Moran Receives High Score For Fiscally Responsible Voting Record
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Moran Receives High Score For Fiscally Responsible Voting Record
Congressman Jerry Moran received a 96 percent score from The Club for Growth's 2009 House RePork Card for his votes to eliminate wasteful spending in the 2010 appropriations bills. The Club for Growth, an anti-tax group that supports limited government, calculated scores for Members of the House of Representatives based on votes for all 68 amendments proposed to strip out earmarked projects in 12 annual spending bills.
"The earmark process needs to be reformed," Moran said. "The federal government continues amassing a massive debt at an alarming rate, and this comes from spending unnecessarily. Our trillion-dollar deficit is enough evidence that Congress has used every opportunity to spend money that it does not have."
"I am working to stop the government's spending spree, especially at a time when most American families are forced to tighten their belts and make tough choices. The RePork card identifies those in Congress who will stand up both at home, and in Washington, D.C., to vote against big government spending and the irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars."
The 2009 RePork Card highlighted the July vote in which Moran and a majority of House Republicans voted to strip millions in earmarks for former clients of the defunct lobbying firm PMA Group, which is currently under investigation by the Justice Department. The amendments would have eliminated over 70 projects awarded to former clients of the PMA group.
Moran is strongly opposed to wasteful and unethical government spending. Moran is only one of 17 of the 435 Members of House of Representatives to vote against every stimulus and bailout plan.
The Club for Growth is a fiscally conservative organization that advocates for limited government, lower taxes, less government spending, fair-trade and economic freedom. The 2009 RePork card rated House members' efforts to eliminate unnecessary spending. Republicans averaged 57 percent and Democrats averaged 3 percent.
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