Key Vote Alert – “YES” on “Penny Plan” Balanced Budget

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KEY VOTE ALERT

“Yes” on Penny Plan Balanced Budget

(S.Con.Res. 36)

The Club for Growth supports Senator Rand Paul’s “Penny Plan” balanced budget and we urge all Senators to vote YES on it. A vote is expected as early as Thursday of this week. The vote will be included in the Club’s 2018 congressional scorecard.

It’s unfortunate that our country’s fiscal mess is so bad that lawmakers consider it politically safer to not pass a budget at all rather than risk passing one that upsets voters. Thankfully, Senate rules will force a debate on this issue instead of allowing Senators to stall and obfuscate.

The “Penny Plan” budget would repeal the recent Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which raised spending by nearly $300 billion, and then it would cut one penny for every dollar spent on the federal budget. Together, these reforms would balance the budget within five years, and then put it on a sustainable 1% growth rate going forward.

With our national debt at just over $21 trillion, and with our annual deficit reaching $1 trillion in perpetuity, this balanced budget proposal is sorely needed.

Our Congressional Scorecard for the 115th 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 our members and to the public.

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Vote Results

Club Position

Yes

Required for Majority

1/2

Vote Results

Motion to Proceed Rejected

Vote Number

99

Vote Date

May 17, 2018

Vote Counts

YEAs:

21

NAYs:

74

Not Voting:

3

Name

State

Party

Vote Position

Cory Booker

NJ

D

A

Tammy Duckworth

IL

D

A

John McCain

AZ

R

A

Lamar Alexander

TN

R

N

Tammy Baldwin

WI

D

N

Michael Bennet

CO

D

N

Richard Blumenthal

CT

D

N

Roy Blunt

MO

R

N

John Boozman

AR

R

N

Sherrod Brown

OH

D

N

Richard Burr

NC

R

N

Maria Cantwell

WA

D

N

Shelley Moore Capito

WV

R

N

Benjamin Cardin

MD

D

N

Thomas Carper

DE

D

N

Bob Casey

PA

D

N

Bill Cassidy

LA

R

N

Susan Collins

ME

R

N

Christopher Coons

DE

D

N

Bob Corker

TN

R

N

Catherine Cortez Masto

NV

D

N

Tom Cotton

AR

R

N

Joe Donnelly

IN

D

N

Richard Durbin

IL

D

N

Dianne Feinstein

CA

D

N

Cory Gardner

CO

R

N

Kirsten Gillibrand

NY

D

N

Lindsey Graham

SC

R

N

Kamala Harris

CA

D

N

Maggie Hassan

NH

D

N

Orrin Hatch

UT

R

N

Martin Heinrich

NM

D

N

Heidi Heitkamp

ND

D

N

Dean Heller

NV

R

N

Mazie Hirono

HI

D

N

John Hoeven

ND

R

N

James Inhofe

OK

R

N

Johnny Isakson

GA

R

N

Doug Jones

AL

D

N

Tim Kaine

VA

D

N

Angus King

ME

I

N

Amy Klobuchar

MN

D

N

Patrick Leahy

VT

D

N

Joe Manchin

WV

D

N

Edward Markey

MA

D

N

Claire McCaskill

MO

D

N

Mitch McConnell

KY

R

N

Robert Menendez

NJ

D

N

Jeff Merkley

OR

D

N

Lisa Murkowski

AK

R

N

Christopher Murphy

CT

D

N

Patty Murray

WA

D

N

Bill Nelson

FL

D

N

David Perdue

GA

R

N

Gary Peters

MI

D

N

Rob Portman

OH

R

N

Jack Reed

RI

D

N

Pat Roberts

KS

R

N

Mike Rounds

SD

R

N

Bernie Sanders

VT

I

N

Brian Schatz

HI

D

N

Chuck Schumer

NY

D

N

Jeanne Shaheen

NH

D

N

Richard Shelby

AL

R

N

Debbie Stabenow

MI

D

N

Dan Sullivan

AK

R

N

Jon Tester

MT

D

N

John Thune

SD

R

N

Thom Tillis

NC

R

N

Tom Udall

NM

D

N

Chris Van Hollen

MD

D

N

Mark Warner

VA

D

N

Elizabeth Warren

MA

D

N

Sheldon Whitehouse

RI

D

N

Roger Wicker

MS

R

N

Ron Wyden

OR

D

N

Todd Young

IN

R

N

John Barrasso

WY

R

Y

John Cornyn

TX

R

Y

Mike Crapo

ID

R

Y

Ted Cruz

TX

R

Y

Steve Daines

MT

R

Y

Michael Enzi

WY

R

Y

Joni Ernst

IA

R

Y

Deb Fischer

NE

R

Y

Jeff Flake

AZ

R

Y

Chuck Grassley

IA

R

Y

Ron Johnson

WI

R

Y

John Kennedy

LA

R

Y

James Lankford

OK

R

Y

Mike Lee

UT

R

Y

Jerry Moran

KS

R

Y

Rand Paul

KY

R

Y

Jim Risch

ID

R

Y

Marco Rubio

FL

R

Y

Ben Sasse

NE

R

Y

Tim Scott

SC

R

Y

Pat Toomey

PA

R

Y

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