Vote Alert: Stop Subsidizing Airline Tickets

This vote was on cutting $150 million in taxpayer dollars from the Essential Air Service (EAS), a government program that subsidizes airline ticket prices to small rural airports. Subsidizing airline ticket prices is not an essential role of the government and only serves to distort the marketplace. Other methods of transportation, such as automobile, bus, or train are valid options in rural communities. In some cases, EAS airports are within only a few hours’ drive from a major hub.

With over $20 trillion in debt, nonessential programs like the EAS must be cut by Congress if our nation is serious about tackling our spending problem.

The House of Representatives rejected the amendment on September 6, 2017, with a roll call vote of 140-280.

To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that compose the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.

Conservative position: YES

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Minority party (Democrats) in italics

 YEAs  —  140

Allen

Amash

Arrington

Babin

Banks (IN)

Barton

Biggs

Bilirakis

Bishop (MI)

Black

Blackburn

Brady (TX)

Brat

Brooks (AL)

Brooks (IN)

Buchanan

Buck

Budd

Burgess

Byrne

Calvert

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Castor (FL)

Chabot

Coffman

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Conaway

Cooper

Costello (PA)

Culberson

Davidson

Denham

DeSantis

DesJarlais

Duncan (SC)

Duncan (TN)

Dunn

Emmer

Farenthold

Ferguson

Flores

Foxx

Gaetz

Gallagher

Gohmert

Goodlatte

Gowdy

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (LA)

Griffith

Grothman

Handel

Harris

Hensarling

Herrera Beutler

Hice, Jody B.

Higgins (LA)

Himes

Holding

Hollingsworth

Hudson

Huizenga

Hultgren

Hunter

Issa

Johnson (LA)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Jordan

Labrador

Lamborn

Lance

Latta

Lewis (MN)

Loudermilk

Love

Marchant

Massie

McCaul

McClintock

McHenry

McMorris Rodgers

McSally

Meadows

Messer

Newhouse

Norman

Nunes

Olson

Palmer

Paulsen

Perry

Pittenger

Poe (TX)

Polis

Posey

Ratcliffe

Reed

Renacci

Rice (SC)

Roby

Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)

Rohrabacher

Rokita

Rooney, Francis

Rooney, Thomas J.

Roskam

Rouzer

Royce (CA)

Russell

Sanford

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Sensenbrenner

Sessions

Smith (TX)

Stewart

Thornberry

Tiberi

Trott

Wagner

Walberg

Walker

Walorski

Walters, Mimi

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Wittman

Woodall

Yoder

Yoho

Young (IA)

Zeldin

NAYS — 280

Abraham

Adams

Aderholt

Aguilar

Amodei

Bacon

Barletta

Barr

Barragán

Bass

Beatty

Bera

Bergman

Beyer

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (UT)

Blum

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Bost

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brady (PA)

Brown (MD)

Brownley (CA)

Bucshon

Bustos

Butterfield

Capuano

Carbajal

Cárdenas

Carson (IN)

Cartwright

Castro (TX)

Cheney

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Cole

Comer

Comstock

Connolly

Conyers

Cook

Correa

Courtney

Cramer

Crawford

Crist

Crowley

Cuellar

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny

Davis, Rodney

DeFazio

Delaney

DeLauro

DelBene

Demings

Dent

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Diaz-Balart

Dingell

Doggett

Donovan

Doyle, Michael F.

Duffy

Ellison

Engel

Eshoo

Espaillat

Estes (KS)

Esty (CT)

Evans

Faso

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Fortenberry

Foster

Frankel (FL)

Frelinghuysen

Fudge

Gabbard

Gallego

Garamendi

Gianforte

Gibbs

Gomez

Gonzalez (TX)

Gosar

Gottheimer

Graves (MO)

Green, Al

Green, Gene

Grijalva

Guthrie

Gutiérrez

Hanabusa

Harper

Hartzler

Hastings

Heck

Higgins (NY)

Hill

Hoyer

Hurd

Jackson Lee

Jayapal

Jeffries

Jenkins (KS)

Jenkins (WV)

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson, E. B.

Joyce (OH)

Kaptur

Katko

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Kennedy

Khanna

Kihuen

Kildee

Kilmer

Kind

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Knight

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster (NH)

Kustoff (TN)

LaHood

LaMalfa

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Loebsack

Lofgren

Long

Lowenthal

Lowey

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Lujan Grisham, M.

Luján, Ben Ray

Lynch

MacArthur

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Marino

Marshall

Mast

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McKinley

McNerney

Meehan

Meeks

Meng

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Mooney (WV)

Moore

Moulton

Mullin

Murphy (FL)

Murphy (PA)

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Noem

Nolan

Norcross

O'Halleran

O'Rourke

Palazzo

Pallone

Panetta

Pascrell

Payne

Pearce

Pelosi

Perlmutter

Peters

Peterson

Pingree

Pocan

Poliquin

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Reichert

Rice (NY)

Richmond

Rogers (KY)

Rosen

Rothfus

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Rutherford

Ryan (OH)

Sánchez

Sarbanes

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Serrano

Sewell (AL)

Shea-Porter

Sherman

Shimkus

Shuster

Simpson

Sinema

Sires

Slaughter

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (WA)

Smucker

Soto

Speier

Stefanik

Stivers

Suozzi

Swalwell (CA)

Takano

Taylor

Tenney

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Thompson (PA)

Tipton

Titus

Tonko

Torres

Tsongas

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Velázquez

Visclosky

Walden

Walz

Waters, Maxine

Watson Coleman

Welch

Westerman

Wilson (FL)

Womack

Yarmuth

Young (AK)

 NOT VOTING —13

Bridenstine

Costa

Cummings

Curbelo (FL)

DeGette

Franks (AZ)

Garrett

Huffman

Lieu, Ted

Ros-Lehtinen

Ross

Scalise

Wasserman Schultz

Minority party (Democrats) in italics