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Despite controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans managed to concoct a bill that removed roughly 160 conservative priorities and spent $1.1 trillion. The sad truth is that the bill looked almost identical to the massive spending bills America suffered under then President Obama. The bill declined to defund sanctuary cities, refugee resettlement, Planned Parenthood, or any harmful policy that represented a core or pressing issue. At the same time, the bill actually blocked funding for construction of a border wall. While the bill increased military spending, conservatives would have liked the $18 billion increase to come from cuts to non-defense programs, which were requested by the president. Overall this bill actually increased domestic spending. Particularly jarring was the fact that the omnibus increased funding for the very programs and agencies which the president targeted for cuts or elimination, such as renewable fuels, the National Institutes of Health, and foreign aid programs. As such, not only did this bill codify Democrat policy priorities and jettison conservative priorities, it increased spending by $93 billion above the previously agreed upon budget caps. The bill passed the House on May 3, 2017 309-118.
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Conservative position: NO
Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Amodei Bacon Barletta Barr Bass Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Bishop (GA) Bishop (MI) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Butterfield Byrne Calvert Capuano Carbajal Carson (IN) Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Castor (FL) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comer Comstock Conaway Connolly Conyers Cook Cooper Costa Costello (PA) Courtney Cramer Crawford Crist Crowley Cuellar Culberson Cummings Curbelo (FL) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Demings Denham Dent DeSaulnier Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donovan Doyle, Michael F. Dunn Engel Eshoo Esty (CT) Evans Faso Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Foster Frankel (FL) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Garamendi Gonzalez (TX) | Gottheimer Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Green, Al Green, Gene Guthrie Hanabusa Harper Hartzler Hastings Heck Hensarling Herrera Beutler Higgins (LA) Higgins (NY) Hill Himes Hoyer Huffman Huizenga Hurd Issa Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Jenkins (KS) Jenkins (WV) Johnson (GA) Johnson (OH) Johnson, E. B. Joyce (OH) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Khanna Kihuen Kildee Kilmer Kind King (NY) Kinzinger Knight Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) LaMalfa Lance Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lujan Grisham, M. Luján, Ben Ray Lynch MacArthur Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Marino Mast Matsui McCarthy McCaul McCollum McEachin McGovern McHenry McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney McSally Meehan Meeks Meng Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Moore Moulton Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Nadler Napolitano Neal Nolan Norcross Nunes O'Halleran | O'Rourke Palazzo Pallone Panetta Pascrell Paulsen Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Pingree Pocan Polis Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Reed Reichert Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Richmond Roby Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney, Thomas J. Ros-Lehtinen Rosen Ross Roybal-Allard Royce (CA) Ruiz Ruppersberger Rutherford Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sánchez Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Serrano Sessions Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Soto Speier Stefanik Stivers Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Taylor Tenney Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Tonko Trott Tsongas Turner Upton Valadao Veasey Velázquez Visclosky Walberg Walden Walorski Walters, Mimi Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters, Maxine Watson Coleman Welch Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Womack Woodall Yarmuth Yoder Young (AK) Young (IA) Zeldin |
Abraham Amash Arrington Babin Banks (IN) Barragán Barton Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blum Brat Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Buck Budd Cárdenas Castro (TX) Chabot Cheney Correa Davidson DeSantis DesJarlais Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellison Emmer Espaillat Estes (KS) Farenthold Ferguson Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Gaetz Gallagher | Gallego Garrett Gibbs Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Graves (LA) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Gutiérrez Harris Hice, Jody B. Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Hultgren Hunter Johnson (LA) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly (MS) King (IA) Kustoff (TN) Labrador LaHood Lamborn Latta Lewis (MN) Lieu, Ted Long Loudermilk Love Marchant Marshall Massie McClintock Meadows Messer | Mullin Noem Olson Palmer Pearce Perry Peterson Poe (TX) Posey Ratcliffe Renacci Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rooney, Francis Roskam Rothfus Rouzer Rush Russell Sanford Schweikert Sensenbrenner Smith (MO) Smith (TX) Stewart Tipton Torres Vargas Vela Wagner Walker Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wittman Yoho |
Chaffetz Newhouse | Pittenger Poliquin |
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