February e-newsletter

E-Newsletter No. 2
February 2014

If not us, who?
If not now, when?

As many of you are aware, President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, January 28th. Our Editorial Board was extremely pleased when, six minutes into his speech, the president acknowledged that what unites the people of this nation, regardless of race, or region, or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all; the notion that if you work hard, and take responsibility, you can get ahead in America. As we all know, this is the basic premise of our Foundation to Promote Personal Responsibility.

However, we were extremely disappointed that the president did not put forward any plan to fix the country’s growing debt problem. Instead, the “sound bite” that he included in his speech was – Our deficits – cut by more than half. However, as we know, that statement simply means that the US government’s debt is not being repaid, but instead continues to grow (more on that later).

Our Editorial Board recognizes that it will take a long time (many years) for our country to repay its debt, and we acknowledge that cutting the deficit is preferable to having the amount of the annual deficit grow each year. However, the US government is not accomplishing what it needs to do – – cut spending and generate the necessary surpluses to begin repaying the debt. Much of the remainder of the president’s speech was devoted to discussing additional programs that the federal government should initiate (without any mention of how those programs would be funded).

In our monthly newsletter, we intend to keep you informed about the amount of the incurred “on-book” debt per US citizen (i.e., the amount of “on-book” debt, which does not even include the present value of the future payments that have been promised for Social Security and Medicare). According to the US Debt clock, this amount of debt per citizen increased from $54,426 as of January 1st to $54,544 as of February 1st.

As many of you are aware, once the federal government was “re-opened” last October, the next key date became February 7th, when the country’s debt ceiling needed to be addressed. We are extremely disappointed to report that during the week of February 10th, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate passed legislation to suspend any limitations on the US debt until March 2015. This legislation was signed into law by President Obama on Saturday, February 15th. In effect, our elected officials have written themselves a blank check on your (and, if applicable, your children’s) bank account for the next thirteen months.

We would also like to mention that on February 4th the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its annual budget and economic outlook. We are providing the following link to an in-depth analysis prepared by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget –

http://crfb.org/sites/default/files/report_analysis_of_cbos_2014_budget_and_economic_outlook.pdf

The main messages are –
– Although the country’s deficit levels will decrease this year and next, the annual deficit will begin growing again within two years.
– Almost nothing has been done to finance or slow the growth of “entitlement programs”, which are the main drivers of our long-term debt.
– Unless changes are made, both spending and taxes will remain above historical average for the next decade, and will continue to grow over time, and annual deficits in excess of one trillion dollars will return early next decade.
– Interest payments on the country’s debt will quadruple in nominal terms between 2013 and 2024.
– By 2020, interest payments on the cumulative US debt will exceed the level of all non-defense discretionary spending.

The Congressional Budget Office’s projections are further evidence that the country’s annual deficit and cumulative debt problems are far from resolved. The Campaign to Fix the Debt, the Congressional Budget Office, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and our Foundation all join together, to encourage our elected leaders to work toward reducing the amount of federal expenditures, and ultimately reduce the amount of our country’s debt. Please refer to our Conversation Piece entitled What the US Government Should (and Should Not) Do, and our recommendations for spending reductions, to restructure the size of the US government.

In closing, we want to highlight (and applaud) the final comments President Obama made in his State of the Union speech – Our freedom, our democracy, has never been easy…. But for more than two hundred years, we have… expand(ed) the possibility of individual achievement….so that the words set to paper by our Founders are made real for every citizen. The America we want for our kids – a rising America where honest work is plentiful and communities are strong, where prosperity is widely shared and opportunity for all lets us go as far as our dreams and toil will take us – none of it is easy. But…I know it’s within our reach. Believe it.

We share the president’s sentiments. Keep the faith. We can get this fixed…..

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  1. I feel that the recent votes by the US House and the US Senate (when our elected representatives voted to write themselves a blank check for the next thirteen months) was not only disappointing, but it was also extremely irresponsible. I think it is important that We The People know how each of our US House members and US Senators voted in approving this legislation. The following is the voting record on this legislation, which passed the House 221-201 (with 10 members not voting) and which passed the Senate 55-43 (with 2 Senators not voting). I hope that We will remember this vote when We go to the polls in November.

