Key Vote Alert – No on Schumer-Manchin Reconciliation
NO” on So-Called “Inflation Reduction Act”
The Club for Growth opposes the offensively named “Inflation Reduction Act” and urges all Senators to vote NO. A vote is likely to occur soon. If the bill passes the Senate, the key vote will extend to the House of Representatives. The results of this vote (or votes) will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2022 congressional scorecard.
The Inflation Reduction Act assumes the American People are stupid. Already, independent analysis reveals the legislation would actually increase inflation. This legislation is bad for economic growth.
Schumer/Manchin:
- Spends $369 billion on green/radical environmental climate policies and increases taxes by over $700 billion, just days after the U.S. officially entered the Biden Recession, which has been felt by the American People for many months through a 40+ year high in inflation, exceeding 9%.
- Kills over 27,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs and will vastly increase energy costs in America. The bill is loaded w/ budgetary gimmicks so that Manchin can argue it will reduce deficits. These budgetary smoke & mirrors are exposed by CBO’s analysis.
- Includes $80 billion to hire 87,000 new IRS agents that will work to fulfill Socialist Dems’ mission to confiscate wealth in America.
- More Socialism, more socialized medicine, more Socialist price controls to force drug manufacturers to accept whatever prices Joe Biden or unelected bureaucrats in the Biden Admin thinks is fair, distorting the free market economy with price controls, causing less innovation & stopping new drugs from making it into the marketplace.
- Expands Obamacare, subsidizing the costs of health insurance for people that make as much as $300,000.
- Includes carveouts for union bosses by implementing prevailing wage requirements for companies that utilize tax credits in the bill.
- Includes $60 billion in corporate welfare for green energy corporations. This Green New Deal Steal once again is an example of government picking winners and losers in the marketplace.
Over the past two and a half years, the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed economic calamity. Wasting no crisis to enact a policy agenda, Congress repeatedly passed laws throwing trillions of dollars into the economy, while giving workers government stimulus checks to incentivize millions of workers to stay out of the labor market altogether. Congress’ overreaction to COVID, and not COVID itself, created the economic recipe for the Biden Recession and historic inflation, which currently stands at 9.1 percent. Inflation has been known as the “hidden tax increase” because it decreases purchasing power and erases wage growth. But Bidenflation is not a hidden tax increase. It is an economic reality faced by all Americans at the kitchen table balancing the checkbook, at the gas pump filling up the family car, and at the grocery store when buying food.
Americans recently learned what they’ve been feeling for many months: America is officially in the Biden Recession.
Last month the Biden White House even took steps to redefine what constitutes a recession in order to distort the economic news that would hit the American People days later. Despite a mostly-complicit main-stream media echoing the White House’s propaganda, the reality of a recession sunk in long ago for the American people through higher costs, lower wages, an energy crisis, and a supply chain crisis caused by the mischievous politicians in Washington.
Make no mistake, Congress cannot spend its way out of this economic recession. America cannot tax its way out of economic recession. And America cannot regulate its way out of an economic recession. Increased taxes, increased spending, and increased regulation will only make the recession worse.
But that is just what the latest hair-brained idea from the Schumer/Manchin reconciliation bill does. The Fake-Inflation Reduction Act increases taxes by $739 billion, spends $433 billion more on Green New Deal Climate policies and socialized health care, and increases the economic burden on innovation by providing for new regulations that will suffocate economic growth from America’s private sector innovators and entrepreneurs. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the bill will increase taxes by billions of dollars on households earning less than $200,000 – which is half of the amount ($400,000) that President Biden promised repeatedly never to increases taxes on! President Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on the American People is another political lie. The political reality is that Democrats are addicted to tax increases, confiscating the American People’s wealth in order to fundamentally transform the United States into a socialist country.
Congress should firmly reject this atrocious reconciliation bill. The American People demand it.
But what can Washington do to address the Biden Recession and Bidenflation?
For starters, Congress must freeze spending. Milton Friedman said, “Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first. The bad effects only come later. That’s why in both cases there is a strong temptation to overdo it. To drink too much and to print too much money. When it comes to the cure, it’s the other way around. When you stop drinking or when you stop printing money, the bad effects come first and the good effects only come later.” Freezing federal spending may cause a government hangover that tempts lawmakers into spending more of the federal taxpayers’ dollars, but enacting a spending freeze in statute will force Congress to prioritize federal spending programs and make tough decisions over what to fund, rather than funding everything and increasing spending again and again and again.
