The Morning Call today listed the votes of five area legislators on eight items before the House this week. Four of the legislators were Republican.
One item called for ”dynamic scoring,” which will make tax cuts for the rich easier (passed), one would have raised workers’ pay in certain instances (rejected), one increased from 30 to 40 the minimum number of hours workers would need to qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s definition of full-time employeesb(passed), and another would have guarded against gender or veterans bias as a result of the 40 hour minimum (rejected).
HR 37 would have weakened Dodd-Frank (did not get the 2/3rds needed, but came close). HR3 will bypass environmental laws on the Keystone XL pipeline. Another vote limited liability for oil spills from the pipeline.
One item renewed terrorism risk insurance; on that one only five House members voted no.
On the seven items that affected business interests, the four Republicans voted pro-business on every single one. Those votes in the aggregate were anti-worker, anti-health care, anti-environment, anti-veteran, and anti-woman.
Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for a single one of these rich people’s lap dogs. I did vote for Matt Cartwright, who was on side of the common people on every one of those votes.
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