Key Vote Alert – NO on Increased Spending Through Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, H.R. 2440

Scott Parkinson | October 28, 2019

Club for Growth opposes the “Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Fund Act,” H.R. 2440, and urges all Representatives to vote no. The legislation is expected to be considered soon in the House of Representatives under suspension of the rules. The results of the vote will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2019 Congressional Scorecard.

Congress is addicted to deficit spending. The total deficit for FY2019 was $984 billion. CBO projects the deficit to exceed $1 trillion in FY2020. In July, the Bipartisan Budget Act set new discretionary budget caps that increased spending by a total of $324 billion for FY2020 & FY2020. Less than 3 months later, the House is once again working to pass legislation that will increase discretionary spending beyond the new budget caps and add billions more to the deficit.

The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) funds America’s ports and dredging through the Army Corps of Engineers and is subject to annual appropriations. Because the HMTF has accumulated a balance of $9.3 billion in revenues, some Members of Congress believe they can easily increase the spending by about $10 billion over two years and nobody will care. The legislation even makes the funds available as a new cap exemption under Sec. 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, which is the emergency designation often used to spend beyond the discretionary budget caps. The spending increase should be subject to offsets and abide to the discretionary spending budget caps, which are already excessive. Congress needs to stop saddling the American people with more debt. In fact, Congress should aggressively pursue legislation that decreases the federal deficit.

Club for Growth Foundation’s Congressional Scorecard for the 116th 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.

Club Position

Required for Majority

1/2

Vote Results

Passed

Vote Number

585

Vote Date

October 28, 2019

Vote Counts

YEAs:

296

NAYs:

109

Not Voting:

