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
Robert Aderholt
AL
R
N
Mo Brooks
AL
R
N
Jerry Carl
AL
R
A
Barry Moore
AL
R
N
Gary Palmer
AL
R
N
Mike Rogers
AL
R
A
Terri Sewell
AL
D
Y
Rick Crawford
AR
R
N
French Hill
AR
R
N
Bruce Westerman
AR
R
N
Steve Womack
AR
R
N
Andy Biggs
AZ
R
N
Ruben Gallego
AZ
D
Y
Paul Gosar
AZ
R
N
Raul Grijalva
AZ
D
Y
Ann Kirkpatrick
AZ
D
Y
Debbie Lesko
AZ
R
N
Tom O'Halleran
AZ
D
Y
David Schweikert
AZ
R
N
Greg Stanton
AZ
D
Y
Pete Aguilar
CA
D
Y
Nanette Barragan
CA
D
Y
Karen Bass
CA
D
Y
Ami Bera
CA
D
Y
Julia Brownley
CA
D
Y
Ken Calvert
CA
R
N
Salud Carbajal
CA
D
Y
Tony Cardenas
CA
D
Y
Judy Chu
CA
D
Y
Connie Conway
CA
R
N
Luis Correa
CA
D
Y
Jim Costa
CA
D
Y
Mark DeSaulnier
CA
D
Y
Anna Eshoo
CA
D
Y
John Garamendi
CA
D
Y
Mike Garcia
CA
R
N
Jimmy Gomez
CA
D
Y
Josh Harder
CA
D
Y
Jared Huffman
CA
D
Y
Darrell Issa
CA
R
N
Sara Jacobs
CA
D
Y
Ro Khanna
CA
D
Y
Young Kim
CA
R
N
Doug LaMalfa
CA
R
N
Barbara Lee
CA
D
Y
Mike Levin
CA
D
Y
Ted Lieu
CA
D
Y
Zoe Lofgren
CA
D
Y
Alan Lowenthal
CA
D
Y
Doris Matsui
CA
D
Y
Kevin McCarthy
CA
R
N
Tom McClintock
CA
R
N
Jerry McNerney
CA
D
Y
Grace Napolitano
CA
D
Y
Jay Obernolte
CA
R
N
Jimmy Panetta
CA
D
Y
Nancy Pelosi
CA
D
Y
Scott Peters
CA
D
Y
Katie Porter
CA
D
Y
Lucille Roybal Allard
CA
D
Y
Raul Ruiz
CA
D
Y
Linda Sanchez
CA
D
Y
Adam Schiff
CA
D
Y
Brad Sherman
CA
D
Y
Jackie Speier
CA
D
Y
Michelle Steel
CA
R
N
Eric Swalwell
CA
D
Y
Mark Takano
CA
D
Y
Mike Thompson
CA
D
Y
Norma Torres
CA
D
Y
David Valadao
CA
R
N
Juan Vargas
CA
D
Y
Maxine Waters
CA
D
Y
Lauren Boebert
CO
R
N
Ken Buck
CO
R
N
Jason Crow
CO
D
Y
Diana DeGette
CO
D
Y
Doug Lamborn
CO
R
N
Joseph Neguse
CO
D
Y
Ed Perlmutter
CO
D
Y
Joe Courtney
CT
D
Y
Rosa DeLauro
CT
D
Y
Jahana Hayes
CT
D
Y
James Himes
CT
D
Y
John Larson
CT
D
Y
Lisa Rochester
DE
D
Y
Gus Bilirakis
FL
R
N
Vern Buchanan
FL
R
N
Kat Cammack
FL
R
N
Kathy Castor
FL
D
Y
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
FL
D
Y
Charlie Crist
FL
D
Y
Val Demings
FL
D
Y
Ted Deutch
FL
D
Y
Mario Diaz-Balart
FL
R
N
Byron Donalds
FL
R
N
Neal Dunn
FL
R
N
Lois Frankel
FL
D
Y
Scott Franklin
FL
R
N
Matt Gaetz
FL
R
N
Carlos Gimenez
FL
R
N
Al Lawson
FL
D
Y
Brian Mast
FL
R
N
Stephanie Murphy
FL
D
Y
Bill Posey
FL
R
N
John Rutherford
FL
R
N
Maria Salazar
FL
R
N
Darren Soto
FL
D
Y
Greg Steube