    US House of Representatives
    State – District – Representative – Party – Vote

    Alabama – 1 – Bradley Byrne – R – No
    Alabama – 2 – Martha Roby – R – No
    Alabama – 3 – Mike Rogers – R – No
    Alabama – 4 – Robert Aderholt – R – Not Voting
    Alabama – 5 – Mo Brooks – R – No
    Alabama – 6 – Spencer Bachus – R – No
    Alabama – 7 – Terri Sewell – D – Yes
    Alaska – 1 – Don Young – R – No
    Arizona – 1 – Ann Kirkpatrick – D – Yes
    Arizona – 2 – Ron Barber – D – Yes
    Arizona – 3 – Raul Grijalva – D – Yes
    Arizona – 4 – Paul Gosar – R – Not Voting
    Arizona – 5 – Matt Salmon – R – No
    Arizona – 6 – David Schweikert – R – No
    Arizona – 7 – Ed Pastor – D – Not Voting
    Arizona – 8 – Trent Franks – R – No
    Arizona – 9 – Kyrsten Sineman – D – Yes
    Arkansas – 1 – Rick Crawford – R – No
    Arkansas – 2 – Tim Griffin – R – No
    Arkansas – 3 – Steve Womack – R – No
    Arkansas – 4 – Tom Cotton – R -No
    California – 1 – Doug LaMalfa – R – No
    California – 2 – Jared Huffman – D – Yes
    California – 3 – John Garamendi – D – Yes
    California – 4 – Tom McClintock – R – No
    California – 5 – Mike Thompson – D – Yes
    California – 6 – Doris Matsui – D – Yes
    California – 7 – Ami Bera – D – Yes
    California – 8 – Paul Cook – R – No
    California – 9 – Jerry McNerney – D – Yes
    California – 10 – Jeffrey Denham – R – No
    California – 11 – George Miller – D – Yes
    California – 12 – Nancy Pelosi – D – Yes
    California – 13 – Barbara Lee – D – Yes
    California – 14 – Jackie Speier – D – Yes
    California – 15 – Eric Swalwell – D – Yes
    California – 16 – Jim Costa – D – Yes
    California – 17 – Michael Honda – D – Yes
    California – 18 – Anna Eshoo – D – Yes
    California – 19 – Zoe Lofgren – D – Yes
    California – 20 – Sam Farr – D – Yes
    California – 21 – David Valadao – R – Yes
    California – 22 – Devin Nunes – R – Yes
    California – 23 – Kevin McCarthy – R – Yes
    California – 24 – Lois Capps – D – Yes
    California – 25 – Howard McKeon – R – Yes
    California – 26 – Julia Brownley – D – Yes
    California – 27 – Judy Chu – D – Yes
    California – 28 – Adam Schiff – D – Yes
    California – 29 – Tony Cardenas – D – Not Voting
    California – 30 – Brad Sherman – D – Yes
    California – 31 – Gary Miller – R – Yes
    California – 32 – Grace Napolitano – D – Yes
    California – 33 – Henry Waxman – D – Yes
    California – 34 – Xavier Becerra – D – Yes
    California – 35 – Gloria Negrete McLeod – D – Yes
    California – 36 – Raul Ruiz – D – Yes
    California – 37 – Karen Bass – D – Yes
    California – 38 – Linda Sanchez – D – Yes
    California – 39 – Ed Royce – R – Yes
    California – 40 – Lucille Roybal-Allard – D – Yes
    California – 41 – Mark Takano – D – Yes
    California – 42 – Ken Calvert – R – Yes
    California – 43 – Maxine Waters – D – Yes
    California – 44 – Janice Hahn – D – Yes
    California – 45 – John Campbell – R – Not Voting
    California – 46 – Loretta Sanchez – D – Yes
    California – 47 – Alan Lowenthal – D – Yes
    California – 48 – Dana Rohrabacher – R – No
    California – 49 – Darrell Issa – R – Yes
    California – 50 – Duncan Hunter – R – No
    California – 51 – Juan Vargas – D – Yes
    California – 52 – Scott Peters – D – Yes