Name

State

Party

Vote Position

Ralph Abraham

Yea

Alma Adams

Yea

Robert Aderholt

Nay

Pete Aguilar

Yea

Rick Allen

Nay

Colin Allred

Yea

Justin Amash

Nay

Mark Amodei

Yea

Kelly Armstrong

Nay

Jodey Arrington

Nay

Cindy Axne

Yea

Brian Babin

Yea

Don Bacon

Yea

James Baird

Yea

Troy Balderson

Yea

Jim Banks

Nay

Andy Barr

Nay

Nanette Barragan

Yea

Karen Bass

Yea

Joyce Beatty

Ami Bera

Yea

Jack Bergman

Yea

Don Beyer

Yea

Andy Biggs

Nay

Gus Bilirakis

Yea

Rob Bishop

Nay

Dan Bishop

Nay

Sanford Bishop

Yea

Earl Blumenauer

Yea

Suzanne Bonamici

Yea

Mike Bost

Yea

Brendan Boyle

Yea

Kevin Brady

Nay

Anthony Brindisi

Yea

Susan Brooks

Yea

Mo Brooks

Nay

Anthony Brown

Yea

Julia Brownley

Yea

Vern Buchanan

Yea

Ken Buck

Nay

Larry Bucshon

Yea

Ted Budd

Nay

Tim Burchett

Nay

Michael Burgess

Nay

Cheri Bustos

Yea

G.K. Butterfield

Yea

Bradley Byrne

Yea

Ken Calvert

Yea

Salud Carbajal

Yea

Tony Cardenas

Yea

Andre Carson

Yea

Buddy Carter

Nay

John Carter

Matthew Cartwright

Ed Case

Yea

Sean Casten

Yea

Kathy Castor

Yea

Joaquin Castro

Yea

Steve Chabot

Nay

Liz Cheney

Nay

Judy Chu

Yea

David Cicilline

Yea

Gil Cisneros

Yea

Katherine Clark

Yea

Yvette Clarke

Yea

Lacy Clay

Yea

Emanuel Cleaver

Yea

Ben Cline

Nay

Michael Cloud

Yea

James Clyburn

Yea

Steve Cohen

Yea

Tom Cole

Nay

Doug Collins

Nay

James Comer

Nay

K. Michael Conaway

Nay

Gerald Connolly

Yea

Paul Cook

Yea

Jim Cooper

Yea

Luis Correa

Yea

Jim Costa

Joe Courtney

Yea

TJ Cox

Angela Craig

Yea

Rick Crawford

Nay

Dan Crenshaw

Yea

Charlie Crist

Yea

Jason Crow

Yea

Henry Cuellar

Yea

Joe Cunningham

Yea

John Curtis

Nay

Sharice Davids

Yea

Warren Davidson

Nay

Danny Davis

Yea

Susan Davis

Yea

Rodney Davis

Yea

Madeleine Dean

Yea

Peter DeFazio

Yea

Diana DeGette

Yea

Rosa DeLauro

Yea

Suzan DelBene

Yea

Antonio Delgado

Yea

Val Demings

Yea

Mark DeSaulnier

Yea

Scott DesJarlais

Nay

Ted Deutch

Yea

Mario Diaz-Balart

Nay

Debbie Dingell

Yea

Lloyd Doggett

Yea

Michael Doyle

Jeff Duncan

Nay

Neal Dunn

Yea

Tom Emmer

Yea

Eliot Engel

Yea

Veronica Escobar

Yea

Anna Eshoo

Yea

Adriano Espaillat

Yea

Ron Estes

Nay

Dwight Evans

Yea

Drew Ferguson

Nay

Abby Finkenauer

Yea

Brian Fitzpatrick

Yea

Chuck Fleischmann

Nay

Lizzie Fletcher

Yea

Bill Flores

Nay

Jeff Fortenberry

Nay

Bill Foster

Yea

Virginia Foxx

Nay

Lois Frankel

Yea

Marcia Fudge

Yea

Russ Fulcher

Nay

Tulsi Gabbard

Yea

Matt Gaetz

Nay

Mike Gallagher

Yea

Ruben Gallego

Yea

John Garamendi

Yea

Sylvia Garcia

Yea

Jesus Garcia

Yea

Greg Gianforte

Nay

Bob Gibbs

Yea

Louie Gohmert

Jared Golden

Yea

Jimmy Gomez

Yea

Vicente Gonzalez

Yea

Anthony Gonzalez

Yea

Lance Gooden

Nay

Paul Gosar

Josh Gottheimer

Yea

Kay Granger

Nay

Tom Graves

Nay

Garret Graves

Yea

Sam Graves

Yea

Al Green

Yea

Mark Green

Nay

H. Morgan Griffith

Nay

Raul Grijalva

Yea

Glenn Grothman

Nay

Michael Guest

Nay

Brett Guthrie

Nay

Debra Haaland

Yea

James Hagedorn

Yea

Josh Harder

Yea

Andy Harris

Nay

Vicky Hartzler

Yea

Alcee Hastings

Yea

Jahana Hayes

Yea

Denny Heck

Yea

Kevin Hern

Nay

Jaime Herrera Beutler

Yea

Jody Hice

Brian Higgins

Yea

Clay Higgins

Yea

Katie Hill

French Hill

Nay

James Himes

Yea

George Holding

Nay

Trey Hollingsworth

Yea

Kendra Horn

Yea

Steven Horsford

Yea

Chrissy Houlahan

Yea

Steny Hoyer

Yea

Richard Hudson

Nay

Jared Huffman

Bill Huizenga

Yea

Duncan Hunter

Yea

Will Hurd

Yea

Sheila Jackson-Lee

Yea

Pramila Jayapal

Yea

Hakeem Jeffries

Yea

Bill Johnson

Nay

Mike Johnson

Yea

Henry Johnson

Yea

Dusty Johnson

Nay

Eddie Johnson

Yea

Jim Jordan

Nay

David Joyce

Yea

John Joyce

Nay

Marcy Kaptur

Yea

John Katko

Yea

William Keating

Yea

Fred Keller

Nay

Trent Kelly

Nay

Mike Kelly

Yea

Robin Kelly

Yea

Joseph Kennedy

Ro Khanna

Yea

Daniel Kildee

Yea

Derek Kilmer

Yea

Andy Kim

Yea

Ron Kind

Yea

Peter King

Yea

Steve King

Nay

Adam Kinzinger

Yea

Ann Kirkpatrick

Yea

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Yea

Ann Kuster

Yea

David Kustoff

Nay

Darin LaHood

Nay

Doug LaMalfa

Yea

Conor Lamb

Yea

Doug Lamborn

James Langevin

