Last week the Heritage Foundation put together a handy chart tracking votes on the recent budget cutting measures in the House.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a measure to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year and cut $61 billion in the process. The bill was considered under an open amendment process, and there were hundreds of amendments offered and over a hundred votes cast over the span of a week. This after-action report will look solely at the Congressional appetite to cut spending.
Heritage Action compiled all of the votes on the amendments that proposed to cut non-security spending. We excluded amendments that proposed to shift spending from one program to another or sought to block various Obama policies—whether it be the many amendments to defund Obamacare or turn off the EPA’s rule making authority. For this exercise, we chose to look solely at the unambiguous spending cuts and to see how Congress did.
The results are in, and Arizona's Congressional Delegation, led by long-time porkbuster (and U.S. Senate Candidate) Jeff Flake, led the nation in the fight for a little bit of fiscal sanity.
Three of our Congressmen voted for every single budget cut amendment, while the other two voted for the vast majority.
Our Congressional Democrats, however... never met a tax cut they didn't hate.
Keep it up, Congressional Republicans. And here's hoping we add to your ranks in 2012.
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