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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on the Highway Bill (S. 1813)

clubforgrowth, TraderPlanet.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:36:51 +0000

KEY VOTE ALERT s inefficient control over infrastructure spending. It also has awful revenue offsets that are just an excuse to spend more money. The time for true reform is now. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.8X25HTexcn8

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Key Vote Alert - "YES" on Permanent Earmark Ban

clubforgrowth, TraderPlanet.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:32:43 +0000

KEY VOTE ALERT s 2012 Congressional Scorecard. Earmarks are bad policy and bad politics. Congress needs to end them permanently. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.5ixwR5LCXXo

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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on the Highway Bill (HR 7)

clubforgrowth, TraderPlanet.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:44:36 +0000

KEY VOTE ALERT s still a remarkably bloated and inefficient piece of legislation. True reform would devolve infrastructure building and maintenance back to the states and end or greatly reduce the federal gas tax. Bills that do that are currently being sponsored by Rep. Tom Graves and Sen. Jim DeMint . Supporters of H.R. 7 will also say that devolution takes time, but that this bill is going in the right direction. This is standard politician-speak for slowing down the reform agenda so that b...

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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on Export-Import Bank Reauthorization

clubforgrowth, TraderPlanet.com — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:16:33 +0000

KEY VOTE ALERT s charter and shut it down for good. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.Vll-XIR71H8

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Buffett's Faulty Logic

clubforgrowth, TraderPlanet.com — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:19:25 +0000

By now, everyone has heard Warren Buffett complain that he pays less than his secretary does in federal taxes, and therefore, the government should raise his taxes. Greg Mankiwg2oGbwnCGh0

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Obama Plugs Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

Econmatters, TraderPlanet.com — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

By Martin Denholm While the Republican presidential candidates bicker over, well, pretty much everything, they've found at least one thing they agree on: raising fists against President Obama's nixing of the Keystone XL. Let's grab a front-row seat for the show and Washington's latest...

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