Next Congress should reduce taxes in order to increase competitiveness, reassert investor confidence, and give job creators certainty in their short and long-term planning decisions. Returning taxpayer dollars through decreased taxation will force Congress to live within its means, unleash new economic activity, and provide for robust economic growth activities, like new job creation, increased productivity, and increased wages – resulting in higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is necessary given the recessionary effects being forced on the economy through higher taxes, excessive spending, and endless regulation.
Last, Congress should finally pass the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. The REINS Act redefines a “major” rule as one that OMB determines may have an economic impact of $100 million or greater each year. Once the major rule is drafted, it must be affirmatively approved by both chambers of Congress and signed by the President. The bill will rescind unelected bureaucrats’ power and return more power to the American People.
The Biden Recession includes DNA from Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, career politicians and unelected bureaucrats. In order to rescue America’s economic future, it will take a bipartisan approach that drastically limits the federal government’s involvement through fiscal restraint, tax cuts, and deregulation. America must be given the chance at rebuilding the private economy without intervention and a heavy hand from disconnected politicians.
It is passed time to give the American People what they want and what they need to get through the COVID Pandemic, Bidenflation, and the Biden Recession. We need real leadership – not to make people feel good by spending taxpayer-dollars like drunken sailors. But what we need is leadership for freedom.
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
Passed
Vote Number
420
Vote Date
August 12, 2022
Vote Counts
YEAs:
220
NAYs:
207
Not Voting:
4
Alma Adams
NC
D
Y
Robert Aderholt
AL
R
N
Pete Aguilar
CA
D
Y
Rick Allen
GA
R
N
Colin Allred
TX
D
Y
Mark Amodei
NV
R
N
Kelly Armstrong
ND
R
N
Jodey Arrington
TX
R
N
Jake Auchincloss
MA
D
Y
Cindy Axne
IA
D
Y
Brian Babin
TX
R
N
Don Bacon
NE
R
N
James Baird
IN
R
N
Troy Balderson
OH
R
N
Jim Banks
IN
R
N
Andy Barr
KY
R
N
Nanette Barragan
CA
D
Y
Karen Bass
CA
D
Y
Joyce Beatty
OH
D
Y
Cliff Bentz
OR
R
N
Ami Bera
CA
D
Y
Jack Bergman
MI
R
N
Don Beyer
VA
D
Y
Stephanie Bice
OK
R
N
Andy Biggs
AZ
R
N
Gus Bilirakis
FL
R
N
Sanford Bishop
GA
D
Y
Dan Bishop
NC
R
N
Earl Blumenauer
OR
D
Y
Lauren Boebert
CO
R
N
Suzanne Bonamici
OR
D
Y
Mike Bost
IL
R
N
Carolyn Bourdeaux
GA
D
Y
Jamaal Bowman
NY
D
Y
Brendan Boyle
PA
D
Y
Kevin Brady
TX
R
N
Mo Brooks
AL
R
N
Shontel Brown
OH
