Come January 2005, taxpayers will have new allies in the Senate on critical votes on appropriations bills, budget process reform, pending energy and transportation bills bloated with pork, Social Security reform, and tax relief, NTU President John Berthoud said in a press release.
NTU was able to draw those conclusions, because most of the incoming senators have previous service in the House of Representatives, allowing the fiscal records of outgoing senators to be compared with those of most new senators.
The highlights, according to the NTU:
-- Four of the nine outgoing senators have an "F" rating.
-- Of the six incoming senators who previously served in the House, the lowest grade earned was a "B-minus." (Only three of the nine outgoing senators achieved a "B-" or better in NTU's 2003 rating.)
-- In five of the six cases where both outgoing and incoming senators had been graded by NTU, the incoming senator had a better mark. (In the sixth case - Oklahoma - both the outgoing and incoming senator had an "A.")
Bottom line, said Berthoud - in no case does a new senator have a lower grade than an outgoing senator.
The NTU rates lawmakers based on every roll call vote affecting fiscal policy.
For example, in 2003, NTU included 287 House and 269 Senate votes, assigning a "Taxpayer Score" to each Member of Congress as a way of determining each lawmaker's commitment to reducing or controlling federal spending, taxes, debt, and regulation.
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it's not even about money, it's about national security....
doesn't israel protect US?
some light reading.... http://www.newamericancentury.org/
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and it's all we've ABSOLUTELY needed...some think we STILL don't need more...
some disagree....
sama wants/wanted the Saudi Royal Crown, and we are the stoppers...
Iran WAS our ally....until the Shah fell,
then we went to Iraq, and we made him into our tool, it was under our guidance that he built up his army....
his invasion of Kuwiat wasn't toooo much of a surprise...the real surprise was that Saudi overreacted to Kuwaits invasion, and sama saw it as his opportunity to build an army in Saudi. of course the Saudi Crown couldn't risk that....he wasn't the Chosen...
We trained sama in Afghanistan, HE HELPED Reagan win the cold war.....
you aren't going to like this, but sam is/was BUSH'S enemy more than America's enemy...
the plane that hit the pentagon, it had been headed to the captiol or the White House, and turned away to it's SECONDARY target. That's why sama's latest message SPECIFICALLY mentioned what Bush was doing when the planes hit...he wasn't watching moore..he was watching the NEWS..it was a maessage. NO LOL
Bush was absent on the day they hit...
Bush sent Robert Jordan to Saudi right after 911 and they sent him packing cuz he started plotting to "help pick" the next crown prince too...
feints within feints....
i wanted a president MORE PLIABLE to the PRFESSIONALS in DC that have been there for years....
they are the ones that have been doing this all their lives...
Kerry would have been easier to manipulate...
so you can see, i'm no liberal...and i'm no moore fan either..
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