    California – 53 – Susan Davis – D – Yes
    Colorado – 1 – Diana DeGette – D – Yes
    Colorado – 2 – Jared Polis – D – Yes
    Colorado – 3 – Scott Tipton – R – No
    Colorado – 4 – Cory Gardner – R – No
    Colorado – 5 – Doug Lamborn – R – No
    Colorado – 6 – Mike Coffman – R – No
    Colorado – 7 – Ed Perlmutter – D – Yes
    Connecticut – 1 – John Larson – D – Yes
    Connecticut – 2 – Joe Courtney – D – Yes
    Connecticut – 3 – Rosa DeLauro – D – Yes
    Connecticut – 4 – Jim Himes – D – Yes
    Connecticut – 5 – Elizabeth Esty – D – Yes
    Delaware – 1 – John Carney – D – Yes
    Florida – 1 – Jeff Miller – R – No
    Florida – 2 – Steve Southerland – R – No
    Florida – 3 – Ted Yoho – R – No
    Florida – 4 – Ander Crenshaw – R – No
    Florida – 5 – Corrine Brown – D – Yes
    Florida – 6 – Ron DeSantis – R – No
    Florida – 7 – John Mica – R – No
    Florida – 8 – Bill Posey – R – No
    Florida – 9 – Alan Grayson – D – Yes
    Florida – 10 – Daniel Webster – R – No
    Florida – 11 – Richard Nugent – R – No
    Florida – 12 – Gus Bilirakis – R – No
    Florida – 13 – (vacancy)
    Florida – 14 – Kathy Castor – D – Yes
    Florida – 15 – Dennis Ross – R – No
    Florida – 16 – Vern Buchanan – R – No
    Florida – 17 – Tom Rooney – R – No
    Florida – 18 – Patrick Murphy – D – Yes
    Florida – 19 – (vacancy)
    Florida – 20 – Alcee Hastings – D – Yes
    Florida – 21 – Ted Deutch – D – Yes
    Florida – 22 – Lois Frankel – D – Yes
    Florida – 23 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz – D – Yes
    Florida – 24 – Frederica Wilson – D – Yes
    Florida – 25 – Mario Diaz-Balart – R – No
    Florida – 26 – Joe Garcia – D – Yes
    Florida – 27 – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – R – No
    Georgia – 1 – Jack Kingston – R – No
    Georgia – 2 – Sanford Bishop – D – Yes
    Georgia – 3 – Lynn Westmoreland – R – No
    Georgia – 4 – Hank Johnson – D – Yes
    Georgia – 5 – John Lewis – D – Not Voting
    Georgia – 6 – Tom Price – R – No
    Georgia – 7 – Rob Woodall – R – No
    Georgia – 8 – Austin Scott – R – No
    Georgia – 9 – Doug Collins – R – No
    Georgia – 10 – Paul Broun – R – No
    Georgia – 11 – Phil Gingrey – R – No
    Georgia – 12 – John Barrow – D – No
    Georgia – 13 – David Scott – D – Not Voting
    Georgia – 14 – Tom Graves – R – No
    Hawaii – 1 – Colleen Hanabusa – D – Yes
    Hawaii – 2 – Tulsi Gabbard – D – Yes
    Idaho – 1 – Raul Labrador – R – No
    Idaho – 2 – Mike Simpson – R – No
    Illinois – 1 – Bobby Rush – D – Not Voting
    Illinois – 2 – Robin Kelly – D – Yes
    Illinois – 3 – Daniel Lipinski – D – Yes
    Illinois – 4 – Luis Gutierrez – D – Yes
    Illinois – 5 – Mike Quigley – D – Yes
    Illinois – 6 – Peter Roskam – R – Yes
    Illinois – 7 – Danny Davis – D – Yes
    Illinois – 8 – Tammy Duckworth – D – Yes
    Illinois – 9 – Jan Schakowsky – D – Yes
    Illinois – 10 – Brad Schneider – D – Yes
    Illinois – 11 – Bill Foster – D – Yes
    Illinois – 12 – Bill Enyart – D – Yes
    Illinois – 13 – Rodney Davis – R – No
    Illinois – 14 – Randy Hultgren – R – No
    Illinois – 15 – John Shimkus – R – Yes
    Illinois – 16 – Adam Kinzinger – R – No
    Illinois – 17 – Cheri Bustos – D – Yes
    Illinois – 18 – Aaron Schock – R – No
