Key Vote Alert – House & Senate – NO on CR
“NO” on Continuing Resolution
The Club for Growth opposes the Continuing Resolution and urges all Senators and Representatives to vote NO. The results of this vote will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2022 congressional scorecard.
Throughout America, families are getting crushed by the not-so-hidden tax – inflation. Congress has done nothing to address the historic level of inflation that has effectively wiped out a month of working families’ salaries in buying power. This Continuing Resolution (CR) will hurt working families even more because it is meant to accommodate a Lame Duck Omnibus that will be loaded with even more money for President Biden’s agenda that is causing this outrageous level of inflation.
Too often CRs have been used by the Uniparty in order to allow for enormous spending deals at a time that is politically difficult for Senators and Representatives – the holidays. This CR is no different and was written with an expiration date of December 16th. By giving itself a deadline during the Christmas season, Congress is creating a recipe for the biggest Omnibus appropriations bill in US history.
Furthermore, the Lame Duck session of Congress will empower unaccountable Senators and Representatives that are retiring or lost their re-election campaigns. Coincidentally, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee are retiring from the Senate.
Nothing good happens after midnight, and in lawmaking, nothing good happens during a Lame Duck. For nearly twenty years, Congress has repeatedly refused to engage in a meaningful appropriations process to allow for single-appropriations bills in order to avoid an end-of-the-year Omnibus. Make no mistake, this CR accommodates a Lame Duck Christmas spending bender by the same people that have more than doubled the National Debt over the past 11 years.
Unless the date of the CR is amended to avoid a Lame Duck spending binge, lawmakers that vote for it should be ashamed of their cowardice and inability to responsibly manage taxpayer dollars.
Club for Growth Foundation’s Congressional Scorecard for the 117th 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 the public.
Vote Results
Club Position
No
Required for Majority
1/2
Vote Results
Bill Passed
Vote Number
351
Vote Date
September 29, 2022
Vote Counts
YEAs:
72
NAYs:
25
Not Voting:
3
Lisa Murkowski
AK
R
Y
Dan Sullivan
AK
R
Y
Richard Shelby
AL
R
Y
Tommy Tuberville
AL
R
N
John Boozman
AR
R
Y
Tom Cotton
AR
R
Y
Mark Kelly
AZ
D
Y
Kyrsten Sinema
AZ
D
Y
Dianne Feinstein
CA
D
Y
Alex Padilla
CA
D
Y
Michael Bennet
CO
D
Y
John Hickenlooper
CO
D
Y
Richard Blumenthal
CT
D
Y
Christopher Murphy
CT
D
Y
Thomas Carper
DE
D
Y
Christopher Coons
DE
D
Y
Marco Rubio
FL
R
A
Rick Scott
FL
R
N
Thomas Ossoff
GA
D
Y
Raphael Warnock
GA
D
Y
Mazie Hirono
HI
D
Y
Brian Schatz
HI
D
Y
Joni Ernst
IA
R
Y
Chuck Grassley
IA
R
Y
Mike Crapo
ID
R
N
Jim Risch
ID
R
N
Tammy Duckworth
IL
D
Y
Richard Durbin
IL
D
Y
Mike Braun
IN
R
N
Todd Young
IN
R
Y
Roger Marshall
KS
R
N
Jerry Moran
KS
R
Y
Mitch McConnell
KY
R
Y
Rand Paul
KY
R
N
Bill Cassidy
LA
R
Y
John Kennedy
LA
R
Y
Edward Markey
MA
D
Y
Elizabeth Warren
MA
D
Y
Benjamin Cardin
MD
D
Y
Chris Van Hollen
MD
D
Y
Susan Collins
ME
R
Y
Angus King
ME
I
Y
Gary Peters
MI
D
Y
Debbie Stabenow
MI
D
Y
Amy Klobuchar
MN
D
Y
Tina Smith
MN
D
Y
Roy Blunt
MO
R
Y
Josh Hawley
MO
R
N
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS
R
Y
Roger Wicker
MS
R
Y
Steve Daines
MT
R
N
Jon Tester
MT
D
Y
Richard Burr
NC
R
Y
Thom Tillis
NC
R
Y
Kevin Cramer
ND
R
N
John Hoeven
ND
R
N
Deb Fischer
NE
R
N
Ben Sasse
NE
R
N
Maggie Hassan
NH
D
Y
Jeanne Shaheen
NH
D
Y
Cory Booker
NJ
D
Y
Robert Menendez
NJ
D
Y
Martin Heinrich
NM
D
Y
Ben Lujan
NM
D
Y
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV
D
Y
Jacky Rosen
NV
D
Y
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY
D
Y
Chuck Schumer
NY
D
Y
Sherrod Brown
OH
D
Y
Rob Portman
OH
R
A
James Inhofe
OK
R
N
James Lankford
OK
R
N
Jeff Merkley
OR
D
Y
Ron Wyden
OR
D
Y
Bob Casey
PA
D
Y
Pat Toomey
PA
R
N
Jack Reed
RI
D
Y
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI
D
Y
Lindsey Graham
SC
R
Y
Tim Scott
SC
R
N
Mike Rounds
SD
R
N
John Thune
SD
R
N
Marsha Blackburn
TN
R
N
Bill Hagerty
TN
R
N
John Cornyn
TX
R
Y
Ted Cruz
TX
R
N
Mike Lee
UT
R
A
Mitt Romney
UT
R
Y
Tim Kaine
VA
D
Y
Mark Warner
VA
D
Y
Patrick Leahy
VT
D
Y
Bernie Sanders
VT
I
Y
Maria Cantwell
WA
D
Y
Patty Murray
WA
D
Y
Tammy Baldwin
WI
D
Y
Ron Johnson
WI
R
N
Shelley Moore Capito
WV
R
Y
Joe Manchin
WV
D
Y
John Barrasso
WY
R
N
Cynthia Lummis
WY
R
N