Yea

Rick Larsen

Yea

John Larson

Yea

Bob Latta

Nay

Brenda Lawrence

Yea

Al Lawson

Yea

Barbara Lee

Yea

Suzanne Lee

Yea

Debbie Lesko

Nay

Andy Levin

Yea

Mike Levin

Yea

John Lewis

Yea

Ted Lieu

Yea

Daniel Lipinski

Yea

David Loebsack

Yea

Zoe Lofgren

Yea

Billy Long

Nay

Barry Loudermilk

Nay

Alan Lowenthal

Yea

Nita Lowey

Yea

Frank Lucas

Yea

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Nay

Ben Lujan

Yea

Elaine Luria

Yea

Stephen Lynch

Yea

Tom Malinowski

Yea

Sean Maloney

Yea

Carolyn Maloney

Yea

Kenny Marchant

Roger Marshall

Nay

Thomas Massie

Nay

Brian Mast

Yea

Doris Matsui

Yea

Ben McAdams

Nay

Lucy McBath

Yea

Kevin McCarthy

Nay

Michael McCaul

Yea

Tom McClintock

Nay

Betty McCollum

Yea

Donald McEachin

James McGovern

Yea

Patrick McHenry

Nay

David McKinley

Yea

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Yea

Jerry McNerney

Yea

Mark Meadows

Nay

Gregory Meeks

Grace Meng

Dan Meuser

Nay

Carol Miller

Yea

Paul Mitchell

Yea

John Moolenaar

Nay

Alex Mooney

Nay

Gwen Moore

Yea

Joseph Morelle

Yea

Seth Moulton

Yea

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Yea

Markwayne Mullin

Yea

Greg Murphy

Yea

Stephanie Murphy

Yea

Jerrold Nadler

Yea

Grace Napolitano

Yea

Richard Neal

Yea

Joseph Neguse

Yea

Dan Newhouse

Yea

Donald Norcross

Yea

Ralph Norman

Nay

Devin Nunes

Nay

Tom O'Halleran

Yea

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Yea

Pete Olson

Yea

Ilhan Omar

Steven Palazzo

Yea

Frank Pallone

Yea

Gary Palmer

Nay

Jimmy Panetta

Yea

Christopher Pappas

Yea

Bill Pascrell

Yea

Donald Payne

Yea

Greg Pence

Yea

Ed Perlmutter

Yea

Scott Perry

Nay

Scott Peters

Yea

Collin Peterson

Yea

Dean Phillips

Yea

Chellie Pingree

Yea

Mark Pocan

Katie Porter

Yea

Bill Posey

Yea

Ayanna Pressley

Yea

David Price

Yea

Mike Quigley

Yea

Jamie Raskin

Yea

John Ratcliffe

Nay

Tom Reed

Nay

Guy Reschenthaler

Yea

Kathleen Rice

Yea

Tom Rice

Nay

Cedric Richmond

Yea

Denver Riggleman

Nay

Martha Roby

Lisa Rochester

Yea

David Roe

Nay

Mike Rogers

Nay

Hal Rogers

Nay

Francis Rooney

Max Rose

Yea

John Rose

Nay

Harley Rouda

Yea

David Rouzer

Yea

Chip Roy

Nay

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Yea

Raul Ruiz

Yea

C.A. Ruppersberger

Yea

Bobby Rush

Yea

John Rutherford

Yea

Tim Ryan

Linda Sanchez

Yea

John Sarbanes

Yea

Steve Scalise

Yea

Mary Scanlon

Yea

Janice Schakowsky

Yea

Adam Schiff

Yea

Bradley Schneider

Yea

Kurt Schrader

Yea

Kim Schrier

Yea

David Schweikert

Nay

David Scott

Yea

Austin Scott

Nay

Robert Scott

Yea

F. James Sensenbrenner

Nay

Jose Serrano

Yea

Terri Sewell

Yea

Donna Shalala

Yea

Brad Sherman

Yea

Mikie Sherrill

Yea

John Shimkus

Yea

Mike Simpson

Yea

Albio Sires

Yea

Elissa Slotkin

Yea

Jason Smith

Nay

Adam Smith

Yea

Adrian Smith

Nay

Christopher Smith

Yea

Lloyd Smucker

Nay

Darren Soto

Yea

Abigail Spanberger

Yea

Ross Spano

Yea

Jackie Speier

Yea

Greg Stanton

Yea

Pete Stauber

Yea

Elise Stefanik

Yea

Bryan Steil

Nay

Greg Steube

Nay

Haley Stevens

Yea

Chris Stewart

Nay

Steve Stivers

Nay

Thomas Suozzi

Yea

Eric Swalwell

Yea

Mark Takano

Yea

Van Taylor

Nay

Glenn Thompson

Yea

Bennie Thompson

Yea

Mike Thompson

Mac Thornberry

Nay

William Timmons

Scott Tipton

Nay

Dina Titus

Yea

Rashida Tlaib

Yea

Paul Tonko

Yea

Norma Torres

Yea

Xochitl Torres Small

Yea

Lori Trahan

Yea

David Trone

Yea

Michael Turner

Nay

Lauren Underwood

Yea

Fred Upton

Yea

Jeff Van Drew

Yea

Juan Vargas

Yea

Marc Veasey

Yea

Filemon Vela

Yea

Nydia Velazquez

Yea

Peter Visclosky

Yea

Ann Wagner

Nay

Tim Walberg

Yea

Greg Walden

Yea

Mark Walker

Nay

Jackie Walorski

Yea

Michael Waltz

Yea

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Yea

Maxine Waters

Yea

Steve Watkins

Nay

Bonnie Watson Coleman

Yea

Randy Weber

Yea

Daniel Webster

Yea

Peter Welch

Yea

Brad Wenstrup

Nay

Bruce Westerman

Yea

Jennifer Wexton

Yea

Susan Wild

Yea

Roger Williams

Joe Wilson

Yea

Frederica Wilson

Yea

Robert Wittman

Yea

Steve Womack

Nay

Rob Woodall

Nay

Ron Wright

John Yarmuth

Yea

Ted Yoho

Yea

Don Young

Yea

Lee Zeldin

Yea