    Indiana – 1 – Peter Visclosky – D – Yes
    Indiana – 2 – Jackie Walorski – R – No
    Indiana – 3 – Marlin Stutzman – R – No
    Indiana – 4 – Todd Rokita – R – No
    Indiana – 5 – Susan Brooks – R – No
    Indiana – 6 – Luke Messer – R – No
    Indiana – 7 – Andre Carson – D – Yes
    Indiana – 8 – Larry Bucshon – R – No
    Indiana – 9 – Todd Young – R – No
    Iowa – 1 – Bruce Braley – D – Yes
    Iowa – 2 – Dave Loebsack – D – Yes
    Iowa – 3 – Tom Latham – R – Not Voting
    Iowa – 4 – Steve King – R – No
    Kansas – 1 – Tim Huelskamp – R – No
    Kansas – 2 – Lynn Jenkins – R – No
    Kansas – 3 – Kevin Yoder – R – No
    Kansas – 4 – Mike Pompeo – R – No
    Kentucky – 1 – Edward Whitfield – R – No
    Kentucky – 2 – Brett Guthrie – R – No
    Kentucky – 3 – John Yarmuth – D – Yes
    Kentucky – 4 – Thomas Massie – R – No
    Kentucky – 5 – Harold Rogers – R – Yes
    Kentucky – 6 – Andy Barr – R – No
    Louisiana – 1 – Steve Scalise – R – No
    Louisiana – 2 – Cedric Richmond – D – Yes
    Louisiana – 3 – Charles Boustany – R – No
    Louisiana – 4 – John Fleming – R – No
    Louisiana – 5 – Vance McAllister – R – No
    Louisiana – 6 – Bill Cassidy – R – No
    Maine – 1 – Chellie Pingree – D – Yes
    Maine – 2 – Michael Michaud – D – Yes
    Maryland – 1 – Andy Harris – R – No
    Maryland – 2 – Dutch Ruppersberger – D – Yes
    Maryland – 3 – John Sarbanes – D – Yes
    Maryland – 4 – Donna Edwards – D – Yes
    Maryland – 5 – Steny Hoyer – D – Yes
    Maryland – 6 – John Delaney – D – Yes
    Maryland – 7 – Elijah Cummings – D – Yes
    Maryland – 8 – Chris Van Hollen – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 1 – Richard Neal – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 2 – Jim McGovern – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 3 – Niki Tsongas – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 4 – Joseph Kennedy III – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 5 – Katherine Clark – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 6 – John Tierney – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 7 – Michael Capuano – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 8 – Stephen Lynch – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – 9 – Bill Keating – D – Yes
    Michigan – 1 – Dan Benishek – R – No
    Michigan – 2 – Bill Huizenga – R – No
    Michigan – 3 – Justin Amash – R – No
    Michigan – 4 – Dave Camp – R – Yes
    Michigan – 5 – Dan Kildee – D – Yes
    Michigan – 6 – Fred Upton – R – No
    Michigan – 7 – Tim Walberg – R – No
    Michigan – 8 – Mike Rogers – R – No
    Michigan – 9 – Sander Levin – D – Yes
    Michigan – 10 – Candice Miller – R – No
    Michigan – 11 – Kerry Bentivolio – R – No
    Michigan – 12 – John Dingell – D – Yes
    Michigan – 13 – John Conyers – D – Yes
    Michigan – 14 – Gary Peters – D – Yes
    Minnesota – 1 – Tim Walz – D – Yes
    Minnesota – 2 – John Kline – R – No
    Minnesota – 3 – Erik Paulsen – R – No
    Minnesota – 4 – Betty McCollum – D – Yes
    Minnesota – 5 – Keith Ellison – D – Yes
    Minnesota – 6 – Michelle Bachmann – R – No
    Minnesota – 7 – Collin Peterson – D – Yes
    Minnesota – 8 – Rick Nolan – D – Yes
    Mississippi – 1 – Alan Nunnelee – R – No
    Mississippi – 2 – Bennie Thompson – D – Yes
    Mississippi – 3 – Gregg Harper – R – No