D
Y
Anthony Brown
MD
D
Y
Julia Brownley
CA
D
Y
Vern Buchanan
FL
R
N
Ken Buck
CO
R
N
Larry Bucshon
IN
R
N
Ted Budd
NC
R
N
Tim Burchett
TN
R
N
Michael Burgess
TX
R
N
Cori Bush
MO
D
Y
Cheri Bustos
IL
D
Y
G.K. Butterfield
NC
D
Y
Ken Calvert
CA
R
N
Kat Cammack
FL
R
N
Salud Carbajal
CA
D
Y
Tony Cardenas
CA
D
Y
Mike Carey
OH
R
N
Jerry Carl
AL
R
A
Andre Carson
IN
D
Y
Buddy Carter
GA
R
N
John Carter
TX
R
N
Troy Carter
LA
D
Y
Matthew Cartwright
PA
D
Y
Ed Case
HI
D
Y
Sean Casten
IL
D
Y
Kathy Castor
FL
D
Y
Joaquin Castro
TX
D
Y
Madison Cawthorn
NC
R
N
Steve Chabot
OH
R
N
Liz Cheney
WY
R
N
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
FL
D
Y
Judy Chu
CA
D
Y
David Cicilline
RI
D
Y
Katherine Clark
MA
D
Y
Yvette Clarke
NY
D
Y
Emanuel Cleaver
MO
D
Y
Ben Cline
VA
R
N
Michael Cloud
TX
R
N
James Clyburn
SC
D
Y
Andrew Clyde
GA
R
N
Steve Cohen
TN
D
Y
Tom Cole
OK
R
N
James Comer
KY
R
N
Gerald Connolly
VA
D
Y
Connie Conway
CA
R
N
Jim Cooper
TN
D
Y
Luis Correa
CA
D
Y
Jim Costa
CA
D
Y
Joe Courtney
CT
D
Y
Angela Craig
MN
D
Y
Rick Crawford
AR
R
N
Dan Crenshaw
TX
R
N
Charlie Crist
FL
D
Y
Jason Crow
CO
D
Y
Henry Cuellar
TX
D
Y
John Curtis
UT
R
N
Sharice Davids
KS
D
Y
Warren Davidson
OH
R
N
Rodney Davis
IL
R
N
Danny Davis
IL
D
Y
Madeleine Dean
PA
D
Y
Peter DeFazio
OR
D
Y
Diana DeGette
CO
D
Y
Rosa DeLauro
CT
D
Y
Suzan DelBene
WA
D
Y
Val Demings
FL
D
Y
Mark DeSaulnier
CA
D
Y
Scott DesJarlais
TN
R
N
Ted Deutch
FL
D
Y
Mario Diaz-Balart
FL
R
N
Debbie Dingell
MI
D
Y
Lloyd Doggett
TX
D
Y
Byron Donalds
FL
R
N
Michael Doyle
PA
D
Y
Jeff Duncan
SC
R
N
Neal Dunn
FL
R
N
John Ellzey
TX
R
N
Tom Emmer
MN
R
N
Veronica Escobar
TX
D
Y
Anna Eshoo
CA
D
Y
Adriano Espaillat
NY
D
Y
Ron Estes
KS
R
N
Dwight Evans
PA
D
Y
Pat Fallon
TX
R
N
Randy Feenstra
IA
R
N
Drew Ferguson
GA
R
N
Teresa Fernandez
NM
D
Y
Brad Finstad
MN
R
N
Michelle Fischbach
MN
R
N
Scott Fitzgerald
WI
R
N
Brian Fitzpatrick
PA
R
N
Chuck Fleischmann
TN
R
N
Lizzie Fletcher
TX
D
Y
Mike Flood
NE
R
N
Mayra Flores
TX
R
N
Bill Foster
IL
D
Y
Virginia Foxx
NC
R
N
Lois Frankel
FL
D
Y
Scott Franklin
FL
R
N
Russ Fulcher
ID
R
N
Matt Gaetz
FL
R
N
Mike Gallagher
WI
R
A
Ruben Gallego
AZ
D
Y
John Garamendi
CA
D
Y
Andrew Garbarino
NY
R
N
Jesus Garcia
IL
D
Y
Mike Garcia
CA
R
N
Sylvia Garcia
TX
D
Y
Bob Gibbs
OH
R
N
Carlos Gimenez
FL
R
N
Louie Gohmert
TX
R
N
Jared Golden
ME
D
Y
Jimmy Gomez
CA
D
Y
Tony Gonzales
TX
R
N
Vicente Gonzalez
TX
D
Y
Anthony Gonzalez
OH
R
N
Robert Good
VA
R
N
Lance Gooden
TX
R
N
Paul Gosar
AZ
R
N
Josh Gottheimer
NJ
D
Y
Kay Granger
TX
R
N
Garret Graves
LA
R
N
Sam Graves
MO
R
N
Mark Green
TN
R
N
Al Green
TX
D
Y
Marjorie Greene
GA
R
N
H. Morgan Griffith
VA
R
N
Raul Grijalva
AZ
D
Y
Glenn Grothman
WI
R
N
Michael Guest
MS
R
N
Brett Guthrie
KY
R
N
Josh Harder
CA
D
Y
Andy Harris
MD
R
N
Diana Harshbarger
TN
