Category: Government Spending
Todd Tiahrt Wasteful Earmark Of The Day
Club for Growth Spokesman Barney Keller: “Todd Tiahrt wasted Kansans’ tax dollars protecting Shamu and his friends on the other side of the country.” Washington, DC – The Club for Growth PAC today announced that it will release a series of wasteful earmarks supported by former Congressman Todd Tiahrt. Tiahrt is challenging incumbent Congressman Mike […]
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@andyroth In (dis)honor of Dodd-Frank’s 4th birthday, here are the AYES & NAYS from 2010. House: http://goo.gl/dMVebE Senate: http://goo.gl/C06WDw #cfg #doddfrank
New Club for Growth TV Ad Campaign: Thank Marilinda Garcia For Opposing Higher Taxes And Spending
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “Concerned citizens should encourage Marilinda to keep standing strong against higher taxes.” Washington, DC – The Club for Growth, the nation’s leading group promoting economic freedom, announced today a six-figure TV ad campaign in the state of New Hampshire. The ads encourage people across New Hampshire to call State […]
Key Vote Alert – “NO” on Senate TRIA Bill (S. 2244)
KEY VOTE ALERT “NO” ON SENATE TRIA BILL (S. 2244) The Club for Growth urges all Senators to vote “NO” on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (S. 2244) sponsored by Sen. Chuck Schumer. A vote is expected later today. This vote will be included in the Club for Growth’s 2014 Congressional Scorecard. This program was […]
Club for Growth: Don’t Bail Out Highway Fund With Phony Offset
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “There’s simply no reason to keep kicking the can down the road.” Washington, DC – The Club for Growth released the following statement on plans by House GOP leaders to offset a bailout of the Highway Trust Fund by counting savings from a “not as large bailout” of the United States Postal […]
Flake Rails Against Earmarks
House Violates the Hastert Rule…Again.
House Republican leaders, ignoring a majority of its members yet again, went ahead and passed the Electrify Africa Act, which included the reauthorization of OPIC, the lesser known cousin of the Ex-Im Bank. Even though it passed, Republicans opposed it 106-116. Hastert Rule violation!
Who’s Lost Credibility Now?
In the National Review today, Club for Growth President Chris Chocola takes house GOP leadership to task for abandoning all pretense of principle on the heels of their decision to put a "clean" debt limit increase on the floor: Let’s review: The Republicans voted for the sequester. Then they spent two years talking about how they didn’t […]