From: pat@fitz.uucp (Patrick Fitzgerald)
Subject: Incorrect statistic!? (was Re: Interesting statistic!)
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:28:39 GMT

John.Emmert@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John Emmert) writes:

>According to the National Taxpayers Union:
> 
>There is one representative who has never voted against a single spending 
>bill.
> 
>This same representative who voted for more spending than any other, 
>who not ONCE voted "no"....
> 
>Is Albert Gore - who running for Vice President, professes to be a 
>fiscal conservative?
> 
>Vote for a democrat and balance the budget? 

Where did you get this data?  The attached text was posted in
alt.politics.bush on Usenet.  Gore is not on the list.  However, the list
is overwhelmingly Democratic...
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   This is from an article I clipped in the Wall Street Journal.
I don't remember the exact date.


             "The Billions Congress Wants to Spend"

     Congress last week extended its own license to spend when it failed to
   pass a constitutional amendment o balance the budget.  Why did Congress
   reject this measure?  Research by the National Taxpayers Union
   Foundation, the research arm of the anti-tax lobby, yields one
   age-old answer:  Congress was protecting interest-group wish lists.

     The foundation ran up the numbers and found that the opponents of a
   balanced budget amendment are also sponsors of legislation that would 
   cost the taxpayers the most money.  Congressmen who voted for the
   balanced budget amendment are sponsoring legislation that would increase
   spending by around $23 billion; members who opposed the amendment currently
   sponsor legislation that would cost the taxpayer about an additional
   $137 billion.  The foundation also produced a list of the 100 congressmen
   and women who would spend the most (as of April 5, 1992).  Only
   16 of them supported the amendment.  We reprint the list here,
   with rankings in billions of dollars.



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                                                                    net cost of
                                        increases       decreases   projects
Rank    Member                          sponsored       sponsored   sponsored