R
N
Vicky Hartzler
MO
R
N
Jahana Hayes
CT
D
Y
Kevin Hern
OK
R
N
Yvette Herrell
NM
R
N
Jaime Herrera Beutler
WA
R
N
Jody Hice
GA
R
N
Clay Higgins
LA
R
N
Brian Higgins
NY
D
Y
French Hill
AR
R
N
James Himes
CT
D
Y
Ashley Hinson
IA
R
N
Trey Hollingsworth
IN
R
N
Steven Horsford
NV
D
Y
Chrissy Houlahan
PA
D
Y
Steny Hoyer
MD
D
Y
Richard Hudson
NC
R
N
Jared Huffman
CA
D
Y
Bill Huizenga
MI
R
N
Darrell Issa
CA
R
N
Ronny Jackson
TX
R
N
Sheila Jackson-Lee
TX
D
Y
Sara Jacobs
CA
D
Y
Christopher Jacobs
NY
R
N
Pramila Jayapal
WA
D
Y
Hakeem Jeffries
NY
D
Y
Henry Johnson
GA
D
Y
Dusty Johnson
SD
R
N
Mike Johnson
LA
R
N
Eddie Johnson
TX
D
Y
Bill Johnson
OH
R
N
Mondaire Jones
NY
D
Y
Jim Jordan
OH
R
N
David Joyce
OH
R
N
John Joyce
PA
R
N
Kaialii Kahele
HI
D
Y
Marcy Kaptur
OH
D
Y
John Katko
NY
R
N
William Keating
MA
D
Y
Fred Keller
PA
R
N
Robin Kelly
IL
D
Y
Trent Kelly
MS
R
N
Mike Kelly
PA
R
N
Ro Khanna
CA
D
Y
Daniel Kildee
MI
D
Y
Derek Kilmer
WA
D
Y
Young Kim
CA
R
N
Andy Kim
NJ
D
Y
Ron Kind
WI
D
Y
Adam Kinzinger
IL
R
N
Ann Kirkpatrick
AZ
D
Y
Raja Krishnamoorthi
IL
D
Y
Ann Kuster
NH
D
Y
David Kustoff
TN
R
N
Darin LaHood
IL
R
N
Doug LaMalfa
CA
R
N
Conor Lamb
PA
D
Y
Doug Lamborn
CO
R
N
James Langevin
RI
D
Y
Rick Larsen
WA
D
Y
John Larson
CT
D
Y
Bob Latta
OH
R
N
Jake LaTurner
KS
R
N
Brenda Lawrence
MI
D
Y
Al Lawson
FL
D
Y
Suzanne Lee
NV
D
Y
Barbara Lee
CA
D
Y
Debbie Lesko
AZ
R
N
Julia Letlow
LA
R
N
Andy Levin
MI
D
Y
Mike Levin
CA
D
Y
Ted Lieu
CA
D
Y
Zoe Lofgren
CA
D
Y
Billy Long
MO
R
N
Barry Loudermilk
GA
R
N
Alan Lowenthal
CA
D
Y
Frank Lucas
OK
R
N
Blaine Luetkemeyer
MO
R
N
Elaine Luria
VA
D
Y
Stephen Lynch
MA
D
Y
Nancy Mace
SC
R
N
Tom Malinowski
NJ
D
Y
Nicole Malliotakis
NY
R
N
Carolyn Maloney
NY
D
Y
Sean Maloney
NY
D
Y
Tracey Mann
KS
R
N
Kathy Manning
NC
D
Y
Thomas Massie
KY
R
N
Brian Mast
FL
R
N
Doris Matsui
CA
D
Y
Lucy McBath
GA
D
Y
Kevin McCarthy
CA
R
N
Michael McCaul
TX
R
N
Lisa McClain
MI
R
N
Tom McClintock
CA
R
N
Betty McCollum
MN
D
Y
Donald McEachin
VA
D
Y
James McGovern
MA
D
Y
Patrick McHenry
NC
R
N
David McKinley
WV
R
N
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
WA
R
N
Jerry McNerney
CA
D
Y
Gregory Meeks
NY
D
Y
Peter Meijer
MI
R
N
Grace Meng
NY
D
Y
Dan Meuser
PA
R
N
Kweisi Mfume
MD
D
Y
Mary Miller
IL
R
N
Carol Miller
WV
R
N
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA
R
N
John Moolenaar
MI
R
N
Alex Mooney
WV
R
N
Blake Moore
UT
R
N
Barry Moore
AL
R
N
Gwen Moore
WI
D
Y
Joseph Morelle
NY
D
Y
Seth Moulton
MA
D
Y
Frank Mrvan
IN
D
Y
Markwayne Mullin
OK
R
N
Stephanie Murphy
FL
D
Y
Greg Murphy
NC
R
N
Jerrold Nadler
NY
D
Y
Grace Napolitano
CA
D
Y
Richard Neal
MA
D
Y
Joseph Neguse
CO
D
Y
Troy Nehls
TX
R
N
Dan Newhouse
WA
R
N
Marie Newman
IL
D
Y
Donald Norcross
NJ
D
Y
Ralph Norman
SC
R
N
Tom O'Halleran
AZ
D
Y
Jay Obernolte