    Mississippi – 4 – Steven Palazzo – R – No
    Missouri – 1 – William Lacy Clay – D – Yes
    Missouri – 2 – Ann Wagner – R – No
    Missouri – 3 – Blaine Luetkemeyer – R – No
    Missouri – 4 – Vicky Hartzler – R – No
    Missouri – 5 – Emanuel Cleaver – D – Yes
    Missouri – 6 – Sam Graves – R – No
    Missouri – 7 – Billy Long – R – No
    Missouri – 8 – Jason Smith – R – No
    Montana – 1 – Steve Daines – R – No
    Nebraska – 1 – Jeff Fortenberry – R – No
    Nebraska – 2 – Lee Terry – R – No
    Nebraska – 3 – Adrian Smith – R – No
    Nevada – 1 – Dina Titus – D – Yes
    Nevada – 2 – Mark Amodei – R – Not Voting
    Nevada – 3 – Joe Heck – R – No
    Nevada – 4 – Steven Horsford – D – Yes
    New Hampshire – 1 – Carol Shea-Porter – D – Yes
    New Hampshire – 2 – Ann McLane Kuster – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 1 – Robert Andrews – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 2 – Frank LoBiondo – R – Yes
    New Jersey – 3 – Jon Runyan – R – Yes
    New Jersey – 4 – Christopher Smith – R – Yes
    New Jersey – 5 – Scott Garrett – R – No
    New Jersey – 6 – Frank Pallone – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 7 – Leonard Lance – R – No
    New Jersey – 8 – Albio Sires – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 9 – Bill Pascrell, Jr – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 10 – Donald Payne, Jr – D – Yes
    New Jersey – 11 – Rodney Frelinghuysen – R – No
    New Jersey – 12 – Rush Holt – D – Yes
    New Mexico – 1 – Michelle Lujan Grisham – D – Yes
    New Mexico – 2 – Steve Pearce – R – No
    New Mexico – 3 – Ben Ray Lujan – D – Yes
    New York – 1 – Timothy Bishop – D – Yes
    New York – 2 – Peter King – R – Yes
    New York – 3 – Steve Israel – D – Yes
    New York – 4 – Carolyn McCarthy – D – Yes
    New York – 5 – Gregory Meeks – D – Yes
    New York – 6 – Grace Meng – D – Yes
    New York – 7 – Nydia Velazquez – D – Yes
    New York – 8 – Hakeem Jeffries – D – Yes
    New York – 9 – Yvette Clarke – D – Yes
    New York – 10 – Jerrold Nadler – D – Yes
    New York – 11 – Mike Grimm – R – Yes
    New York – 12 – Carolyn Maloney – D – Yes
    New York – 13 – Charles Rangel – D – Yes
    New York – 14 – Joseph Crowley – D – Yes
    New York – 15 – Jose Serrano – D – Yes
    New York – 16 – Eliot Engel – D – Yes
    New York – 17 – Nita Lowey – D – Yes
    New York – 18 – Sean Patrick Maloney – D – Yes
    New York – 19 – Chris Gibson – R – No
    New York – 20 – Paul Tonko – D – Yes
    New York – 21 – Bill Owens – D – Yes
    New York – 22 – Richard Hanna – R – Yes
    New York – 23 – Tom Reed – R – No
    New York – 24 – Dan Maffei – D – Yes
    New York – 25 – Louise Slaughter – D – Yes
    New York – 26 – Brian Higgins – D – Yes
    New York – 27 – Chris Collins – R – Yes
    North Carolina – 1 – G. K. Butterfield – D – Yes
    North Carolina – 2 – Renee Ellmers – R – No
    North Carolina – 3 – Walter Jones – R – No
    North Carolina – 4 – David Price – D – Yes
    North Carolina – 5 – Virginia Foxx – R – No
    North Carolina – 6 – Howard Coble – R – Yes
    North Carolina – 7 – Mike McIntyre – D – Yes
    North Carolina – 8 – Richard Hudson – R – No
    North Carolina – 9 – Robert Pittenger – R – No
    North Carolina – 10 – Patrick McHenry – R – No
