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HOW FITZPATRICK RESPONDED TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES
- Fitzpatrick voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries' price gouging.
- Big oil and gas industries have given Fitzpatrick $46,878. Any surprise?
GOP "HEALTH CARE"
- Big drug interests gave $85,935 to Fitzpatrick. They know who their friends are.
TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP
- Fitzpatrick received $19,999 from House Minority Leader John Boehner's "Freedom Project" PAC.
- Fitzpatrick received $15,000 from GOP Whip Roy Blunt's "Rely on Your Beliefs" PAC.
TIES WITH DISGRACED FORMER MAJORITY LEADER TOM DELAY
- Fitzpatrick voted to weaken House ethics rules in order to protect disgraced former Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS
- Fitzpatrick 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.
THE ENVIRONMENT
- Fitzpatrick voted for a massive sell off of public lands to mining interests.
HOW DID FITZPATRICK SUPPORT....
HIGHER EDUCATION?
- While tuition costs are rising, Fitzpatrick voted to cut Federal student aid by $12.7 billion -- the biggest cuts to student aid in history.
- The average tuition at Pennslyvania universities for the 2005-2006 school year was $6,263, up 2.6 percent from the 2004-2005 term and up 26.1 percent from four years prior.
STEM CELL RESEARCH?
- Fitzpatrick sided with social conservatives against patients with debilitating diseases and voted against expanding Federal funding of stem cell research.
SOCIAL SECURITY?
- Fitzpatrick voted twice to spend every penny of the Social Security trust fund.
| SOURCES | ||
| 1 | Vote on price gouging: HR 3402, Vote #500, 9/28/2005 | No |
| 2 | Contributions from oil and gas industries: www.opensecrets.org | $46,878 |
| 3 | Contributions from drug interests: www.opensecrets.org | $85,935 |
| 4 | "Freedom Project" PAC Contributions: www.tray.com | $19,999 |
| 5 | "Rely on Your Beliefs" PAC Contributions: www.tray.com | $15,000 |
| 6 | Contributions from ARMPAC: www.tray.com | $15,000 |
| 7 | Vote to weaken ethics rules: H Res. 5, Roll Call #6, 1/4/05 | Yes |
| 8 | Vote to expand access to TRICARE: HR 1815 , Vote #221, 5/25/2005 | No |
| 9 | Vote to sell off public lands: HR 4241,Vote #601, 11/18/2005 | Yes |
| 10 | Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, “Tuition and Fee Rates,” Download the PDF, February 2006, pg. 15 | |
| 11 | Vote to cut Federal student aid: S 1932 , Vote #670, 12/19/2005 | Yes |
| 12 | Vote to expand stem cell research: HR 810 , Vote #204, 5/24/2005 | No |
| 13 | Vote to raid Social Security HCR 95, Vote #149, 4/28/2005 | Yes |
| 14 | Vote to raid Social Security HCR 95, Vote #88, 3/17/2005 | Yes |
