Cruz Control

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Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE for September 16, 2013 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District

Recent Congressional Votes -

• House: Health Care Subsidy

Upcoming Congressional Bills -

• Senate: Energy Efficiency
• House: Critical Minerals Production

Recent House Votes

Health Care Subsidy: Vote Passed (235-191, 6 Not Voting)
Returning last week from the August recess, the House passed a bill that would block premium and cost-sharing subsidies under the 2010 health care reform law until a program to verify household income and other qualifications for the subsidies is certified as operational. Only five Democrats joined the entire Republican caucus to vote in favor of the legislation sponsored by Tennessee Republican Diane Black. The Senate is unlikely to vote on the bill, and the White House administration has already vowed to veto it.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
To start, I would not have expected any different vote from my Congressman, he is representative of a gerrymandered district, designed to concentrate Black and Hispanic votes south and west of Atlanta.Since the report is from last week, today we have a fillibuster led by Ted Cruz going on in the Senate.The media seems to be treating the subject like the result is inevitable and that he Republicans ought to just knuckle under let the thing come to a vote, essentially allow themselves to be overwhelmed by the Democratic vote advantage. Cheers to Ted Cruz for willing to be pillaried by both the media and Democratic leadership. They will no doubt attempt to make stalling the government is Cruz's real purpose for the fillibuster, an action they will portray as being both anti-poor and racist. In a sense, there is an element of bigotry in the equation, conservatives resent being told they are both wrong and mean spirited while try to keep the hand of government from linger ing too long in their pocket. Taxation without representation breeds resentment, so yes people are angry at being told they have to pay more for people who can't help themselves. Conservatives know from history that the Constitution was built on the idea that our government's rights are derived from the people, not granted to the people by a benevolent patriarch; also the economic principles of Adam Smith are deeply woven into the design. When Conservatives are told that they are uncaring and racist for clinging to an "eat what you kill" mentality, and the associated needy face is some apparently helpless minority, what else are they supposed to conclude other than the predictions of Ayn Rand.
I have no problem with the government being partially stopped, it will affect my son, but for that I will help him if he needs it. Conservatives have been witness to the growth of government intrusion for decades, the passage of Obamacare seemed to get the progressive platform over crest of the mountain, it was wrong but it happened anyway. Now we have some brave politcians willing to risk being typecast as racist for the sake of fighting what they know is wrong, what many people know is wrong.

Upcoming Votes

Energy Efficiency - S.1392
The Senate is scheduled to resume debate on legislation that would update national building energy codes for residential and commercial properties to help conserve energy, water and other resources.
This is another government intrusion on freedom in the market place. Changes in the markets should be driven by the market; the best, more efficient ideas become reality because it makes financial sense to do so. Government intrusion acts as both friction and corporate favoritism in markets.

Critical Minerals Production - H.R.761
The House is expected to vote on a measure sponsored by Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., that would aim to expedite the mining and production of strategic and critical minerals.
It is not odd that on the previous bill, S.1392 we were discussing the intrusion of government on the right to freely exchange economically and the this next bill is an attempt to counteract previous government limitation on business. A Nevada Congressman is trying to free up government lands for mining in his state. My first question is; why does the federal government have domain over public lands that are not national parks within the limit of a state? My second question is; why would the Democratic party and their executive leader resist economic expansion? The answer to both is the Federal government has usurped states rights and has stubborn intention to retain what they have wrongfully taken.

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