    North Carolina – 11 – Mark Meadows – R – No
    North Carolina – 12 – (vacancy)
    North Carolina – 13 – George Holding – R – No
    North Dakota – 1 – Kevin Cramer – R – No
    Ohio – 1 – Steven Chabot – R – No
    Ohio – 2 – Brad Wenstrup – R – No
    Ohio – 3 – Joyce Beatty – D – Yes
    Ohio – 4 – Jim Jordan – R – No
    Ohio – 5 – Robert Latta – R – No
    Ohio – 6 – Bill Johnson – R – No
    Ohio – 7 – Bob Gibbs – R – No
    Ohio – 8 – John Boehner – R – Yes
    Ohio – 9 – Marcy Kaptur – D – Yes
    Ohio – 10 – Michael Turner – R – No
    Ohio – 11 – Marcia Fudge – D – Yes
    Ohio – 12 – Pat Tiberi – R – No
    Ohio – 13 – Tim Ryan – D – Yes
    Ohio – 14 – Dave Joyce – R – No
    Ohio – 15 – Steve Stivers – R – No
    Ohio – 16 – Jim Renacci – R – No
    Oklahoma – 1 – Jim Bridenstine – R – No
    Oklahoma – 2 – Markwayne Mullin – R – No
    Oklahoma – 3 – Frank Lucas – R – No
    Oklahoma – 4 – Tom Cole – R – No
    Oklahoma – 5 – James Lankford – R – No
    Oregon – 1 – Suzanne Bonamici – D – Yes
    Oregon – 2 – Greg Walden – R – No
    Oregon – 3 – Earl Blumenauer – D – Yes
    Oregon – 4 – Peter DeFazio – D – Yes
    Oregon – 5 – Kurt Schrader – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 1 – Robert Brady – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 2 – Chaka Fattah – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 3 – Mike Kelly – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 4 – Scott Perry – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 5 – Glenn Thompson – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 6 – Jim Gerlach – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 7 – Pat Meehan – R – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 8 – Michael Fitzpatrick – R – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 9 – Bill Shuster – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 10 – Tom Marino – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 11 – Lou Barletta – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 12 – Keith Rothfus – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 13 – Allyson Schwartz – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 14 – Mike Doyle – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 15 – Charlie Dent – R – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 16 – Joe Pitts – R – No
    Pennsylvania – 17 – Matt Cartwright – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – 18 – Tim Murphy – R – No
    Rhode Island – 1 – David Cicilline – D – Yes
    Rhode Island – 2 – Jim Langevin – D – Yes
    South Carolina – 1 – Mark Sanford – R – No
    South Carolina – 2 – Joe Wilson – R – No
    South Carolina – 3 – Jeffrey Duncan – R – No
    South Carolina – 4 – Trey Gowdy – R – No
    South Carolina – 5 – Mick Mulvaney – R – No
    South Carolina – 6 – James Clyburn – D – Yes
    South Carolina – 7 – Tom Rice – R – No
    South Dakota – 1 – Kristi Noem – R – No
    South Dakota – 2 – Joe Wilson – R – No
    Tennessee – 1 – Phil Roe – R – No
    Tennessee – 2 – John Duncan, Jr – R – No
    Tennessee – 3 – Chuck Fleischmann – R – No
    Tennessee – 4 – Scott DesJarlais – R – No
    Tennessee – 5 – Jim Cooper – D – Yes
    Tennessee – 6 – Diane Black – R – No
    Tennessee – 7 – Marsha Blackburn – R – No