CA
R
N
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
NY
D
Y
Ilhan Omar
MN
D
Y
Burgess Owens
UT
R
N
Steven Palazzo
MS
R
N
Frank Pallone
NJ
D
Y
Gary Palmer
AL
R
N
Jimmy Panetta
CA
D
Y
Christopher Pappas
NH
D
Y
Bill Pascrell
NJ
D
Y
Donald Payne
NJ
D
Y
Nancy Pelosi
CA
D
Y
Greg Pence
IN
R
A
Ed Perlmutter
CO
D
Y
Scott Perry
PA
R
N
Scott Peters
CA
D
Y
August Pfluger
TX
R
N
Dean Phillips
MN
D
Y
Chellie Pingree
ME
D
Y
Mark Pocan
WI
D
Y
Katie Porter
CA
D
Y
Bill Posey
FL
R
N
Ayanna Pressley
MA
D
Y
David Price
NC
D
Y
Mike Quigley
IL
D
Y
Jamie Raskin
MD
D
Y
Guy Reschenthaler
PA
R
N
Tom Rice
SC
R
N
Kathleen Rice
NY
D
Y
Lisa Rochester
DE
D
Y
Mike Rogers
AL
R
A
Hal Rogers
KY
R
N
John Rose
TN
R
N
Matt Rosendale
MT
R
N
Deborah Ross
NC
D
Y
David Rouzer
NC
R
N
Chip Roy
TX
R
N
Lucille Roybal Allard
CA
D
Y
Raul Ruiz
CA
D
Y
C.A. Ruppersberger
MD
D
Y
Bobby Rush
IL
D
Y
John Rutherford
FL
R
N
Tim Ryan
OH
D
Y
Maria Salazar
FL
R
N
Linda Sanchez
CA
D
Y
John Sarbanes
MD
D
Y
Steve Scalise
LA
R
N
Mary Scanlon
PA
D
Y
Janice Schakowsky
IL
D
Y
Adam Schiff
CA
D
Y
Bradley Schneider
IL
D
Y
Kurt Schrader
OR
D
Y
Kim Schrier
WA
D
Y
David Schweikert
AZ
R
N
David Scott
GA
D
Y
Austin Scott
GA
R
N
Robert Scott
VA
D
Y
Pete Sessions
TX
R
N
Terri Sewell
AL
D
Y
Brad Sherman
CA
D
Y
Mikie Sherrill
NJ
D
Y
Mike Simpson
ID
R
N
Albio Sires
NJ
D
Y
Elissa Slotkin
MI
D
Y
Adam Smith
WA
D
Y
Christopher Smith
NJ
R
N
Jason Smith
MO
R
N
Adrian Smith
NE
R
N
Lloyd Smucker
PA
R
N
Darren Soto
FL
D
Y
Abigail Spanberger
VA
D
Y
Victoria Spartz
IN
R
N
Jackie Speier
CA
D
Y
Melanie Stansbury
NM
D
Y
Greg Stanton
AZ
D
Y
Pete Stauber
MN
R
N
Michelle Steel
CA
R
N
Elise Stefanik
NY
R
N
Bryan Steil
WI
R
N
Greg Steube
FL
R
N
Haley Stevens
MI
D
Y
Chris Stewart
UT
R
N
Marilyn Strickland
WA
D
Y
Thomas Suozzi
NY
D
Y
Eric Swalwell
CA
D
Y
Mark Takano
CA
D
Y
Van Taylor
TX
R
N
Claudia Tenney
NY
R
N
Glenn Thompson
PA
R
N
Mike Thompson
CA
D
Y
Bennie Thompson
MS
D
Y
Tom Tiffany
WI
R
N
William Timmons
SC
R
N
Dina Titus
NV
D
Y
Rashida Tlaib
MI
D
Y
Paul Tonko
NY
D
Y
Ritchie Torres
NY
D
Y
Norma Torres
CA
D
Y
Lori Trahan
MA
D
Y
David Trone
MD
D
Y
Michael Turner
OH
R
N
Lauren Underwood
IL
D
Y
Fred Upton
MI
R
N
David Valadao
CA
R
N
Jeff Van Drew
NJ
R
N
Beth Van Duyne
TX
R
N
Juan Vargas
CA
D
Y
Marc Veasey
TX
D
Y
Nydia Velazquez
NY
D
Y
Ann Wagner
MO
R
N
Tim Walberg
MI
R
N
Michael Waltz
FL
R
N
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
FL
D
Y
Maxine Waters
CA
D
Y
Bonnie Watson Coleman
NJ
D
Y
Randy Weber
TX
R
N
Daniel Webster
FL
R
N
Peter Welch
VT
D
Y
Brad Wenstrup
OH
R
N
Bruce Westerman
AR
R
N
Jennifer Wexton
VA
D
Y
Susan Wild
PA
D
Y
Nikema Williams
GA
D
Y
Roger Williams
TX
R
N
Joe Wilson
SC
R
N
Frederica Wilson
FL
D
Y
Robert Wittman
VA
R
N
Steve Womack
AR
R
N
John Yarmuth
KY
D
Y
Lee Zeldin
NY
R
N