FL
R
N
Michael Waltz
FL
R
N
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
FL
D
Y
Daniel Webster
FL
R
N
Frederica Wilson
FL
D
Y
Rick Allen
GA
R
N
Sanford Bishop
GA
D
Y
Carolyn Bourdeaux
GA
D
Y
Buddy Carter
GA
R
N
Andrew Clyde
GA
R
N
Drew Ferguson
GA
R
N
Marjorie Greene
GA
R
N
Jody Hice
GA
R
N
Henry Johnson
GA
D
Y
Barry Loudermilk
GA
R
N
Lucy McBath
GA
D
Y
David Scott
GA
D
Y
Austin Scott
GA
R
N
Nikema Williams
GA
D
Y
Ed Case
HI
D
Y
Kaialii Kahele
HI
D
Y
Cindy Axne
IA
D
Y
Randy Feenstra
IA
R
N
Ashley Hinson
IA
R
N
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA
R
N
Russ Fulcher
ID
R
N
Mike Simpson
ID
R
N
Mike Bost
IL
R
N
Cheri Bustos
IL
D
Y
Sean Casten
IL
D
Y
Rodney Davis
IL
R
N
Danny Davis
IL
D
Y
Bill Foster
IL
D
Y
Jesus Garcia
IL
D
Y
Robin Kelly
IL
D
Y
Adam Kinzinger
IL
R
N
Raja Krishnamoorthi
IL
D
Y
Darin LaHood
IL
R
N
Mary Miller
IL
R
N
Marie Newman
IL
D
Y
Mike Quigley
IL
D
Y
Bobby Rush
IL
D
Y
Janice Schakowsky
IL
D
Y
Bradley Schneider
IL
D
Y
Lauren Underwood
IL
D
Y
James Baird
IN
R
N
Jim Banks
IN
R
N
Larry Bucshon
IN
R
N
Andre Carson
IN
D
Y
Trey Hollingsworth
IN
R
N
Frank Mrvan
IN
D
Y
Greg Pence
IN
R
A
Victoria Spartz
IN
R
N
Sharice Davids
KS
D
Y
Ron Estes
KS
R
N
Jake LaTurner
KS
R
N
Tracey Mann
KS
R
N
Andy Barr
KY
R
N
James Comer
KY
R
N
Brett Guthrie
KY
R
N
Thomas Massie
KY
R
N
Hal Rogers
KY
R
N
John Yarmuth
KY
D
Y
Troy Carter
LA
D
Y
Garret Graves
LA
R
N
Clay Higgins
LA
R
N
Mike Johnson
LA
R
N
Julia Letlow
LA
R
N
Steve Scalise
LA
R
N
Jake Auchincloss
MA
D
Y
Katherine Clark
MA
D
Y
William Keating
MA
D
Y
Stephen Lynch
MA
D
Y
James McGovern
MA
D
Y
Seth Moulton
MA
D
Y
Richard Neal
MA
D
Y
Ayanna Pressley
MA
D
Y
Lori Trahan
MA
D
Y
Anthony Brown
MD
D
Y
Andy Harris
MD
R
N
Steny Hoyer
MD
D
Y
Kweisi Mfume
MD
D
Y
Jamie Raskin
MD
D
Y
C.A. Ruppersberger
MD
D
Y
John Sarbanes
MD
D
Y
David Trone
MD
D
Y
Jared Golden
ME
D
Y
Chellie Pingree
ME
D
Y
Jack Bergman
MI
R
N
Debbie Dingell
MI
D
Y
Bill Huizenga
MI
R
N
Daniel Kildee
MI
D
Y
Brenda Lawrence
MI
D
Y
Andy Levin
MI
D
Y
Lisa McClain
MI
R
N
Peter Meijer
MI
R
N
John Moolenaar
MI
R
N
Elissa Slotkin
MI
D
Y
Haley Stevens
MI
D
Y
Rashida Tlaib
MI
D
Y
Fred Upton
MI
R
N
Tim Walberg
MI
R
N
Angela Craig
MN
D
Y
Tom Emmer
MN
R
N
Brad Finstad
MN
R
N
Michelle Fischbach
MN
R
N
Betty McCollum
MN
D
Y