    Tennessee – 8 – Stephen Fincher – R – No
    Tennessee – 9 – Steve Cohen – D – Yes
    Texas – 1 – Louie Gohmert – R – No
    Texas – 2 – Ted Poe – R – No
    Texas – 3 – Sam Johnson – R – No
    Texas – 4 – Ralph Hall – R – No
    Texas – 5 – Jeb Hensarling – R – No
    Texas – 6 – Joe Barton – R – No
    Texas – 7 – John Culberson – R – No
    Texas – 8 – Kevin Brady – R – No
    Texas – 9 – Al Green – D – Yes
    Texas – 10 – Michael McCaul – R – No
    Texas – 11 – K. Michael Conaway – R – No
    Texas – 12 – Kay Granger – R – No
    Texas – 13 – William Thornberry – R – No
    Texas – 14 – Randy Weber – R – No
    Texas – 15 – Ruben Hinojosa – D – Yes
    Texas – 16 – Beto O’Rourke – D – Yes
    Texas – 17 – Bill Flores – R – No
    Texas – 18 – Sheila Jackson-Lee – D – Yes
    Texas – 19 – Randy Neugebauer – R – No
    Texas – 20 – Joaquin Castro – D – Yes
    Texas – 21 – Lamar Smith – R – No
    Texas – 22 – Pete Olson – R – No
    Texas – 23 – Pete Gallego – D – Yes
    Texas – 24 – Kenny Marchant – R – No
    Texas – 25 – Roger Williams – R – No
    Texas – 26 – Michael Burgess – R – No
    Texas – 27 – Blake Farenthold – R – No
    Texas – 28 – Henry Cuellar – D – Yes
    Texas – 29 – Gene Green – D – Yes
    Texas – 30 – Eddie Bernice Johnson – D – Yes
    Texas – 31 – John Carter – R – No
    Texas – 32 – Pete Sessions – R – No
    Texas – 33 – Marc Veasey – D – Yes
    Texas – 34 – Filemon Vela – D – Yes
    Texas – 35 – Lloyd Doggett – D – Yes
    Texas – 36 – Steve Stockman – R – No
    Utah – 1 – Rob Bishop – R – No
    Utah – 2 – Chris Stewart – R – No
    Utah – 3 – Jason Chaffertz – R – No
    Utah – 4 – Jim Matheson – D – No
    Vermont – 1 – Peter Welch – D – Yes
    Virginia – 1 – Robert Wittman – R – No
    Virginia – 2 – Scott Rigell – R – No
    Virginia – 3 – Robert Scott – D – Yes
    Virginia – 4 – J. Randy Forbes – R – No
    Virginia – 5 – Robert Hurt – R – No
    Virginia – 6 – Robert Goodlatte – R – No
    Virginia – 7 – Eric Cantor – R – Yes
    Virginia – 8 – James Moran – D – Yes
    Virginia – 9 – Morgan Griffith – R – No
    Virginia – 10 – Frank Wolf – R – Yes
    Virginia – 11 – Gerald Connolly – D – Yes
    Washington – 1 – Suzan DelBene – D – Yes
    Washington – 2 – Rick Larsen – D – Yes
    Washington – 3 – Jaime Herrera Beutler – R – No
    Washington – 4 – Doc Hastings – R – Yes
    Washington – 5 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers – R – No
    Washington – 6 – Derek Kilmer – D – Yes
    Washington – 7 – Jim McDermott – D – Yes
    Washington – 8 – Dave Reichert – R – Yes
    Washington – 9 – Adam Smith – D – Yes
    Washington – 10 – Denny Heck – D – Yes
    West Virginia – 1 – David McKinley – R – No
    West Virginia – 2 – Shelley Moore Capito – R – No
    West Virginia – 3 – Nick Rahall – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – 1 – Paul Ryan – R – No
    Wisconsin – 2 – Mark Pocan – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – 3 – Ron Kind – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – 4 – Gwen Moore – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – 5 – F. James Sensenbrenner – R – No
    Wisconsin – 6 – Tom Petri – R – No
    Wisconsin – 7 – Sean Duffy – R – No
    Wisconsin – 8 – Reid Ribble – R – No
    Wyoming – 1 – Cynthia Lummis – R – No

