House Roll Call 118)
Tim Walz also 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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"If people are going to come here, we're going to know who they are, they are going to come here legally, they are going to come here with identification that is tamper-proof and we're going to make sure our employers are going to be able to hire the workers they need. But if they hire the workers illegally there are going to be severe consequences for it," Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/29/07 |
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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, Walz 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). Walz has made his allegiance to protecting illegals abundantly clear: Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz voted against full funding for the construction of the border fence as mandated by Congress. (House Roll Call 490)
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to form unions in the United States. (House Roll Call 117) | |
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"We must work, not only to end addiction to meth, but also to responsibly clean up the toxic sites left by its manufacture... Abandoned and raided labs leave a volatile mess of chemicals and dangerous equipment, many of htem where our children live and play."
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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) | |
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"This nation must move forward, and quickly provide health care for all of our citizens."
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Walz 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)
Walz voted to restrict seniors' access to life-saving drugs as well as access to their neighborhood community pharmacist. (House Roll Call 22)
Walz 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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Rep. Tim Walz 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, Walz 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).
Rep. Walz 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).
Tim Walz 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)
 Tim Walz voted in lock-step with the liberal Democrat leadership to fund duplicitous pet projects over critical human intelligence. (House Roll Call 117)
Tim Walz 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, Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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) Tim Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
The number one priority of Congress should be to protect the American people, but unfortunately, Tim Walz is proving he cannot be trusted with this responsibility as he continues to play politics with our national security. Walz 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)
Tim Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz voted to kill a measure to protect state marriage laws from being changed in a courtroom by trial lawyers. (House Roll Call 1056)
Walz refused to permanently repeal the onerous Death Tax, in effect voting for a $1.35 trillion tax hike. Walz'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 Walz's commitment to increase taxes on hard-working Americans, Walz voted to allow yet another tax increase on homeowners. (House Roll Call 947)
Walz voted to impose a hefty tax increase on tobacco, which will severely burden low-income families and tobacco farmers. (House Roll Call 787)
Walz 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)
Walz 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)
Walz 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)
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 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)
Walz 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)
Walz voted to turn over United States homeland security protections to the United Nations. (House Roll Call 14)
Tim Walz 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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What Just Happened?
This week, the NRCC released its newest web ad, entitled "What Just Happened?" The ad pinp... [more]
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