Mr. Joe Pitts
Refuses To Return
Abramoff
Cash

Just how
tangled up in the
GOP Culture of Corruption is Joseph
Pitts?
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HOW PITTS RESPONDS TO HIGH
ENERGY PRICES
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Rep. Pitts voted against
cracking down on the oil and
gas industries price
gouging.
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Rep. Pitts voted for the GOP
energy bill that gave
billions to oil, gas and
nuclear industries.
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Big oil and gas industries
have given Rep. Pitts
$21,500. Any surprise?
REP. PITTS PUTS BIG BUSINESS
AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS
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Rep. Pitts voted to strip
overtime protection from
millions of workers.
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Rep. Pitts voted to allow
federal loans to American
companies that have escaped
paying U.S. taxes by moving
offshore.
GOP "HEALTH CARE"
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Big drug interests have
given $101,793 to Pitts over
the Representative's career.
They know who their friends
are.
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Rep. Pitts voted for the GOP
Medicare Prescription Drug
Bill that will give billions
to businesses and the health
care industry, while forcing
seniors to accept annual
increases in premiums and
deductibles and a growing
gap in coverage for the
prescription drugs they buy.
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Rep. Pitts voted against
allowing millions of
Americans to save their
hard-earned dollars on
prescription drugs by
re-importing them from
Canada, even though these
were U.S. made and patient
safety was ensured.
TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP
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Pitts has taken $1,000 from
House Majority Leader John
Boehner.
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Pitts voted with President
Bush 91% of the time.
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Pitts voted the GOP party
line 97% of the time.
TIES WITH TOM DELAY
Pitts has:
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Voted to weaken House ethics
rules when DeLay proposed
doing so as GOP Majority
Leader.
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Voted with Tom DeLay 94% of
the time (through 3/31/2006)
SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS
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Rep. Pitts voted to continue
awarding contracts to
Halliburton even if the
Pentagon's own audit
processes found that more
than $100 million of their
contractor's costs in Iraq
were unreasonable. No
surprise that Halliburton
gave Pitts $1,000.
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Rep. Pitts opposed expanding
access to the military's
TRICARE health insurance
program to thousands of
Reservist and National Guard
members, even though 20
percent of all Reservists do
not have health insurance,
and 40 percent of Reservists
aged 19 to 35 lack health
coverage.
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Rep. Pitts voted against
granting a bonus to grant a
$1,500 bonus to every
American service member
serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan, including
National Guard and Reserve
forces.
THE ENVIRONMENT
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1,861 water systems in 29
states have been
contaminated with MTBE,
exposing as many as 45
million Americans to this
potential carcinogen, but
Rep. Pitts voted to protect
the companies responsible
from lawsuits by communities
that need their help to
clean up these systems.
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Rep. Pitts voted against
bipartisan reform of the
Endangered Species Act.
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Rep. Pitts voted for a
massive sell off of public
lands to mining interests.
HOW DOES PITTS SUPPORT....
HIGHER EDUCATION?
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While tuition costs are
rising for ordinary
Americans, Rep. Pitts voted
to cut Federal student aid
by $12.7 billion -- the
biggest such cuts in
history.
STEM CELL RESEARCH?
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Rep. Pitts sided with social
conservatives against
patients with debilitating
diseases and voted against
expanding Federal funding of
stem cell research.
