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This amendment sponsored by Rep. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), increased spending in the Hurricane Sandy bill by almost $34 billion. This legislation, combined with other legislation geared towards addressing damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, amounts to $60.4 billion in un-accounted spending. Significant portions of the funding in the legislation did not go towards Hurricane Sandy recovery but instead toward pet projects. Simply put, Congress used a natural disaster as an excuse to increase spending. The amendment passed 228 – 192 on Jan. 15, 2013 and the bill was later signed into law by the president.
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Conservative position: NO
| Alexander Andrews Barber Barletta Barrow Bass Beatty Becerra Bera Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Boustany Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Carter Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Clyburn Cole Collins (NY) Connolly Conyers Costa Courtney Cramer Crowley Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Denham Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Fitzpatrick Foster Frankel (FL) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Gallego | Garamendi Garcia Garrett Gerlach Gibson Granger Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Grimm Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hanna Harper Hastings (FL) Heck (WA) Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holt Honda Horsford Hoyer Huffman Israel Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kennedy Kildee Kilmer Kind King (NY) Kuster Lance Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Michaud Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (FL) Nadler | Neal Nolan O'Rourke Owens Palazzo Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Pingree (ME) Pocan Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reed Reichert Richmond Ros-Lehtinen Roybal-Allard Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Tsongas Turner Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wolf Yarmuth Young (AK) Young (FL) |
| Aderholt Amash Amodei Bachmann Bachus Barr Barton Benishek Bentivolio Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Brady (TX) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman Collins (GA) Conaway Cook Cooper Cotton Crawford Daines DeSantis DesJarlais Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Farenthold Fincher Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Gardner Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) | Griffith (VA) Guthrie Hall Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Hensarling Herrera Beutler Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Joyce Kelly King (IA) Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lankford Latham Latta Long Luetkemeyer Lummis Marchant Marino Massie McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McHenry McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meadows Messer Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunnelee Olson Paulsen Pearce Perry Peterson | Petri Pittenger Pitts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Radel Renacci Ribble Rice (SC) Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Roskam Ross Rothfus Royce Ryan (WI) Salmon Scalise Schock Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stivers Stockman Stutzman Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (IN) |
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