Amash votes against McClintock's Full Faith and Credit Act

[PatrickHenry1]

My friend Congressman Thomas Massie joined me today in voting against H R 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, a bill that effectively raises the debt ceiling by exempting certain items from counting toward the debt ceiling. By liking Rep. Massie's Page and sharing his explanation, you can help spread the word about a truly principled congressman who's looking out for the people, not special interests.

I voted against the Full Faith and Credit Act today because it is a stealth debt limit increase.

While I could support the idea of debt prioritization, this bill does not do that.

The original prioritization language was gutted in committee and replaced with language allowing the federal government to continue the status quo of irresponsible spending.

By exempting interest payments and many principal rollovers from the debt limit, this bill now permits, and even incentivizes, the government to continue issuing trillions of dollars of new debt.

Instead of helping to bring the national debt under control, passage of this bill will only make a bad problem worse.

 

[tsai3904]

It's Tom McClintock's bill, not Bentivolio's.

 

[Kotin]

Bentivolio = fail

 

[PatrickHenry1]

It's Tom McClintock's bill, not Bentivolio's.

You're right. Original co-sponsor.

 

[tsai3904]

You're right. Original co-sponsor.

Yea but the original bill, which Amash cosponsored too, was good.

House leadership amended the bill after they cosponsored. Only Amash, Massie and Walter Jones voted correctly for the right reasons.

 

[sailingaway]

McClintock was never the best. Better than most, but not the best. Very attuned to what to make noise about and what to 'slide through' imho.

 

[compromise]

McClintock is very conservative. He probably wasn't aware of it being a stealth debt ceiling increase. This is really one of his very few bad votes. Otherwise, his record has been good this year, on par with Massie, Amash, Bridenstine and Gohmert.

I don't really like criticizing liberty-minded guys, but if anyone's been a disappointment this year fiscally, its these guys, especially Garrett:
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/scott-garrett-0
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/ra-l-labrador
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/mick-mulvaney
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/jeff-duncan
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/kerry-l-bentivolio
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/jason-chaffetz
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/paul-gosar
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/trey-gowdy
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/trey-radel
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/tom-price-0
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/reid-ribble
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/paul-gosar
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/david-schweikert

I understand it's still early on and the rest of their votes in this term could well be excellent, but 40% is a really bad start for a self-described conservative. 0% is inexcusable.

 

[PatrickHenry1]

McClintock is very conservative. He probably wasn't aware of it being a stealth debt ceiling increase. This is really one of his very few bad votes. Otherwise, his record has been good this year, on par with Massie, Amash, Bridenstine and Gohmert.

I don't really like criticizing liberty-minded guys, but if anyone's been a disappointment this year fiscally, its these guys, especially Garrett:
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/scott-garrett-0
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/ra-l-labrador
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/mick-mulvaney
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/jeff-duncan
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/kerry-l-bentivolio
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/jason-chaffetz
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/paul-gosar
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/trey-gowdy
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/trey-radel
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/tom-price-0
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/reid-ribble
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/paul-gosar
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/david-schweikert

I understand it's still early on and the rest of their votes in this term could well be excellent, but 40% is a really bad start for a self-described conservative. 0% is inexcusable.

I don't either but I'm surprised more people are not up in arms about this. I was actually criticizing Bentivolio for cosponsoring the bill because he's already caved once before.

 

[Warlord]

These are all guys looking for campaign funds and need leaderships help. I dont know why you're surprised. Only a handful vote the right way on any given bill. That's Congress for you.

These are not liberty minded people in the slightest... they could care less... they need $500k-1m for 2014 and that's what dictates their votes.

They're not all going to vote as block to defeat Boehner and repeatedly embarass him. If that's what you expect then you clearly have high expectations.

 

[compromise]

These are all guys looking for campaign funds and need leaderships help. I dont know why you're surprised. Only a handful vote the right way on any given bill. That's Congress for you.

These are not liberty minded people in the slightest... they could care less... they need $500k-1m for 2014 and that's what dictates their votes.

They're not all going to vote as block to defeat Boehner and repeatedly embarass him. If that's what you expect then you clearly have high expectations.

Most are in GOP safe seats, funds aren't really so important to them.

On those FreedomWorks links, you can see how some of them voted in previous years. Garrett for example, has received 95%+ every year since 2006. Labrador and Schweikert were endorsed by YAL for re-election, which is why I called them liberty minded. Garrett spoke at LPAC.

Another unusual thing is that Walter Jones is doing pretty well this year so far, a stark contrast to how he was in previous years: http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/walter-beaman-jones-0

 

[Warlord]

Even those in safe seats need a campaign war chest to protect themselves against a primary

The reason they're more reliable for the leadership is because the GOP lost 7 seats so if they didn't all vote with dear leader he would be defeated because the Dems have 200 votes and Boehner needs 218 to pass anything so these congressman's alleged principles from last year have now disappeared.

Jones has reversed because he was booted from a committee

 

[compromise]

Even those in safe seats need a campaign war chest to protect themselves against a primary

The reason they're more reliable for the leadership is because the GOP lost 7 seats so if they didn't all vote with dear leader he would be defeated because the Dems have 200 votes and Boehner needs 218 to pass anything so these congressman's alleged principles from last year have now disappeared.

Jones has reversed because he was booted from a committee

Garrett was there in 2009 and 2010 when the Dems were in control, and still voted well.

Schweikert was also booted, but he became worse.

 

[Warlord]

Garrett was there in 2009 and 2010 when the Dems were in control, and still voted well.

Schweikert was also booted, but he became worse.

Schweikert got the message and fell in line. Jones is on the war path. Garett's vote is needed by leadership more than in 09, 10, 11 or 12. This explains their votes.