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Roe votes in Congress
Looking at votes last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, First District Congressman Republican Phil Roe voted for a proposed Republican budget. The plan is to balance the budget in 10 years, by partially privatizing Medicare, raise military spending, and cut taxes of corporations and high incomes. Roe voted against a Democrat plan which would raise taxes on the very wealthy, close tax loopholes, increase domestic spending, while strengthening traditional Medicare. The local congressman, a member of the Tea Party Caucus, also voted for a plan which was drawn up by the conservative Republican Study Committee. It would have balanced the budget by 2018 by cutting and freezing domestic spending and closing certain tax loopholes. Roe also voted against a plan proposed by the Congressional Black Caucus which would have expanded domestic programs, cut military spending and lower the federal deficit by $2.8 trillion by 2014……primarily by raising taxes on the wealthy and closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. In the U.S. Senate, both Republican members from Tennessee3, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, voted against extending job benefits to the uninsured, and against a plan to give women more legal tools for gaining equity in pay with male co-workers.
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