1       Boxer, Barbara    (D,CA)        $406            $-1.26          $405
2       Johnston, Harry   (D,FL)        $370            $-0.83          $370
3       Towns, Ed.        (D,NY)        $347            $-0.38          $347
4       Norton, Eleanor   (D,DC)        $347            $-1.43          $345
5       Hayes, Charles    (D,IL)        $344            $-0.11          $344
6       Martinez, Matthew (D,CA)        $343            $-0.49          $343
7       Owens, Major R.   (D,NY)        $341            $-0.16          $341
8       Savage, Gus       (D,IL)        $339            $-0.02          $339
9       Frank, Barney     (D,MA)        $341            $-2.49          $339
10      Dymally, Mervyn M.(D,CA)        $337            $-0.02          $337
11      Conyers Jr., John (D,MI)        $327            $-0.31          $327
12      Rangel, Charles B.(D,NY)        $332            $-5.50          $326
13      Collins, Barbara  (D,MI)        $324            $-0.08          $324
14      Weiss, Ted        (D,NY)        $324            $-0.46          $324
15      Ford, Harold      (D,TN)        $323            $-0.16          $323
16      Clay, William L.  (D,MO)        $319            $-0.08          $318
17      Dellums, Ronald V.(D,CA)        $316            $-0.12          $316
18      Collins, Cardiss  (D,IL)        $316            $-0.38          $315
19      Mfume, Kweisi     (D,MD)        $309            $-0.38          $309
20      Payne, Donald     (D,NJ)        $307            $-0.03          $307
21      Mink, Patsy       (D,NJ)        $304            $-0.39          $303
22      Kleczka, Gerald D.(D,NY)        $303            $-0.07          $303
23      Serrano, Jose     (D,NY)        $302            $-0.06          $302
24      Rahall II, Nick J.(D,WV)        $300            $-0.16          $300
25      Kolter, Joseph P. (D,PA)        $301            $-1.75          $299
26      Pelosi, Nancy     (D,CA)        $299            $-0.24          $299
27      Flake, Floyd      (D,NY)        $298            $-0.09          $298
28      Abercrombie, Neil (D,HI)        $298            $-0.72          $297
29      Foglietta, Thomas (D,PA)        $294            $-0.08          $294
30      Kildee, Dale E.   (D,MI)        $293            $-1.85          $291
31      Markey, Edward    (D,MA)        $290            $-0.47          $290
32      McNulty, Michael  (D,NY)        $291            $-1.54          $289
33      Poshard, Glenn    (D,IL)        $289            $-0.09          $289
34      Brown, Jr. George (D,CA)        $290            $-3.00          $287
35      Hochbrueckner, G. (D,NY)        $286            $-0.15          $286
36      Oberstar, James   (D,MN)        $288            $-2.07          $286
37      Evans, Lane       (D,IL)        $288            $-2.80          $286
38      Lipinski, William (D,IL)        $287            $-1.25          $286
39      Yates, Sidney R.  (D,IL)        $286            $-0.01          $286
40      Lefalce, John J.  (D,NY)        $287            $-2.01          $285
41      Feighan, Edward F.(D,OH)        $281            $-0.14          $281
42      Scheuer, James H. (D,NY)        $282            $-0.61          $281
43      Annunzio, Frank   (D,IL)        $279            $-0.15          $279
44      Dwyer, Bernard J. (D,NJ)        $283            $-4.54          $279
45      Ravenel, Arthur   (R,SC)        $279            $-1.12          $278
46      Berman, Howard    (D,CA)        $280            $-1.99          $278
47      Nowak, Henry      (D,NY)        $278            $-0.38          $277
48      Miller, George    (D,CA)        $279            $-2.16          $277
49      Lewis, John       (D,GA)        $276            $-0.16          $276
50      Mavroules,Nicholas(D,MA)        $274            $-0.67          $273
51      Moody, Jim        (D,WI)        $273            $-0.32          $273
52      Studds, Gerry E.  (D,MA)        $273            $-0.52          $273
53      Traxler, Bob      (D,MI)        $272            $-0.08          $272
54      Olver, John W.    (D,MA)        $272            $ 0.00          $272
55      Edwards, Don      (D,CA)        $272            $-0.03          $272
56      McDermott, Jim    (D,WA)        $272            $-0.55          $271
57      Vento, Bruce F.   (D.MN)        $271            $-0.41          $270
58      Sangmeister, G.   (D,IL)        $270            $-0.09          $270
59      Downey, Thomas    (D,NY)        $270            $-0.07          $270
60      Dicks, Norman     (D,WA)        $270            $-0.31          $270
61      Schumer, Charles  (D,NY)        $269            $-0.01          $269
62      Solarz, Stephen   (D,NY)        $268            $-0.01          $268
63      Coyne, William    (D,PA)        $267            $-0.08          $267
64      Gejdenson, Sam    (D,CT)        $267            $-1.64          $265
65      Russo, Marty      (D,IL)        $263            $ 0.00          $263
66      Kennedy, Joseph   (D,MA)        $262            $-0.01          $263
67      Faleomavaega, Eni (D,AS)        $264            $-1.44          $262
68      Beilenson, Anthony(D,CA)        $261            $-0.39          $261
69      Swift, AL         (D,WA)        $259            $-0.31          $259
70      Bustamante, Albert(D,TX)        $258            $-0.59          $258
71      Atkins, Chester   (D,MA)        $261            $-4.51          $257
72      Stark, Fortney    (D,CA)        $218            $-0.39          $218
73      Peterson, Pete    (D,FL)        $214            $-1.79          $212
74      Tallon, Robin     (D,SC)        $211            $-0.08          $211
75      Gibbons, Sam      (D,FL)        $201            $-0.01          $201
76      Lehman, William   (D,FL)        $187            $-0.01          $187
77      Torres, Esteban E.(D,CA)        $154            $-0.45          $153
78      Stokes, Louis     (D,OH)        $153            $-0.08          $153
79      Staggers, Harley  (D,WV)        $150            $-0.13          $150
80      Oakar, Mary Rose  (D,OH)        $147            $-0.01          $147
81      Bonior, David     (D,MI)        $145            $-3.08          $142
82      Traficant, James  (D,OH)        $141            $-0.59          $140
83      Jefferson, William(D,LA)        $ 93            $-0.18          $ 93
84      Ackerman, Gary    (D,NY)        $ 84            $-1.27          $ 83
85      De Lugo, Ron      (D,VI)        $ 78            $-3.14          $ 75
86      Engel, Eliot      (D,NY)        $ 71            $-0.61          $ 71
87      Gephardt, Richard (D,MO)        $ 69            $ 0.00          $ 69
88      Johnson, Tim      (D,SD)        $ 64            $-0.46          $ 63
89      Emerson, Bill     (R,MO)        $ 60            $-3.78          $ 57
90      Smith, Christopher(R,NJ)        $ 52            $ 0.00          $ 52
91      Dingell, John     (D,MI)        $ 53            $-1.59          $ 52
92      Quillen, James    (R,TM)        $ 49            $-0.68          $ 49
93      Gonzalez, Henry   (D,TX)        $ 46            $-0.07          $ 46
94      Wilson, Charles   (D,TX)        $ 47            $-1.05          $ 46
95      Williams, Pat     (D,MT)        $ 46            $-0.19          $ 46
96      Sanders, Bernie   (I,VT)        $ 45            $-0.21          $ 45
97      Unsoeld, Jolene   (D,WA)        $ 44            $-0.74          $ 44
98      Waxman, Henry     (D,CA)        $ 43            $-0.01          $ 43
99      Roe, Robert       (D,NJ)        $ 44            $-2.04          $ 42
100     Kaptur, Marcy     (D,OH)        $ 42            $-0.54          $ 42
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