KEY VOTE ALERT
"NO" on Veto Override of WRDA (HR 1495)

The Club for Growth urges Members of Congress to vote "NO" on the veto override vote for the Water Resources Development Act (HR 1495). This key vote will be part of our 2007 Congressional Scorecard.

This proposal's conference report has increased by more than 60% compared to its respective House and Senate versions. This massive increase is largely due to superfluous pork projects.

With an unfunded entitlement crisis looming and a federal budget that has dramatically increased over the last seven years, it's clearly time for Congress to go on a diet. As a recent Heritage Foundation report noted, "WRDA is a prime example of legislation run amok; it is filled with excessive spending that is outside the [appropriate] scope of the legislation. Federal taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for the demands of special and parochial interests."

Our Congressional Scorecard for the 110th 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.