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SOURCES |
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Vote on price gouging:
HR 3402, Vote #500,
9/28/2005 |
No |
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Vote on GOP energy bill:
HR 6, Vote #445,
7/28/2005 |
Yes |
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Contributions from oil
and gas industries:
www.opensecrets.org |
$21,500 |
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Vote to strip overtime
protection: HR 2660 ,
Vote #351, 7/10/2003 |
No |
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Vote to prevent federal
loans to American
companies that have
relocated offshore for
U.S. tax avoidance: HR
4818, Vote #386,
7/15/2004 |
No |
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Contributions from drug
interests:
www.opensecrets.org |
$101,793 |
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Vote on GOP Medicare
Prescription Drug Bill:
HR 1, Vote #669,
11/22/2003 |
Yes |
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Vote to allow
prescription drug
re-importation: HR 2427,
Vote #445, 7/25/2003 |
No |
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Contributions from John
Boehner:
www.tray.com |
$1,000 |
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Voting percentage with
Pres. Bush:
calculated through:
www.cq.com |
91% |
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Voting percentage with
GOP caucus:
calculated through:
www.cq.com |
97% |
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Vote to weaken ethics
rules:
H
Res. 5, Roll Call #6,
1/4/05
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YES |
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13 |
Voting percentage with
DeLay: calculated
through 3/31/2006:
www.cq.com |
94% |
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Vote to stop contracts
to corporations that
overcharge: HR 4939,
Vote #60, 3/16/2006 |
No |
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Contributions from
Halliburton:
www.tray.com |
$1,000 |
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Vote to expand access to
TRICARE: HR 1815 , Vote
#221, 5/25/2005 |
No |
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Vote for bonus for Iraq
and Afghanistan
veterans: HR 3289, Vote
#554, 10/17/2003 |
No |
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Vote to hold MTBE
producers accountable:
HR 6, Vote #373,
7/14/2005 |
No |
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Vote on Endangered
Species Act reform: HR
3824, Vote #505,
9/29/2005 |
No |
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Vote to sell off public
lands: HR 4241,Vote
#601, 11/18/2005 |
Yes |
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Vote to cut Federal
student aid: S 1932 ,
Vote #670, 12/19/2005 |
Yes |
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Vote to expand stem cell
research: HR 810 , Vote
#204, 5/24/2005 |
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Do you know
how Joe Pitts voted?
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- Voted NO on
raising CAFE standards; incentives for
alternative fuels. The LCV (League of
Conservation Voters) rated him 5% indicating an
anti-environmental position.
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- Voted NO on
prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR.
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- Voted YES on
speeding up approval of forest thinning
projects.
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- Voted NO on
withdrawing from the WTO (World Trade
Organization) which destroys the economy of
developing nations.
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- Voted NO on
campaign finance reform banning soft-money
contributions.
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- Voted YES on
limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to
$250,000 damages.
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- Voted YES on
limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare
recipients.
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- Voted NO on
allowing reimportation of prescription drugs.
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- Voted YES on
continuing military recruitment on college
campuses.
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- Voted YES on
deploying SDI - “Star wars”.
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- Voted NO on
$167 billion over 10 years for farm price
supports indicating an anti-family farm
position.
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- Voted YES on
making the Bush tax cuts permanent indicating a
tax program highly favorable the very wealthiest
19% of Americans.
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- He voted to
reduce tax payments on Social Security benefits
and was given a rating of 0% by the Alliance for
Retired Americans (ARA) indicating an
anti-senior voting record.
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- He voted for
zero funding of OSHA’s ergonomic rules instead
of the needed $4.5 billion. The AFL-CIO gave him
a 7% rating indicating anti-working people
voting record.
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- He voted
against reducing Third World debt to the IMF and
he voted in favor of every proposed so-called
free-trade. He voted in favor of eliminating the
estate tax. He was rated 100% by the US Chamber
of Commerce indicating a pro
corporate/anti-citizen voting record.
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- Rated 0% by
the Assoc. of Retired Americans (ARA) indicating
an anti-senior voting record.
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- The National
Education Association gave him an 8% indicating
an anti-public education position.
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- He supported
legislation to report illegal aliens who receive
hospital treatment and to increase immigrant
visas for skilled workers. These are usually
referred to as H1B visas which creates not only
a brain drain in developing countries but allows
corporations to pay these highly skilled
technical workers extremely low wages and avoid
hiring skilled American workers.
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- He was given
an 11% rating by The American Public Health
Association (APHA) indicating an anti-public
health voting record.
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"I'm
a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me,
no matter how dumb my
suggestions are."
-Homer Simpson
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According to an Associated Press report,
Congressman Joe Pitts believes that Homer
Simpson is the reason why "fatherhood" is
declining in the United States. I only hold two
university degrees and I could be wrong about
this, but I have a suspicion that Homer Simpson
has about as much to do with the decline of
fatherhood in the United States as Tinky Winky
has to do with homosexuality. On the other hand
I'll bet Mr. Pitts thinks Tinky Winky of
Teletubby fame is gay! |
Even though Mr. Pitts decided to break his
pledge to the people of the 16th District and serve only 10
years, I think the pressure's been too much for the
congressman who wants to destroy our civil liberties with
the same fervor that he wishes to chop down our national
forests and drill up our national parks. Let's help Mr.
Pitts keep his pledge this November.
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