Ilhan Omar
MN
D
Y
Dean Phillips
MN
D
Y
Pete Stauber
MN
R
N
Cori Bush
MO
D
Y
Emanuel Cleaver
MO
D
Y
Sam Graves
MO
R
N
Vicky Hartzler
MO
R
N
Billy Long
MO
R
N
Blaine Luetkemeyer
MO
R
N
Jason Smith
MO
R
N
Ann Wagner
MO
R
N
Michael Guest
MS
R
N
Trent Kelly
MS
R
N
Steven Palazzo
MS
R
N
Bennie Thompson
MS
D
Y
Matt Rosendale
MT
R
N
Alma Adams
NC
D
Y
Dan Bishop
NC
R
N
Ted Budd
NC
R
N
G.K. Butterfield
NC
D
Y
Madison Cawthorn
NC
R
N
Virginia Foxx
NC
R
N
Richard Hudson
NC
R
N
Kathy Manning
NC
D
Y
Patrick McHenry
NC
R
N
Greg Murphy
NC
R
N
David Price
NC
D
Y
Deborah Ross
NC
D
Y
David Rouzer
NC
R
N
Kelly Armstrong
ND
R
N
Don Bacon
NE
R
N
Mike Flood
NE
R
N
Adrian Smith
NE
R
N
Ann Kuster
NH
D
Y
Christopher Pappas
NH
D
Y
Josh Gottheimer
NJ
D
Y
Andy Kim
NJ
D
Y
Tom Malinowski
NJ
D
Y
Donald Norcross
NJ
D
Y
Frank Pallone
NJ
D
Y
Bill Pascrell
NJ
D
Y
Donald Payne
NJ
D
Y
Mikie Sherrill
NJ
D
Y
Albio Sires
NJ
D
Y
Christopher Smith
NJ
R
N
Jeff Van Drew
NJ
R
N
Bonnie Watson Coleman
NJ
D
Y
Teresa Fernandez
NM
D
Y
Yvette Herrell
NM
R
N
Melanie Stansbury
NM
D
Y
Mark Amodei
NV
R
N
Steven Horsford
NV
D
Y
Suzanne Lee
NV
D
Y
Dina Titus
NV
D
Y
Jamaal Bowman
NY
D
Y
Yvette Clarke
NY
D
Y
Adriano Espaillat
NY
D
Y
Andrew Garbarino
NY
R
N
Brian Higgins
NY
D
Y
Christopher Jacobs
NY
R
N
Hakeem Jeffries
NY
D
Y
Mondaire Jones
NY
D
Y
John Katko
NY
R
N
Nicole Malliotakis
NY
R
N
Carolyn Maloney
NY
D
Y
Sean Maloney
NY
D
Y
Gregory Meeks
NY
D
Y
Grace Meng
NY
D
Y
Joseph Morelle
NY
D
Y
Jerrold Nadler
NY
D
Y
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
NY
D
Y
Kathleen Rice
NY
D
Y
Elise Stefanik
NY
R
N
Thomas Suozzi
NY
D
Y
Claudia Tenney
NY
R
N
Paul Tonko
NY
D
Y
Ritchie Torres
NY
D
Y
Nydia Velazquez
NY
D
Y
Lee Zeldin
NY
R
N
Troy Balderson
OH
R
N
Joyce Beatty
OH
D
Y
Shontel Brown
OH
D
Y
Mike Carey
OH
R
N
Steve Chabot
OH
R
N
Warren Davidson
OH
R
N
Bob Gibbs
OH
R
N
Anthony Gonzalez
OH
R
N
Bill Johnson
OH
R
N
Jim Jordan
OH
R
N
David Joyce
OH
R
N
Marcy Kaptur
OH
D
Y
Bob Latta
OH
R
N
Tim Ryan
OH
D
Y
Michael Turner
OH
R
N
Brad Wenstrup
OH
R
N
Stephanie Bice
OK
R
N
Tom Cole
OK
R
N
Kevin Hern
OK
R
N
Frank Lucas
OK
R
N
Markwayne Mullin
OK
R
N
Cliff Bentz
OR
R
N
Earl Blumenauer
OR
D
Y
Suzanne Bonamici
OR
D
Y
Peter DeFazio
OR
D
Y
Kurt Schrader
OR
D
Y
Brendan Boyle
PA
D
Y
Matthew Cartwright
PA
D
Y
