Idaho Congressmen: Bringing Home the Bacon
The Club for Growth has done us a great service by recording how our Congressmen voted on the recent Flake Amendments. As the Club puts it:
Before now, House members have been able to avoid scrutiny because their pork was co-mingled with other projects and tucked into the dark corners of big spending bills. Or they were able to withstand the scrutiny because they were attacked as a whole chamber and not directly attacked themselves.
But because of Flake's amendments, they were recently forced to cast up-or-down votes on specific projects. They could no longer deflect attention. Below is a summary scorecard of how they voted (below the scorecard are the vote descriptions). If you want an itemized list, you can click on any one of the following PDFs. A "YES" vote on any of the Flake amendments is a good, anti-pork vote. A "NO" vote is a bad, pro-pork vote.
You can see how our Idaho Congressmen voted.
Moscow’s Representative, Butch Otter, scored an 18/19. Not bad. The one he voted against was the Leonard Wood Research Institute ($20,000,000). Beats me why he voted “no” on that one.
However, Idaho’s other Representative, Mike Simpson, scored 0/19.
I hope someone on the Eastern side of the State takes Mike Simpson to task for this abysmal voting record.