    US Senate
    State – Senator – Party – Vote

    Alabama – Jeff Sessions – R – No
    Alabama – Richard Shelby – R – No
    Alaska – Mark Begich – D – Yes
    Alaska – Lisa Murkowski – R – No
    Arizona – Jeff Flake – R – No
    Arizona – John McCain – R – No
    Arkansas – John Boozman – R – No
    Arkansas – Mark Pryor – D – Yes
    California – Barbara Boxer – D – Yes
    California – Diane Feinstein – D – Yes
    Colorado – Michael Bennet – D – Yes
    Colorado – Mark Udall – D – Yes
    Connecticut – Richard Blumenthal – D – Yes
    Connecticut – Christopher Murphy – D – Yes
    Delaware – Thomas Carper – D – Yes
    Delaware – Christopher Coons – D – Yes
    Florida – Bill Nelson – D – Yes
    Florida – Marco Rubio – R – No
    Georgia – Saxby Chambliss – R – Not Voting
    Georgia – Johnny Isakson – R – No
    Hawaii – Mazie Hirono – D – Yes
    Hawaii – Brian Schatz – D – Yes
    Idaho – Mark Crapo – R – No
    Idaho – James Risch – R – No
    Illinois – Richard Durbin – D – Yes
    Illinois – Mark Kirk – R – No
    Indiana – Daniel Coats – R – No
    Indiana – Joe Donnelly – D – Yes
    Iowa – Chuck Grassley – R – No
    Iowa – Tom Harkin – D – Yes
    Kansas – Jerry Moran – R – No
    Kansas – Pat Roberts – R – No
    Kentucky – Mitch McConnell – R – No
    Kentucky – Rand Paul – R – No
    Louisiana – Mary Lanrieu – D – Yes
    Louisiana – David Vitter – R – No
    Maine – Susan Collins – R – No
    Maine – Angus King, Jr – I – Yes
    Maryland – Benjamin Cardin – D – Yes
    Maryland – Barbara Mikulski – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – Edward Markey – D – Yes
    Massachusetts – Elizabeth Warren – D – Yes
    Michigan – Carl Levin – D – Yes
    Michigan – Debbie Stabenow – D – Yes
    Minnesota – Al Franken – D – Yes
    Minnesota – Amy Klobuchar – D – Yes
    Mississippi – Thad Cochran – R – No
    Mississippi – Roger Wicker – R – No
    Missouri – Roy Blunt – R – No
    Missouri – Claire McCaskill – D – Yes
    Montana – John Tester – D – Yes
    Montana – John Walsh – D – Yes
    Nebraska – Deb Fischer – R – No
    Nebraska – Mike Johanns – R – No
    Nevada – Dean Heller – R – No
    Nevada – Harry Reid – D – Yes
    New Hampshire – Kelly Avotte – R – No
    New Hampshire – Jeanne Shaheen – D – Yes
    New Jersey – Cory Booker – D – Yes
    New Jersey – Robert Menendez – D – Yes
    New Mexico – Martin Heinrich – D – Yes
    New Mexico – Tom Udall – D – Yes
    New York – Kirsten Gillibrand – D – Yes
    New York – Charles Schumer – D – Yes
    North Carolina – Richard Burr – R – No
    North Carolina – Kay Hagan – D – Yes
    North Dakota – Heidi Heitkamp – D – Yes
    North Dakota – John Hoeven – R – No
    Ohio – Sherrod Brown – D – Yes
    Ohio – Rob Portman – R – No
    Oklahoma – Tom Coburn – R – Not Voting
    Oklahoma – James Inhofe – R – No
    Oregon – Jeff Merkley – D – Yes
    Oregon – Ron Wyden – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – Robert Casey, Jr – D – Yes
    Pennsylvania – Patrick Toomey – R – No
    Rhode Island – Jack Reed – D – Yes
    Rhode Island – Sheldon Whitehouse – D – Yes
    South Carolina – Lindsey Graham – R – No
    South Carolina – Tim Scott – R – No
    South Dakota – Tim Johnson – D – Yes
    South Dakota – John Thune – R – No
    Tennessee – Lamar Alexander – R – No
    Tennessee – Bob Corker – R – No
    Texas – John Comyn – R – No
    Texas – Ted Cruz – R – No
    Utah – Orrin Hatch – R – No
    Utah – Mike Lee – R – No
    Vermont – Patrick Leahy – D – Yes
    Vermont – Bernard Sanders – I – Yes
    Virginia – Tim Kaine – D – Yes
    Virginia – Mark Warner – D – Yes
    Washington – Maria Cantwell – D – Yes
    Washington – Patty Murray – D – Yes
    West Virginia – Joe Manchin – D – Yes
    West Virginia – John Rockefeller – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – Tammy Baldwin – D – Yes
    Wisconsin – Ron Johnson – R – No
    Wyoming – John Barrasso – R – No
    Wyoming – Michael Enzi – R – No

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