Madeleine Dean
PA
D
Y
Michael Doyle
PA
D
Y
Dwight Evans
PA
D
Y
Brian Fitzpatrick
PA
R
N
Chrissy Houlahan
PA
D
Y
John Joyce
PA
R
N
Fred Keller
PA
R
N
Mike Kelly
PA
R
N
Conor Lamb
PA
D
Y
Dan Meuser
PA
R
N
Scott Perry
PA
R
N
Guy Reschenthaler
PA
R
N
Mary Scanlon
PA
D
Y
Lloyd Smucker
PA
R
N
Glenn Thompson
PA
R
N
Susan Wild
PA
D
Y
David Cicilline
RI
D
Y
James Langevin
RI
D
Y
James Clyburn
SC
D
Y
Jeff Duncan
SC
R
N
Nancy Mace
SC
R
N
Ralph Norman
SC
R
N
Tom Rice
SC
R
N
William Timmons
SC
R
N
Joe Wilson
SC
R
N
Dusty Johnson
SD
R
N
Tim Burchett
TN
R
N
Steve Cohen
TN
D
Y
Jim Cooper
TN
D
Y
Scott DesJarlais
TN
R
N
Chuck Fleischmann
TN
R
N
Mark Green
TN
R
N
Diana Harshbarger
TN
R
N
David Kustoff
TN
R
N
John Rose
TN
R
N
Colin Allred
TX
D
Y
Jodey Arrington
TX
R
N
Brian Babin
TX
R
N
Kevin Brady
TX
R
N
Michael Burgess
TX
R
N
John Carter
TX
R
N
Joaquin Castro
TX
D
Y
Michael Cloud
TX
R
N
Dan Crenshaw
TX
R
N
Henry Cuellar
TX
D
Y
Lloyd Doggett
TX
D
Y
John Ellzey
TX
R
N
Veronica Escobar
TX
D
Y
Pat Fallon
TX
R
N
Lizzie Fletcher
TX
D
Y
Mayra Flores
TX
R
N
Sylvia Garcia
TX
D
Y
Louie Gohmert
TX
R
N
Tony Gonzales
TX
R
N
Vicente Gonzalez
TX
D
Y
Lance Gooden
TX
R
N
Kay Granger
TX
R
N
Al Green
TX
D
Y
Ronny Jackson
TX
R
N
Sheila Jackson-Lee
TX
D
Y
Eddie Johnson
TX
D
Y
Michael McCaul
TX
R
N
Troy Nehls
TX
R
N
August Pfluger
TX
R
N
Chip Roy
TX
R
N
Pete Sessions
TX
R
N
Van Taylor
TX
R
N
Beth Van Duyne
TX
R
N
Marc Veasey
TX
D
Y
Randy Weber
TX
R
N
Roger Williams
TX
R
N
John Curtis
UT
R
N
Blake Moore
UT
R
N
Burgess Owens
UT
R
N
Chris Stewart
UT
R
N
Don Beyer
VA
D
Y
Ben Cline
VA
R
N
Gerald Connolly
VA
D
Y
Robert Good
VA
R
N
H. Morgan Griffith
VA
R
N
Elaine Luria
VA
D
Y
Donald McEachin
VA
D
Y
Robert Scott
VA
D
Y
Abigail Spanberger
VA
D
Y
Jennifer Wexton
VA
D
Y
Robert Wittman
VA
R
N
Peter Welch
VT
D
Y
Suzan DelBene
WA
D
Y
Jaime Herrera Beutler
WA
R
N
Pramila Jayapal
WA
D
Y
Derek Kilmer
WA
D
Y
Rick Larsen
WA
D
Y
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
WA
R
N
Dan Newhouse
WA
R
N
Kim Schrier
WA
D
Y
Adam Smith
WA
D
Y
Marilyn Strickland
WA
D
Y
Scott Fitzgerald
WI
R
N
Mike Gallagher
WI
R
A
Glenn Grothman
WI
R
N
Ron Kind
WI
D
Y
Gwen Moore
WI
D
Y
Mark Pocan
WI
D
Y
Bryan Steil
WI
R
N
Tom Tiffany
WI
R
N
David McKinley
WV
R
N
Carol Miller
WV
R
N
Alex Mooney
WV
R
N
Liz Cheney
WY
R
N