Issues Larsen's Legacy
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Voted for Obamacare.

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Voted for the House-passed trillion dollar economic stimulus package.

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Voted against an amendment to eliminate the death tax permanently.

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Voted against banning all federal funding for the scandal-plagued advocacy group ACORN.

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Voted against barring the use of federal funds authorized in H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to pay for an abortion or pay for the costs of any health plan that includes abortion coverage, unless the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or if the woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury or illness that would endanger the woman’s life.

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Voted to add nearly $23 billion in domestic spending to an emergency war supplemental, delaying passage of needed funding for our troops and the military operations in Afghanistan.

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Voted against expanding domestic energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

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Voted for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, legislation that would continue the culture of bailouts and the attitude of "too big to fail".

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Voted for a one-year spending plan instead of a traditional five-year budget resolution.

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Voted against preventing federal funds from being used for a federal takeover of health care.

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Voted against removing provisions that would allow for the transfer or release of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States or its territories.

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Voted to allow taxpayer funds to be available to Planned Parenthood for voluntary family planning.

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Voted to block the consideration of a resolution on the House floor that would remove Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee until the Standards of Official Conduct Committee completes its investigation into his finances

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Voted to increase the national debt limit by $1.9 trillion to a total of $14.29 trillion.

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Voted against increased funding for missile defense.

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Voted for a permanent extension of the current death tax rate, just weeks before the tax was set to be repealed for one year.

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Voted to allow federal funding to the John Murtha Johnston-Cambria County Airport, named after Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), which has received $200 million in federal funds over the last decade and services just six daily flights, subsidized by taxpayers.

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Voted against ending the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), also known as the financial industry bailout, and against using all TARP funds, including returned and unused funds to pay down the federal deficit and lower the national debt limit.

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Voted repeatedly to block investigating the relationship between earmark requests and campaign contributions, several of which specified a prominent lobbying firm, founded by Mr. Paul Magliocchetti, which is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Voted against conducting an investigation into the relationship between earmark requests for fiscal year 2009 already made by Members on behalf of clients of a top defense lobbying firm that was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of an investigation into campaign contributions, and the source and timing of past campaign contributions related to such requests.

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Voted for a bill that expands the government’s powers to regulate financial companies, creates a new federal agency to monitor and regulate consumer financial products, establishes a new $200 billion fund along with new federal powers to break up financial firms, reroutes $4 billion in TARP money to housing, and increases the federal deficit by $4.5 billion.

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Voted for final passage of the $1.1 trillion FY2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which provided an 8 percent discretionary spending hike for the third consecutive year and contained approximately 5,224 earmarks.

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Voted for a $154 billion jobs package, which was called “hastily assembled,” used redirected funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), also known as the financial industry bailout, and funded many of the same programs as the $787 billion stimulus package.

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Voted against eliminating the tax increases in the FY2010 House Budget Resolution and extending the tax cuts currently in effect under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief ReconciliationAct of 2003, and Alternative Minimum Tax.

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Voted to approve the $410 billion FY 2009 Omnibus bill, which provides 8 percent more than the previous year’s funding in federal discretionary spending and contained 9,287 earmarks, totaling $12.8 billion.

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Voted for final passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the Democrats’ health care overhaul legislation with a government-run public option.
Voted against a health care plan that focuses on market-based principles, does not include government subsidies or a public option, reduces health care premiums by up to 10 percent and lowers federal budget deficits by $68 billion over the next ten years.

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Was the deciding vote on rejecting an amendment that would have barred the use of federal funds to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Voted to set conditions on the use of the second $350 billion in taxpayer funds for the TARP and expand TARP to be used for an auto manufacturer’s bailout and to include support of state and local municipal bonds, consumer loans, and commercial real estate loans.

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Voted in favor of the House-passed Fiscal 2010 Budget Resolution, which contains a $1 trillion deficit and has been called “the most fiscally irresponsible budget in the history of the federal government”.

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Voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus package) which provided funding to the John Murtha Johnston-Cambria County Airport.

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Voted for H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the House’s cap-and-trade legislation to combat global warming.

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Voted for an amendment that would repeal the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy on military service by openly gay men and women.

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Voted for final passage of the $787 billion stimulus package.

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